Wits Guts Grit: All-Natural Biohacks for Raising Smart, Resilient Kids [Paperback]

Wits Guts Gritis inspired by the many questions acclaimed science writer and mother Jena Pincott explored about the natural forces that shape children’s minds and health.What ifwe identify the microbes that support stress resilience and find ways to expose our kids to them?What ifwe reintroduce the mineral magnesium, deficient in almost every child’s diet? Would it reduce anxiety and increase bounce back, as the science now suggests?What ifmemory and learning could improve measurably after eating certain foods—such as blueberries—high in plant chemicals called flavonols, or after certain forms of exercise? These and many more questions led Pincott to simple, all-natural “biohacks”—experiments inspired by current research and theory—complete with instructions on how to undertake them to help your own children strengthen their wits, guts, and grit. Explaining the science and her own experimentation with her two gung-ho daughters in a lively, accessible way, Pincott shows parents how the underlying ingredients of the traits we all want for our kids—resilience, focus, perseverance, working memory, and more—may be all around us in the natural world, ready to be harnessed.

“The brilliant Jena Pincott has done it again withWits Guts Grit. A must readfor every parent, teacher, psychologist, social worker, pediatrician and childcare provider. Five Stars.” —Louann Brizendine MD,neuropsychiatrist and author of the New York Timesbestsellers The Female BrainandThe Male Brain
 

“If you are the kind of parent who reads the latest studies on resilience and achievement and wonder how they might really apply to your own kids, Jena Pincott’sWits Guts Gritis the book for you.  Pincott breaks down the science in an entertaining and accessible way—and then offers a serl3¦