Optimize Your Brain: Neuroscience Hacks for Better Cognition

di Sofia Lane (Autore)

epubli, 2026

This book explores the science of cognitive enhancement by examining what genuinely supports brain function versus what remains marketing wrapped in neuroscience terminology. It investigates how factors like sleep, nutrition, movement, and stress management affect cognition, and what research actually reveals about the brain's capacity for optimization. Rather than promoting quick fixes or biohacking shortcuts, this book reframes brain health as a practice of meeting basic needs consistently—often less exciting than supplements or protocols, but more foundational to genuine cognitive function. It examines the neuroscience behind focus, memory, and mental clarity, the role of inflammation and metabolic health in brain performance, and why optimizing cognition requires addressing lifestyle patterns rather than adding more interventions. It explores how the pursuit of optimization itself can become a source of stress that undermines the very function you're trying to enhance. Through compassionate inquiry, the book navigates the allure of cognitive enhancement promises, the frustration when your brain doesn't perform as expected, and the challenge of distinguishing between evidence-based practices and overhyped trends. It offers insight into recognizing when you're working with your brain's natural rhythms versus pushing against biological limits, and what it means to support cognitive health without treating your brain as a machine requiring constant upgrading. This is an invitation to approach brain optimization not through extreme interventions, but through honest assessment of whether you're meeting the foundational conditions your brain needs to function—and questioning whether the pressure to optimize might itself be what's depleting your cognitive resources.

• Autore: Sofia Lane
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: epubli
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9783565236961