SMART STUFF FOR YOUR BRAIN: HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND

How do smart people get smart? Is it all a matter of genetics? Luck? Or just plain hard work? Is there anything you can do to give yourself a mental, emotional, and creative boost—to spur your brain to its fullest potential?

You possess a unique set of biochemical attributes and environmental experiences that interact to produce the essence of who you are arid, just as important, what you can become. Hard work alone is seldom enough to help you realize your full potential. The real achievers I've counseled all put in the necessary hours of work, study, and training to excel in their chosen professions. What separates the men from the boys, the women from the girls, the winners from the also-rans, is a biochemically charged flash of brilliance—that much-too-rare state of mind that you've undoubtedly already enjoyed at some point, if only briefly—in which you suddenly "see" the answers to difficult personal or professional problems or experience the kind of mental energy and creative insight that helps you improve your life and, perhaps, the lives of others.

It's those rare and fleeting instances of mental acuity, mood elevation, alertness, creativity, and lucidity that supply the often missing but vital 1 percent that makes the difference—the difference between mediocrity and excellence, the difference between graduating with honors or just graduating, the difference between job promotion or job stagnation.

I'm going to show you how you can literally change your mind. I will show you how to bathe your brain in smart nutrients that can boost mental and physical performance to new heights. I want to help you be the best you can be by showing you how to eat smart to think smart.

Everyone, from Socrates to Shakespeare, Newton to Einstein, Mozart to Paul McCartney, leapt to greatness with the help of the chemicals, made by their brains, from nutritional nuggets known as smart nutrients that they received naturally through the food they ate. With this book, you have an advantage they never had: By learning to control the amount and quality of smart nutrients through specially chosen foods and supplements, you can make smart nutrients work for you in the most focused possible way, raising your mental capacity, creativity and energy to higher levels than you ever dreamed possible. Although learning to derive maximum benefits from smart nutrients may not turn you into a genius, I can assure you that it will help you to become the mental and creative best you can be.

But smart nutrients can do more than increase your intelligence, memory, and mental energy. They can also boost your sex drive and prevent premature aging and senility. Smart substances can even burn off excess body fat, build muscle, help you get a good night's sleep, and elevate your mood to fight ordinary depression.

Information on smart nutrition is proliferating so quickly that few people can keep up with the thousands of articles published each month in medical and scientific journals, as well as in newspapers and popular magazines. Eat Smart, Think Smart will help you make sense of this highly technical and voluminous information and show you how to use it to improve your life. If you own a personal computer or have access to one, I'll show you how to keep abreast of future developments in smart nutrition. I'll also tell you how to use a personal computer to create, customize, and analyze maximum-performance diets for you and your family.

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