Mike Dow - Sugar Brain Fix: The 28-Day Plan to Quit Craving the Foods That Are Shrinking Your Brain and Expanding Your Waistline

Sugar isnt just bad for your bodyit hurts your brain too. Mikes program will walk you through how to kick the sugar and reclaim your brain through a powerful combination of simple behavioral shifts and delicious healing foods.

JJ Virgin, New York Times best-selling author, The Sugar Impact Diet

If you feel your brain is out of control you need this book. It is based on science and solid clinical experience. It will help grow your most precious organyour brain.

Daniel Amen, M.D., founder of Amen Clinics and New York Times best-selling author of Feel Better Fast and Make It Last

Providing the brain with moments of stillness, silence, and serenity are essential in our modern world. Mikes technique is yet another tool to put in your arsenal of clinically validated practices.

Dr. Susan Albers, Psy.D., New York Times best-selling author of Eat Q and 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food

Get rid of the toxic gunk that is shrinking your brain. Dr. Mike will help you and your brain glow.

Naomi Whittel,New York Times best-selling author of Glow15

Our national addiction to sugar is the basis of much of the chronic disease and poor health in our country. Dr. Mike Dows revolutionary new book, The Sugar Brain Fix combines groundbreaking science with easy-to-implement strategies to help you look and feel your best. A must-read for both doctors and patients everywhere.

Anthony Youn, M.D., best-selling author of The Age Fix

Sugar is a brain-shrinking, waist-expanding molecule that divorces its whole food source and often couples up with saturated fats (hello, doughnut!), leading to an addictive cycle of eating foods that lack nutritional value, but possess the power to kill: heart disease, stroke, cancer, obesity, and diabetes. As a staunch advocate of whole-food, plant-based eating, I commend Dr. Mike Dow for providing sugar lovers with a program that really works. Of course, I particularly love the vegan options!

Kristi Funk, M.D., breast cancer surgeon and best-selling author of Breast: The Owners Manual

The Sugar Brain Fix illuminates the fact that too many American families eat a diet that is not only unhealthy, but hazardous to long-term brain health. This book is a must-read for anyone wanting or needing to improve their nutrition and overall health. Dr. Mikes program will help parents incorporate brain-boosting foods into their everyday dietwhich can in turn help them model healthy food habits to their kidsimportant for everyones future health!

Tanya Altmann, M.D., FAAP, founder of Calabasas Pediatrics Wellness Center and author of What to Feed Your Baby and Baby and Toddler Basics

In this brilliant book, Dr. Mike has captured the essential ingredients you can easily implement to bring your brain chemistry back into balance and free you from addictive patterns. With this effective 28-day program, you will detox from the foods that drain your energy and make your brain foggy, while adding activities to enhance your mental clarity and overall vitality. I highly recommend putting this into action today!

Andrea Pennington, M.D., founder of In8Vitality and best-selling author of I Love You, Me!

The Sugar Brain Fix is a must-read for anyone who wants to keep their brain as healthy as possible while simultaneously trimming their waistline. By helping readers understand which foods to avoid and which foods to embrace, Dr. Dows 28-day plan will undoubtedly change the lives of people around the world.

Nita Landry M.D., recurring co-host of the Emmy Award-winning series, The Doctors

Through 20 years of studying the human body, I would consider excess processed sugar and lack of consistent moderate exercise the two biggest health threats in the developed world. Dr. Dows Kediterranean diet is rock solid nutritionally and has enough flexibility to be used as the foundation for a lifestyle of healthy eating, years beyond the 28-day fix. Additionally, Dr. Dow draws upon years of mental health experience to help the reader find the why of change making, so that they are far more likely to succeed. This book has the power to change lives.

Dr. Jedidiah Ballard, ER physician, former U.S. Army Ranger, and Mens Health Magazine, Ultimate Guy

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Heal Your Drained Brain: Naturally Relieve Anxiety, Combat Insomnia, and Balance Your Brain in Just 14 Days*

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The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks*

*Available from Hay House
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Copyright 2020 by Dr. Mike Dow Enterprises

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Indexer: J S Editorial, LLC
Cover design: Jason Gabbert
Interior design: Nick C. Welch
Images on courtesy of:
Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Amen Clinics, Inc.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise copied for public or private useother than for fair use as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviewswithout prior written permission of the publisher.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

This book has been revised and updated. Portions of this book were previously published by the Penguin Group as Diet Rehab Dr. Michael Dow Media Enterprises, Inc. (hardcover 978-1-5833-3442-3, tradepaper 978-1-5833-3504-8).

Images on courtesy of Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Amen Clinics, Inc.

Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress.

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4019-5666-0
E-book ISBN: 978-1-4019-5667-7
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-4019-5669-1

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Whats your current relationship status with sugar? If youre like most people today, youd probably describe it as in a relationship or its complicated. Sugar is like that bad boyfriend or girlfriend your friends tell you to leave.

Maybe youve tried to leave but have discovered how hard it can be. You still have feelings for sugar. Sugar has always been there for you. It provided comfort when you felt blue. In the best moments of your life, sugar was there to help you celebrate. Maybe you could become just friends with sugarif you could get a little distance from it. But it feels almost impossible. After all, sugar is everywhere.