New York TimesBestseller
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 departments—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, analyze new ideas, and maintain a balanced mood.
Weaving together pioneering research on dementia prevention, cognitive optimization, and nutritional psychiatry, Lugavere distills 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 energize and rejuvenate your brain, no matter your age;
- a brain-boosting fat-loss method so powerful it has been called “biochemical 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 optimizing the brain’s health and performance today—and decades into the future.
Derek Newman (verified owner) –
Genius Foods is another in a long line of recent books touting the benefits of a ketogenic diet. Each of these books has a twist. The Genius twist is a focus on brain health with three principles: eat mostly fat, but eat lots of fiber too, and do intermittent fasting.
Author, Max Lugavere, notes the key to excellent brain health is avoiding inflammation, overfeeding, nutrient deficiencies, toxic exposure, chronic stress, physical stagnation, and sleep loss. The book then runs through each of those maladies with proposed solutions, including lifestyle choices like regular exercise and lots of sleep. While the book’s theme is brain health, the book focuses on health generally. Follow the Genius Foods lifestyle, the book sells, and you’re pretty much guaranteed not just brain health, but heart and gut health too.
bryan cook (verified owner) –
Quick and dirty auto-bio story: Life long morbidly obese, sugar-addicted, diabetes type 2 a few years ago. I’ve managed to lose tons of weight for short stints, but was always “skinny-fat” and would gain it all back shortly. Never understood what I was doing wrong. Tried reading articles and books and whatever I could find for help over the years, talking to doctor and nutritionist many times, etc. I always HATED how contradictory all the information would be and none of the advice ever helped me sustain anything healthy, and in fact I think I always felt even worse off in the end when I would gain all the weight back. Last few years with sugar-addiction I’ve had a constant brain-fog, intense sleep problems, and miss a lot of work as a result.
Karen (verified owner) –
I found this book incredibly educational and it reinforced a lot of I was hoping I was doing correctly with my daily food regime. The book was relatable and yet forgiving with all the variables we are faced with on a daily basis.
A.licia.C.Jorge (verified owner) –
Great value for money, well written,easy to read and packed with so much great information, the kind of book you could start reading and dont want to put down. This book was well worth the purchase. All round service great.
graham gouch (verified owner) –
Very good book, very instructive