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Live Longer, Healthier

Sleep, food, breath, and movement — the evidence on what actually adds good years.

6 books · ~20 min of reading in total

Forget the supplement aisle. The biggest levers on how long and how well you live are boring, free, and backed by real science.

  1. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

    Matthew Walker · 2-min summary

    Start with sleep, because it underwrites everything else. Walker's case for eight hours is alarming and hard to argue with.

  2. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity cover

    Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

    Peter Attia and Bill Gifford · 3-min summary

    Attia's framework for healthspan, not just lifespan — training, metabolism, and the diseases worth preventing decades early.

  3. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art cover

    Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

    James Nestor · 4-min summary

    Nestor on the most basic thing you do wrong all day. How you breathe quietly shapes health, stress, and sleep.

  4. Glucose Revolution cover

    Glucose Revolution

    Jessie Inchauspé · 5-min summary

    Inchauspé makes one lever concrete: flatten your blood-sugar spikes. Small, doable food tweaks with outsized effect.

  5. How Not to Die cover

    How Not to Die

    Michael Greger and Gene Stone · 4-min summary

    Greger's evidence-dense case for a plant-forward diet, disease by disease. Heavy going, but the references are all there.

  6. The Blue Zones cover

    The Blue Zones

    Dan Buettner · 2-min summary

    Zoom out. Buettner's study of the world's longest-lived communities — and how little of it is about the gym.