Every title in the collection, grouped by the background it assumes. The tiers describe the demands a book makes on its reader, not how good it is. An advanced title is not a better book than a beginner title, and choosing above your level is the most reliable way to stop reading.
Beginner 260 titles
Assumes no prior knowledge of the subject and no scientific vocabulary. Written for a general reader by someone who explains rather than argues. For many readers these are the only books needed.
| Title | Author | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| The Body: A Guide for Occupants ★ | Bill Bryson | Ch 1 |
| Anatomy & Physiology For Dummies | Erin Odya | Ch 1 |
| How the Body Works: The Facts Simply Explained | DK | Ch 1 |
| Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body | Neil Shubin | Ch 1 |
| Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers ★ | Robert M. Sapolsky | Ch 1 |
| Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything | Randi Hutter Epstein | Ch 1 |
| Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are | Bill Sullivan | Ch 1 |
| Bad Science ★ | Ben Goldacre | Ch 1 |
| Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World | Carl T. Bergstrom | Ch 1 |
| Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash | Timothy Caulfield | Ch 1 |
| Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care ★ | H. Gilbert Welch | Ch 1 |
| The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands | Eric Topol | Ch 1 |
| Mayo Clinic Family Health Book | Mayo Clinic | Ch 1 |
| In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto ★ | Michael Pollan | Ch 2 |
| How to Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered | Mark Bittman | Ch 2 |
| Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food | Chris van Tulleken | Ch 2 |
| The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor | Mark Schatzker | Ch 2 |
| What to Eat ★ | Marion Nestle | Ch 2 |
| Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us | Michael Moss | Ch 2 |
| Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry's Darkest Secrets | Joanna Blythman | Ch 2 |
| Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach ★ | Evelyn Tribole | Ch 2 |
| Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking | Samin Nosrat | Ch 2 |
| An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace | Tamar Adler | Ch 2 |
| Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health ★ | David Nutt | Ch 2 |
| Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us | Murray Carpenter | Ch 2 |
| Quench: Beat Fatigue, Drop Weight, and Heal Your Body Through the New Science of Optimum Hydration | Dana Cohen | Ch 2 |
| Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About the Science of Healthy Eating ★ | David Raubenheimer | Ch 3 |
| The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You | Sylvia Tara | Ch 3 |
| The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet | Susan Allport | Ch 3 |
| The Case Against Sugar | Gary Taubes | Ch 3 |
| Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection ★ | Catherine Price | Ch 3 |
| Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet | Michael F. Jacobson | Ch 3 |
| The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong and How Eating More Might Save Your Life | James J. DiNicolantonio | Ch 3 |
| Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy ★ | Herman Pontzer | Ch 3 |
| Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics | Marion Nestle | Ch 3 |
| The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat | Stephan J. Guyenet | Ch 3 |
| Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine ★ | Paul A. Offit | Ch 3 |
| Natural Causes: Death, Lies, and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry | Dan Hurley | Ch 3 |
| The Supplement Handbook: A Trusted Expert's Guide to What Works & What's Worthless for More Than 100 Conditions | Mark A. Moyad | Ch 3 |
| I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ★ | Ed Yong | Ch 4 |
| Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ | Giulia Enders | Ch 4 |
| Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues | Martin J. Blaser | Ch 4 |
| 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness | Alanna Collen | Ch 4 |
| Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome ★ | Will Bulsiewicz | Ch 4 |
| The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health | Justin Sonnenburg | Ch 4 |
| Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods | Sandor Ellix Katz | Ch 4 |
| The Complete Low-FODMAP Diet: A Revolutionary Plan for Managing IBS and Other Digestive Disorders ★ | Sue Shepherd | Ch 4 |
| The IBS Elimination Diet and Cookbook: The Proven Low-FODMAP Plan for Eating Well and Feeling Great | Patsy Catsos | Ch 4 |
| Gluten Exposed: The Science Behind the Hype and How to Navigate to a Healthy, Symptom-Free Life | Peter H.R. Green | Ch 4 |
| The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health ★ | Emeran Mayer | Ch 4 |
| The Second Brain: The Scientific Basis of Gut Instinct and a Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine | Michael D. Gershon | Ch 4 |
| Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World | B. Brett Finlay | Ch 4 |
| Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It ★ | Gary Taubes | Ch 5 |
| The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss | Jason Fung | Ch 5 |
| The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great | Eric C. Westman | Ch 5 |
| The Low-Carb Fraud | T. Colin Campbell | Ch 5 |
| How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease ★ | Michael Greger | Ch 5 |
| Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy on a Plant-Based Diet | Jack Norris | Ch 5 |
| The China Study | T. Colin Campbell | Ch 5 |
| The Jungle Effect: The Healthiest Diets from Around the World ★ | Daphne Miller | Ch 5 |
| Mediterranean Diet For Dummies | Meri Raffetto | Ch 5 |
| Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health | Jo Robinson | Ch 5 |
| The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet ★ | Robb Wolf | Ch 5 |
| Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health | William Davis | Ch 5 |
| The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom | Melissa Hartwig Urban | Ch 5 |
| The FastDiet: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting ★ | Michael Mosley | Ch 6 |
| The Every-Other-Day Diet: The Diet That Lets You Eat All You Want (Half the Time) and Keep the Weight Off | Krista Varady | Ch 6 |
| Fast. Feast. Repeat.: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny Intermittent Fasting | Gin Stephens | Ch 6 |
| Intermittent Fasting For Dummies | Janet Bond Brill | Ch 6 |
| The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting ★ | Jason Fung | Ch 6 |
| Life in the Fasting Lane: How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle | Jason Fung | Ch 6 |
| The Switch: Ignite Your Metabolism with Intermittent Fasting, Protein Cycling, and Keto | James W. Clement | Ch 6 |
| The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight ★ | Satchin Panda | Ch 6 |
| Life Time: Your Body Clock and Its Essential Roles in Good Health and Sleep | Russell Foster | Ch 6 |
| The Body Clock Guide to Better Health: How to Use Your Body's Natural Clock to Fight Illness and Achieve Maximum Health | Michael Smolensky | Ch 6 |
| Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us ★ | Matt Fitzgerald | Ch 6 |
| The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat | Alan Levinovitz | Ch 6 |
| Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones | Mindy Pelz | Ch 6 |
| Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss ★ | Sandra Aamodt | Ch 7 |
| Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite | Andrew Jenkinson | Ch 7 |
| Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss and the Myths and Realities of Dieting | Gina Kolata | Ch 7 |
| Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight and What We Can Do About It | Harriet Brown | Ch 7 |
| Fat Loss Forever: How to Lose Fat and KEEP It Off ★ | Layne Norton | Ch 7 |
| The Renaissance Diet 2.0: Nutrition for Strength, Physique, and Endurance Sports | Mike Israetel | Ch 7 |
| Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle | Tom Venuto | Ch 7 |
| The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite ★ | David A. Kessler | Ch 7 |
| The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love, Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits | Judson Brewer | Ch 7 |
| Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle | Michelle May | Ch 7 |
| Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight ★ | Lindo Bacon | Ch 7 |
| What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat | Aubrey Gordon | Ch 7 |
| Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand About Weight | Lindo Bacon | Ch 7 |
| Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease and How to Fight It ★ | Benjamin Bikman | Ch 8 |
| Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar | Jessie Inchauspé | Ch 8 |
| The Insulin Resistance Solution | Rob Thompson | Ch 8 |
| The Blood Sugar Solution | Mark Hyman | Ch 8 |
| Life Without Diabetes: The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Reversing Your Type 2 Diabetes ★ | Roy Taylor | Ch 8 |
| The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally | Jason Fung | Ch 8 |
| Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars | Richard K. Bernstein | Ch 8 |
| Heart: A History ★ | Sandeep Jauhar | Ch 8 |
| Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease | Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. | Ch 8 |
| The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease | Jonny Bowden | Ch 8 |
| An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System ★ | Matt Richtel | Ch 8 |
| Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice | Rupa Marya | Ch 8 |
| The Inflammation Spectrum: Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System | Will Cole | Ch 8 |
| Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding ★ | Daniel E. Lieberman | Ch 9 |
| Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain | John J. Ratey | Ch 9 |
| Exercise Is Medicine: How Physical Activity Boosts Health and Slows Aging | Judy Foreman | Ch 9 |
| Move!: The New Science of Body Over Mind | Caroline Williams | Ch 9 |
| You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises ★ | Mark Lauren | Ch 9 |
| Strength Training Anatomy | Frédéric Delavier | Ch 9 |
| Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body | Michael Matthews | Ch 9 |
| The Muscle and Strength Pyramid: Training ★ | Eric Helms | Ch 9 |
| Practical Programming for Strength Training | Mark Rippetoe | Ch 9 |
| 5/3/1: The Simplest and Most Effective Training System for Raw Strength | Jim Wendler | Ch 9 |
| No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness ★ | Michelle Segar | Ch 9 |
| The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage | Kelly McGonigal | Ch 9 |
| Move the Body, Heal the Mind: Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and Dementia and Improve Focus, Creativity, and Sleep | Jennifer Heisz | Ch 9 |
| Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training ★ | Mark Rippetoe | Ch 10 |
| Weight Training: Steps to Success | Thomas R. Baechle | Ch 10 |
| Strong Curves: A Woman's Guide to Building a Better Butt and Body | Bret Contreras | Ch 10 |
| The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises | Adam Campbell | Ch 10 |
| The M.A.X. Muscle Plan 2.0 ★ | Brad Schoenfeld | Ch 10 |
| Base Strength: Program Design Blueprint | Alexander Bromley | Ch 10 |
| Strength Training | Jared W. Coburn | Ch 10 |
| The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition ★ | Anita Bean | Ch 10 |
| Nutrient Timing for Peak Performance | Heidi Skolnik | Ch 10 |
| Nutrition for Sport, Exercise, and Health | Marie Dunford | Ch 10 |
| Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength ★ | Steven Low | Ch 10 |
| Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy | Bret Contreras | Ch 10 |
| Complete Calisthenics: The Ultimate Guide to Bodyweight Exercise | Ashley Kalym | Ch 10 |
| Heart 411: The Only Guide to Heart Health You'll Ever Need ★ | Marc Gillinov | Ch 11 |
| The Haywire Heart: How Too Much Exercise Can Kill You, and What You Can Do to Protect Your Heart | Chris Case | Ch 11 |
| The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery | Rob Dunn | Ch 11 |
| Aerobics | Kenneth H. Cooper | Ch 11 |
| Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide ★ | Hal Higdon | Ch 11 |
| The Runner's World Big Book of Running for Beginners | Jennifer Van Allen | Ch 11 |
| Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | Christopher McDougall | Ch 11 |
| 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower ★ | Matt Fitzgerald | Ch 11 |
| Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance | Alex Hutchinson | Ch 11 |
| The Endurance Handbook: How to Achieve Athletic Potential, Stay Healthy, and Get the Most Out of Your Body | Philip Maffetone | Ch 11 |
| The Triathlete's Training Bible ★ | Joe Friel | Ch 11 |
| Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier | Terry Laughlin | Ch 11 |
| The Time-Crunched Cyclist: Fit, Fast, and Powerful in 6 Hours a Week | Chris Carmichael | Ch 11 |
| Stretching ★ | Bob Anderson | Ch 12 |
| Stretching Anatomy | Arnold G. Nelson | Ch 12 |
| Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance | Kelly Starrett | Ch 12 |
| The Roll Model: A Step-by-Step Guide to Erase Pain, Improve Mobility, and Live Better in Your Body | Jill Miller | Ch 12 |
| Yoga Anatomy ★ | Leslie Kaminoff | Ch 12 |
| Light on Yoga | B.K.S. Iyengar | Ch 12 |
| The Key Muscles of Yoga | Ray Long | Ch 12 |
| Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World ★ | Kelly Starrett | Ch 12 |
| 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back | Esther Gokhale | Ch 12 |
| Sitting Kills, Moving Heals | Joan Vernikos | Ch 12 |
| Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement ★ | Katy Bowman | Ch 12 |
| The Practice of Natural Movement: Reclaim Power, Health, and Freedom | Erwan Le Corre | Ch 12 |
| Original Strength: Regaining the Body You Were Meant to Have | Tim Anderson | Ch 12 |
| Rebuilding Milo: A Lifter's Guide to Fixing Common Injuries and Building a Strong Foundation for Enhancing Performance ★ | Aaron Horschig | Ch 13 |
| Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body | Scott H. Hogan | Ch 13 |
| The Athlete's Book of Home Remedies | Jordan D. Metzl | Ch 13 |
| FrameWork: Your 7-Step Program for Healthy Muscles, Bones, and Joints | Nicholas A. DiNubile | Ch 13 |
| Back Mechanic: The Step-by-Step McGill Method to Fix Back Pain ★ | Stuart McGill | Ch 13 |
| Explain Pain | David Butler | Ch 13 |
| Treat Your Own Back | Robin McKenzie | Ch 13 |
| Rehab Science: How to Overcome Pain and Heal from Injury ★ | Tom Walters | Ch 13 |
| Sports Injuries Guidebook | Robert S. Gotlin | Ch 13 |
| Heal Your Knees | Robert L. Klapper | Ch 13 |
| End Everyday Pain for 50+ ★ | Joseph Tieri | Ch 13 |
| Arthritis Rx | Vijay Vad | Ch 13 |
| Exercise for Better Bones | Margaret Martin | Ch 13 |
| The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It ★ | W. Chris Winter | Ch 14 |
| Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams | Matthew Walker | Ch 14 |
| Sleep: A Very Short Introduction | Steven W. Lockley | Ch 14 |
| The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep | Guy Leschziner | Ch 14 |
| Say Good Night to Insomnia ★ | Gregg D. Jacobs | Ch 14 |
| The Insomnia Workbook | Stephanie Silberman | Ch 14 |
| The Sleep Fix: Practical, Proven, and Surprising Solutions for Insomnia, Snoring, Shift Work, and More | Diane Macedo | Ch 14 |
| Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery ★ | Christie Aschwanden | Ch 14 |
| The Athlete's Guide to Recovery | Sage Rountree | Ch 14 |
| What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength | Scott Carney | Ch 14 |
| Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less ★ | Alex Soojung-Kim Pang | Ch 14 |
| Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle | Emily Nagoski | Ch 14 |
| The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds, Not Crushes, Your Soul | Brad Stulberg | Ch 14 |
| Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art ★ | James Nestor | Ch 15 |
| The Oxygen Advantage | Patrick McKeown | Ch 15 |
| Anatomy of Breathing | Blandine Calais-Germain | Ch 15 |
| Breathe: The Simple, Revolutionary 14-Day Program to Improve Your Mental and Physical Health | Belisa Vranich | Ch 15 |
| Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers ★ | Robert M. Sapolsky | Ch 15 |
| The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It | Kelly McGonigal | Ch 15 |
| Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety | Joseph LeDoux | Ch 15 |
| Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness ★ | Jon Kabat-Zinn | Ch 15 |
| The Relaxation Response | Herbert Benson | Ch 15 |
| Mindfulness in Plain English | Bhante Henepola Gunaratana | Ch 15 |
| The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma ★ | Bessel van der Kolk | Ch 15 |
| The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity | Nadine Burke Harris | Ch 15 |
| When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress | Gabor Maté | Ch 15 |
| Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old ★ | Andrew Steele | Ch 16 |
| Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To | David A. Sinclair | Ch 16 |
| Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying) | Bill Gifford | Ch 16 |
| The Telomere Effect | Elizabeth Blackburn | Ch 16 |
| The Blue Zones ★ | Dan Buettner | Ch 16 |
| The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China | John D. Day | Ch 16 |
| Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life | Hector Garcia | Ch 16 |
| Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity ★ | Peter Attia | Ch 16 |
| Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity | Eric Topol | Ch 16 |
| The Whole Body Reset | Stephen Perrine | Ch 16 |
| Younger Next Year ★ | Chris Crowley | Ch 16 |
| Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives | Daniel J. Levitin | Ch 16 |
| Fast After 50 | Joe Friel | Ch 16 |
| It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health ★ | Karen Tang | Ch 17 |
| The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycle and Optimize Your Fertility | Lisa Hendrickson-Jack | Ch 17 |
| Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You | Maisie Hill | Ch 17 |
| Period Repair Manual | Lara Briden | Ch 17 |
| Taking Charge of Your Fertility ★ | Toni Weschler | Ch 17 |
| Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know | Emily Oster | Ch 17 |
| The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality | Kimberly Ann Johnson | Ch 17 |
| The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism ★ | Jen Gunter | Ch 17 |
| The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts | Mary Claire Haver | Ch 17 |
| What Fresh Hell Is This? Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You | Heather Corinna | Ch 17 |
| ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology ★ | Stacy T. Sims | Ch 17 |
| Strong Women Stay Young | Miriam E. Nelson | Ch 17 |
| Lift Like a Girl: Be More, Not Less | Nia Shanks | Ch 17 |
| Testosterone for Life ★ | Abraham Morgentaler | Ch 18 |
| T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us | Carole Hooven | Ch 18 |
| Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography | Rebecca M. Jordan-Young | Ch 18 |
| Why Men Die First | Marianne J. Legato | Ch 18 |
| Fitness After 40: How to Stay Strong at Any Age ★ | Vonda Wright | Ch 18 |
| Men's Health Your Body Is Your Barbell | BJ Gaddour | Ch 18 |
| Play On: The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age | Jeff Bercovici | Ch 18 |
| Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer ★ | Patrick C. Walsh | Ch 18 |
| Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why | H. Gilbert Welch | Ch 18 |
| The Great Prostate Hoax | Richard J. Ablin | Ch 18 |
| The New Male Sexuality ★ | Bernie Zilbergeld | Ch 18 |
| I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression | Terrence Real | Ch 18 |
| How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality | Richard G. Bribiescas | Ch 18 |
| Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones ★ | James Clear | Ch 19 |
| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | Charles Duhigg | Ch 19 |
| Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything | BJ Fogg | Ch 19 |
| Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits | Gretchen Rubin | Ch 19 |
| Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us ★ | Daniel H. Pink | Ch 19 |
| Mindset: The New Psychology of Success | Carol S. Dweck | Ch 19 |
| Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Duckworth | Ch 19 |
| Nudge: The Final Edition ★ | Richard H. Thaler | Ch 19 |
| Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life | Nir Eyal | Ch 19 |
| Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World | Cal Newport | Ch 19 |
| Small Move, Big Change: Using Microresolutions to Transform Your Life Permanently ★ | Caroline L. Arnold | Ch 19 |
| Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results | Stephen Guise | Ch 19 |
| Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success | Benjamin Hardy | Ch 19 |
| Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience ★ | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Ch 20 |
| Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande | Ch 20 |
| Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Ch 20 |
| The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love | Sonya Renee Taylor | Ch 20 |
| The Complete Book of Running ★ | James F. Fixx | Ch 20 |
| Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Ch 20 |
| Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength | Bill Phillips | Ch 20 |
| The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food ★ | Dan Barber | Ch 20 |
| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life | Barbara Kingsolver | Ch 20 |
| Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat | Bee Wilson | Ch 20 |
| When Breath Becomes Air ★ | Paul Kalanithi | Ch 20 |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | Ch 20 |
| In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope | Rana Awdish | Ch 20 |
Intermediate 242 titles
Assumes the basics of the subject and some comfort with how evidence works. Usually written for readers who already train, already cook, or already have a diagnosis.
| Title | Author | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease ★ | Daniel E. Lieberman | Ch 1 |
| Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum | Gavin Francis | Ch 1 |
| Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease | Sharon Moalem | Ch 1 |
| Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life ★ | Nick Lane | Ch 1 |
| The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body | Frances Ashcroft | Ch 1 |
| The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep and Sex Drive; Lose Weight; Feel Focused, Vital, and Energized Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol | Sara Gottfried | Ch 1 |
| Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients ★ | Ben Goldacre | Ch 1 |
| Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat | Marion Nestle | Ch 1 |
| Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions | Richard Harris | Ch 1 |
| How Doctors Think ★ | Jerome Groopman | Ch 1 |
| Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health | H. Gilbert Welch | Ch 1 |
| How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America | Otis Webb Brawley | Ch 1 |
| Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating ★ | Walter C. Willett | Ch 2 |
| The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan | Ch 2 |
| The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World | Bee Wilson | Ch 2 |
| Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health ★ | Marion Nestle | Ch 2 |
| Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions | Michael Moss | Ch 2 |
| Formerly Known as Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture | Kristin Lawless | Ch 2 |
| Secrets from the Eating Lab: The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again ★ | Traci Mann | Ch 2 |
| Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating | Christy Harrison | Ch 2 |
| Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food | Jan Chozen Bays | Ch 2 |
| Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports ★ | Timothy Noakes | Ch 2 |
| The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water | Charles Fishman | Ch 2 |
| This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life | Annie Grace | Ch 2 |
| Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease ★ | Robert H. Lustig | Ch 3 |
| Pure, White and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It | John Yudkin | Ch 3 |
| The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet | Nina Teicholz | Ch 3 |
| Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail ★ | Stephen R. Bown | Ch 3 |
| Salt: A World History | Mark Kurlansky | Ch 3 |
| The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problem | Michael F. Holick | Ch 3 |
| Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine ★ | Robert H. Lustig | Ch 3 |
| The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life | Nick Lane | Ch 3 |
| Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We've Been Told About Food Is Wrong | Tim Spector | Ch 3 |
| Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine ★ | Simon Singh | Ch 3 |
| Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine | R. Barker Bausell | Ch 3 |
| Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong | Paul A. Offit | Ch 3 |
| The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat ★ | Tim Spector | Ch 4 |
| The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today | Rob Dunn | Ch 4 |
| The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life | Rodney Dietert | Ch 4 |
| The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World ★ | Sandor Ellix Katz | Ch 4 |
| Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation | Michael Pollan | Ch 4 |
| The Noma Guide to Fermentation | René Redzepi | Ch 4 |
| Gluten Freedom: The Nation's Leading Expert Offers the Essential Guide to a Healthy, Gluten-Free Lifestyle ★ | Alessio Fasano | Ch 4 |
| The Microbiome Solution: A Radical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out | Robynne Chutkan | Ch 4 |
| Digestive Wellness: Strengthen the Immune System and Prevent Disease Through Healthy Digestion | Elizabeth Lipski | Ch 4 |
| The Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection ★ | Scott C. Anderson | Ch 4 |
| An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases | Moises Velasquez-Manoff | Ch 4 |
| Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System | Jack Gilbert | Ch 4 |
| Good Calories, Bad Calories ★ | Gary Taubes | Ch 5 |
| The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living | Jeff S. Volek | Ch 5 |
| The Ketogenic Diet: A Complete Guide for the Dieter and Practitioner | Lyle McDonald | Ch 5 |
| Becoming Vegan: The Complete Reference to Plant-Based Nutrition ★ | Brenda Davis | Ch 5 |
| Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss | Joel Fuhrman | Ch 5 |
| Plant-Based Sports Nutrition | D. Enette Larson-Meyer | Ch 5 |
| The Oldways Table: Essays and Recipes from the Culinary Think Tank ★ | K. Dun Gifford | Ch 5 |
| The Okinawa Program | Bradley J. Willcox | Ch 5 |
| Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats | Sally Fallon Morell | Ch 5 |
| The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat ★ | Loren Cordain | Ch 5 |
| Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat | Diana Rodgers | Ch 5 |
| The Elimination Diet: Discover the Foods That Are Making You Sick and Tired | Tom Malterre | Ch 5 |
| Eat Stop Eat ★ | Brad Pilon | Ch 6 |
| The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped. Researched, Practiced, Perfected | Martin Berkhan | Ch 6 |
| The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse for High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body | Ori Hofmekler | Ch 6 |
| The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight ★ | Valter Longo | Ch 6 |
| Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease | Joel Fuhrman | Ch 6 |
| Therapeutic Fasting: The Buchinger Amplius Method | Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo | Ch 6 |
| Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired ★ | Till Roenneberg | Ch 6 |
| The Circadian Diabetes Code: Discover the Right Time to Eat, Sleep and Exercise to Prevent and Reverse Prediabetes and Diabetes | Satchin Panda | Ch 6 |
| The Power of When: Discover Your Chronotype | Michael Breus | Ch 6 |
| Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders ★ | Jennifer L. Gaudiani | Ch 6 |
| The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live | Todd Tucker | Ch 6 |
| Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years | Louise Foxcroft | Ch 6 |
| The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work ★ | Yoni Freedhoff | Ch 7 |
| Obesity: The Biography | Sander L. Gilman | Ch 7 |
| Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic | J. Eric Oliver | Ch 7 |
| The Muscle and Strength Pyramid: Nutrition ★ | Eric Helms | Ch 7 |
| The Lean Muscle Diet: A Customized Nutrition and Workout Plan | Lou Schuler | Ch 7 |
| A Guide to Flexible Dieting | Lyle McDonald | Ch 7 |
| Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction ★ | Vera Tarman | Ch 7 |
| Brain over Binge: Why I Was Bulimic, Why Conventional Therapy Didn't Work, and How I Recovered for Good | Kathryn Hansen | Ch 7 |
| Breaking Free from Emotional Eating | Geneen Roth | Ch 7 |
| Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia ★ | Sabrina Strings | Ch 7 |
| Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation | Hilary Kinavey | Ch 7 |
| The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person | Judith S. Beck | Ch 7 |
| Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health ★ | Casey Means | Ch 8 |
| Wired to Eat: Turn Off Cravings, Rewire Your Appetite for Weight Loss, and Determine the Foods That Work for You | Robb Wolf | Ch 8 |
| Syndrome X: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance | Jack Challem | Ch 8 |
| Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments ★ | Gary Taubes | Ch 8 |
| Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes | Neal Barnard | Ch 8 |
| Mastering Diabetes: The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes | Cyrus Khambatta | Ch 8 |
| The Cholesterol Wars: The Skeptics vs the Preponderance of Evidence ★ | Daniel Steinberg | Ch 8 |
| The Clot Thickens: The Enduring Mystery of Heart Disease | Malcolm Kendrick | Ch 8 |
| Blood Pressure Down: The 10-Step Plan to Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Weeks Without Prescription Drugs | Janet Bond Brill | Ch 8 |
| Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive ★ | Philipp Dettmer | Ch 8 |
| The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression | Edward Bullmore | Ch 8 |
| Inflammation Nation: The First Clinically Proven Eating Plan to End Our Nation's Secret Epidemic | Floyd H. Chilton | Ch 8 |
| Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?: Fitness Myths, Training Truths, and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise ★ | Alex Hutchinson | Ch 9 |
| The Exercise Cure: A Doctor's All-Natural, No-Pill Prescription for Better Health and Longer Life | Jordan D. Metzl | Ch 9 |
| The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer | Gretchen Reynolds | Ch 9 |
| The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40 ★ | Jonathon Sullivan | Ch 9 |
| The New Rules of Lifting for Life: An All-New Muscle-Building, Fat-Blasting Plan for Men and Women Who Want to Ace Their Midlife Exams | Lou Schuler | Ch 9 |
| Body by Science: A Research-Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week | Doug McGuff | Ch 9 |
| Periodization: Theory and Methodology of Training ★ | Tudor O. Bompa | Ch 9 |
| Scientific Principles of Strength Training | Mike Israetel | Ch 9 |
| Designing Resistance Training Programs | Steven J. Fleck | Ch 9 |
| Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success ★ | Brad Stulberg | Ch 9 |
| Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness | Steve Magness | Ch 9 |
| The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self | Michael Easter | Ch 9 |
| Squat Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering the Squat and Finding Your True Strength ★ | Aaron Horschig | Ch 10 |
| Power to the People!: Russian Strength Training Secrets for Every American | Pavel Tsatsouline | Ch 10 |
| Bodybuilding Anatomy | Nick Evans | Ch 10 |
| Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy ★ | Brad Schoenfeld | Ch 10 |
| Block Periodization: Breakthrough in Sport Training | Vladimir Issurin | Ch 10 |
| Strength Training Manual: The Agile Periodization Approach | Mladen Jovanović | Ch 10 |
| Advanced Sports Nutrition ★ | Dan Benardot | Ch 10 |
| Sports Nutrition: A Handbook for Professionals | Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics | Ch 10 |
| Nutrition and Metabolism in Sports, Exercise and Health | Jie Kang | Ch 10 |
| Building the Gymnastic Body: The Science of Gymnastics Strength Training ★ | Christopher Sommer | Ch 10 |
| Kettlebell Training | Steve Cotter | Ch 10 |
| Kettlebell: Simple & Sinister | Pavel Tsatsouline | Ch 10 |
| Heart to Start: The Eight-Week Exercise Prescription to Live Longer, Beat Heart Disease, and Run Your Best Race ★ | James Beckerman | Ch 11 |
| Clinical Exercise Physiology | Jonathan K. Ehrman | Ch 11 |
| Exercise and the Heart | Victor F. Froelicher | Ch 11 |
| Daniels' Running Formula ★ | Jack Daniels | Ch 11 |
| Advanced Marathoning | Pete Pfitzinger | Ch 11 |
| Running Rewired: Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed | Jay Dicharry | Ch 11 |
| The Science of Running: How to Find Your Limit and Train to Maximize Your Performance ★ | Steve Magness | Ch 11 |
| Training for the Uphill Athlete: A Manual for Mountain Runners and Ski Mountaineers | Steve House | Ch 11 |
| Training Essentials for Ultrarunning: How to Train Smarter, Race Faster, and Maximize Your Ultramarathon Performance | Jason Koop | Ch 11 |
| Training and Racing with a Power Meter ★ | Hunter Allen | Ch 11 |
| Swim Speed Secrets | Sheila Taormina | Ch 11 |
| Faster: Demystifying the Science of Triathlon Speed | Jim Gourley | Ch 11 |
| Stretch to Win ★ | Ann Frederick | Ch 12 |
| Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists | Thomas W. Myers | Ch 12 |
| Assessment and Treatment of Muscle Imbalance: The Janda Approach | Phil Page | Ch 12 |
| The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards ★ | William J. Broad | Ch 12 |
| Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing | Timothy McCall | Ch 12 |
| Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques | Mark Stephens | Ch 12 |
| Get Up! Why Your Chair Is Killing You and What You Can Do About It ★ | James A. Levine | Ch 12 |
| Awareness Through Movement: Health Exercises for Personal Growth | Moshe Feldenkrais | Ch 12 |
| The Use of the Self | F. Matthias Alexander | Ch 12 |
| Movement: Functional Movement Systems ★ | Gray Cook | Ch 12 |
| Functional Training Anatomy | Kevin Carr | Ch 12 |
| Anatomy of Movement | Blandine Calais-Germain | Ch 12 |
| Sport Injury Prevention Anatomy ★ | David Potach | Ch 13 |
| Overcoming Tendonitis: A Systematic Approach to the Evidence-Based Treatment of Tendinopathy | Steven Low | Ch 13 |
| Sports Rehabilitation and Injury Prevention | Paul Comfort | Ch 13 |
| Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery ★ | Cathryn Jakobson Ramin | Ch 13 |
| Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection | John E. Sarno | Ch 13 |
| The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook | Clair Davies | Ch 13 |
| Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes ★ | Shirley A. Sahrmann | Ch 13 |
| Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques | Carolyn Kisner | Ch 13 |
| Physical Rehabilitation of the Injured Athlete | James R. Andrews | Ch 13 |
| Strength Training Past 50 ★ | Wayne L. Westcott | Ch 13 |
| ACSM's Exercise Management for Persons With Chronic Diseases and Disabilities | American College of Sports Medicine | Ch 13 |
| Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults | C. Jessie Jones | Ch 13 |
| The Promise of Sleep ★ | William C. Dement | Ch 14 |
| Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams | Paul Martin | Ch 14 |
| The Twenty-four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives | Rosalind D. Cartwright | Ch 14 |
| Overcoming Insomnia: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach ★ | Jack D. Edinger | Ch 14 |
| The Insomnia Answer: A Personalized Program for Identifying and Overcoming the Three Types of Insomnia | Paul Glovinsky | Ch 14 |
| Take a Nap! Change Your Life | Sara C. Mednick | Ch 14 |
| Recovery for Performance in Sport ★ | Christophe Hausswirth | Ch 14 |
| Sports Massage for Injury Care | Robert E. McAtee | Ch 14 |
| The Wim Hof Method | Wim Hof | Ch 14 |
| Monitoring Training and Performance in Athletes ★ | Mike McGuigan | Ch 14 |
| Peak: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sports | Marc Bubbs | Ch 14 |
| Overtraining Athletes: Personal Journeys in Sport | Sean Richardson | Ch 14 |
| The Healing Power of the Breath ★ | Richard P. Brown | Ch 15 |
| Multidisciplinary Approaches to Breathing Pattern Disorders | Leon Chaitow | Ch 15 |
| Science of Breath: A Practical Guide | Swami Rama | Ch 15 |
| The End of Stress as We Know It ★ | Bruce McEwen | Ch 15 |
| Rewire Your Anxious Brain | Catherine M. Pittman | Ch 15 |
| Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Stanley Rosenberg | Ch 15 |
| Altered Traits: Science and Practice ★ | Daniel Goleman | Ch 15 |
| The Mindful Way through Depression | J. Mark G. Williams | Ch 15 |
| The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi | Peter M. Wayne | Ch 15 |
| Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma ★ | Peter A. Levine | Ch 15 |
| The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment | Babette Rothschild | Ch 15 |
| Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology | Donna Jackson Nakazawa | Ch 15 |
| Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality ★ | Venki Ramakrishnan | Ch 16 |
| How We Age: The Science of Longevity | Coleen T. Murphy | Ch 16 |
| Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality | Jonathan Weiner | Ch 16 |
| The Longevity Project ★ | Howard S. Friedman | Ch 16 |
| Growing Young | Marta Zaraska | Ch 16 |
| Healthy at 100 | John Robbins | Ch 16 |
| Age Later: Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity ★ | Nir Barzilai | Ch 16 |
| The Longevity Code: Secrets to Living Well for Longer from the Front Lines of Science | Kris Verburgh | Ch 16 |
| Younger You: Reduce Your Bio Age and Live Longer, Better | Kara N. Fitzgerald | Ch 16 |
| Fallproof! A Comprehensive Balance and Mobility Training Program ★ | Debra J. Rose | Ch 16 |
| Exercise for Frail Elders | Elizabeth Best-Martini | Ch 16 |
| Physical Dimensions of Aging | Waneen W. Spirduso | Ch 16 |
| Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation ★ | Jen Gunter | Ch 17 |
| Woman Code | Alisa Vitti | Ch 17 |
| 8 Steps to Reverse Your PCOS | Fiona McCulloch | Ch 17 |
| It Starts with the Egg ★ | Rebecca Fett | Ch 17 |
| Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition | Lily Nichols | Ch 17 |
| Exercising Through Your Pregnancy | James F. Clapp III | Ch 17 |
| Estrogen Matters ★ | Avrum Bluming | Ch 17 |
| Hormone Repair Manual: Every Woman's Guide to Healthy Hormones After 40 | Lara Briden | Ch 17 |
| Next Level: Your Guide to Kicking Ass, Feeling Great, and Crushing Goals Through Menopause and Beyond | Stacy T. Sims | Ch 17 |
| No Period. Now What? ★ | Nicola J. Rinaldi | Ch 17 |
| Women's Strength Training Anatomy | Frédéric Delavier | Ch 17 |
| The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan | Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb | Ch 17 |
| Testosterone: A Man's Guide ★ | Nelson Vergel | Ch 18 |
| Count Down | Shanna H. Swan | Ch 18 |
| The Male Biological Clock | Harry Fisch | Ch 18 |
| Ageless Intensity: High-Intensity Workouts to Slow the Aging Process ★ | Pete McCall | Ch 18 |
| Building Muscle and Performance | Nick Tumminello | Ch 18 |
| The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession | Harrison G. Pope Jr. | Ch 18 |
| Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers ★ | Ralph H. Blum | Ch 18 |
| The Patient Paradox: Why Sexed-Up Medicine Is Bad for Your Health | Margaret McCartney | Ch 18 |
| Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease | Alan Cassels | Ch 18 |
| The Sexual Male: Problems and Solutions ★ | Richard F. Spark | Ch 18 |
| Man Interrupted: Why Young Men are Struggling and What We Can Do About It | Philip Zimbardo | Ch 18 |
| Your Brain on Porn | Gary Wilson | Ch 18 |
| Male Sexual Dysfunction: Pathophysiology and Treatment ★ | Fouad R. Kandeel | Ch 18 |
| Andrology: Male Reproductive Health and Dysfunction | Eberhard Nieschlag | Ch 18 |
| Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick ★ | Wendy Wood | Ch 19 |
| How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be | Katy Milkman | Ch 19 |
| Changing for Good | James O. Prochaska | Ch 19 |
| Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness ★ | Richard M. Ryan | Ch 19 |
| Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow | William R. Miller | Ch 19 |
| Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength | Roy F. Baumeister | Ch 19 |
| Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability ★ | Andrew L. Dannenberg | Ch 19 |
| Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics | Stephen Wendel | Ch 19 |
| The Design of Everyday Things | Don Norman | Ch 19 |
| Self-Tracking ★ | Gina Neff | Ch 19 |
| SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully | Jane McGonigal | Ch 19 |
| Changing to Thrive: Using the Stages of Change to Overcome the Top Threats to Your Health and Happiness | James O. Prochaska | Ch 19 |
| Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals ★ | Oliver Burkeman | Ch 20 |
| Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World | Vivek H. Murthy | Ch 20 |
| The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier and Happier | Susan Pinker | Ch 20 |
| The Wisdom of the Body ★ | Walter B. Cannon | Ch 20 |
| The Stress of Life | Hans Selye | Ch 20 |
| Running & Being: The Total Experience | George A. Sheehan | Ch 20 |
| Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human ★ | Richard Wrangham | Ch 20 |
| Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance | Christopher McDougall | Ch 20 |
| Feast: Why Humans Share Food | Martin Jones | Ch 20 |
| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ★ | Oliver Sacks | Ch 20 |
| Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis | Lisa Sanders | Ch 20 |
| The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | Siddhartha Mukherjee | Ch 20 |
Advanced 158 titles
Assumes professional or academic background. Textbooks, clinical handbooks and research references, several meant to be consulted on a question rather than read continuously.
| Title | Author | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology ★ | John E. Hall | Ch 1 |
| Principles of Anatomy and Physiology | Gerard J. Tortora | Ch 1 |
| Williams Textbook of Endocrinology ★ | Shlomo Melmed | Ch 1 |
| Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death | Nick Lane | Ch 1 |
| How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine and Healthcare ★ | Trisha Greenhalgh | Ch 1 |
| Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice | Gordon Guyatt | Ch 1 |
| Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You ★ | Gerd Gigerenzer | Ch 1 |
| Gordis Epidemiology | David D. Celentano | Ch 1 |
| Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease ★ | A. Catharine Ross | Ch 2 |
| Krause and Mahan's Food & the Nutrition Care Process | Janice L. Raymond | Ch 2 |
| Public Health Nutrition ★ | Judith L. Buttriss | Ch 2 |
| Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries Are Reshaping Emerging Economies | Eduardo J. Gómez | Ch 2 |
| Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease ★ | Ann M. Coulston | Ch 2 |
| Handbook of Eating and Drinking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives | Herbert L. Meiselman | Ch 2 |
| Fluid, Electrolyte and Acid-Base Physiology: A Problem-Based Approach ★ | Mitchell L. Halperin | Ch 2 |
| Drinking Water: A History | James Salzman | Ch 2 |
| Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism ★ | Sareen S. Gropper | Ch 3 |
| Biochemical, Physiological, and Molecular Aspects of Human Nutrition | Martha H. Stipanuk | Ch 3 |
| Present Knowledge in Nutrition ★ | Bernadette P. Marriott | Ch 3 |
| Handbook of Vitamins | Janos Zempleni | Ch 3 |
| Human Metabolism: A Regulatory Perspective ★ | Keith N. Frayn | Ch 3 |
| Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry | David L. Nelson | Ch 3 |
| Encyclopedia of Dietary Supplements ★ | Paul M. Coates | Ch 3 |
| Nutraceuticals: Efficacy, Safety and Toxicity | Ramesh C. Gupta | Ch 3 |
| The Human Microbiota and Microbiome ★ | Julian R. Marchesi | Ch 4 |
| Brock Biology of Microorganisms | Michael T. Madigan | Ch 4 |
| Gut Microbiota: Interactive Effects on Nutrition and Health ★ | Edward Ishiguro | Ch 4 |
| Fermented Foods in Health and Disease Prevention | Juana Frías | Ch 4 |
| Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease ★ | Mark Feldman | Ch 4 |
| Rome IV: Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders | Douglas A. Drossman | Ch 4 |
| The Gut-Brain Axis: Dietary, Probiotic, and Prebiotic Interventions on the Microbiota ★ | Niall Hyland | Ch 4 |
| Janeway's Immunobiology | Kenneth Murphy | Ch 4 |
| Ketogenic Diet and Metabolic Therapies: Expanded Roles in Health and Disease ★ | Susan A. Masino | Ch 5 |
| Ketogenic Diet Therapies for Epilepsy and Other Conditions | Eric H. Kossoff | Ch 5 |
| Vegetarian and Plant-Based Diets in Health and Disease Prevention ★ | François Mariotti | Ch 5 |
| Vegetarian Nutrition and Wellness | Winston J. Craig | Ch 5 |
| The Mediterranean Diet: Health and Science ★ | Richard Hoffman | Ch 5 |
| Nutrition and Physical Degeneration | Weston A. Price | Ch 5 |
| Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable ★ | Peter S. Ungar | Ch 5 |
| Food Allergy: Adverse Reactions to Foods and Food Additives | Dean D. Metcalfe | Ch 5 |
| The Intermittent Fasting Revolution: The Science of Optimizing Health and Enhancing Performance ★ | Mark P. Mattson | Ch 6 |
| Caloric Restriction, Aging and Longevity | Arthur V. Everitt | Ch 6 |
| Autophagy: Biology and Diseases ★ | Zheng-Hong Qin | Ch 6 |
| Handbook of Famine, Starvation, and Nutrient Deprivation | Victor R. Preedy | Ch 6 |
| Chronobiology: Biological Timekeeping ★ | Jay C. Dunlap | Ch 6 |
| Circadian Medicine | Christopher S. Colwell | Ch 6 |
| The Biology of Human Starvation ★ | Ancel Keys | Ch 6 |
| Eating Disorders: A Guide to Medical Care and Complications | Philip S. Mehler | Ch 6 |
| Handbook of Obesity ★ | George A. Bray | Ch 7 |
| Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children | Peter G. Kopelman | Ch 7 |
| Human Body Composition ★ | Steven B. Heymsfield | Ch 7 |
| Obesity: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Prevention | Debasis Bagchi | Ch 7 |
| Appetite and Food Intake: Central Control ★ | Ruth B. S. Harris | Ch 7 |
| Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition | Victor R. Preedy | Ch 7 |
| Weight Bias: Nature, Consequences, and Remedies ★ | Kelly D. Brownell | Ch 7 |
| Handbook of Obesity Treatment | Thomas A. Wadden | Ch 7 |
| Mechanisms of Insulin Action ★ | Alan R. Saltiel | Ch 8 |
| Metabolic Syndrome: A Comprehensive Textbook | Rexford S. Ahima | Ch 8 |
| Joslin's Diabetes Mellitus ★ | C. Ronald Kahn | Ch 8 |
| Textbook of Diabetes | Richard I. G. Holt | Ch 8 |
| Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine ★ | Peter Libby | Ch 8 |
| Clinical Lipidology: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease | Christie M. Ballantyne | Ch 8 |
| Fundamentals of Inflammation ★ | Charles N. Serhan | Ch 8 |
| Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control | Patrick L. Remington | Ch 8 |
| Physiology of Sport and Exercise ★ | W. Larry Kenney | Ch 9 |
| ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription | American College of Sports Medicine | Ch 9 |
| ACSM's Complete Guide to Fitness & Health ★ | Barbara A. Bushman | Ch 9 |
| Exercise Physiology: Theory and Application to Fitness and Performance | Scott K. Powers | Ch 9 |
| Science and Practice of Strength Training ★ | Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky | Ch 9 |
| Supertraining | Yuri Verkhoshansky | Ch 9 |
| Psychology of Physical Activity: Determinants, Well-Being and Interventions ★ | Stuart J. H. Biddle | Ch 9 |
| Exercise Psychology | Curt L. Lox | Ch 9 |
| Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning ★ | G. Gregory Haff | Ch 10 |
| Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise | Peter M. McGinnis | Ch 10 |
| Skeletal Muscle: Form and Function ★ | Brian R. MacIntosh | Ch 10 |
| Strength and Power in Sport | Paavo V. Komi | Ch 10 |
| Sports Nutrition ★ | Ronald J. Maughan | Ch 10 |
| Nutrition and Enhanced Sports Performance: Muscle Building, Endurance, and Strength | Debasis Bagchi | Ch 10 |
| Exercise Technique Manual for Resistance Training ★ | National Strength and Conditioning Association | Ch 10 |
| Developing the Core | Jeffrey M. Willardson | Ch 10 |
| Cardiovascular Physiology ★ | David E. Mohrman | Ch 11 |
| Textbook of Sports and Exercise Cardiology | Axel Pressler | Ch 11 |
| Lore of Running ★ | Timothy Noakes | Ch 11 |
| Running Science | Owen Anderson | Ch 11 |
| Exercise Physiology: Human Bioenergetics and Its Applications ★ | George A. Brooks | Ch 11 |
| Endurance Training: Science and Practice | Íñigo Mujika | Ch 11 |
| Swimming Fastest ★ | Ernest W. Maglischo | Ch 11 |
| Cycling Science | Stephen S. Cheung | Ch 11 |
| Science of Flexibility ★ | Michael J. Alter | Ch 12 |
| Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System: Foundations for Rehabilitation | Donald A. Neumann | Ch 12 |
| The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care ★ | Sat Bir Singh Khalsa | Ch 12 |
| Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice | Mark Singleton | Ch 12 |
| Muscles: Testing and Function, with Posture and Pain ★ | Florence Peterson Kendall | Ch 12 |
| Occupational Biomechanics | Don B. Chaffin | Ch 12 |
| Motor Control: Translating Research into Clinical Practice ★ | Anne Shumway-Cook | Ch 12 |
| Neuromechanics of Human Movement | Roger M. Enoka | Ch 12 |
| Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine ★ | Peter Brukner | Ch 13 |
| The IOC Manual of Sports Injuries | Roald Bahr | Ch 13 |
| Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation ★ | Stuart McGill | Ch 13 |
| Wall & Melzack's Textbook of Pain | Stephen McMahon | Ch 13 |
| Orthopedic Physical Assessment ★ | David J. Magee | Ch 13 |
| Clinical Orthopaedic Rehabilitation: A Team Approach | Charles E. Giangarra | Ch 13 |
| Kelley and Firestein's Textbook of Rheumatology ★ | Gary S. Firestein | Ch 13 |
| Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology | Howard M. Fillit | Ch 13 |
| Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine ★ | Meir H. Kryger | Ch 14 |
| The Oxford Handbook of Sleep and Sleep Disorders | Charles M. Morin | Ch 14 |
| Treatment Plans and Interventions for Insomnia: A Case Formulation Approach ★ | Rachel Manber | Ch 14 |
| Behavioral Treatments for Sleep Disorders | Michael L. Perlis | Ch 14 |
| ACSM's Advanced Exercise Physiology ★ | Peter A. Farrell | Ch 14 |
| Massage Therapy: Principles and Practice | Susan G. Salvo | Ch 14 |
| Overtraining in Sport ★ | Richard B. Kreider | Ch 14 |
| Fatigue in Sport and Exercise | Shaun Phillips | Ch 14 |
| Respiratory Physiology: The Essentials ★ | John B. West | Ch 15 |
| Nunn's Applied Respiratory Physiology | Andrew B. Lumb | Ch 15 |
| Stress: Neuroendocrinology and Neurobiology ★ | George Fink | Ch 15 |
| The Polyvagal Theory | Stephen W. Porges | Ch 15 |
| Handbook of Mindfulness: Theory, Research, and Practice ★ | Kirk Warren Brown | Ch 15 |
| Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness | Fabrizio Didonna | Ch 15 |
| Psychoneuroimmunology ★ | Robert Ader | Ch 15 |
| Handbook of Psychophysiology | John T. Cacioppo | Ch 15 |
| Handbook of the Biology of Aging ★ | Nicolas Musi | Ch 16 |
| Biology of Aging | Roger B. McDonald | Ch 16 |
| Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences ★ | Kenneth F. Ferraro | Ch 16 |
| Biodemography of Aging | Anatoliy I. Yashin | Ch 16 |
| The Biology of Human Longevity ★ | Caleb E. Finch | Ch 16 |
| Molecular Biology of Aging | Leonard Guarente | Ch 16 |
| Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology ★ | Jeffrey B. Halter | Ch 16 |
| Sarcopenia | Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft | Ch 16 |
| Yen & Jaffe's Reproductive Endocrinology ★ | Jerome F. Strauss III | Ch 17 |
| Sex Hormones, Exercise and Women: Scientific and Clinical Aspects | Anthony C. Hackney | Ch 17 |
| Williams Obstetrics ★ | F. Gary Cunningham | Ch 17 |
| Exercise and Sporting Activity During Pregnancy: Evidence-Based Guidelines | Rita Santos-Rocha | Ch 17 |
| Speroff's Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility ★ | Marc A. Fritz | Ch 17 |
| Treatment of the Postmenopausal Woman: Basic and Clinical Aspects | Rogerio A. Lobo | Ch 17 |
| The Exercising Female: Science and Its Application ★ | Jacky Forsyth | Ch 17 |
| The Female Athlete Triad: A Clinical Guide | Catherine M. Gordon | Ch 17 |
| Testosterone: Action, Deficiency, Substitution ★ | Eberhard Nieschlag | Ch 18 |
| Male Hypogonadism: Basic, Clinical and Therapeutic Principles | Stephen J. Winters | Ch 18 |
| Performance-Enhancing Substances in Sport and Exercise ★ | Michael S. Bahrke | Ch 18 |
| Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription | Vivian H. Heyward | Ch 18 |
| Campbell-Walsh-Wein Urology ★ | Alan W. Partin | Ch 18 |
| Prostate Cancer: Science and Clinical Practice | Jack H. Mydlo | Ch 18 |
| The Psychology of Habit: Theory, Mechanisms, Change, and Contexts ★ | Bas Verplanken | Ch 19 |
| Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice | Karen Glanz | Ch 19 |
| Handbook of Competence and Motivation: Theory and Application ★ | Andrew J. Elliot | Ch 19 |
| The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation | Richard M. Ryan | Ch 19 |
| Behavioral Economics and Public Health ★ | Christina A. Roberto | Ch 19 |
| Social Epidemiology | Lisa F. Berkman | Ch 19 |
| The Handbook of Behavior Change ★ | Martin S. Hagger | Ch 19 |
| Relapse Prevention: Maintenance Strategies in the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors | G. Alan Marlatt | Ch 19 |
| Handbook of Health Psychology ★ | Tracey A. Revenson | Ch 20 |
| The Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology | Howard S. Friedman | Ch 20 |
| The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage or Nemesis? ★ | Thomas McKeown | Ch 20 |
| Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health | Ivan Illich | Ch 20 |
| Food and Culture: A Reader ★ | Carole Counihan | Ch 20 |
| Nutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition | Darna L. Dufour | Ch 20 |
| The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition ★ | Arthur Kleinman | Ch 20 |
| Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness | Rita Charon | Ch 20 |