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Health & Nutrition book summaries

The best health, nutrition, and longevity book summaries — what the science actually says, in a few minutes.

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life cover

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Héctor García and Francesc Miralles

4-min read

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 read

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life cover

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

6-min read

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End cover

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

5-min read

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto cover

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

Michael Pollan

3-min read

Dopamine Nation cover

Dopamine Nation

Anna Lembke

5-min read

The Body: A Guide for Occupants cover

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson

7-min read

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals cover

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

3-min read

How Not to Die cover

How Not to Die

Michael Greger and Gene Stone

4-min read

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art cover

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

4-min read

Glucose Revolution cover

Glucose Revolution

Jessie Inchauspé

5-min read

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal cover

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser

4-min read

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity cover

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Peter Attia and Bill Gifford

3-min read

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen cover

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall

3-min read

The 4-Hour Body cover

The 4-Hour Body

Timothy Ferriss

5-min read

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted cover

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted

T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II

4-min read

Eating Animals cover

Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer

4-min read

The Happiest Baby on the Block cover

The Happiest Baby on the Block

Harvey Karp

2-min read

Deep Nutrition cover

Deep Nutrition

Catherine and Luke Shanahan

3-min read

The Blue Zones cover

The Blue Zones

Dan Buettner

2-min read

Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself cover

Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself

William W. Li

2-min read

The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness cover

The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz

2-min read

Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health cover

Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health

David J. Nutt

5-min read

The Age-Proof Brain cover

The Age-Proof Brain

Marc Milstein

6-min read