"Dr. Shawn Talbott is an expert in the scientific fields of functional nutrition, functional medicine as well as in functional food science. By using different approaches including functional medicine he is trying to get to the root cause of disease and trying to improve both mental and physical performance."—Dr. Danik Martirosyan, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, FFHD. President, Functional Food Center, Functional Food Institute

"Dr. Shawn Talbott is one of the top thinkers of our time concerning the intersection between nutrition, physical and mental performance and mental health. Mental Fitness is the culmination of decades of Shawn’s cutting edge research and work, integrating the latest science in an easy-to-understand manner."—Kerry Hughes, Ethnobotanist, Herbalist, and Author

"Talbott draws from scientific, anecdotal and personal information to highlight the dramatic challenges to our mental wellness, and shows practical ways how to prevent and to effectively deal with the continuous rise in a wide range of physical and mental diseases we are currently experiencing. An important read for anybody who is sick of covering up the underlying problems with medications and explore non-pharmaceutical solutions."—Emeran A. Mayer, MD, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and author of The Mind Gut Connection and The Gut-Immune Connection