Health Books
Beginner
The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest
Explores the lifestyles of communities with the highest life expectancies, offering insights into habits and practices that promote longevity and well-being.
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
Examines the role of diet in preventing and reversing chronic diseases, providing evidence-based recommendations for a plant-based diet.
The Whole 30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom
Presents a 30-day program designed to reset your body and habits, focusing on whole foods and eliminating common inflammatory foods.
Eat, Move, Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes
Offers practical advice on improving health and well-being through small lifestyle changes related to diet, exercise, and sleep.
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
Presents unconventional methods and experiments for optimizing health, fitness, and performance in various aspects of life.
The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in 'Healthy' Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain
Challenges conventional wisdom on healthy eating, discussing the potential dangers of certain plant-based foods and offering alternatives.
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar – Your Brain's Silent Killers
Explores the connection between diet and brain health, discussing the impact of carbohydrates and sugar on cognitive function and overall well-being.
The Bulletproof Diet: Lose up to a Pound a Day, Reclaim Energy and Focus, Upgrade Your Life
Presents a diet plan focused on high-quality fats, proteins, and vegetables to promote weight loss, energy, and cognitive performance.
The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss
Explores the science behind obesity and weight loss, offering insights into the role of insulin resistance and strategies for sustainable weight management.
Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body's Natural Ability to Heal Itself
Presents a program focused on detoxifying the body and promoting optimal health through clean eating and lifestyle habits.
Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal
Offers insights into the root causes of chronic and mystery illnesses, providing guidance on healing through diet, lifestyle, and spiritual practices.
The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight
Discusses the science of longevity and offers a diet plan designed to promote health, longevity, and disease prevention.
The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline
Presents a comprehensive approach to preventing and reversing cognitive decline, focusing on diet, lifestyle, and personalized protocols.
Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
Examines the impact of modern wheat on health and weight, discussing the potential benefits of eliminating wheat from the diet.
It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways
Introduces the Whole30 program and its principles for improving health, energy, and well-being through whole foods and lifestyle changes.
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health
Presents findings from the China-Cornell-Oxford Project, exploring the link between diet and chronic diseases and advocating for a plant-based diet.
Intermediate
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Explores the science of sleep and its importance for physical and mental health, offering insights into the impact of sleep on performance, memory, and overall well-being.
Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food
Examines the role of nutrition in gene expression and health, advocating for a diet rich in traditional, nutrient-dense foods to optimize health and prevent disease.
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Explores the neuroplasticity of the brain and its ability to rewire and adapt throughout life, offering inspiring stories of individuals overcoming neurological challenges.
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Discusses the connection between physical activity and brain health, exploring how exercise can improve cognitive function, mood, and overall well-being.
The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer
Presents research on telomeres – the protective caps on chromosomes – and their role in aging, offering insights into lifestyle factors that can promote telomere health and longevity.
Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life
Explores the link between diet and brain health, offering dietary recommendations and lifestyle strategies to optimize cognitive function and mental well-being.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Examines the impact of trauma on the body and brain, offering insights into the healing process and strategies for addressing trauma-related symptoms.
The Hormone Reset Diet: Heal Your Metabolism to Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 21 Days
Presents a hormone-balancing diet plan designed to optimize metabolism, promote weight loss, and improve overall health and well-being.
The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet
Advocates for a paleolithic diet based on the eating patterns of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, emphasizing whole foods, lean proteins, and healthy fats.
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
Explores innovative treatments and therapies for neurological conditions, highlighting the brain's remarkable ability to heal and adapt.
The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health During the Change
Provides insights and guidance for navigating the physical and emotional changes associated with menopause, offering strategies for promoting health and well-being.
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Explores the therapeutic potential of psychedelics for treating mental health conditions and promoting personal growth and spiritual exploration.
The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First
Presents a holistic approach to brain health, addressing the underlying causes of neurological imbalances and offering dietary and lifestyle interventions.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Challenges conventional wisdom on nutrition and offers practical advice for navigating the modern food landscape and eating for optimal health.
The Autoimmune Solution: Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases
Presents a comprehensive approach to autoimmune conditions, addressing underlying triggers and offering dietary and lifestyle strategies for healing.
The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles
Offers a dietary and lifestyle protocol for managing autoimmune conditions, based on paleolithic principles and nutrient-dense foods.
The Obesity Epidemic: What Caused It? How Can We Stop It?
Examines the factors contributing to the obesity epidemic and offers insights into effective strategies for prevention and treatment.
Advanced
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Provides a comprehensive history of cancer, from its earliest documented appearances to modern research and treatments, offering insights into the complexity of the disease and the quest for a cure.
The Gene: An Intimate History
Explores the history, science, and implications of genetics, tracing the discovery and understanding of genes and their impact on human health, behavior, and identity.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Examines end-of-life care and the challenges of aging and mortality, offering insights into how medicine and society can better support individuals in their final stages of life.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells – taken without her knowledge – became one of the most important tools in medicine, revolutionizing medical research while raising important ethical questions about consent and ownership.
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Explores the power of checklists in improving performance, efficiency, and safety across various fields, including medicine, aviation, and construction.
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
Examines the role of the gut microbiome in health and disease, offering insights into the connections between gut health, immunity, digestion, and mental well-being.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Recounts the story of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London and its impact on public health, urban planning, and the understanding of infectious diseases.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Explores the current mass extinction event caused by human activity, offering insights into its causes, consequences, and the urgent need for conservation and environmental stewardship.
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Tells the story of Dr. Paul Farmer and his work to provide healthcare to the poor in Haiti and other parts of the world, highlighting the challenges of addressing global health disparities.
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Recounts the emergence of the Ebola virus in Africa and its potential for global spread, offering a gripping account of the efforts to contain and understand the deadly disease.
The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor's 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease
Presents a comprehensive program for healing autoimmune conditions, focusing on diet, lifestyle, stress management, and personalized treatment protocols.
The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery
Explores the underlying causes of cancer and offers insights into new approaches to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, based on emerging research and understanding of the disease.
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
Examines the role of genetics in athletic performance, exploring the complex interplay between genes, training, and environmental factors in shaping athletic abilities.
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Traces the history of pandemics and infectious diseases, offering insights into the factors driving their emergence and spread, as well as the efforts to control and prevent them.
The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles
Explores the intersection of biology, psychology, and spirituality, offering a groundbreaking understanding of the role of beliefs and consciousness in health and healing.
The End of Illness
Presents a vision of a future without chronic diseases, offering insights into the principles of preventive medicine, personalized healthcare, and lifestyle optimization.
The Healing Self: A Revolutionary New Plan to Supercharge Your Immunity and Stay Well for Life
Offers a holistic approach to health and wellness, combining ancient wisdom with modern science to promote optimal immunity, vitality, and well-being.