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

Before you play two notes learn how to play one note—and
don’t play one note unless you’ve got a reason to play it.
–MARK HOLLIS
If you’d have told me a few years ago that I’d one day write
a book about optimizing the brain, I would have been sure
you had mistaken me for someone else.
After I switched my college major from premed to film

and psychology, the idea of a career in health seemed
unlikely. This was compounded by the fact that soon after I
graduated, I became entrenched in what I considered a
dream job: a journalist and presenter on TV and the Web.
My focus was stories that I felt were underreported and
could make a positive impact on the world. I was living in
Los Angeles—a city I’d idolized as an MTV-watching teen
growing up in New York—and had just ended a five-year
stint hosting and producing content for a socially conscious
TV network called Current. Life was great. And it was all
about to change .









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