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Books like The Wahls Protocol
The best books like The Wahls Protocol are How Not to Die, The Microbiome Solution, and Good Calories, Bad Calories. The Wahls Protocol by Terry Wahls is about autoimmune disease, diet, mitochondrial health. 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 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 diet and lifestyle medicine with The Wahls Protocol.
Read the summary → - Good Calories, Bad Calories
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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.
A kindred health read.
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- 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 → - Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
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Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia · Health
Peter Attia's Outlive is a book about how most people approach longevity backwards.
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 autoimmune disease and diet with The Wahls Protocol.
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 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.
Both dig into diet.
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 lifestyle medicine.
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Books like The Wahls Protocol: quick answers
What are the best books like The Wahls Protocol?
The best books like The Wahls Protocol by Terry Wahls are How Not to Die by Michael Greger, The Microbiome Solution by Robynne Chutkan, Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes, The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Wahls Protocol, such as autoimmune disease, diet, mitochondrial health.
What should I read after The Wahls Protocol?
A natural next read after The Wahls Protocol is How Not to Die by Michael Greger. A kindred health read. Other strong choices are The Microbiome Solution by Robynne Chutkan, Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes, The Obesity Code by Jason Fung.
What books are similar to The Wahls Protocol by Terry Wahls?
The Wahls Protocol centers on autoimmune disease, diet, mitochondrial health. Books with a similar feel include How Not to Die by Michael Greger, The Microbiome Solution by Robynne Chutkan, Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes, The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, The Plant Paradox by Steven R. Gundry — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
