The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain By Healing Your Body First (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
I get it. A lot of our health problem are caused by eating incorrectly. And I've known that we tend to be allergic to the very things that we are addicted to. This is a great book with excellent recommendations on how to eat to improve your memory, fix your brain, and lose weight (although the weight isn't highlighted in the book). BUT it doesn't cover the issues with addiction. While he acknowledges that you might be addicted, he uses the "just do it" encouragement that every addict knows won't work. Read the book, if you're an addict, get help elsewhere but use the food recommendations and the supplement recommendations. This book was written prior to The Blood Sugar Solution and so is much less of a sales pitch. For that reason only, I recommended this book over The Blood Sugar Solution. And I rated this at a four rather than a five because of the lack of guidance in food addiction. I could simply do the recommendations and probably be at least 80% better. But simply ain't always easy. *Heal the body and the mind will follow* The modern day paradigm to treating disease focuses on alleviating symptoms and discomfort. In doing so, however, not only do the underlying causes of the disease often become overlooked, but the "treatments" for the disease frequently lead to further disruption and chaos in the body.Using Functional Medicine (or "systems biology"), Mark Hyman takes a revolutionary approach that is based on simple evolutionary realities: our bodies thrive on a diet of nutrient-rich whole foods but go into attack mode when fed modern, processed foods which are incompatible with our "stone age" body systems. And, when the body breaks down, the mind often does as well--ultimately resulting in increasingly prevalent "broken brain" syndromes such as ADHD, anxiety, autism, dementia, depression and the like.In his _UltraMind Solution_, Mark presents a road map for fixing the mind by first focusing on the body. His solution centers on the seven key steps of: optimizing nutrition, balancing hormones, cooling off inflammation, fixing digestion, enhancing detoxification, boosting energy metabolism, and calming the mind. The book contains a wealth of information--so much so that it may require a second-read through--which explains the why's and the how's of his heal-the-brain-by-first-healing-the-body approach.If you take the contents of his book seriously and make the recommended changes to your diet and lifestyle, you're pretty much guaranteed to significantly improve the quality of your life. In the very least, you'll come away with a better understanding of how the way to optimal brain functioning is through the body.Heal the body. Heal the mind. Recharge your life.
What do You think about The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain By Healing Your Body First (2008)?
This was one of the most informational books i have read
—samantha
Great information, but nothing particularly new.
—Jen
