Books like Super Genes

01

Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

David A. Sinclair · Science

Lifespan opens with a bold claim: aging is not an inevitable feature of biology but a disease — one that can be treated, slowed, and possibly reversed.

Both dig into epigenetics.

02

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.

Both dig into lifestyle medicine.

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

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker · Science

Why We Sleep is Matthew Walker's attempt to do for sleep what no amount of public health messaging has managed: make people genuinely afraid of what they're losing.

A kindred health read.

05

Anticancer: A New Way of Life

David Servan-Schreiber · Health

Anticancer is David Servan-Schreiber's account of his own experience with brain cancer, diagnosed when he was thirty-one, and what he learned over fifteen years about the lifestyle and environmental factors that feed or suppress tumor growth.

Both dig into lifestyle medicine.

06

The Biology of Belief

Bruce H. Lipton · Health

The Biology of Belief is Bruce Lipton's argument that cells are controlled by signals from their environment rather than by genetic programs, and that human beings, as collections of cells, are therefore more powerfully shaped by their beliefs and perceptions than by their DNA.

Both dig into epigenetics.

07

The Depression Cure

Stephen Ilardi · Health

The Depression Cure is Stephen Ilardi's account of Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC), a structured program he developed at the University of Kansas for treating depression without primary reliance on antidepressants.

Both dig into lifestyle medicine.

08

The Microbiome Solution

Robynne Chutkan · Health

Robynne Chutkan is a gastroenterologist who founded the Digestive Center for Women in Washington DC, and The Microbiome Solution is a practitioner's-eye view of what she sees as a microbiome crisis in her patients.

Both dig into lifestyle medicine.

09

The Wahls Protocol

Terry Wahls · Health

Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine who was diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis in 2000.

Both dig into lifestyle medicine.

10

Younger Next Year

Chris Crowley · Health

Younger Next Year is the book that resulted when Chris Crowley, a retired New York lawyer in his mid-sixties, and Henry Lodge, his internist, decided to write down the case Lodge had been making in his practice for years: that the physical and cognitive decline most people experience in the second half of life is not inevitable, and that exercise is the most powerful tool available to interrupt it.

Both dig into lifestyle medicine.

11

Atomic Habits

James Clear · Self-help

Atomic Habits is James Clear's framework for how very small changes — habits so minor they seem to make no difference on any given day — compound into remarkable results over months and years.

Both dig into behavior change.

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Better Than Before

Gretchen Rubin · Self-help

Better Than Before is Gretchen Rubin's synthesis of years of research and personal experimentation on habits.

Both dig into behavior change.