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Books like The Good Gut
The best books like The Good Gut are Gut, The Microbiome Solution, and How Not to Die. The Good Gut by Justin Sonnenburg is about microbiome, gut health, diet. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Gut
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Giulia Enders · Science
Giulia Enders wrote Gut while studying medicine, and the book shows: it is both scientifically informed and written with an enthusiasm that has clearly not yet been worn down by clinical routine.
Both dig into microbiome.
Read the summary → - The Microbiome Solution
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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.
Shares microbiome and gut health with The Good Gut.
Read the summary → - How Not to Die
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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.
A kindred health read.
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- In Defense of Food
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Michael Pollan · Health
In Defense of Food opens with seven words that amount to a quiet provocation: Eat food.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - The Omnivore's Dilemma
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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.
Read the summary → - The Plant Paradox
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Steven R. Gundry · Health
Steven Gundry, a cardiac surgeon turned nutrition researcher, argues in The Plant Paradox that many health problems attributed to processed food, red meat, or fat are actually caused by lectins — proteins found in plants, particularly grains, legumes, and nightshade vegetables.
Shares gut health and diet with The Good Gut.
Read the summary → - Grain Brain
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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 diet.
Read the summary → - The Diabetes Code
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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.
Both dig into chronic disease.
Read the summary → - The Longevity Paradox
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Steven R. Gundry · Health
Steven Gundry is a cardiac surgeon turned functional medicine physician who built his practice around the hypothesis that gut microbiome health is the central driver of aging and age-related disease.
Both dig into diet.
Read the summary → - The Relaxation Response
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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.
Read the summary → - The Wahls Protocol
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Terry Wahls · Health
Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine who was diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis in 2000.
Both dig into diet.
Read the summary → - Ultraprevention
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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.
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Books like The Good Gut: quick answers
What are the best books like The Good Gut?
The best books like The Good Gut by Justin Sonnenburg are Gut by Giulia Enders, The Microbiome Solution by Robynne Chutkan, How Not to Die by Michael Greger, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Good Gut, such as microbiome, gut health, diet.
What should I read after The Good Gut?
A natural next read after The Good Gut is Gut by Giulia Enders. Both dig into microbiome. Other strong choices are The Microbiome Solution by Robynne Chutkan, How Not to Die by Michael Greger, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.
What books are similar to The Good Gut by Justin Sonnenburg?
The Good Gut centers on microbiome, gut health, diet. Books with a similar feel include Gut by Giulia Enders, The Microbiome Solution by Robynne Chutkan, How Not to Die by Michael Greger, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, The Plant Paradox by Steven R. Gundry — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
