Health & Nutrition

Listen to Your Body

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How to speak the language of and live in sync with your body

By The Blinkist Curators

What's it about?

Health & Nutrition Science

Our bodies are complex machines, and scientists still have a lot to discover about how they work. This collection delves into the curious—and researched—ways the body works, how it can heal itself, and the effects of stress on its upkeep. You'll also learn how to boost your body's defenses to live a longer and healthier life.

Listen to Your Body

How to speak the language of and live in sync with your body

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

Mind, Brain and the Body in the Transformation of Trauma

When the Body Says No

When the Body Says No

The Cost of Hidden Stress

The Body

A Guide for Occupants

Clean

Alejandro Junger and Amely Greeven

The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself

Gut

The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ

The Story of the Human Body

The Story of the Human Body

Daniel Lieberman

Evolution, Health, and Disease

30 Ways to Reboot Your Body

30 Ways to Reboot Your Body

A Complete User Manual for Getting the Most Out of the Human Body

Super Immunity

The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body’s Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger and Disease Free

My Grandmother's Hands

My Grandmother's Hands

Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Eat to Beat Cancer

Eat to Beat Cancer

Can changes to diet and lifestyle help prevent cancer? In this episode, Dr. Rupy sits down with cancer doctor Ailsa Lumsden to consider the potential link between sugar and cancer, and looks at how reducing inflammation may be impactful in cancer prevention. You’ll also hear about the role of vitamin D, how the Mediterranean diet can help ward off certain cancers, and Dr. Lumsden's own personal medical journey which came to inform her work.

Eat to Beat Disease

Eat to Beat Disease

The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself

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