The best 100 Healthy Living books

Savor (2010) provides advice and inspiration on how to find inner peace, joy and strength – especially for those trying to sustainably lose weight – with Buddhist teachings and techniques for appreciating the richness of life in the present moment. It also draws on the latest nutritional science research on the best ways to eat and exercise, presenting readers with a holistic method for improving their physical, psychological and spiritual well-being, and thereby transforming their lives.

• Anyone wanting to sustainably lose weight
• Anyone wanting more peace and happiness in everyday life

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking (1985, 2011) isn’t just a book about giving up cigarettes; it aims to put smoking in a completely new light. Smoking is no habit and nicotine no hard drug; smoking is an addiction, but one that can be overcome with the right mindset. These blinks outline the necessary steps and address those questions that’ll arise on your journey to a life without cigarettes.

• Smokers struggling to quit
• People interested in the case for quitting
• Those who want to learn why willpower alone won’t help you quit

Eat, Move, Sleep (2013) offers simple tips for improving your health and well-being in some very important ways. You don’t have to revolutionize your lifestyle to get in shape and increase your energy levels – little changes can make a big difference, and these blinks will show you how.

• Anyone hoping to lead a healthier lifestyle
• Workaholics struggling to improve their work-life balance
• People with stressful jobs and packed daily routines

30 Ways to Reboot Your Body (2015) gives you the keys to repairing and regenerating your body so you can take your health and fitness goals to the next level. These blinks explain the importance of digestive health, light exercise and solid routines. Get ready to have your ideas about diet and exercise challenged.

• People tired of struggling with inflammation, weight gain and fatigue
• Anyone interested in a fitness plan backed by real science
• Readers suspicious about crash diets and hard exercise fads

How Not to Die (2015) explains how a plant-based diet can extend your life while transforming your quality of living. These blinks offer a wealth of health-boosting nutritional information and hands-on dietary advice that you won’t get from your doctor.

• Patients diagnosed with life-threatening conditions such as heart disease and diabetes
• Those with a family history of such conditions
• Anyone who is overweight, tired or generally feels unwell

The Sleep Solution (2017) discusses the fundamentals of sleeping. It explains why keeping a consistent rhythm and schedule is important, and how insomnia is not a lack of sleep, but rather a result of dealing poorly with substandard sleep. You’ll learn how to improve your sleeping patterns and, as a result, improve your quality of life.

• People who suffer from insomnia
• Stressed out workers who take sleeping pills to get some rest
• Anyone who thinks getting a good night’s sleep isn’t that important

The Diabetes Code (2018) addresses one of the western world’s most alarming health epidemics: the rise of type 2 diabetes – a disorder closely related to poor diet and obesity. But as Jason Fung shows, it can be reversed. The important thing is to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Drawing on his professional experience as well as the latest scientific data, Fung makes a powerful case for a dietary strategy to prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes that you can start implementing today.

• Type 2 diabetes patients
• Anyone battling obesity
• Nutritional therapists and doctors

Minimalism (2011) offers readers an alternative path that avoids nine-to-five drudgery and helps them focus on what’s important in life. Authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus have practical guidance on how anyone can free themselves from the financial and emotional binds of modern life to build a new and simpler lifestyle that is still authentic and rewarding.

• Readers who are ready to live a more peaceful lifestyle
• Anxious and distracted people eager for a decluttered life
• Anyone who’s tired of living for a paycheck

Body Kindness (2016) offers a refreshing approach to your overall physical and emotional health – one that allows you to tune into your own unique body and discover what is best for your well-being. This approach does away with one-size-fits-all dietary and exercise rules that often introduce a lot of added stress and anxiety into our daily lives. With small, easy-to-implement steps, you can learn how to boost their health and happiness, without the rules and rigidity.

• Anyone tired of the latest fad diets
• People looking for tips on living a healthier lifestyle
• Nutritionists, coaches and psychologists

Do/Breathe (2015) is a calming antidote to the stressors of contemporary life, offering a simple guide to cultivating balance, honing focus, and learning to be present. Do/Breathe takes you right back to life’s basics – like breathing, eating, and sleeping – to show how adjusting fundamental practices, habits, and mindsets can produce positive, lasting change in your life. 

• Busy professionals who never seem to reach the end of their to-do lists
• Dreamers whose fear holds them back from chasing their goals
• Multitaskers who want to juggle their roles and responsibilities without losing equilibrium

“No supplement can replicate the full spectrum of light humans need from the sun.”

Super Human (2019) is a guide to the latest research in longevity. By making basic changes in your diet and adopting cutting-edge anti-aging technology, you can bypass aging for decades to come while looking as good as you feel.

• Middle-aged men and women who want to age backwards
• Young adults suffering from obesity, fatigue, or health problems associated with aging
• Bulletproof Diet devotees

Breath (2020) is the fascinating and unexpected story of the power of breathing. Western science has overlooked the amazing effects that different methods of breathing can have on our health.

• Fans of popular science
• People looking for simple ways to improve their health
• Anyone keen to learn more about something we do unconsciously.

When the Body Says No (2003) probes the hidden connections between mental health and physical illness. Modern medical science often tries to reassure us that our minds and bodies are totally separate – when, in reality, they’re deeply interconnected. Mental stresses often play out in the body as physiological diseases, disorders, and chronic conditions that endanger our health and well-being.

• People who have chronic health conditions or who know others who have them
• The eternally stressed
• Those interested in the connections between mind and body

Body by Science (2009) is a comprehensive guide to building muscle. This handbook is driven by data, and it offers a scientifically proven approach to sculpting a fitter, firmer body. All you’ll need is a few minutes a week.

• Fitness buffs looking to optimize their routine
• Couch potatoes eager to amp up their physical activity
• Anyone curious about the science of building up muscle

The Alcohol Experiment (2018) is your practical guide to giving up alcohol for 30 days – or perhaps a lifetime. Packed with science-based tips and personal anecdotes, it offers a new perspective on alcohol and explores why we drink it, what it really does to us, and how we can give it up.

• People who’d like to cut down on alcohol, but aren’t sure how
• Drinkers who’ve tried – and tried – to quit
• Anyone who wants to change their life for the better

SuperLife (2015) is the missing manual for your body. By outlining the five life forces fundamental to human well-being, it explains how you can harness these forces to optimize your health, feel amazing, and live long into the future.

• Future-minded people concerned about their long-term health and longevity
• Young and middle-aged people who are suffering from premature aches and pains
• People who want to feel their best every day

Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety (2021) is a groundbreaking look at how nutrition can influence mental health. Based on the latest scientific information, it gives the lowdown on the mind-gut connection, inflammation, and keeping your microbiome healthy. 

• Those seeking a brain-boosting eating strategy
• People craving a healthier relationship with food
• Anyone suffering from depression or anxiety

Fast This Way (2021) is not just another book touting the benefits of fasting. Instead, it uses the most up-to-date science and the author’s years of experience to outline exactly how to sustainably fast for a long and healthy life.

• People struggling with diet-related health problems
• Aspiring biohackers
• Anyone looking to up their self-discipline game

Good Habits, Bad Habits (2019) lays out the workings of human habits, drawing on groundbreaking new research into the psychology of human behavior. Combining the insights of neuroscience and lab-based experiments, it shows how we can harness our habits to change our lives for the better.

• Ambitious planners who lack follow-through
• Serial dieters trying to change their eating habits for good
• Anyone trying to kick a stubborn bad habit

Burn (2021) shines a light on the science behind metabolism – the way our bodies burn energy. Packed with memorable insights and facts, it draws on the latest metabolic research and delves into the evolutionary history of the human body. 

• Gym members wondering why they aren’t shifting more weight
• Would-be dieters unsure of which nutritional plan to follow
• Natural history buffs

The Wim Hof Method (2020) posits that we can overcome almost anything, from illness and depression to extreme climate conditions, by employing Wim Hof’s methods. Based on three pillars – cold, breathing, and mindset – The Wim Hof Method seeks to help you activate your full potential.

• Anyone looking to improve their general health and well-being
• Endurance athletes and winter sport fanatics
• Those looking for alternative remedies to illness and depression

Stress Less, Accomplish More (2019) shows how meditation can help busy people accomplish more in their fast-paced lives. In recent years, science has revealed what meditators have known for millennia: this simple tool can be practiced anytime and anywhere to relieve stress, gain mental clarity, and improve performance across your life.

• High achievers looking to increase productivity
• Frustrated meditators who want to establish a regular practice
• Meditation skeptics eager to know what all the fuss is about

The Comfort Crisis (2021) offers a cure for the physical and mental health problems of modern-day life. It’s all about getting comfortable with discomfort, which can mean anything from roughing it in the wilderness to contemplating death.

• People feeling disillusioned with modern life
• Restless spirits craving an Into the Wild experience
• Anyone interested in improving their physical or mental health

How to Do the Work (2021) is a hands-on guide to healing our bodies and minds. The physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of our health are all interconnected. By changing how we eat and exercise, engaging in mindfulness and tackling past trauma, we can heal ourselves and transform our relationships.

• Spiritual seekers looking for new ways to connect with the world
• Children of emotionally unavailable parents looking to heal past trauma
• Anyone who’s tired of feeling sluggish and burnt out

Set Boundaries, Find Peace (2021) lays out everything you need to know about boundaries: what they are, why you need them, and how to implement them in your life right now. By breaking down the ins and outs of setting healthy boundaries, these blinks will leave you feeling confident and empowered to finally tackle those thorny conversations that you’ve been avoiding for so long.

• People-pleasers who don’t know how to say no
• Couples that have trouble communicating
• Anyone who finds setting boundaries especially difficult

Love People, Use Things (2021) is a manifesto extolling the pleasures of minimalism. This primer explains why living with fewer things can lead to less clutter and more fulfilling relationships.

• Budding hoarders looking to cut back
• Thrifty savers seeking tips on light living
• Anyone interested in the practice of minimalism

Biohack Your Brain (2020) is a guide to caring for your most essential organ – the brain. Drawing on the latest neuroscientific research, it’s packed with actionable advice on everything from optimizing your diet for brain health to stimulating your gray cells and beating stress. Along the way, it sheds light on how you can start protecting yourself against cognitive diseases like Alzheimer’s.

• Thinkers and tinkerers
• The stressed and anxious 
• Self-improvers

Brain Food (2018) highlights the role nutrition plays in your brain’s health. It explores the incredible brain-gut connection and reveals exactly what to eat and drink to maximize your cognitive power and prevent stress, dementia, and memory loss.

• People who want to transform sluggish minds into sharpshooters
• Health nuts seeking simple hacks to achieve long-term well-being
• Those who feel their brains could use a little TLC

The Expectation Effect (2022) explores the connection between our minds, our bodies, and our outcomes. It explores how our expectations can form our realities, and reveals the extent to which self-fulfilling prophecies shape our lives.

• Anyone struggling with a negative mindset
• Psychology buffs looking for a fresh perspective
• Health and wellness fans wanting new insights

How to Meet Your Self (2022) is a practical guide to self-discovery. These simple exercises can help you to become more conscious, and more in touch with your own body and emotions, ultimately allowing you to discover your true self.

• Self seekers
• People who feel stuck on autopilot
• Anyone who’s unhappy and doesn’t know why

Million Dollar Habits (2017) is the manual to your brain and your life that you never got in school. It explains the “secrets” of success and what you need to do to unlock your full potential.

• Millionaire wannabes
• Couch potatoes looking to get fit and healthy 
• People who want to develop great relationships

Master Your Core (2021) provides a holistic overview of how strengthening your core can directly boost your athletic performance and mood while reducing injuries. It offers a scientific explanation of “core stability” and includes breathing, stretching, and dynamic exercises to train your core muscles and improve your overall health.

• Desk workers who want to improve their posture and mood
• Injury-adverse athletes looking to boost strength and power
• Anyone craving sculpted abs with a side of mental well-being

Evolve Your Brain (2007) dives deep into the human brain and its structures. It demonstrates the power of neuroplasticity to change thinking, behavior, and biology.

• Curious minds who are, well, curious about their minds
• Self-help fans seeking brain-based advice on achieving their goals
• Anyone with a brain wondering why it didn’t come with an owner’s manual

Eat It! (2022) offers a sensible, fact-based and reassuring weight-loss program for those of us who are tired of chasing the latest diet trends. You’ll find sound advice and a guilt-free approach to shedding pounds and eating sensibly.

• Anyone trying to lose weight
• People who’d like a healthier relationship with food
• Health-conscious individuals

You Can Fix Your Brain (2018) is a step-by-step guide to improving cognitive function and overall brain health. Through dietary choices, environmental adjustments, and other health practices, you can reduce brain fog, enhance your memory, and increase your mental clarity.

• People who are experiencing brain fog or are having trouble concentrating
• Those who wish to reduce their risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia
• Anyone who wants to feel sharper and improve their mental function

Outlive (2023) is a comprehensive guide to living a longer, healthier, and more fulfilling life. Drawing on cutting-edge science and practical advice, it empowers you to optimize your exercise, nutrition, sleep, and emotional health for maximum longevity.

• Individuals seeking a healthier, longer life
• Fitness enthusiasts wanting well-rounded advice
• Anyone interested in optimizing mental well-being

Forever Young (2023) challenges the notion that poor health associated with aging is an inevitable part of life. Instead, it provides a roadmap to not only live longer but to enjoy good health until death.

• Young people wanting to set themselves up for a long, healthy life
• Older people looking to reverse the aging process
• Those suffering from disease who want to improve their well-being

Unlock your brain's full potential with cutting-edge techniques and personalized brain health approaches detailed in this revised and updated version of the original Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (1999) by Dr. Daniel G. Amen.

• All brain owners
• Brainiacs seeking to enhance their mind powers
• Health-conscious people wanting better knowledge of brain health

Built to Move (2023) is your ultimate guide to building a better, healthier, more functional body. The concept is simple – it provides a handful of simple tests to assess your movement, and a handful of easy-to-follow routines to improve it. Utilizing the latest insights of mobility, sleep, and nutrition science, you’ll learn to keep your body and mind as fit as possible with minimal effort – no matter if you’re a couch potato or a world class athlete. 

• Couch potatoes looking for a minimal movement practice to stay healthy
• Professional athletes looking to keep their body as fit as possible 
• Anyone who wants to move better and without pain 

Retrain Your Brain (2016) is all about learning practical strategies to break free from negative thought patterns and cultivate a more positive, fulfilling life. Whether you're struggling with anxiety or depression, or just want to improve your overall mental well-being, this guide is a valuable resource for retraining your brain and becoming your best self.

• Anyone suffering from depression, anxiety, or low mood
• Life hackers looking for tools to enhance emotional well-being
• Curious minds interested in the science behind cognitive behavioral therapy

The 12-week Fitness Project (2021) offers an alternative to restrictive diets that addresses health beyond the scale, creating sustainable change that draws on time-tested wisdom to improve overall well-being.

• Frustrated dieters wondering why restriction seems to work against them
• Wellness seekers looking for better sleep, more energy and better digestion
• Those looking to incorporate more variety in their diets while creating sustainable lifestyle change

The Joy of Saying No (2022) is a practical guide for people pleasers. It explains what people pleasing is, why it impacts well-being, the different ways it manifests in behaviors, and how it can be overcome, so that people can live more authentically.

• Life-long people pleasers 
• Individuals who struggle to say no or set healthy boundaries
• People aged 20 to 80, who were raised in the Age of Obedience

Eat More, Live Well (2021) offers a fresh take on the diet and health connection, building on the importance of a diverse and thriving gut microbiome for health, well-being, and longevity.

• Frustrated calorie counters looking for a tastier way to health
• Scientific minds curious about the relationship between gut microbes and well-being
• Anyone looking for a more sustainable way to lose weight, increase energy, and live with more abundant health

Mindfulness for Beginners (2016) teaches wholeness and contentment are qualities present within each of us, accessible through mindful awareness. It serves as both a practical guide to and philosophical exploration of mindfulness.

• Overthinkers who want to step back from unproductive thought patterns
• Self-critics ready to develop a kind relationship with themselves
• Stressed-out professionals who want to replenish themselves by finding inner peace

How Not to Age (2021) delves into the scientific understanding of the aging process, exploring biological mechanisms and lifestyle choices that can influence longevity and vitality. It offers a comprehensive look at research-based strategies, from diet and exercise to sleep and stress management, to slow down aging and improve overall health. Get practical advice, debunk the myths, and discover effective, scientifically grounded approaches to aging well.

• Health enthusiasts 
• People who plan to live past 100
• Anyone curious about separating myth from fact in the anti-aging industry

How to Be the Love You Seek (2023) is part candid memoir, part practical manual to improving your romantic relationships. Supported by personal experience and patient case studies, it argues that deep inner work is the essential prerequisite to secure, loving outer relationships – and outlines the process to make this transformation possible. 

• Anyone looking to improve their romantic relationship(s) 
• Individuals committed to moving past old wounds and trauma 
• People interested in self-development and personal growth 

Dopamine Detox (2020) is a concise guide that addresses a prevalent issue in today's distraction-filled world, offering you practical strategies to overcome procrastination and enhance focus. It reveals the impact of excessive dopamine stimulation on your ability to concentrate and tackle demanding tasks. Through a step-by-step approach, it empowers you to implement a dopamine detox in just 48 hours, enabling you to regain control over your attention and pursue your goals with renewed clarity.

• Chronic procrastinators
• Goal-setters struggling to find motivation
• Professionals seeking enhanced productivity methods

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2020) explores a range of mental health topics, including managing anxiety, overcoming guilt, handling addiction, and integrating mindfulness into your daily life. Filled with practical tips, exercises, and real-world examples, it offers a user-friendly approach to enhancing mental well-being.

• Anyone who has experienced depression or anxiety
• People interested in mental health disorders and solutions
• Psychology students exploring therapeutic techniques

Little Treatments, Big Effects (2023) addresses the widespread issue of unmet psychological needs and introduces single-session interventions as a novel complement to traditional approaches. It argues for systemic changes in mental health care and demonstrates how these brief interventions can create significant impacts.

• Individuals seeking accessible mental health care solutions
• Mental health professionals interested in brief intervention strategies
• Caregivers looking for quick, effective ways to psychologically support youth

Languishing (2024) delves into the often-overlooked state between mental well-being and mental illness: languishing. It offers a comprehensive analysis of how individuals can find themselves stuck in this state of stagnation and emptiness and presents a compelling guide for recognizing and addressing this state. Through an exploration of strategies for enhancing well-being, it empowers readers to transform their mental health landscape, advocating for a proactive approach to emotional and psychological resilience.

• Individuals experiencing burnout or feeling overwhelmed by life
• Wellness and life coaches
• Anyone curious about or looking to improve their mental well-being

Uptime (2024) is your roadmap to mastering productivity and achieving a harmonious work-life balance. It guides you through establishing a system for managing priorities, whether in a work environment or your personal life, so you’ll never again feel overwhelmed by your to-do list. Find more time for yourself, make technology work for you, and experience a sense of calm accomplishment in all facets of your existence.

• Busy professionals seeking work-life balance
• Entrepreneurs looking to align their actions with their goals
• Overwhelmed individuals craving intentional living

Stress Resets (2024) offers a plethora of quick and scientifically validated methods for managing stress. It introduces you to effective exercises that promise to ease your stress quickly without intensive meditation, medications, or alcohol. Through practical tips and exercises, it teaches you to regulate your emotions and build resilience, fundamentally changing how you perceive and handle stress.

• Busy professionals looking to enhance their stress management skills
• Stressed students needing focus and anxiety relief
• Overwhelmed parents seeking emotional balance

You, Happier (2024) is a guide to achieving lasting happiness and well-being by understanding and adapting to your own specific brain type. Packed with practical strategies and science-backed insights, it offers a roadmap to improving brain health and unlocking the keys to feeling good, both mentally and physically.

• People struggling with anxiety, depression, or other mental health challenges
• Health-conscious individuals looking to improve their overall well-being
• Anyone seeking practical strategies to boost happiness, resilience, and life satisfaction

The CBT Workbook for Mental Health (2022) is a practical guide to using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to improve your emotional well-being. It offers targeted solutions for common issues like anxiety, stress, self-esteem, and relationship issues, providing simple exercises that can be completed in just 10-30 minutes a day.

• People looking to improve their mental and emotional health
• Those interested in learning practical, easy-to-implement CBT techniques
• Anyone seeking to build resilience and coping skills for life's challenges

Good Energy (2024) explores the connection between metabolism and a wide range of health conditions, from depression to heart disease and cancer. These diverse ailments, it argues, can often be traced back to the same underlying issue: metabolic dysfunction. The upshot? One of the best things you can do for your health is to boost your metabolism – and that’s much simpler than you think. 

• Individuals exploring metabolic health improvement
• Readers facing chronic health conditions
• Health-conscious, proactive lifestyle seekers

What It Takes to Heal (2024) explores the interconnected nature of personal and collective healing, drawing on the author’s experiences as a therapist, facilitator, and social justice advocate. It offers insights into how trauma manifests in individuals and communities, emphasizing the importance of understanding your own healing journey in relation to broader societal issues. Through a blend of personal anecdotes, practical exercises, and philosophical reflections, it provides a roadmap for cultivating resilience, compassion, and transformative change.

• Self-help enthusiasts and mindfulness practitioners
• Social justice activists and organizers
• Community leaders and educators

The Anatomy of Anxiety (2022) challenges the conventional view that anxiety is solely a mental disorder. It proposes that many forms of anxiety originate from bodily imbalances rather than troubled thoughts. It offers actionable strategies for managing anxiety through lifestyle and diet adjustments, while also suggesting that some forms of anxiety can serve as helpful signals for achieving a more balanced life.

• Individuals struggling with chronic anxiety
• Highly sensitive people seeking to understand and embrace their nature
• Anyone looking to deepen their self-awareness and personal growth journey

Blind Spots (2024) examines how modern medicine sometimes gets crucial issues wrong, leading to widespread public harm. It explores the consequences of medical groupthink, highlighting failures like the opioid crisis and misguided dietary advice, while advocating for a more transparent and evidence-based healthcare system. Through critical topics such as nutrition, childbirth, and the microbiome, it sheds light on the gaps in medical knowledge that continue to affect patient outcomes

• Healthcare professionals seeking to improve patient-centered care approaches
• Medical students interested in understanding systemic issues in healthcare
• Anyone curious about healthcare costs and reform efforts

Hyperefficient (2024) explores the challenge facing knowledge workers expected to deliver high outputs reminiscent of industrial-era efficiency in the modern, technology-driven workplace. It argues that the key tasks of idea generation, complex problem-solving, and learning require a new approach to productivity. It suggests tailoring work patterns to natural cognitive rhythms, thereby creating a more sustainable and effective way of working that aligns with how our brains naturally function.

• Knowledge workers seeking sustainable productivity methods
• Leaders aiming to enhance team efficiency
• Anyone interested in neuroscience-based performance improvement

Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain (2024) delves into the vital connection between gut health and cognitive function, illustrating how a balanced gut microbiome can help prevent mental decline and neurodegenerative diseases. It offers a holistic wellness approach rooted in nutrition, physical activity, and fostering a sense of community.

• Health-conscious individuals seeking to improve gut and brain connection
• Those concerned about preventing mental decline or neurodegenerative diseases
• Readers exploring holistic approaches to nutrition and overall wellness

Tell Yourself a Better Lie (2021) explores how the stories we tell ourselves shape our reality, and offers strategies to reframe negative beliefs into empowering ones. Through practical tools and case studies, you’ll learn to identify and transform self-limiting thoughts – and take steps toward personal growth and emotional well-being. 

• Self-improvement enthusiasts seeking to overcome self-limiting beliefs
• Ambitious professionals looking to boost confidence and resilience
• Anyone struggling with persistent negative self-talk or doubt

Life Time (2022) reveals how your body’s 24-hour biological clock shapes your health, sleep, and mental performance. Through groundbreaking research in circadian science, you’ll discover how simple timing adjustments can dramatically improve immunity, sharpen thinking, and prevent disease. Armed with this revolutionary understanding of daily rhythms, you’ll learn to optimize every hour for better health and longevity.

• Insomniacs searching for science-based solutions to sleep better
• Working professionals trying to optimize their daily performance rhythms
• Health-conscious individuals interested in preventing disease through lifestyle timing

Sleep Drink Breathe (2024) presents a straightforward approach to transforming health and wellness through three fundamental biological behaviors. It explains how making simple adjustments to sleeping, hydrating, and breathing can dramatically improve energy, stress levels, and cognitive function in a matter of weeks.

• Health-conscious people seeking science-backed fundamentals
• Consumers seeking effective alternatives to expensive health products
• Anyone dealing with sleep issues, fatigue, or stress

The Longevity Formula (2024) explores holistic practices and personalized strategies for enhancing longevity, blending ancestral wisdom with contemporary medical insights. Underscoring the importance of synchronizing your circadian rhythm, balancing your gut microbiome, and stimulating your vagus nerve, it offers a path to optimizing your health span and life span. 

• Adults seeking to enhance vitality 
• Healthcare practitioners exploring integrative approaches 
• Anyone curious about Ayurveda 

The Baby Book (1993) is a comprehensive guide to infant and toddler care, emphasizing a nurturing, responsive approach known as attachment parenting. It covers topics like breastfeeding, co-sleeping, babywearing, and understanding a child’s cues to foster a strong parent-child bond. With practical advice and medical insights, it encourages parents to trust their instincts and create a loving, supportive environment for their baby’s development.

• New parents seeking guidance on infant care
• Breastfeeding mothers looking for expert advice and support
• Anyone wanting a broader perspective on caring for babies and young children

The End of Alzheimer's Program (2020) provides a step-by-step plan to protect – and even restore – cognitive health. It uncovers hidden drivers of Alzheimer’s, such as inflammation, toxins, and insulin resistance, and offers practical strategies to address them. Through a targeted approach that includes diet, sleep, exercise, and personalized interventions, this program empowers you to take control of your brain health and enhance mental clarity.

• Caregivers and families of patients with Alzheimer’s
• Individuals concerned about brain health and longevity
• Medical professionals and researchers studying cognitive decline

Why We Sleep (2017) examines the essential role sleep plays in nearly every facet of our physical and mental well-being. Drawing on decades of scientific research, it reveals how sleep strengthens memory, supports learning, bolsters the immune system, and regulates emotions. Building on these insights, it offers thoughtful solutions that challenge modern attitudes toward rest, paving the way for a healthier and more productive future.

• Anyone skeptical about the importance of sleep
• People with insomnia
• Dreamers curious about what happens in slumberland

The Ageless Brain (2025) presents a comprehensive approach to preventing and reversing cognitive decline. Through diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes, it integrates cutting-edge neuroscience with practical strategies aimed at maintaining and enhancing brain health throughout one's life. 

• People of any age who want to prevent cognitive decline
• Caregivers of those with memory loss or Alzheimer’s
• Anyone who wants to improve their overall brain health and longevity

The Stress Paradox (2025) flips the script on how we think about pressure, showing that the very thing we try to avoid might actually help us grow stronger, smarter, and more resilient. What if stress isn’t your enemy, but your hidden superpower? Find out how stepping outside your comfort zone might be the best thing you can do for your health and wellbeing. 

• Health and wellness enthusiasts
• Therapists, coaches, and fitness gurus
• Anyone interested in strengthening themselves

Taming the Molecule of More (2025) provides practical methods for guiding the brain chemical that fuels your drive and wanting. You’ll get insights into managing urges, sparking motivation when it flags, and handling modern situations from relationships to digital distractions. Its step-by-step approach shows how dopamine can support you, leading to greater satisfaction and personal command in daily life.

• People seeking science-backed strategies for managing daily motivation
• Individuals wanting control over modern habits like tech use
• Anyone curious about the brain chemistry of satisfaction and dissatisfaction

The Gut-Brain Paradox (2025) explores how the gut microbiome profoundly influences mental clarity, emotional balance, and neurological health. It explains how modern diets and environmental factors disrupt this gut-brain connection – and how restoring microbial balance can reverse symptoms like brain fog, anxiety, and cognitive decline.

• Health-conscious adults seeking natural brain support
• Nutrition-focused biohackers exploring gut microbiome science
• Anyone interested in mind-body connections

Brain (2025) offers a practical, science-backed roadmap for optimizing mental performance and emotional well-being. It blends neuroscience, psychology, and real-world tools to help you understand how your brain works – and how to improve memory, focus, mood, and resilience at any stage of life.

• Productivity enthusiasts seeking scientifically grounded ways to improve focus
• Students and lifelong learners curious about the brain
• Biohackers and self-optimizers interested in increasing cognitive performance

Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine (2025) methodically deconstructs the harmful ideas that obesity is a personal failing and that weight loss is a matter of willpower. It offers an up-to-date precis of how science understands weight loss, touching on neuroscience and nutrition, and a thorough analysis of how the latest GLP-1 weight loss drugs can be folded into a holistic weight management approach.

• Obese and overweight people who want to understand their body's biology
• Health-care professionals who want a scientific grounding in how weight loss works
• Anyone considering GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic or Mounjaro for weight management

Heavily Meditated (2025) offers a practical guide to rewiring the mind and body using a blend of ancient spiritual practices and modern science. It introduces a toolkit of techniques – including meditation, sleep optimization, and ego training – to boost mental clarity, emotional resilience, and physical energy. The goal is to help you reclaim your focus, clear out hidden stress, and unlock your full potential.

• Anyone seeking practical tools for mental and emotional clarity
• Biohackers looking to upgrade focus, sleep, and performance
• Stressed achievers wanting lasting energy and inner peace

The Book of Awakening (2000) offers daily reflections designed to inspire mindfulness, emotional clarity, and spiritual growth. Blending personal stories with poetic insights and simple meditative practices, it invites readers to meet life’s challenges with presence and compassion. Each entry encourages a deeper, more grounded connection to both self and world.

• Spiritually curious seekers craving daily reflection
• Emotionally overwhelmed readers needing gentle guidance
• Open-minded people exploring personal growth and meaning

The Brain at Rest (2025) challenges the conventional wisdom that constant productivity is the key to success, revealing how letting your mind wander can actually make you more creative and less stressed. This science-backed guide offers a refreshing antidote to our culture of overwork, showing how rest activates the brain’s default network and can lead to greater contentment and improved mental performance.

• Overworked professionals who want to develop a better work-life balance
• Creatives looking to sharpen their idea-generation skills
• Anyone interested in the neuroscience of cognition, creativity, and rest

The Stronger Sex (2025) dismantles the long-held myth of the “weaker sex” by redefining what it truly means to be strong. It takes you on a journey through the science of female biology, revealing the hidden superpowers in everything from your immune system to your metabolism. Prepare to see the female body not as a collection of limitations, but as a marvel of resilience, durability, and power.

• Athletes and coaches seeking a new performance edge
• Health enthusiasts interested in the science of the female body
• Anyone questioning traditional ideas about physical strength and gender

Strong Minds (2021) shows how top athletes blend mental discipline with physical skill to deliver when it matters most. Through stories of champions like Meb Keflezighi, Megan Rapinoe, and Michael Phelps, it uncovers the psychological tools that keep high-performers focused, resilient, and adaptable under pressure. But this isn’t a treatise on elite sports: the same techniques, it shows, can help anyone tackle big work goals, meet tough deadlines, or push through personal challenges with more confidence and control.

• Athletes seeking a mental performance edge
• Professionals facing high-pressure goals
• Anyone aiming to build resilience

This Isn’t Working (2025) uncovers how patriarchal workplace structures create impossible double standards for women leaders, causing chronic stress and burnout that no amount of individual resilience can overcome. It offers a playbook for recognizing these systemic patterns, developing protective strategies, building collective power, and ultimately reshaping organizations to value human sustainability alongside business success. 

• Reformed “lean-iners” who followed all the advice but hit invisible walls anyway
• Exhausted optimists who still believe in change but need sustainable ways to create it
• Anyone who genuinely wants to understand and address workplace inequality

A High-Performing Mind (2024) is a practical and energising guide that shows how to train your mind to be more focused, resilient, and effective under pressure. It explores how to build mental habits that support confidence, clarity, and long-term success in everyday life. It offers a toolkit for anyone who wants to overcome setbacks, perform at their best, and feel more in control of their thoughts, emotions, and outcomes.

• Anyone feeling stuck in a personal or professional rut
• People who want to sharpen focus and boost performance
• High achievers looking to level up their mindset

Stronger (2025) challenges outdated biases against muscle and strength training by highlighting the crucial role of muscles in our health and wellbeing. Through fascinating stories from history to modern research, it reveals how everyone – regardless of age, gender and ability – can benefit from strength training. 

• Fitness beginners who want to understand the health benefits of strength training
• History and science readers who enjoy historical stories blended with modern research and practical application
• Anyone seeking evidence-based approaches to maintaining independence in old age

How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend (2025) is a self-help guide from a neuroscience perspective. From exercise to online habits, learn how to work with your brain rather than against it.

• Anyone curious about neuroscience
• Those who are interested in the topics of self and identity
• Anyone who wants to improve their overall health and well-being

Nobody Wants Your Sh*t (2023) delivers a profanity-laced wake-up call about clearing out possessions while you still can. It blends irreverent humor alongside actionable decluttering advice, aiming to help you simplify your daily existence and spare loved ones from the burden of your possessions.

• Overwhelmed homeowners facing decades of accumulation
• Those who’ve tried decluttering but keep reaccumulating
• Anyone seeking mental clarity beyond just tidy spaces

Joyspan (2025) reframes aging as an era of growth, offering a practical, science-based path to sustaining inner well-being beyond lifespan and healthspan. It shows you how to leverage strengths that often sharpen with age – like judgment, empathy, patience, problem-solving, resilience, and a deeper spiritual life – so you stay visible to yourself and live fully to the end.

• Adults in midlife and beyond seeking more meaning and joy
• Caregivers and family members supporting aging loved ones
• Health and wellness professionals working with older adults

Smarter (2024) offers a revolutionary approach to achieving more through strategic productivity, challenging the toxic “busyness” culture that leaves so many ambitious women feeling burnt out. This empowering guide provides clear practical steps to help you reframe your mindset, establish healthy boundaries, and leverage your natural strengths for lasting success on your own terms.

• Ambitious women who feel burnt out from "hustle culture" 
• Entrepreneurs and business leaders looking to optimize their productivity 
• Working mothers juggling career demands with family responsibilities 

Dealing with Feeling (2025) examines the emotional literacy gap, or the inability to recognize and regulate emotions, along with the steep costs this dysregulation creates across all areas of life. It offers a practical system for building the emotional skills that schools and families failed to teach.

• Those struggling with emotional management who recognize patterns of suppression or explosion in their own lives
• People navigating difficult relationships at work, at home, or in their personal lives
• Anyone who feels their emotions control them rather than inform them

Small Moves, Big Life (2025) shows how life gets better when you stop chasing huge changes and start taking tiny actions that actually fit your day. It gives you simple energy-enhancing habits that help you build a life that feels joyful and manageable, even when everything else is loud and busy.

• People who want to feel better without a total life makeover
• Anyone stretched thin by work, family, and everything else
• Self improvement fans who love practical, doable steps

52 Weeks of Wellbeing (2024) explores how to build a healthier, more fulfilling work life through 52 small, practical changes spread across a year. It focuses on simple, research-backed ideas – like improving boundaries, rest, movement and digital habits – that help people protect their mental health and thrive in modern, high-pressure workplaces.

• Overworked corporate professionals seeking better work-life balance
• Forward-thinking HR and wellbeing leaders improving workplace culture
• Health-conscious people wanting practical weekly wellbeing habits

Why We Drink Too Much (2025) reveals why some people can drink socially while others spiral into dependence. It explores how alcohol hijacks ancient survival circuits in the brain, traces the spectrum from casual consumption through grey area reliance to full dependence, and explains why the answer lies in genetics and life experiences rather than weak willpower. It offers 12 science-backed principles for anyone ready to change their relationship with alcohol, from initial abstinence through to lasting sobriety.

• Anyone questioning their relationship with alcohol
• Family members and supporters of people who drink
• Healthcare professionals and addiction treatment specialists

Weightless (2026) argues that while GLP-1 medications have revolutionized obesity treatment, patients often receive prescriptions without the essential guidance needed to achieve and sustain results. This comprehensive guide, covering everything from selecting the right medication and understanding how it changes hunger signals to adopting crucial lifestyle changes like increased protein intake and strength training, fills that gap. 

• People considering GLP-1 therapy
• People currently on GLP-1 therapy
• Anyone who’s ever struggled with their weight

The Balancing Act (2026) blends psychological insight with practical guidance to help readers understand and cultivate healthy dependency and connection without losing their sense of self. It explores how to navigate relationship dynamics –⁠ specifically codependency and counter-dependency –⁠ in order to build more authentic, balanced connections and foster both closeness and independence.

• Anyone struggling with codependency or setting boundaries in relationships
• People who never ask others for help and think this makes them strong
• Individuals working on attachment or self-worth issues

The Invincible Brain (2026) reveals how your daily habits play a vital role in shaping your memory, focus, and long-term brain health – right down to the level of your cells. It explains what you can start doing today to help your brain grow stronger, sharper, and more resilient, no matter how old you are.

• People who worry about memory loss or Alzheimer’s disease
• Anyone interested in staying mentally sharp and protecting their brain as they age
• Individuals dealing with brain fog, stress, or attention challenges

The Anatomy of Awakening (2026) explains how people can move from stress-based, habitual reactions into a steadier, more authentic state of awareness by reconnecting with the body’s deeper energetic and nervous-system patterns. It presents five core principles, along with practical exercises, aimed at healing, expanding consciousness, and helping you live with more clarity, peace, and purpose.

• Stressed professionals seeking calm and embodiment
• Spiritually curious seekers exploring healing and consciousness
• Growth-minded people wanting deeper self-awareness

How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay (2026) hands you practical, lived-in strategies for handling mental health struggles, creative block, and overwhelming anxiety. You’ll find ways to reframe your darkest moments into sources of strength, along with tools for setting unapologetic boundaries that protect your peace. These insights help you survive and thrive on the days your brain tries to sabotage you.

• Anyone working through anxiety and depressive episodes
• Creatives stuck in artistic paralysis and crippling self-doubt
• Introverts looking for practical tools to set social boundaries

In a Good Place (2026) explores how the spaces around us quietly shape the people we become. Drawing on psychology, design, and everyday life, it reveals how homes, offices, streets, and public spaces can either nourish or frustrate our need for agency, connection, and a sense of belonging.

• People interested in psychology and everyday environments
• Readers seeking calmer, more meaningful living spaces
• Designers, managers, and parents shaping shared spaces

This Is the Door (2025) is an exploration of physical pain and what it reveals about the human condition. Drawing on personal experience, neuroscience, philosophy, and spiritual tradition, it examines how suffering reshapes identity, empathy, and the way we move through the world. It argues that pain – however unwanted – can open us to a deeper understanding of our own bodies, our connections to others, and the fragility and wonder of being alive.

• Individuals navigating chronic pain, illness, or physical limitation
• Those drawn to the intersection of science, spirituality, and the body
• Anyone who has felt suffering change them, and wants to understand how pain can reshape identity

What’s Going Right (2026) offers a refreshing approach to mental health by shifting the focus away from endless self-criticism and toward the powerful drives that are already working within you. With insights on self-awareness, motivation, and emotional balance, it explores how people can reconnect with purpose, resilience, creativity, and genuine joy in everyday life.

• People feeling emotionally stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out
• Anyone interested in psychology and self-awareness
• Coaches and caregivers who support others going through difficult times

Off the Scales (2026) explores the decades-long global race to create a long-lasting version of the GLP-1 drug semaglutide to help fight the growing diabetes and obesity epidemics. Presenting all sides of the story, from the fraught scientific competition to be the first to bring these drugs to market, to the side effects rippling through global societies, it uncovers.

• People who are interested in the medical breakthroughs changing society
• Curious minds seeking the inside story on the science behind the headlines
• Anyone who has struggled with weight, Type 2 diabetes, or is considering treatment with a semaglutide medication

Make Your Brain Work (2013) is a practical guide to understanding the brain's key systems and how they shape focus, habits, and decision-making. Grounded in neuroscience, it shows how working with your brain's natural architecture rather than against it can transform productivity, emotional regulation, and goal achievement. 

• Those who struggle with organization, bad habits, or emotional dysregulation
• Curious minds wanting to know more about how brain function impacts daily life
• Anyone who wants to achieve more with less effort and work with their brain, not against it

You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong (2026) reveals that most of us are unknowingly sabotaging one of our body’s most essential functions – simply because nobody ever taught us how to do it properly. Drawing on cutting-edge research in neuroscience and gut biology, it unpacks the fascinating link between your brain, your microbiome, and your digestive habits. This guide will help you transform something you do every day into a genuine source of health, ease, and yes – joy.

• chronically stressed professionals who’ve noticed their gut seems to have a mind of its own
• IBS sufferers who have struggled for years with digestive discomfort and are looking for science-backed answers
• wellness enthusiasts who want to tap into the microbiome as a lever for better overall health