4 Season Solution: The Groundbreaking New Plan for Feeling Better, Living Well, and Powering Down Our Always-On Lives

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A NEW MODEL FOR HEALTHY LIVING, FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE MASSIVELY POPULAR WHOLE30 MOVEMENT Fatigue. Burnout. Weight gain. Disease. Despite seemingly endless programs designed to help us lose weight and regain our health, readers are more overworked, overtired, and overweight than ever. In this paradigm-shifting health book, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole30 and It Starts with Food gets to the heart of why and reveals a powerful new program to help us feel happier, healthier, and less stressed. Surprisingly, it starts with sleep, not food. In this first solo book, Hartwig reveals the four keys of health--sleep, eat, move, connect--and explains how we can reconcile the needs of our ancient genes with the demands and complications of modern life. Today, more than at any point in history before us, we are more disconnected from the natural world than ever. Our ancestors would have honored the changing seasons, adjusting their sleep, eating, exercise, and socializing habits based on the light, weather, and available food options. They would have slept more in winter, traversed longer distances in summer. But we wake before the sun rises and go to bed long after it sets. We spend most of our day indoors, in artificial light conditions. We can eat tropical fruits from halfway around the world in the dead of winter. We exercise in climate controlled environments, doing the same routine year round. We connect virtually instead of emotionally and physically. We go, go, go, until we pass out, exhausted, at the end of the day, by the constant blue light of our phones. In other words, we are living in an endless summer, and it's killing us. The 4 Season Solution provides a new, sustainable model for living more in sync with the natural rhythms of the universe. By making small but meaningful changes to each health key over the course of the year, readers will reclaim their health, regain their energy, and let go of excess weight. For instance: SLEEP: Sleep more, and exercise less; Spend more time in natural light during the day to stimulate melatonin in the evening; Go to bed earlier in the winter, and later in the summer. EAT: Eat unprocessed, whole foods year-long, but eat seasonally, enjoying greens and lighter fare in summer, and stews and more meat in winter. MOVE: Be active in the summer, and less in the winter. Summer is for endurance training and long cardio; winter is for strength-building and shorter, more intensive bursts of activity. CONNECT: Socialize and network more in summer; reconnect with family and loved ones in the fall and winter. As the co-founder of the massive Whole30 movement, Hartwig is a leading influencer in the Paleo and Ancestral Health communities, and this new book dovetails perfectly with the Paleo philosophy and will appeal to Hartwig's avid fan base. The 4 Season Solution is a big-think health book with a prescriptive backbone, one that will spark a dialogue, change the way we think about healthy living, and give us the tools to incorporate these ideas into our busy lives.