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  • Written by: Ben Greenfield
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  • Length: 41 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (62 ratings)

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

Written by: Ben Greenfield
Narrated by: James Newcomb
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Publisher's Summary

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

Sure, some of us find ways to hit peak performance in one area or another - there are professional poker players, computer programmers, and race car drivers hunched over card games, keyboards, and steering wheels with optimized minds; UFC and NFL gladiators fighting for glory on television with optimized bodies; and monks and meditators roaming the planet with optimized spirits.

But 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 best-selling 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 (and 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 (and 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
  • The 11 best blood tests for maximizing health and longevity
  • How to eat, train, and live for optimal symmetry and beauty (&andhow 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
  • How to use the power of light to optimize your body and brain
  • The exercise that will change your life forever (and 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 listen 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!

©2020 Ben Greenfield (P)2020 Ben Greenfield, LLC

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well worth price

loved it lots of interest ideas. I'm sure they will help me become a better person.

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Easily captivated by the great content!

Initially concerned by the audio sample which sounded cavernous and the critics given by some about the performance, I decided to go for it and was pleasantly surprised by the quality and appropriate performance of the narrator James Newcomb, with such a difficult challenge of naming biology, chemistry , scientific terms included in this great document that Mr. Greenfield as created.
Love it the way the voice is steady like an serious instructor.. not an entertainer .. I'm looking for knowledge and improvement on the concept proposed by Ben Greenfield. Going through the document is easy since it's not necessary linear and you may navigate from one chapter to the other at your convenience on so many subjects.

Great work guys! Enjoy this beauty , live long and prosper!

P.S. I went through Beyond Training and now this one is even better , a winner all the way!

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Interesting collection of biohacking techniques

Interesting collection of biohacking techniques. It's quite comprehensive and I've only just started implementing and testing a few of the nutrition recommendations.

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Great content, terrible narration

Ben should sue James for all of the five star reviews that he will have lost solely on account to the terrible narration performance. I've never heard Ben mispronounce a single word in any of the many his podcasts that I've listened to. James mispronounces so many words that eventually you're start trying to count them all although you'll finally have to give up on that effort. He pauses often on words that are not particularly the difficult, and even speaks to himself at times, coughs, and does other things that you won't find on any other Audible book that you listen to.

That said, this book is massive and is a great source of health, fitness and longevity information that is equally suitable for lay audiences and for those already well immersed in these fields. Great job Ben, but do the narration yourself next time around.

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Great Content - Narration Needs Improvement

I was so excited for this book because I love Ben Greenfield. My first disappointment was that Ben wasn’t narrating, ok no problem. By the end of the first chapter I was so annoyed because the person doing the narration clearly knows nothing about advanced health because he can’t pronounce half of the words in the book. The mispronunciations of norepinephrine, Sam-E, Synaptic cleft and many other words was so distracting that I was having trouble focusing on the content which is great, but I recommend buying the hard copy and skipping the audible.

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whole body/mind/spirit wellness approach

I love that this book covered the body, mind and spirit approach to whole wellness. it was long but worth it. I especially like the bonus to book chapter by chapter resources.

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An absolute behemoth of a book!

I keep coming back to Ben Greenfield's work because he doesn't only tackle foods an exercise, but also other subjects that might go under the radar light dirty electricity and water as well as spirituality. after all, "I don't just want to be known for being a good exerciser"

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So much bro science

I’d be highly skeptical if anyone is meant to use all the stuff suggested in this book. The number of paragraphs that lead with “some studies show” or “some research suggests” which automatically raises questions. There is so much content that no one could possibly know what is good or bad about what Ben is suggesting.

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meh

mainstream bs narratives, eat more protein, take more supplements, etc. if your diet was good you wouldn't need to buy supplements

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Snake oil trash

The use of pseudoscience, manipulation techniques, straw man’s argument and half truths is enough that I had to give up. It takes 5 minutes of google searches to know this man is a snake oil salesman.

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