BOOKS
GENIUS KITCHEN (2022)
Wall Street Journal Bestseller - Click here to purchase on Amazon
Combining the dietary recommendations in his bestselling Genius Foods and the lifestyle recommendations of The Genius Life, Genius Kitchen features shockingly delicious, nutrient-packed recipes that will energize your mind, strengthen your body, and pave a path to health that you’ll feel with the first bite.
Max Lugavere’s debut book Genius Foods was groundbreaking, providing much-needed information on brain health that was embraced by thousands, and became an instant New York Times bestseller. His second book, The Genius Life, introduced an easy-to-implement protocol for strengthening your body and mind. This is the follow-up fans have been waiting for: the companion cookbook, filled with over 100 delicious recipes to help you lose weight, feel great, and reach optimum health.
Inspired by traditions from around the globe, the 100-plus recipes and stunning photographs in Genius Kitchen feature an international twist, with bold flavors that favor simplicity and quality of ingredients over complexity and quantity. In addition, Max lists the basic, healthy ingredients and tools that are essential for a well-stocked kitchen and pantry, and offers techniques and best practices for healthy cooking and eating well on a budget.
THE GENIUS LIFE (2020)
National Bestseller - Click here to purchase on Amazon
The author of the New York Times bestselling Genius Foods is back with a lifestyle program for resetting your brain and body to its “factory settings” to help you lose weight, gain strength, and fight fatigue, anxiety, and depression for a longer, healthier life.
Health & science journalist Max Lugavere is no stranger to illness. When his mother was diagnosed with early onset dementia in 2010, Lugavere used every tool in his toolkit to seek out answers to questions such as: What was to blame for her transformation from a healthy person to someone ravaged by disease? What could be done to improve one’s prospects for a long life with sound body and mind?
Ultimately connecting and collaborating with top scientists and clinicians around the world, Lugavere’s discoveries about the important connection between food and the brain became the basis of his first book, Genius Foods, now published in 8 languages. In The Genius Life, Lugavere goes beyond food, turning his attention to the myriad ways our daily habits are impacting the health of our bodies.
Lugavere shares the small changes you can make in your daily routine that will have noticeable wins on how you feel, including digestion, weight, mental health, and risk for disease. You’ll discover:
ways to curb hunger and drop fat for good, without having to count calories
how varying temperatures (hot and cold) can burn fat and protect your health
a time-efficient workout plan to build strength and heal your brain, heart, and mind
the everyday pollutants that affect your brain power, weight and sexual function
stress management and how to maximize the rejuvenating aspects of sleep
By following the wealth of tips Lugavere provides in THE GENIUS LIFE, including the achievable 28-day jumpstart plan, readers will be empowered to optimize their physical and mental well-being today, and for decades to come.
GENIUS FOODS (2018)
New York Times Bestseller - Click here to purchase on Amazon
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.