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

By: Ben Greenfield

Narrated by: James Newcomb

Length: 41 hrs and 19 mins

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

Great resource

Anyone looking for an encyclopedia on improving your life should consider this book. I bought the audio version as a compliment to the book, but the resources online help the audiobook stand on its own. There is some repetition between chapters, but that helps each chapter stand on its own as an individual resource. Highly recommended.

Amazing amount of invaluable experience based information

Anybody that lives in a body, and is disciplined and intelligent enough to take care of that body. This is a must have book!!!
Or should I say compendium absolutely incredible thank you, Mr. Greenfield! I know this isn’t the only amazing tool that you have created for the human family.

Long, but great read

First, I have to say that this is a very long read. 40+ hours. A lot of it does not pertain to me and I don’t understand as it’s very technical and goes into things that I don’t understand. That being said it is a very good explanation on almost everything you need to do to create a healthier lifestyle And better healthier life balance. I love that the author doesn’t take a stance on what you should or should not do but takes a stance on here the things that will help you optimize yourself in different ways. He doesn’t say you have to go on this diet or that diet or be this type of an eater or that type of an eater. He goes into detail on each side and the benefits to both and doesn’t tell you what to do. Highly recommended will be using it as a reference guide in the future as it digs into things that I don’t right now understand but want to understand more

Awesome audible

The knowledge that was put into this is incredible! Well worth the week it took to get through it👍🏻

The narrator is the worst!

The book itself, so far(I'm 6 hours in), is very informative. I don't think I would have gotten through it in paper form, as it is very technical.

The narration, however, is horrible, and making it increasinglydifficult to get through. I have to give credit to the narrator; this is a 40 hour book. But I have never listened to an audio book that was so poorly edited. The audio book is riddled with gaps, repeating, even throat clearing, gasping for breath, and gibberish noises by the narrator. In addition, trying to follow along is difficult, because the narrator mispronounces soooo many words. It is extremely frustrating.

How do you access the content he references to?

Throughout the book he says you can get the notes/videos/ illustrations Ect. If you go to boundless book.com/18? Or I think that is what he says. But the books website requires the receipt number of the book you purchased in order to access the extra content. How do you access it if you purchased the audio book through audible????
Thank you

Most comprehensive holistic health book I have ever read

As a holistic medical professional, this is the most comprehensive and complete book on health and wellness that I have ever read. Ben Greenfield seemingly leaves no stone unturned as he gives extensive advice on physical health,mental health and spiritual health and recipes on how to get there from a beginner to intermediate to an advanced level. And it is backed with research.
He gives solutions from the most common sense to the most fringe. I am thoroughly impressed and blown away by what he has been able to accomplish. This book is a Bible on how to take care of yourself and your environment in every way possible. He tells you what to get and where to get it and how to get it and what to do. There’s so much to unpack that there is even a website with additional information. This book, Boundless is a complete treasure trove of juicy information for anyone who wants to get healthy be healthy and stay healthy.
I plan on integrating this knowledge along with my existing medical knowledge to be able to help not only myself but my family, friends and of course, my patients. I will read this book over and over again.
I am a fan for life. I cannot wait to see what Ben will do next. It’s hard to believe what he will do next because it seems like he’s done it all in this book already. I feel fortunate and grateful that he is willing to share what he has learned.
I suggest getting the hardcover book, which makes a great coffee table book and a good book to refer back to you after you listen to it. I also suggest getting the audiobook as well so you can listen to it, and subscribing to all his sites. It is amazing that this one guy has been able to focus on all of these different things that he has put together in this book. And he says it took three years to write the book but it seems like that’s a pretty short period of time considering that there’s so much information in this book. Once you go through this whole book you will see how much of an incredible feat that is in itself.
This book is a gem and it is worth every penny. If you wanted a virtual cookbook on how to have an optimized body, mind, and spirit, then this is the book.

Shawn C. Sutherland

Worth the length!

So good! I also have the hardcover book to reference things easier as there is SO. MUCH. INFORMATION. Contained in this book!!!! Well worth the 40+ hours of listening. Very science and detail oriented, which is great for me as I love to geek out on this stuff. Thank you Ben Greenfield!

Wow!

What an incredible book.
So comprehensive, so informative.
This book could (and should be) a course in school.
Imagine the world we would live in if everyone had the knowledge to be Boundless.
Thank you Ben and your team for the time, energy and effort that went it to bringing all this information together.
This is now one of our generational books that will be a part of our family and help our future generations become Boundless.
Great job!

Comprehensive Health.

All you need and nothing you don’t. Order a hard copy also and use as a reference book. Excellent!