Mental Fitness: Maximizing Mood, Motivation, & Mental Wellness by Optimizing the Brain-Body-Biome

by Shawn Talbott

Overview

"An important read for anybody who is sick of covering up the underlying problems with medications and explore non-pharmaceutical solutions." —Emeran A. Mayer, MD, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and author of The Mind Gut Connection and The Gut-Immune Connection

Achieve a balanced mood, clear thinking, and abundant energy through transformative methods based on groundbreaking research on the gut-heart-brain-axis.

Depression, anxiety, and burnout are the plague of modern times. Mental wellness issues afflict millions of people worldwide and account for billions of dollars spent on pharmaceuticals and “feel better” products. Unfortunately, most of these solutions make us feel “different” but not really “better”–and certainly not how we want to feel. Nurturing the Brain-Body-Biome is the superhighway to improve physical energy, mental acuity, and emotional well-being through nutrition, movement, and mindset.

Written by expert Psychonutritionist Dr. Shawn Talbott—a nutritional biochemist who has dedicated years of research and a dozen books to the study of nutritional psychology—Mental Fitness provides a clear, actionable path to optimize the connection across the Brain-Body-Biome and feel better naturally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684426782
Publisher:	Turner
Publication date:	09/14/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dr. Shawn Talbott integrates physiology, biochemistry, and psychology to help people improve mental wellness and physical performance. He received Bachelor’s degrees in Sports Medicine and Fitness Management from Marietta College, Master’s degrees in Exercise Science from UMASS and Entrepreneurship from MIT, and his PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from Rutgers. Recent projects include two academic textbooks, an award-winning documentary film, and several best-selling books translated into multiple languages. His work has been featured on The Dr. Oz Show, the TED stage, and the White House-and he has developed numerous top-selling nutraceutical products, generating over $1 billion in global sales. Shawn has competed at the elite level in rowing and triathlon, and has held the title of the “World’s Fittest CEO.” He lives with his family in Utah and Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - What is Mental Fitness? Chapter 2 - Gut Brain and Microbiome Chapter 3 - Heart Brain Chapter 4 - Axis: How Do Our Brains “Talk” To Each Other? Chapter 5 - The Mental Fitness Diet Chapter 6 - Movement for Mental Fitness Chapter 7 - Stress and Sleep Chapter 8 - Mindset Chapter 9 - Dietary Supplements: The Trojan Horse – How Mental Fitness Drives Physical Health

Editorial Reviews

"In this latest book Mental Fitness, Shawn Talbott draws from scientific, anecdotal and personal information to highlight the dramatic challenges to our mental wellness, and shows practical ways how to prevent and to effectively deal with the continuous rise in a wide range of physical and mental diseases we are currently experiencing. An important read for anybody who is sick of covering up the underlying problems with medications and explore non-pharmaceutical solutions." —Emeran A. Mayer, MD, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and author of The Mind Gut Connection and The Gut-Immune Connection

"Dr. Shawn Talbott is an expert in the scientific fields of functional nutrition, functional medicine as well as in functional food science. By using different approaches including functional medicine he is trying to get to the root cause of disease and trying to improve both mental and physical performance." —Dr. Danik Martirosyan, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, FFHD. President, Functional Food Center, Functional Food Institute

"Dr. Shawn Talbott is one of the top thinkers of our time concerning the intersection between nutrition, physical and mental performance and mental health. Mental Fitness is the culmination of decades of Shawn’s cutting edge research and work, integrating the latest science in an easy-to-understand manner." —Kerry Hughes, Ethnobotanist, Herbalist, and Author

"As a fitness professional with 30 years of experience, I couldn't be more elated with the timing of Dr. Shawn Talbott's book, Mental Fitness. This is the secret sauce in creating long term, sustainable and holistic wellness. Shawn not only has a way of making complicated scientific information digestible, he also is a perfect role model of how to apply what he teaches. This book will be a resource I will turn to frequently for myself and my clients." —Kat Morrill, CPT, CHC, CGF, Master Fitness Educator and Global Fitness Consultant

"Talbott draws from scientific, anecdotal and personal information to highlight the dramatic challenges to our mental wellness, and shows practical ways how to prevent and to effectively deal with the continuous rise in a wide range of physical and mental diseases we are currently experiencing. An important read for anybody who is sick of covering up the underlying problems with medications and explore non-pharmaceutical solutions." —Emeran A. Mayer, MD, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and author of The Mind Gut Connection and The Gut-Immune Connection

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