Has it gone family welcome to another episode of the Genius Life?

I'm your host Max Lugovier, a filmmaker, health and science journalist in the author of The New York Times

best-selling book, Genius Foods. On this episode of the show, I am excited to introduce you to Mr.

Kamal Ravikant, the author of Love Yourself, like your life depends on it. Kamal is meditated with

monks in the Himalayas, served as a U.S. Army infantry soldier, walked 550 miles across Spain,

and has co-founded several companies and a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. He wrote this book,

Love Yourself, like your life depends on it, at a very dark time in his life, and the book went

viral online. He self-published it, and it became this online phenomena that was spread and spread

spread, and ultimately he was able to achieve a book deal because the book was just going gangbusters.

And for good reason, it teaches you very simple and effective tools to forge a better relationship

with yourself. And he's going to share some of those tools and those insights over the course of

the next hour. I'm super excited to get into it. But before we do, I have some very special news to

share with you. I have a brand new book coming out on March 17th called The Genius Life. Yep,

it's the same name as this podcast. If you happen to be a fan of this podcast, you are going to

love my new book The Genius Life. It is a 360 degree lifestyle approach to feeling great and

getting healthy. It incorporates many of the topics that we've covered on this show before,

including toxicology, circadian biology, exercise physiology, nutrition, nature immersion, the value

of thermal exercise, i.e. experiencing variation in your ambient temperature, and so much more.

Each of these topics can easily take up a book of their own. But is that going to be an exciting

book to read? I don't know. What I've done in my book is I've digested and distilled and made

actionable, approachable, and most importantly achievable. All of these different

different topics to give you the best and most relevant that science has to offer so that you can

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