Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging

Ben Greenfield

Simon and Schuster, Jan 21, 2020 - Health & Fitness - 640 pages

What if the ability to look, feel, and perform at peak capacity wasn’t the stuff of lore but instead was within easy reach?

In a perfect world, you would be able to have it all: complete optimization of mind, body, and spirit.

In Boundless, the New York Times bestselling author of Beyond Training and health and fitness leader Ben Greenfield offers a first-of-its-kind blueprint for total human optimization.

To catapult you down the path of maximizing cognition, mental clarity, and IQ, you will discover:

• How to rewire your skull’s supercomputer (& 9 ways to fix your neurotransmitters)
• The 12 best ways to heal a leaky brain
• 8 proven methods to banish stress and kiss high cortisol goodbye
• 10 foods that break your brain, and how to eat yourself smart
• How to safely utilize nootropics and smart drugs, along with 8 of the best brain-boosting supplement stacks and psychedelics
• The top nutrient for brain health that you probably aren’t getting enough of
• 6 ways to upgrade your brain using biohacking gear, games, and tools
• How to exercise the cells of your nervous system using technology and modern science
• Easy ways to train your brain for power, speed, and longevity
• The ultimate guide to optimizing your sleep, maximizing mental recovery, and stopping jet lag

To ensure that you look good naked and live a long time, you will learn:

• 6 ways to get quick, powerful muscles (& why bigger muscles aren’t better)
• How to burn fat fast without destroying your body
• The fitness secrets of 6 of the fittest old people on the planet
• The best training program for maximizing muscle gain and fat loss at the same time
• One simple tactic for staying lean year-round with minimal effort
• A step-by-step system for figuring out exactly which foods to eat
• 14 ways to build an unstoppable immune system
• Little-known tactics, tips, and tricks for recovering from workouts with lightning speed
• The best tools for biohacking your body at home and on the road
• How to eat, train, and live for optimal symmetry and beauty (& how to raise kids with superhuman bodies and brains)

And to help you live a fulfilling and happy life, you will learn:

• 12 techniques to heal your body using your own internal pharmacy
• What the single most powerful emotion is and how to tap into it every day
• 4 of the best ways to heal your body and spirit using sounds and vibrations
• 6 ways to enhance your life and longevity with love, friendships, and lasting relationships
• How to biohack the bedroom for better sex and longer orgasms, and the top libido-enhancing herbs, supplements, and strategies
• The perfect morning, afternoon, and evening routines for enhancing sleep, productivity, and overall happiness
• 28 ways to combine ancestral wisdom and modern science to enhance longevity, including the best foods, herbs, supplements, injections, medical treatments, biohacks, fasting strategies, and much more
• The 4 hidden variables that can make or break your mind, body, and spirit
• The exercise that will change your life forever (& how to reverse-engineer your perfect day)

Boundless guides you every step of the way to becoming an expert in what makes your brain tick, your body work, and your spirit happy.

You can flip open the book to any chapter and discover research-proven, trench-tested techniques to build muscle, burn fat, live longer, have mind-blowing sex, raise robust children, and much, much more!

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 4
• How to Fix a Leaky Brain: 30
• How to Banish Stress and Kiss High Cortisol Goodbye: 41
• 04: 57
• LIMITLESS AND LUCY: 85
• Brain Biohacking Gear Games and Tools: 116
• How to Fix Jet Lag Nap Like a Champ and Track Sleep Cycles: 129
• How to Burn Fat Fast Without Destroying Your Body: 162
• FITNESS DECODED: 204
• Science Gear and Tools for Building the Perfect Human: 218
• LONGEVITY DECODED: 240
• CLEAN: 272
• FK DIETS: 313
• How toCustomize Your Nutrition to: 344
• QUANTIFIED SELF: 389
• SUPERMODEL: 418
• A Plan for Your Perfect: 597
• CONCLUSION: 629

About the author

Ben Greenfield is a former bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, pro obstacle course racer, human performance consultant, speaker and author of 13 books, including the New York Times Bestseller “Beyond Training”. Ben has been voted by the NSCA as America’s top Personal Trainer and by Greatist as one of the top 100 Most Influential People In Health And Fitness. He works with individuals from all over the globe for both body and brain performance, and specializes in anti-aging, biohacking, and achieving an ideal combination of performance, health and longevity.

A frequent contributor to health and wellness publications and a highly sought after speaker, Ben’s understanding of functional exercise, nutrition, and the delicate balance between performance and health has helped thousands of people around the world achieve their goals and improve their quality of life – from high-level CEO’s to executives to exercise enthusiasts, professional athletes and beyond.

He is the founder and owner of KION, a nutrition supplements company that combines time-honored superfoods with modern science to allow human beings to achieve peak performance, look amazing, defy aging, and live an adventurous, fulfilling, joyful and limitless life.

Ben coaches and trains individuals all over the world for general health, anti-aging, weight loss, lean muscle gain, holistic wellness, and both body and brain performance, both at conferences and getaways and also via online training and consulting.

In college, Ben competed in tennis, water polo, and volleyball, then moved on to over a decade of competition in endurance sports, including as a top ranked triathlete, 13-time Ironman triathlete, multiple Ironman Hawaii finisher and member of the pro Spartan team. Ben resides in Spokane, Washington with his wife, Jessa, and twin boys, River and Terran, where he enjoys fiction, guitar, ukulele, spearfishing, bowhunting, plant foraging and cooking.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging
• Author: Ben Greenfield
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2020
• ISBN: 1628603976, 9781628603972
• Length: 640 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies; Health & Fitness / Longevity; Health & Fitness / Stretching