Best Health & Wellness Books

Dr. Steven Gundry argues that longevity depends primarily on gut microbiome health, and provides a comprehensive protocol for living vigorously into old age.

A journalist goes in search of the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's Copper Canyons, legendary for their ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. What he discovers turns everything he thinks he knows about running — and human nature — upside down.

A nephrologist argues that obesity is caused by insulin resistance and chronic insulin elevation — not by calories in/calories out — and that intermittent fasting is the solution.

Activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor argues that radical self-love — the unconditional acceptance of your body exactly as it is — is not a personal practice but a political act that dismantles systems of oppression.

Dr. Satchin Panda, the world's leading researcher on circadian rhythms, explains how aligning your eating, sleeping, and activity with your internal clock dramatically improves health outcomes.

Michael Pollan's response to the nutritionism that has dominated American food culture — a short, elegant argument that the answer to the question of what to eat is simpler than the food industry and nutrition science want us to believe.

Robert Lustig argues that chronic disease is driven by processed food and metabolic dysfunction — and that the current medical and food industry response actively worsens the problem.