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Genius Foods

Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive, While Protecting Your Brain Health for Life
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Genius Foods by Max Lugavere explores the powerful relationship between diet and brain function. It provides insights into how specific foods can improve cognitive performance and overall brain health. Lugavere delves into nutritional science, offering practical advice to enhance mental clarity and support long-term brain wellness.
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You might enjoy this book if you are interested in discovering how the right foods can optimise your brainpower and promote overall health. It combines science with practical advice, offering insights into how diet can enhance cognitive function and help prevent neurological diseases. Ideal for readers keen on understanding the link between nutrition and brain health, it's a compelling guide for those on a journey to improve mental clarity and physical vitality through dietary choices.

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"Media personality ... Max Lugavere draws on ... scientific research about the link between diet and brain health to paint [a] ... roadmap to feeding our brain for optimal performance today--and decades into the future"--

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New York Times Bestseller

Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat and change the way your brain ages, in this cutting-edge, practical guide to eliminating brain fog, optimizing brain health, and achieving peak mental performance 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 brain health and performance. For the better half of a decade, he consumed the most up-to-date scientific research, talked to dozens of leading scientists and clinicians around the world, and visited the country’s best neurology departmentsβ€”all in the hopes of understanding his mother’s condition.

Now, in Genius Foods, Lugavere presents a comprehensive guide to brain optimization. He uncovers the stunning link between our dietary and lifestyle choices and our brain functions, revealing how the foods you eat directly affect your ability to focus, learn, remember, create, analyse new ideas, and maintain a balanced mood.

Weaving together pioneering research on dementia prevention, cognitive optimization, and nutritional psychiatry, Lugavere distils groundbreaking science into actionable lifestyle changes. He shares invaluable insights into how to improve your brain power, including:

  • the nutrients that can boost your memory and improve mental clarity (and where to find them);
  • the foods and tactics that can energise and rejuvenate your brain, no matter your age;
  • a brain-boosting fat-loss method so powerful it has been called β€œbiochemical liposuction”; and
  • the foods that can improve your happiness, both now and for the long term.

With Genius Foods, Lugavere offers a cutting-edge yet practical road map to eliminating brain fog and optimising the brain’s health and performance todayβ€”and decades into the future.

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Genius Foods is praised for making complex brain and nutritional science accessible and engaging. The book is commended for its well-researched content and practical dietary advice, aiming to enhance brain function and prevent cognitive decline. Several reviewers highlight the author's ability to distil intricate topics with clarity and enthusiasm, offering insights into dementia prevention and mental agility.

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ISBN: 9780062562852

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 May 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Harper Wave

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 270g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Max Lugavere is a filmmaker, media personality, and leading voice in health. He is the writer, director, and producer of an upcoming documentary titledΒ Bread Head, the first millennial focused film exploring the impact of diet and lifestyle on brain health. His Kickstarter for the film was a viral sensation, and was featured by Upworthy,Β Huffington Post, Fast Company, WELL+GOOD, Yahoo! Health, and more, and shared by Sir Ken Robinson, Jared Leto, Maria Shriver, and countless others. Prior he was a prominent producer and host of Al Gore's Emmy nominated Current TV from 2005-2011, and in late 2013, he created and hosted Acting Disruptive, a web series viewed by millions online, which featured the entrepreneurial passion projects of Jessica Alba, Adrian Grenier, Jared Leto and more. Β He is a contributor and brain health expert for Yahoo! Health and regularly hosts health-related content for WebMD, Vice's MUNCHIES channel, and About.com.Β  Β 

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