Books like The Complete Guide to Fasting

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.

Both dig into obesity.

02

The Circadian Code

Satchin Panda · Health

Satchin Panda is a professor at the Salk Institute and one of the leading researchers in circadian biology — the science of how biological processes in every cell follow a roughly 24-hour clock.

A kindred health read.

03

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Gary Taubes · Health

Good Calories, Bad Calories is Gary Taubes's five-hundred-page argument that the conventional wisdom on diet and weight — specifically the idea that fat makes you fat and that eating less while exercising more is the path to weight loss — is not only wrong but has been maintained in the face of decades of contradictory evidence.

Both dig into obesity.

04

The China Study

T. Colin Campbell · Health

The China Study is T.

A kindred health read.

05

The Cancer Code

Jason Fung · Health

The Cancer Code is Jason Fung's case that oncology's dominant paradigm — cancer as a genetic disease driven by somatic mutations — is incomplete and has contributed to fifty years of largely stagnant survival rates for most cancers.

Shares fasting and insulin resistance with The Complete Guide to Fasting.

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 fasting and insulin resistance with The Complete Guide to Fasting.

07

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.

08

The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes · Health

The Case Against Sugar is Gary Taubes's focused argument that sugar — sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup specifically — is the primary cause of the obesity and diabetes epidemics, and the likely driver of the cluster of diseases, from heart disease to Alzheimer's, that researchers now associate with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.

Both dig into obesity.

09

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.

10

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.

11

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.

12

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.