Books like The Diabetes Code

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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

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.

03

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan · Health

The Omnivore's Dilemma is Michael Pollan's investigation into four food chains — industrial, industrial organic, local pastoral, and hunted-and-gathered — organized around the question of what we should eat.

A kindred health read.

04

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor · Science

Breath is James Nestor's investigation into one of the most basic and overlooked aspects of human health: how we inhale and exhale.

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 insulin resistance and metabolic health with The Diabetes Code.

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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 insulin resistance and metabolic health with The Diabetes Code.

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 Good Gut

Justin Sonnenburg · Health

Justin Sonnenburg is a microbiologist at Stanford who studies the gut microbiome, and The Good Gut is his attempt to translate that research into something useful for non-scientists.

Both dig into chronic disease.

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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 chronic disease.

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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.

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The Relaxation Response

Herbert Benson · Health

In 1975, Harvard cardiologist Herbert Benson published a compact, research-backed argument that the body carries a built-in counterforce to stress — one that medicine had largely ignored.

Both dig into chronic disease.

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Ultraprevention

Mark Hyman · Health

Ultraprevention, written by Mark Hyman and Mark Liponis, is an early statement of the functional medicine approach to chronic disease.

Both dig into chronic disease.