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Books like The Plant Paradox
The best books like The Plant Paradox are How Not to Die, The China Study, and The Obesity Code. The Plant Paradox by Steven R. Gundry is about lectins, gut health, inflammation. 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.
- 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.
Read the summary → - The China Study
- 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.
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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 → - 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.
Shares inflammation and diet with The Plant Paradox.
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 gut health and diet with The Plant Paradox.
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.
Shares inflammation and diet with The Plant Paradox.
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 gut health and diet with The Plant Paradox.
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 autoimmune disease with The Plant Paradox.
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 inflammation.
Read the summary → - The Healing Self
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Deepak Chopra · Health
The Healing Self, written by Deepak Chopra with molecular biologist Rudolph Tanzi, argues that the most powerful medicine available to most people is not pharmaceutical but behavioral: the daily choices that regulate inflammation, immune function, gene expression, and neurological health.
Both dig into inflammation.
Read the summary → - The Paleo Solution
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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 inflammation.
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Books like The Plant Paradox: quick answers
What are the best books like The Plant Paradox?
The best books like The Plant Paradox by Steven R. Gundry are How Not to Die by Michael Greger, The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, Grain Brain by David Perlmutter, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Plant Paradox, such as lectins, gut health, inflammation.
What should I read after The Plant Paradox?
A natural next read after The Plant Paradox is How Not to Die by Michael Greger. A kindred health read. Other strong choices are The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.
What books are similar to The Plant Paradox by Steven R. Gundry?
The Plant Paradox centers on lectins, gut health, inflammation. Books with a similar feel include How Not to Die by Michael Greger, The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, Grain Brain by David Perlmutter, The Good Gut by Justin Sonnenburg — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
