In a nutshell: The book is scientifically superficial, contains many errors and is written in a very poor style.
Before I go into detail: I'm sorry if I'm being very negative. Writing a book is certainly no easy task and the basic idea behind this work is great, as most probably are the intentions of the author. But I most honestly simply cannot recommend it. (And I'm a bit pissed because I paid more than 30€ for this!)
"Finally a book that explains in detail the mind-body connection [...] This book makes neuroscience not just interesting, but fun", "Beres uncovers the latest research by how the brain is affected by a number of different exercise formats". Those are huge claims which are hard to fulfill for someone who has no scientific education. Accordingly, the information provided is much more superficial than I expected after reading the description. The reference list consists mostly of a hand full of pop-science books. In other cases you simply don't find any references where they would have been important.
Of course, such a book could still be very interesting for people with low scientific demand, if it wasn't for the terrible errors in the text. If you claim to discuss the latest neuroscience you simply can't afford to mix up the basics. For example the author divides the peripheral nervous system into somatic, autonomic and eteric, and one or two pages later he writes PNS, when the context is undoubtedly indicating that he means the parasympathetic branch of the ANS. (Where was the editor?)
Finally, the writing style is poor. Beres repeatedly throws in statements that are hard to put into the context of his current discussion, and at times he writes completely senseless paragraphs like for example when he explains the importance of knowing to fail: "Like success, failure is an art. Some people do it well, while others run from any sign of it. They resist it. As we know from weightlifting, resistance is exactly what we want. Fail smart; fail often".
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