Genius Foods

Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life

By: Max Lugavere, Paul Grewal

Narrated by: Max Lugavere

Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat, change the way you think about how your brain ages, and achieve optimal brain performance with this powerful new guide from media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere.

After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max Lugavere put his successful media career on hold to learn everything he could about the workings of the human brain and his mother’s condition. For the better half of a decade, he consumed the most up-to-date scientific research, talked to dozens of scientists and clinicians around the world, and visited the country’s very best neurology departments.

Now, in Genius Foods, Lugavere uncovers the stunning link between our dietary and lifestyle choices and our brain health, revealing how the foods you eat directly affect your ability to focus, learn, remember, create, analyze new ideas, and maintain a healthy, balanced mood. He presents ground-breaking science and distills the latest research, including:

• How food is like software for our endlessly capable minds;
• How select nutrients can actually boost working memory and processing speed;
• How slowing down the cognitive aging process is just as much about the foods you omit from your diet as the superfoods that you consume;
• And how easy it is to modulate the quality of your thoughts and mood by food.

In the vein of groundbreaking bestsellers such as David Perlmutter’s Grain Brain, Tim Ferriss’ Four Hour Body, and Dave Asprey’s Bulletproof Diet, Genius Foods presents a comprehensive, practical roadmap to optimizing the brain’s health and performance today—and decades into the future.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Fantastic Listen and Learn!

1. Max has an awesome voice and sense of humor, making this likely the most enjoyable and funny nutrition book in the history of the universe.
2. Science. All the science. Max used his journalistic integrity and genuine heart to find the truth in our understanding of food as genetic information, rather than touting fad diets.
3. Definitely need to buy the physical book! While it is a great listen, I found myself wishing I could highlight and flag pages in what will soon be a favorite reference text in my medical library.

Once is not enough!

I found Genius Food to be informative and enjoyable. I’ve already started making big changes like extra virgin olive oil instead of my wide variety of salad dressings.
I’m going to listen again and take better notes.
Thanks for helping me get healthy!
Kevin M

life changer

I wish I read this years ago. It is changing my life. I am telling everyone I know about it.

Great ending chapter that sums everything up

I really liked how simple but logical he made all of his points through… great listen, I’d highly reccomend

nutrition student in love with this book

I'm studying nutrition and my father has t2 diabetes, I was looking for more insight into the mechanisms behind insulin sensitivity and I was blown away by the amount of scientific information this book contains. I highly recommend it, definitely worth the read if you want to learn about living your best and longest life.