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The Sugar Brain Fix

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Category: Health & Fitness - Diet & Nutrition - Weight Loss

Now out in tradepaper is The Sugar Brain Fix (a revised and updated edition of Diet Rehab), in which best-selling author and brain-health expert, Dr. Mike Dow, shows how sugar affects brain chemistry and provides new research on dieting and hypnosis.

What makes a healthy brain? The answer is simpler than you think.

In

Diet Rehab,

Dr. Mike Dow shared a simple, yet powerful plan to help readers kick their food addictions. Since then, Dr. Dow has gone on to become a

New York Times

best-selling author and has continued to research and publish books extensively on improving brain health. Over the past five years, he's gathered even more data that shows how our standard American diet is harming our brains and our bodies--and what we can do about it. In 2015, the first human study linking the blood-sugar spiking Western diet and a smaller hippocampus was published. There is now scientific proof that sugar is

shrinking

the brain!


With

The Sugar Brain Fix

, Dr. Dow takes a closer look at how sugar affects brain chemistry, and the ways we can fix it. The book features cutting-edge research and Dr. Dow's modified Mediterranean diet--the best diet for brain health and wellness.


The Sugar Brain Fix

will also incorporate research about hypnosis, and other activities to naturally boost brain health. At its core, The Sugar Brain Fix is a cognitive behavioral guide for boosting serotonin and dopamine levels in the brain with a new-and-improved diet and natural mind-set shifts, while improving overall health. The diet has a clinically proven, 3-prong approach: 1) eliminate sugar, 2) boost Mediterranean-diet-friendly fats, 3) increase probiotics.

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 3 reviews)

Robert Y. ★★★★★

I've read a lot of diet books that just tell you to eat less, but this one actually explains why I kept craving sweets after meals. The revised edition has a section on weaning off sugar gradually instead of quitting cold turkey, which felt doable for me. Down 12 pounds in two months without feeling

Benjamin X. ★★★★★

The brain chemistry angle actually made sense to me, especially the part about how sugar hits the same reward pathways as other addictive substances. I stopped keeping ice cream in the house after the first week without really white-knuckling it, which never happened with willpower alone. It's a rev

Joshua Y. ★★★★★

I've been trying to cut back on sugar for years, but nothing clicked until I read the section on how it actually rewires your brain chemistry. The explanation about dopamine and cravings finally made sense to me.