Books like The Cancer Code

01

The Obesity Code

Jason Fung · Health

The Obesity Code is Jason Fung's argument that obesity is a hormonal disease, not a behavioral one, and that the treatment follows from that understanding.

A kindred health read.

02

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Peter Attia · Health

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

Both dig into metabolic health.

03

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.

04

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.

A kindred health read.

05

The Complete Guide to Fasting

Jason Fung · Health

Jason Fung is a Canadian nephrologist who became convinced that the conventional dietary advice given to type 2 diabetics — eat less, eat frequently, reduce fat — was not only ineffective but was contributing to the disease it was meant to treat.

Shares metabolic health and insulin resistance with The Cancer Code.

06

The Diabetes Code

Jason Fung · Health

The Diabetes Code is Jason Fung's argument that type 2 diabetes is a dietary disease, not a genetic destiny, and that it is therefore reversible through the right interventions.

Shares metabolic health and insulin resistance with The Cancer Code.

07

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.

Both dig into metabolic health.

08

Wired to Eat

Robb Wolf · Health

Wired to Eat is Robb Wolf's follow-up to The Paleo Solution, updated with new research on hunger neuroscience and a more individualized framework for dietary carbohydrate.

Both dig into metabolic health.

09

80/20 Running

Matt Fitzgerald · Health

80/20 Running is Matt Fitzgerald's evidence-based argument that the most common mistake recreational runners make is training too hard, too often.

A kindred health read.

10

Anatomy of an Epidemic

Robert Whitaker · Health

Anatomy of an Epidemic is Robert Whitaker's investigation into a paradox: as the use of psychiatric medication in the United States has increased dramatically over the past half-century, the number of people on disability due to mental illness has risen in parallel.

A kindred health read.

11

Anatomy of the Spirit

Caroline Myss · Health

Anatomy of the Spirit is Caroline Myss's attempt to synthesize three major spiritual traditions — the Hindu chakra system, the Christian sacraments, and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life — into a unified model of human energy anatomy.

A kindred health read.

12

Bad Pharma

Ben Goldacre · Health

Bad Pharma is Ben Goldacre's sustained indictment of the pharmaceutical industry's manipulation of clinical trial evidence, and of the regulatory and academic institutions that have failed to stop it.

A kindred health read.