Best Medicine Books | Summaries & Audio

Medicine Book Summaries

Bushcraft First Aid

by Dave Canterbury • 2017

When the nearest hospital is a two-day hike away, bushcraft skills double as emergency medicine.

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🏥 Wilderness First Aid 🪓 Bushcraft Skills 🩹 Improvised Treatment 🎒 Emergency Preparedness 🌿 Herbal First Aid

Bushcraft First Aid

When the nearest hospital is a two-day hike away, bushcraft skills double as emergency medicine.

by Dave Canterbury 2017 256 pages

4.32

262 ratings

🏥 Wilderness First Aid 🪓 Bushcraft Skills 🩹 Improvised Treatment 🎒 Emergency Preparedness 🌿 Herbal First Aid

The Compass of Pleasure

by David J. Linden • 2010

Drugs, food, sex, and charity run through the same brain circuit. What that means for addiction.

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🧠 Dopamine And Reward 💉 Addiction Neurobiology 🍔 Food And The Brain 🔄 Compulsive Behaviors 🧩 Neuroplasticity

The Compass of Pleasure

Drugs, food, sex, and charity run through the same brain circuit. What that means for addiction.

by David J. Linden 2010 240 pages

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5k+ ratings

🧠 Dopamine And Reward 💉 Addiction Neurobiology 🍔 Food And The Brain 🔄 Compulsive Behaviors 🧩 Neuroplasticity

Gravity

by Tess Gerritsen • 2000

An alien organism devours the ISS crew from within. Earth condemns them all. One doctor refuses.

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🩺 Medical Thriller 👽 Alien Pathogen 🦠 Body Horror 🔒 Claustrophobic Tension 🚀 Near Future Space

Gravity

An alien organism devours the ISS crew from within. Earth condemns them all. One doctor refuses.

by Tess Gerritsen 2000 342 pages

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17k+ ratings

🩺 Medical Thriller 👽 Alien Pathogen 🦠 Body Horror 🔒 Claustrophobic Tension 🚀 Near Future Space

Perfect Health--Revised and Updated

by Deepak Chopra • 2007

Three ancient body types determine your health. Find yours to reset your diet, exercise, and sleep.

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🕉️ Ayurveda 🧠 Mind-Body Healing 🥗 Holistic Nutrition ⏰ Daily Rhythms 🧘 Meditation For Health

Perfect Health--Revised and Updated

Three ancient body types determine your health. Find yours to reset your diet, exercise, and sleep.

by Deepak Chopra 2007 400 pages

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3k+ ratings

🕉️ Ayurveda 🧠 Mind-Body Healing 🥗 Holistic Nutrition ⏰ Daily Rhythms 🧘 Meditation For Health

The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide

by Joseph Alton • 2015

When the ambulance never shows: wound care, infections, and medical improvisation for any disaster.

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🏕️ Wilderness Medicine 🚨 Disaster Preparedness 🩹 First Aid 🌿 Herbal Remedies 🩻 Improvised Medicine

The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide

When the ambulance never shows: wound care, infections, and medical improvisation for any disaster.

by Joseph Alton 2015 402 pages

4.11

131 ratings

🏕️ Wilderness Medicine 🚨 Disaster Preparedness 🩹 First Aid 🌿 Herbal Remedies 🩻 Improvised Medicine

The Immune System Recovery Plan

by Susan Blum • 2013

Autoimmune diseases reverse when you fix the gut, food, stress, and hidden toxins.

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🧬 Autoimmune Disease 🔬 Functional Medicine 🦠 Gut Health 🥗 Food As Medicine 🚫 Elimination Diets

The Immune System Recovery Plan

Autoimmune diseases reverse when you fix the gut, food, stress, and hidden toxins.

by Susan Blum 2013 384 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧬 Autoimmune Disease 🔬 Functional Medicine 🦠 Gut Health 🥗 Food As Medicine 🚫 Elimination Diets

The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep

by Harvey Karp • 2012

A baby's cry has a quiet switch. Five sensory steps flip it and sleep comes naturally.

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👶 Infant Sleep 🤱 Gentle Sleep Training 🍼 Newborn Care 🛏️ Bedtime Routines 🧠 Child Development

The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep

A baby's cry has a quiet switch. Five sensory steps flip it and sleep comes naturally.

by Harvey Karp 2012 384 pages

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1k+ ratings

👶 Infant Sleep 🤱 Gentle Sleep Training 🍼 Newborn Care 🛏️ Bedtime Routines 🧠 Child Development

Chris Beat Cancer

by Chris Wark • 2018

A stage 3 cancer survivor's protocol: the diet, detox, and mindset reset oncology won't prescribe.

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🏥 Cancer Recovery 🥬 Plant-Based Diet 🔬 Integrative Oncology 🌿 Natural Healing 🥤 Juicing For Health

Chris Beat Cancer

A stage 3 cancer survivor's protocol: the diet, detox, and mindset reset oncology won't prescribe.

by Chris Wark 2018 312 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏥 Cancer Recovery 🥬 Plant-Based Diet 🔬 Integrative Oncology 🌿 Natural Healing 🥤 Juicing For Health

Quench

by Dana G. Cohen • 2018

You're dehydrated and drinking more water won't help. Plants will, and fascia explains why.

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💧 Hydration 🥬 Plant-Based Eating 🔗 Fascia Health 🔬 Cellular Health 🤸 Movement Therapy

Quench

You're dehydrated and drinking more water won't help. Plants will, and fascia explains why.

by Dana G. Cohen 2018 304 pages

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500+ ratings

💧 Hydration 🥬 Plant-Based Eating 🔗 Fascia Health 🔬 Cellular Health 🤸 Movement Therapy

Hormonal

by Martie Haselton • 2018

Your monthly cycle isn't chaos. It's an ancient intelligence for desire, mate selection, strategy.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌸 Female Hormones 💞 Mate Selection 🔄 Menstrual Cycle 👶 Parental Investment

Hormonal

Your monthly cycle isn't chaos. It's an ancient intelligence for desire, mate selection, strategy.

by Martie Haselton 2018 289 pages

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500+ ratings

🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌸 Female Hormones 💞 Mate Selection 🔄 Menstrual Cycle 👶 Parental Investment

The Changing Mind

by Daniel J. Levitin • 2020

The brain's late bloom: what improves with age, and how to accelerate it.

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🧬 Healthy Aging 🧠 Brain Health 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🧓 Cognitive Aging 🔬 The Science Of Aging

The Changing Mind

The brain's late bloom: what improves with age, and how to accelerate it.

by Daniel J. Levitin 2020

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3k+ ratings

🧬 Healthy Aging 🧠 Brain Health 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🧓 Cognitive Aging 🔬 The Science Of Aging

What the Face Reveals

by Paul Ekman • 1998

A system cataloging every facial movement, and what it found about lies, craving, and heart disease.

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🧐 Facial Expression Analysis 🗣️ Nonverbal Communication 🧠 Emotion Science 🔍 Deception Detection 📏 Behavioral Measurement

What the Face Reveals

A system cataloging every facial movement, and what it found about lies, craving, and heart disease.

by Paul Ekman 1998 672 pages

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238 ratings

🧐 Facial Expression Analysis 🗣️ Nonverbal Communication 🧠 Emotion Science 🔍 Deception Detection 📏 Behavioral Measurement

Sastun

by Rosita Arvigo • 1994

A Chicago transplant in Belize becomes the last apprentice of a 92-year-old Maya shaman.

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🪴 Ethnobotany 💊 Traditional Medicine 🌿 Plant Medicine ✨ Spiritual Healing 🥁 Shamanic Practice

Sastun

A Chicago transplant in Belize becomes the last apprentice of a 92-year-old Maya shaman.

by Rosita Arvigo 1994 208 pages

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500+ ratings

🪴 Ethnobotany 💊 Traditional Medicine 🌿 Plant Medicine ✨ Spiritual Healing 🥁 Shamanic Practice

The Thyroid Reset Diet

by Alan Christianson • 2021

A clinical-proven protocol that reverses hypothyroidism by cutting iodine, the hidden trigger.

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🦋 Thyroid Health 🛡️ Autoimmune Disease 🥗 Dietary Protocols 🧹 Elimination Diets ⚖️ Hormone Regulation

The Thyroid Reset Diet

A clinical-proven protocol that reverses hypothyroidism by cutting iodine, the hidden trigger.

by Alan Christianson 2021 288 pages

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273 ratings

🦋 Thyroid Health 🛡️ Autoimmune Disease 🥗 Dietary Protocols 🧹 Elimination Diets ⚖️ Hormone Regulation

The Right to Privacy

by Ellen Alderman • 1995

Privacy: the fundamental right the Constitution never names, and the court cases that invented it.

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📜 Privacy Law 🏛️ Constitutional Law 🗽 Civil Liberties 📹 Digital Surveillance 🏢 Corporate Surveillance

The Right to Privacy

Privacy: the fundamental right the Constitution never names, and the court cases that invented it.

by Ellen Alderman 1995 432 pages

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339 ratings

📜 Privacy Law 🏛️ Constitutional Law 🗽 Civil Liberties 📹 Digital Surveillance 🏢 Corporate Surveillance

Venomous

by Christie Wilcox • 2016

Venom is a precision biochemical weapon. Medicine is learning to retarget it against disease.

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🧪 Venom Biology ⚔️ Evolutionary Arms Race ☣️ Natural Toxins 💥 Pain Biology 💊 Drug Discovery

Venomous

Venom is a precision biochemical weapon. Medicine is learning to retarget it against disease.

by Christie Wilcox 2016 260 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧪 Venom Biology ⚔️ Evolutionary Arms Race ☣️ Natural Toxins 💥 Pain Biology 💊 Drug Discovery

Drug Dealer, MD

by Anna Lembke • 2016

How doctors created the opioid crisis: not cartels, not street dealers, the prescription pad.

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💊 Opioid Epidemic 💰 Pharma Industry Critique 🩹 Pain Management 🤝 Doctor-Patient Relationship 📋 Medicalization Critique

Drug Dealer, MD

How doctors created the opioid crisis: not cartels, not street dealers, the prescription pad.

by Anna Lembke 2016 192 pages

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1k+ ratings

💊 Opioid Epidemic 💰 Pharma Industry Critique 🩹 Pain Management 🤝 Doctor-Patient Relationship 📋 Medicalization Critique

Love, Medicine & Miracles

by Bernie S. Siegel • 1986

A surgeon on the patients who beat the odds with self-love, imagery, and a fighting spirit.

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🧠 Mind-Body Medicine 🩹 Self-Healing ❤️‍🩹 Emotional Healing 💪 Patient Empowerment 🧘 Guided Imagery

Love, Medicine & Miracles

A surgeon on the patients who beat the odds with self-love, imagery, and a fighting spirit.

by Bernie S. Siegel 1986 242 pages

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4k+ ratings

🧠 Mind-Body Medicine 🩹 Self-Healing ❤️‍🩹 Emotional Healing 💪 Patient Empowerment 🧘 Guided Imagery

Neurociencia del cuerpo

by Nazareth Castellanos • 2022

Memory lives in your gut, perception rides on your heartbeat, and your breath rewires your brain.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Mind-Body Connection 🦠 Gut-Brain Axis 👁️ Somatic Awareness 🌬️ Breathwork

Neurociencia del cuerpo

Memory lives in your gut, perception rides on your heartbeat, and your breath rewires your brain.

by Nazareth Castellanos 2022 235 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Mind-Body Connection 🦠 Gut-Brain Axis 👁️ Somatic Awareness 🌬️ Breathwork

The Story of the Human Body

by Daniel E. Lieberman • 2013

Your genes still expect a hunter-gatherer world. The mismatch is why you're sick.

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🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🦴 Human Evolution 🏕️ Ancestral Health ⚠️ Evolutionary Mismatch 🌾 Agricultural Revolution

The Story of the Human Body

Your genes still expect a hunter-gatherer world. The mismatch is why you're sick.

by Daniel E. Lieberman 2013 480 pages

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8k+ ratings

🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🦴 Human Evolution 🏕️ Ancestral Health ⚠️ Evolutionary Mismatch 🌾 Agricultural Revolution

Age Later

by Nir Barzilai • 2020

Centenarians escape the diseases that catch everyone else. Targeting aging itself, not its symptoms.

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🧬 Longevity Science 🎂 Centenarian Studies 🔬 Geroscience 🫀 Metabolic Health 🔋 Mitochondrial Health

Age Later

Centenarians escape the diseases that catch everyone else. Targeting aging itself, not its symptoms.

by Nir Barzilai 2020 289 pages

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482 ratings

🧬 Longevity Science 🎂 Centenarian Studies 🔬 Geroscience 🫀 Metabolic Health 🔋 Mitochondrial Health

Gray Matter

by David I. Levy • 2011

A neurosurgeon starts praying with his patients. Then he watches the unexplainable happen.

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🩺 Faith In Medicine 🧠 Neurosurgery Memoirs 🙏 Prayer And Healing ❤️‍🩹 Forgiveness And Health 💔 Emotional Roots Of Illness

Gray Matter

A neurosurgeon starts praying with his patients. Then he watches the unexplainable happen.

by David I. Levy 2011 304 pages

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1k+ ratings

🩺 Faith In Medicine 🧠 Neurosurgery Memoirs 🙏 Prayer And Healing ❤️‍🩹 Forgiveness And Health 💔 Emotional Roots Of Illness

The Yeast Connection

by William G. Crook • 1983

Your depression and brain fog may be yeast overgrowth from antibiotics. It is treatable.

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🦠 Gut Health 🔬 Functional Medicine 🍄 Candida Overgrowth 🚫 Elimination Diets 🔍 Root Cause Medicine

The Yeast Connection

Your depression and brain fog may be yeast overgrowth from antibiotics. It is treatable.

by William G. Crook 1983 613 pages

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261 ratings

🦠 Gut Health 🔬 Functional Medicine 🍄 Candida Overgrowth 🚫 Elimination Diets 🔍 Root Cause Medicine

Farmacology

by Daphne Miller • 2013

How farms taught a physician to rethink health, from the soil up.

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🌱 Soil Health 🚜 Food Systems 🦠 Microbiome Health 🌿 Holistic Medicine 🔄 Systems Thinking

Farmacology

How farms taught a physician to rethink health, from the soil up.

by Daphne Miller 2013 304 pages

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1k+ ratings

🌱 Soil Health 🚜 Food Systems 🦠 Microbiome Health 🌿 Holistic Medicine 🔄 Systems Thinking

Last Breath

by Peter Stark • 2001

Drowning, freezing, overheating: death by nature follows a script your body already knows.

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🫀 Human Physiology 🏥 Wilderness Medicine 🏔️ Extreme Environments 📏 Physiological Limits 🧠 Risk Psychology

Last Breath

Drowning, freezing, overheating: death by nature follows a script your body already knows.

by Peter Stark 2001 320 pages

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500+ ratings

🫀 Human Physiology 🏥 Wilderness Medicine 🏔️ Extreme Environments 📏 Physiological Limits 🧠 Risk Psychology

In Love

by Amy Bloom • 2022

He chose to die before Alzheimer's took his mind. Their final trip together: Zurich.

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🏥 End-Of-Life Care 🧠 Dementia Memoirs 🌊 Anticipatory Grief 🕊️ Assisted Suicide 💀 Death Acceptance

In Love

He chose to die before Alzheimer's took his mind. Their final trip together: Zurich.

by Amy Bloom 2022 240 pages

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25k+ ratings

🏥 End-Of-Life Care 🧠 Dementia Memoirs 🌊 Anticipatory Grief 🕊️ Assisted Suicide 💀 Death Acceptance

Conversations on Consciousness

by Susan Blackmore • 2005

One interviewer, twenty thinkers, one question: why aren't we just sophisticated zombies?

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Brain And Mind ⚖️ Free Will Debate 🐒 Animal Minds

Conversations on Consciousness

One interviewer, twenty thinkers, one question: why aren't we just sophisticated zombies?

by Susan Blackmore 2005 288 pages

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2k+ ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Brain And Mind ⚖️ Free Will Debate 🐒 Animal Minds

Observer

by Robert Lanza • 2023

A disgraced neurosurgeon uses quantum implants to reach the multiverses where the dead still live.

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🧠 Quantum Consciousness 🩺 Medical Sci-Fi 🌌 Multiverse Journey 💞 Love Beyond Death 🖤 Grief And Healing

Observer

A disgraced neurosurgeon uses quantum implants to reach the multiverses where the dead still live.

by Robert Lanza 2023 368 pages

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3k+ ratings

🧠 Quantum Consciousness 🩺 Medical Sci-Fi 🌌 Multiverse Journey 💞 Love Beyond Death 🖤 Grief And Healing

In Trump Time

by Peter Navarro • 2021

A Trump insider: the pandemic was engineered, the cure suppressed, and the election stolen.

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🏛️ Trump Presidency 🦠 Pandemic Politics 🔬 Covid Origins 🗳️ Election Integrity 🤐 Covid Censorship

In Trump Time

A Trump insider: the pandemic was engineered, the cure suppressed, and the election stolen.

by Peter Navarro 2021 344 pages

4.53

500+ ratings

🏛️ Trump Presidency 🦠 Pandemic Politics 🔬 Covid Origins 🗳️ Election Integrity 🤐 Covid Censorship

Whole

by T. Colin Campbell • 2013

Nutrition science reduced food to nutrients and missed the whole. The real medicine was buried.

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🧬 Nutritional Science 🥦 Plant-Based Eating 🩺 Disease Reversal 🧠 Systems Thinking 🏥 Health Care Critique

Whole

Nutrition science reduced food to nutrients and missed the whole. The real medicine was buried.

by T. Colin Campbell 2013 352 pages

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6k+ ratings

🧬 Nutritional Science 🥦 Plant-Based Eating 🩺 Disease Reversal 🧠 Systems Thinking 🏥 Health Care Critique

The Empathy Exams

by Leslie Jamison • 2014

Empathy isn't a feeling but a practice, and these essays examine what it demands of us.

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📝 Personal Essays 📰 Literary Journalism 🩺 Medical Humanities 👁️ Ethics Of Witnessing 🗣️ Pain And Narrative

The Empathy Exams

Empathy isn't a feeling but a practice, and these essays examine what it demands of us.

by Leslie Jamison 2014 230 pages

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15k+ ratings

📝 Personal Essays 📰 Literary Journalism 🩺 Medical Humanities 👁️ Ethics Of Witnessing 🗣️ Pain And Narrative

Losing Our Minds

by Lucy Foulkes • 2022

Talk about mental health surged. Understanding didn't, so ordinary suffering now gets a diagnosis.

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🩺 Medicalization Of Distress 🧒 Adolescent Mental Health 📈 Diagnostic Inflation 🔍 Critical Psychology 🌧️ Normal Suffering

Losing Our Minds

Talk about mental health surged. Understanding didn't, so ordinary suffering now gets a diagnosis.

by Lucy Foulkes 2022 272 pages

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500+ ratings

🩺 Medicalization Of Distress 🧒 Adolescent Mental Health 📈 Diagnostic Inflation 🔍 Critical Psychology 🌧️ Normal Suffering

Feeding You Lies

by Vani Hari • 2019

They copied tobacco's playbook, funded the science, and hid sugar. Your weapon: the ingredient list.

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🧪 Food Additives 🍬 Sugar Addiction 🏭 Big Food Industry 🌿 Organic Farming 🏛️ Food Politics

Feeding You Lies

They copied tobacco's playbook, funded the science, and hid sugar. Your weapon: the ingredient list.

by Vani Hari 2019 328 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧪 Food Additives 🍬 Sugar Addiction 🏭 Big Food Industry 🌿 Organic Farming 🏛️ Food Politics

Life Without Diabetes

by Roy Taylor • 2020

Nearly half of type 2 diabetes patients in a trial reversed the disease; the protocol inside.

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🩺 Diabetes Reversal 🧬 Insulin Resistance 🩸 Metabolic Health 🫃 Visceral Fat ⚡ Rapid Weight Loss

Life Without Diabetes

Nearly half of type 2 diabetes patients in a trial reversed the disease; the protocol inside.

by Roy Taylor 2020 320 pages

4.26

379 ratings

🩺 Diabetes Reversal 🧬 Insulin Resistance 🩸 Metabolic Health 🫃 Visceral Fat ⚡ Rapid Weight Loss

Understanding Health Policy, Sixth Edition

by Thomas Bodenheimer • 2012

Fifty million uninsured. World-class medicine. The policy architecture that produced both.

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🏛️ Health Policy 💰 Healthcare Economics 🏥 U.S. Healthcare 🚪 Access To Care 🔧 Quality Improvement

Understanding Health Policy, Sixth Edition

Fifty million uninsured. World-class medicine. The policy architecture that produced both.

by Thomas Bodenheimer 2012 231 pages

4.07

201 ratings

🏛️ Health Policy 💰 Healthcare Economics 🏥 U.S. Healthcare 🚪 Access To Care 🔧 Quality Improvement

If Your Mouth Could Talk

by Kami Hoss • 2022

Your mouth may be cutting your life short by 10 years. The fix is bigger than brushing.

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🦷 Oral Health 🔗 Oral-Systemic Health 🦠 Oral Microbiome 💨 Airway Health 🪥 Holistic Dentistry

If Your Mouth Could Talk

Your mouth may be cutting your life short by 10 years. The fix is bigger than brushing.

by Kami Hoss 2022 256 pages

4.01

130 ratings

🦷 Oral Health 🔗 Oral-Systemic Health 🦠 Oral Microbiome 💨 Airway Health 🪥 Holistic Dentistry

Ready to Run

by Kelly Starrett • 2014

Running injuries are optional. Diagnose them with movement standards; fix them in ten minutes a day.

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🏃 Running Mechanics 🩹 Injury Prevention 🤸 Mobility Training 🌿 Natural Movement ⚙️ Biomechanics

Ready to Run

Running injuries are optional. Diagnose them with movement standards; fix them in ten minutes a day.

by Kelly Starrett 2014 288 pages

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2k+ ratings

🏃 Running Mechanics 🩹 Injury Prevention 🤸 Mobility Training 🌿 Natural Movement ⚙️ Biomechanics

The Great Influenza

by John M. Barry • 2004

Modern medicine was just being born. Then the deadliest pandemic hit and killed the young first.

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🏥 Medical History 🦠 Pandemic History 🧫 Viral Outbreaks 🛡️ Immune System 🧪 Germ Theory

The Great Influenza

Modern medicine was just being born. Then the deadliest pandemic hit and killed the young first.

by John M. Barry 2004 546 pages

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42k+ ratings

🏥 Medical History 🦠 Pandemic History 🧫 Viral Outbreaks 🛡️ Immune System 🧪 Germ Theory

Younger Skin Starts in the Gut

by Nigma Talib • 2016

Before you buy another cream, fix your gut. The elimination plan for younger-looking skin.

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🦠 Gut Health ✨ Skin Health 🚫 Elimination Diets 🔥 Anti-Inflammatory Eating 🧬 Functional Medicine

Younger Skin Starts in the Gut

Before you buy another cream, fix your gut. The elimination plan for younger-looking skin.

by Nigma Talib 2016 264 pages

4.23

210 ratings

🦠 Gut Health ✨ Skin Health 🚫 Elimination Diets 🔥 Anti-Inflammatory Eating 🧬 Functional Medicine

The Case Against Sugar

by Gary Taubes • 2016

Sugar was identified as a dietary villain, buried by industry, and the evidence has resurfaced.

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🕵️ Food Industry Exposé 🍬 Hidden Sugars 🏭 Corporate Malfeasance 🌍 Colonial Commodities 🧁 Addictive Eating

The Case Against Sugar

Sugar was identified as a dietary villain, buried by industry, and the evidence has resurfaced.

by Gary Taubes 2016 384 pages

3.84

11k+ ratings

🕵️ Food Industry Exposé 🍬 Hidden Sugars 🏭 Corporate Malfeasance 🌍 Colonial Commodities 🧁 Addictive Eating

The Painful Truth

by Monty Lyman • 2021

Pain is a brain-made guardian, not a damage alarm. Reframing it unlocks healing.

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🧠 Pain Science 🤕 Chronic Pain Management 🧩 Neuroplasticity 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 💔 Pain And Emotion

The Painful Truth

Pain is a brain-made guardian, not a damage alarm. Reframing it unlocks healing.

by Monty Lyman 2021 292 pages

4.29

388 ratings

🧠 Pain Science 🤕 Chronic Pain Management 🧩 Neuroplasticity 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 💔 Pain And Emotion

Haldol and Hyacinths

by Melody Moezzi • 2013

A bipolar diagnosis, a string of psych wards, and an Iranian-American family holding her together.

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🎭 Bipolar Disorder 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir 🤫 Mental Illness Stigma 🔄 Misdiagnosis 🌍 Cultural Identity

Haldol and Hyacinths

A bipolar diagnosis, a string of psych wards, and an Iranian-American family holding her together.

by Melody Moezzi 2013 304 pages

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1k+ ratings

🎭 Bipolar Disorder 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir 🤫 Mental Illness Stigma 🔄 Misdiagnosis 🌍 Cultural Identity

Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster

by Peggy Huddleston • 2012

Relaxation, visualization, and four sentences spoken during surgery can halve your pain medication.

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🧘 Mind-Body Medicine 🌄 Guided Imagery 🗣️ Patient Advocacy 💊 Placebo Effect 🌌 Transpersonal Psychology

Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster

Relaxation, visualization, and four sentences spoken during surgery can halve your pain medication.

by Peggy Huddleston 2012 265 pages

4.06

206 ratings

🧘 Mind-Body Medicine 🌄 Guided Imagery 🗣️ Patient Advocacy 💊 Placebo Effect 🌌 Transpersonal Psychology

Dreamland

by Sam Quinones • 2015

How a pharmaceutical lie and a heroin-delivery franchise collided in Ohio to ignite an epidemic.

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💊 Opioid Crisis 🏭 Pharmaceutical Industry 🚚 Drug Trafficking 🩺 Pain Medicine History 💼 Corporate Malfeasance

Dreamland

How a pharmaceutical lie and a heroin-delivery franchise collided in Ohio to ignite an epidemic.

by Sam Quinones 2015 384 pages

4.23

32k+ ratings

💊 Opioid Crisis 🏭 Pharmaceutical Industry 🚚 Drug Trafficking 🩺 Pain Medicine History 💼 Corporate Malfeasance

12 Weeks to a Sharper You

by Sanjay Gupta • 2022

The daily habits that build a sharper brain, structured into a 12-week program by a neurosurgeon.

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🧠 Brain Health 🧓 Cognitive Decline 🔁 Habit Design 🩺 Lifestyle Medicine 🧬 Neuroplasticity

12 Weeks to a Sharper You

The daily habits that build a sharper brain, structured into a 12-week program by a neurosurgeon.

by Sanjay Gupta 2022 198 pages

3.93

317 ratings

🧠 Brain Health 🧓 Cognitive Decline 🔁 Habit Design 🩺 Lifestyle Medicine 🧬 Neuroplasticity

To Repair the World

by Paul Farmer • 2013

A doctor's manifesto: replace charity with long-term solidarity and treat the impossible as doable.

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🏥 Global Health Equity 🌍 Medical Anthropology 🏘️ Social Determinants Of Health 🌱 Pragmatic Idealism 🩺 Grassroots Healthcare

To Repair the World

A doctor's manifesto: replace charity with long-term solidarity and treat the impossible as doable.

by Paul Farmer 2013 294 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏥 Global Health Equity 🌍 Medical Anthropology 🏘️ Social Determinants Of Health 🌱 Pragmatic Idealism 🩺 Grassroots Healthcare

Rock Steady

by Joey Remenyi • 2020

Your brain created the ringing and spinning. Here is how to teach it to create calm instead.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🧘 Mind-Body Healing 🔔 Tinnitus Relief 🎢 Vestibular Disorders 🔁 Symptom Reprocessing

Rock Steady

Your brain created the ringing and spinning. Here is how to teach it to create calm instead.

by Joey Remenyi 2020 294 pages

4.10

240 ratings

🧠 Neuroplasticity 🧘 Mind-Body Healing 🔔 Tinnitus Relief 🎢 Vestibular Disorders 🔁 Symptom Reprocessing

Force

by Dan Cleather • 2021

Athletic power is about impulse, not peak force. Most training methods ignore this.

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🦴 Biomechanics 🏋️ Strength And Conditioning 💪 Force Production 🎯 Exercise Specificity 🧬 Muscle Mechanics

Force

Athletic power is about impulse, not peak force. Most training methods ignore this.

by Dan Cleather 2021 165 pages

4.25

151 ratings

🦴 Biomechanics 🏋️ Strength And Conditioning 💪 Force Production 🎯 Exercise Specificity 🧬 Muscle Mechanics

"You Just Need to Lose Weight"

by Aubrey Gordon • 2023

Twenty myths about fat people dismantled: the real epidemic is anti-fat bias, not body size.

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✊ Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Diet Culture 🏥 Medical Bias ⚖️ Weight Stigma ♀️ Fat Feminism

"You Just Need to Lose Weight"

Twenty myths about fat people dismantled: the real epidemic is anti-fat bias, not body size.

by Aubrey Gordon 2023 228 pages

4.32

11k+ ratings

✊ Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Diet Culture 🏥 Medical Bias ⚖️ Weight Stigma ♀️ Fat Feminism

Follow Your Gut

by Rob Knight • 2015

100 trillion microbes live on you, shaping your weight, mood, and mind more than your genes.

3.82

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🧫 Human Microbiome 🧠 Gut Brain Connection 🥗 Diet And Gut Health 💊 Antibiotic Overuse 👶 Birth And Microbiome

Follow Your Gut

100 trillion microbes live on you, shaping your weight, mood, and mind more than your genes.

by Rob Knight 2015 128 pages

3.82

1k+ ratings

🧫 Human Microbiome 🧠 Gut Brain Connection 🥗 Diet And Gut Health 💊 Antibiotic Overuse 👶 Birth And Microbiome

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