Books like Anticancer: A New Way of Life

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How Not to Die

Michael Greger · Health

How Not to Die is Michael Greger's systematic argument that the fifteen leading causes of death in the United States are largely preventable through diet and lifestyle change.

Both dig into nutrition.

02

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee · Science

The Emperor of All Maladies is Siddhartha Mukherjee's account of cancer from antiquity to the present — its biology, its treatments, its false dawns, and the scientists and patients caught in the middle of each.

A kindred health read.

03

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Peter Attia · Health

Peter Attia's Outlive is a book about how most people approach longevity backwards.

A kindred health read.

04

The China Study

T. Colin Campbell · Health

The China Study is T.

Shares cancer prevention and nutrition with Anticancer: A New Way of Life.

05

The Healing Self

Deepak Chopra · Health

The Healing Self, written by Deepak Chopra with molecular biologist Rudolph Tanzi, argues that the most powerful medicine available to most people is not pharmaceutical but behavioral: the daily choices that regulate inflammation, immune function, gene expression, and neurological health.

Shares lifestyle medicine and inflammation with Anticancer: A New Way of Life.

06

The Paleo Solution

Robb Wolf · Health

The Paleo Solution is Robb Wolf's argument that most chronic disease — obesity, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune conditions, cardiovascular disease — traces back to a mismatch between the foods modern humans eat and the foods our genome evolved to process.

Shares nutrition and inflammation with Anticancer: A New Way of Life.

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The UltraMind Solution

Mark Hyman · Health

The UltraMind Solution is Mark Hyman's argument that most mental and cognitive problems — depression, anxiety, ADHD, brain fog, memory decline — are not primarily psychiatric disorders but symptoms of underlying physical imbalances.

Shares nutrition and inflammation with Anticancer: A New Way of Life.

08

Bigger Leaner Stronger

Michael Matthews · Health

Bigger Leaner Stronger is Michael Matthews's practical guide to building a lean, muscular physique through evidence-based strength training and flexible dieting.

Both dig into nutrition.

09

Food Rules

Michael Pollan · Health

Food Rules is Michael Pollan's shortest and most direct book: sixty-four simple rules for eating, distilled from his longer works and from the accumulated wisdom of food cultures around the world.

Both dig into nutrition.

10

Grain Brain

David Perlmutter · Health

David Perlmutter, a board-certified neurologist, argues in Grain Brain that modern carbohydrate consumption — and gluten in particular — is the leading driver of brain disease in the developed world.

Both dig into inflammation.

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In Defense of Food

Michael Pollan · Health

In Defense of Food opens with seven words that amount to a quiet provocation: Eat food.

Both dig into nutrition.

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Super Genes

Deepak Chopra · Health

Super Genes, written by Deepak Chopra and neuroscientist Rudolph Tanzi, is organized around a single provocative claim: the human genome is not the fixed blueprint most people imagine but a dynamic system that responds continuously to lifestyle inputs.

Both dig into lifestyle medicine.