

If you find yourself chronically sick, tired, and inflamed — brain fog, clothes no longer fitting — this book is for you.
No barriers — no matter your age, budget, location, beliefs, or food preferences — reclaim your metabolic health through food, fasting, and pleasure.
In Metabolic Mayhem, Maia does something rare and necessary. She refuses to separate science from story, pleasure from discipline, or healing from lived experience. This is not a rulebook. It's a love letter to fat, to fasting, to flavour, to freedom, and to the radical idea that metabolic health can be both exquisite and joyful.
With humour, humility, and hard-won wisdom, Maia invites you into her life across countries, kitchens, crises, and breakthroughs — showing how metabolic flexibility isn't about perfection, punishment, or fear. It's about curiosity. It's about listening. It's about learning how to dance between feasting and fasting, structure and surrender, biology and bliss.
She brings pleasure back to the plate, agency back to the individual, and humanity back to health. If you're tired of being told what's 'right' for your body by people who've never lived in it, this book is for you. If you want science with soul, discipline with delight, and a metabolic reset that feels like coming home — welcome to the mayhem.
Maia has created something rare: a book that feels both deeply human and powerfully educational, a beautiful blend of story, science, and soul. Maia shows that improving your metabolic health isn't about perfection. It's about curiosity, compassion, and giving yourself permission to change. This is the kind of book that meets you where you are and gently pulls you toward a better version of yourself.
What makes this book stand apart is its humanity. Maia does not lecture; she invites. She does not overwhelm with jargon; she translates science into stories. Most importantly, she reminds us that change — real, sustainable change — is possible at any age and under any circumstance. This is more than a guide to metabolic health. It is an offering of hope.
Beautifully written, Metabolic Mayhem is an enthralling read that weaves an open account of Maia's journey alongside the science of improving metabolic health
Maia shows that no matter where you are in the world, this way of living can be made to work for you. She doesn't preach. She guides. She offers practical, real-world solutions that feel achievable rather than overwhelming. In this book, you'll find everything you need to begin turning your health around. You are in very good hands.
A lucid, compassionate guide to metabolic health that doesn't shy away from the brain. If you've ever suspected your mood, focus, and energy are downstream of metabolism, this book — part travelogue and part scientific overview — gives you a practical place to start. And its women's health chapter is a welcome change from the norm."
Metabolic Mayhem is not just a book; it's an awakening. This book doesn't instruct from a distance; it walks beside you. It shows that metabolic health is not a rigid prescription but an adaptable empowering path. For readers in India and everywhere, Metabolic Mayhem is both a guide and a companion — rich with wisdom, free from dogma, and full of hope.
Maia leads an unconventional life, blending a passion for healing and a love of travel. Focusing on root causes rather than symptoms, she turned her expertise toward crafting a practical, joyful path to reverse disease and reclaim health — thus addressing the true pandemic of metabolic illness sweeping the world.