Hello friends, welcome to another episode of the Genius Life.

I'm your host Max Lugovira, filmmaker, health and science journalist,

and the author of The New York Times best-selling book Genius Foods.

I just got back from a lovely weekend in Big Sur, California.

I was staying at a resort called Esselin, which has sort of a mythic appeal,

at least to me, because of its association with writers like Henry Miller,

eldest Huxley, Joseph Campbell.

And what it is is it's essentially this cliff-side resort

overlooking the ocean, where every single day there is all kinds of programming

ranging from fitness classes like yoga and hiking to foraging.

They provide three meals a day and all of the produce is grown on campus.

It's pretty incredible.

And I was there because my friend Dave, who co-founded a company called Sunshine,

with the goal of helping people essentially prevent depression,

basically curated a weekend where he brought all of his friends and people that are in the health

and wellness and tech space together to have a series of talks.

And I was actually one of the speakers.

I got to talk about Genius Foods and nutritional psychiatry and dementia prevention.

It was a really, really fun weekend.

But one of the coolest things about Esselin is that it's known for these salt baths that are rich in sulfur.

Now this place goes back to the 1960s.

I believe it was founded in 1962.

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