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Books like The Microbiome Solution
The best books like The Microbiome Solution are Gut, The Good Gut, and How Not to Die. The Microbiome Solution by Robynne Chutkan is about microbiome, gut health, chronic disease. 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 Good Gut
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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.
Shares microbiome and gut health with The Microbiome Solution.
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 Obesity Code
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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.
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 Microbiome Solution.
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.
Shares diet and lifestyle medicine with The Microbiome Solution.
Read the summary → - Anticancer: A New Way of Life
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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.
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 → - Super Genes
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Deepak Chopra · Health
Super Genes, written by Deepak Chopra and neuroscientist Rudolph Tanzi, is organized around a single provocative claim: the human genome is not the fixed blueprint most people imagine but a dynamic system that responds continuously to lifestyle inputs.
Both dig into lifestyle medicine.
Read the summary → - The Depression Cure
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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.
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.
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Books like The Microbiome Solution: quick answers
What are the best books like The Microbiome Solution?
The best books like The Microbiome Solution by Robynne Chutkan are Gut by Giulia Enders, The Good Gut by Justin Sonnenburg, How Not to Die by Michael Greger, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Microbiome Solution, such as microbiome, gut health, chronic disease.
What should I read after The Microbiome Solution?
A natural next read after The Microbiome Solution is Gut by Giulia Enders. Both dig into microbiome. Other strong choices are The Good Gut by Justin Sonnenburg, How Not to Die by Michael Greger, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.
What books are similar to The Microbiome Solution by Robynne Chutkan?
The Microbiome Solution centers on microbiome, gut health, chronic disease. Books with a similar feel include Gut by Giulia Enders, The Good Gut by Justin Sonnenburg, How Not to Die by Michael Greger, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, The Plant Paradox by Steven R. Gundry — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
