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Health and medicine

Books on the body and on care, written largely by physicians, surgeons, nurses, dentists, therapists and people who rebuilt their own health. Topics run from nutrition, fitness and chronic pain to specific conditions, aging, and how to get good care from the medical system.

Because so many authors are clinicians, this shelf has unusually direct writing about what happens in an exam room and why. It is still general information, not medical advice for you.

This shelf holds 225 books. Publication years run from 2015 to 2026. 20 of them have an audiobook edition. The most-rated on Amazon are Weight Lifting is a Waste of Time, Chasing Cupcakes, I Forgot to Die. The list below is sorted by how many ratings each book has on Amazon, so the most-read titles come first.

Books on this shelf

Cover of Weight Lifting is a Waste of Time by Henry Alkire

Weight Lifting is a Waste of Time

Henry Alkire · 2020

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Do you want to lose fat, gain muscle and build the body of your dreams without having to step foot in a gym or on a treadmill? This book has the answer you've been searching for. No matter your age, sex, or conditioning status…

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Cover of Chasing Cupcakes by Elizabeth Benton

Chasing Cupcakes

Elizabeth Benton

I'm missing out on my life. What's wrong with me? If that's ever crossed your mind, and if you know there's more to life than what you've been living, this book is for you. It sucks to acknowledge that you are what's keeping you from the life you want. You…

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I Forgot to Die

Khalil Rafati · 2015

"The first bullet punched a hole in the door. The shot was deafening and a beam of light poured into the bathroom. Then they fired again." Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie stars and legendary…

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Keto Answers

Anthony Gustin · 2019

Do you want to lose fat and improve your health? You’ve probably seen all of the success stories about the ketogenic diet. You’ve done your research, but nothing makes sense. There’s so much confusion! Do you count total or net carbs? Should you eat a lot of…

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Honed

Finding Your Edge as a Man Over 40

Michael Simpson · 2021

In 2013, Mike Simpson was still running missions in Afghanistan with U.S. Special Forces. He was forty-eight years old. How did he keep up? By combining three decades of Special Forces training, the ancient wisdom of martial arts, and his own specialized…

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Unconventional Medicine

Chris Kresser

The world is facing the greatest healthcare crisis it has ever seen. Chronic disease is shortening our lifespan, destroying our quality of life, bankrupting governments, and threatening the health of future generations. Sadly, conventional medicine, with its…

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You Are Not Broken

Stop "Should-ing" All Over Your Sex Life

Kelly Casperson · 2022

Is your sex life amazing??? Probably not, if you’re like most women. In fact, “amazing” isn’t even close to how you’ve ever experienced sex, but it isn’t your fault. You can thank Hollywood’s portrayals and society’s silence for your crappy sex life. Rarely…

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The Evolution of Medicine

James Maskell

For all too many dedicated physicians, stuck in a cycle of seven-minute patient visits and production line healing, medicine has become a frustrating vocation. Furthermore, the current epidemic of chronic illness demands a new care standard that can break…

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Lift Like a Girl

Nia Shanks

You sweat, burn, and fast until you’re exhausted...only to fall into a tailspin of stress, overindulgence, and blame. If you’re like most women, you’ve been through this vicious cycle more times than you can count. But what if fitness wasn’t about fixing…

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The Betty Body

Stephanie Estima

Women are not little men, but that’s how we treat our bodies. In The Betty Body, Dr. Stephanie Estima provides a step-by-step guide to caring for your feminine body, teaching you: How to go from treating your period as an archenemy to celebrating its arrival…

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You Deserve It

Brian Reese · 2023 · Audiobook

YOU SERVED. YOU DESERVE.Brian Reese was good at masking his PTSD, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety. He even told himself he did not “deserve” benefits, which he later discovered was complete bullshit. As an Air Force officer deployed to Afghanistan…

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Moving Beyond Trauma

The Roadmap to Healing from Your Past and Living with Ease and Vitality

Ilene Smith · 2020

Have you noticed that no matter how much time you spend in talk therapy, you still feel anxious and triggered? That is because talk therapy can keep you stuck in a pattern of reliving your stories, rather than moving beyond them. But, most of all, it’s…

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Retiring?

Ted Kaufman

Planning for retirement isn’t just about money. Retirement has changed dramatically since our parents’ generation. People are living far longer, with far better health than ever before, both mentally and physically. Instead of slowing down, people are…

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Cover of The Search for the Perfect Protein by Dr. David Minkoff

The Search for the Perfect Protein

Dr. David Minkoff

Proteins are the basic building blocks of the human body. But most people are malnourished in amino acids, which are required to form protein, a deficiency that can lead to diabetes, obesity, cancer, and chronic diseases. It's a serious problem for which Dr.…

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The Underwear in My Shoe

My Journey Through IVF, Unfiltered

Brett Russo · 2020

After another call from the fertility clinic reporting negative test results, Brett Russo started to panic. Unrecognizable to herself after countless rounds of unsuccessful IVF, she felt like a failure to herself, a disappointment to her husband, and the only…

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Better Off Bald

Andrea Wilson Woods · 2019

Raw and honest story of great courage and unconditional loveAdrienne Wilson is a depressed, suicidal teenager, until the day she receives a diagnosis of stage IV liver cancer. Facing the fight of her life, Adrienne discovers just how much she wants to live.…

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Cover of The Survival Paradox by Isaac Eliaz

The Survival Paradox

Isaac Eliaz · 2021

Cancer. Organ failure. Accelerated aging. Can a single “survival molecule” fuel our most deadly and devastating health concerns? The truth is, the very biochemical mechanisms the body uses to survive are actually making us sick. This is the survival paradox.…

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Limp Forward

A Memoir of Disability, Perseverance, and Success

Libo Cao Meyers · 2023 · Audiobook

From being a little girl in a village in China with polio to a tech executive at Apple, Libo Cao Meyers (曹力波) has had quite a journey in life, a journey steeped in rich family legacy and powered by determination, growth, and love. Over the years and the…

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9 Months Is Not Enough

Alexandria DeVito · 2023 · Audiobook

The Essential Pre-Pregnancy GuideNavigating the fertility gap facing couples today can be challenging, but hope and solutions await. 9 Months Is Not Enough unveils a new perspective on preparing for pregnancy, emphasizing pre-pregnancy wellness as the…

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Driven

Douglas Brackmann

Some people are born with a drive often seen in entrepreneurs, pro-athletes, inventors, adventurers, and Navy SEALs. It's in their DNA - research has shown that certain genes can manifest resilient and highly focused people who can also be impulsive and…

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Cover of Get Sexy, Girlfriend! by Candi Frazier

Get Sexy, Girlfriend!

Candi Frazier · 2026

Nature built you, and she wants you back. Our ancestors were strong, radiant, primal. They lived in harmony with nature, and their bodies worked. So why are we, centuries later, at odds with both nature and our own bodies? The explanation is simple: we’ve…

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Speal

Chris Spealler

The typical male CrossFit competitor is 5’9" and 190 pounds. Chris Spealler is 5’5" and 140 pounds. Such daunting facts would make most declare defeat before trying. Chris didn’t buy the odds, though. Instead, he forged his own modern-day David-and-Goliath…

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Beyond Coffee

A Sustainable Guide to Nootropics, Adaptogens, and Mushrooms

James Beshara · 2019

When it comes to productivity, there aren’t many things we do today that we did 200 years ago. We send emails instead of post, drive cars instead of horse-drawn carriages, and look up stuff on our phones instead of traveling a hundred miles to the nearest…

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Trauma and Ecstasy

How Psychedelics Made My Life Worth Living

Alex Abraham · 2024 · Audiobook

Forget everything you think you know about psychedelics. They’re not punchlines. They’re not party favors for aging hippies. Instead, as Alex Abraham discovered, they are an innovative approach that can help heal trauma and chronic pain. Trauma and Ecstasy…

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Cover of Your Tastebuds Are A**holes by Unique Hammond

Your Tastebuds Are A**holes

Unique Hammond

She thought she was doing everything right. For years, Unique Hammond navigated the world as a "healthy" person, organic food, natural products, and the outward glow of someone in peak shape. But beneath the surface, a storm was brewing. From an early…

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Cover of The ProFAST Diet by Brian Mowll

The ProFAST Diet

Brian Mowll

If you have type 2 diabetes, you are standing at a crossroads. In one direction looms the slow progression of nerve damage, blindness, dialysis, amputations, and death. In the other waits hope: the true, honest possibility of fixing your blood sugar and…

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The EntreMD Method

Nneka Unachukwu · 2022 · Audiobook

Not everyone can do what it takes to become a doctor, but you did. From graduating medical school to completing your residency, each step has gotten you closer to living the life you’ve envisioned since first completing that med school application. But are…

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A Dose of Hope

A Story of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy

Dan Engle · 2021

MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD is in the final stages of FDA testing. Clinical trials are reporting a 70 percent cure rate for a condition that claims thousands of lives globally every day, hundreds in the US alone. But until it’s fully legalized, MDMA is…

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Cover of When Are We Going to Teach Health? by Duncan Van Dusen

When Are We Going to Teach Health?

Duncan Van Dusen

Fact: Health improves learning. Yet nationwide, elementary school students spend twelve times more classroom hours studying history than health. Worse, most kids don’t get enough physical activity and over 5 million underage youth vape. In When Are We Going…

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Trust Surrender Receive

Anne Other · 2017

Despite modern pharmaceutical medications and many different psychological therapies, military veterans and survivors of mental and physical trauma from civil society continue to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Trust Surrender Receive: How…

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Cover of The Plantar Fasciitis Plan by Colin Dombroski

The Plantar Fasciitis Plan

Colin Dombroski

The burning. The sore heel. The pain of those first morning steps. When you suffer from plantar fasciitis, even the simplest tasks can seem unbearable, and the treatment can often feel as frustrating as the ailment itself. However, treating plantar fasciitis…

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Cover of The Community Cure by James Maskell

The Community Cure

Transforming Health Outcomes Together

James Maskell · 2020

Imagine if there was a single, elegant solution to the biggest challenges facing healthcare: chronic disease, escalating costs, physician shortages, care access and affordability, physician burnout, loneliness, and mental health. In his second book, James…

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Cover of Balance is Power by Jim Klopman

Balance is Power

Jim Klopman

Fitness books love fad diets, creative exercise regiments, and, most of all, catchy headlines and marketing. But real success in fitness, sports, work, and life all begin with understanding and optimizing the human balance system. Proper balance is the key to…

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The Food Allergy Fix

Sakina Bajowala · 2018

Eating should be fun, not cause for fear. But for children with food allergies, the condition transforms even simple pleasures like parties and picnics into dangerous minefields. Instead of resigning themselves to a lifetime of avoidance and exclusion, food…

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The 7 A.M. Workout Edge

Anthony Arvanitakis · 2023

Think of the time you spend scrolling through social media or binge-watching Netflix. What if you could reinvest all these minutes and reinvent yourself through simple changes that positively impact the rest of your day, and the rest of your life? From…

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Ghost

Iona Holloway · 2021

I am going to show you why your pain is invisible to everyone else, and why, in the struggle to be seen, your body became your battlefield. From the outside, your life looks polished. You’re talented, successful, strong. Your perfection safeguards you against…

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Basta!

Darius Maggi · 2016

Many people want to help make the world a better place, but don't know where to start. Often times, all it takes is an inspirational example. The grandson of an Italian immigrant and blue-collar father, Dr. Darius Maggi was inspired by his familial mentors…

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Thank You Cancer

Logan Sneed · 2019

What if the worst thing that’s ever happened to you was actually the greatest blessing you’ve ever received? When Logan Sneed was diagnosed with stage-4 brain cancer, he used a diagnosis that’s usually a death sentence as a springboard for the life of his…

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When Brains Collide

Michael Lewis · 2016

There is nearly a 20% chance that you or someone close to you will suffer a concussion this year. Whether they are in a car accident, fall off their bike, or suffer a helmet-to-helmet hit at football practice, over 30% of such concussions will lead to…

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Inside-Out Health

Rob Silverman · 2016

A revolutionary new approach to healing and health. Conventional medicine treats symptoms, not systems. Chances are you’re being treated for your health issues from the outside in, in ways that only mask the real problems. Dr. Rob Silverman thinks…

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Healing Hacks

Bring Your Body Back to Nature

Ian Hart · 2020

Ian Hart was on top of the world. He was in peak condition mentally and physically, and his career as a fitness professional was thriving. Then, without warning, the bottom fell out. Ian’s health began to spiral out of control. No healthcare professional…

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Free for Life

A Navy SEAL's Path to Inner Freedom and Outer Peace

Christopher Lee Maher · 2019

Unresolved physical, spiritual, mental and emotional stress, tension, and structural distortion rob people of their ability to do what they truly love. The majority of the available tools designed to help you manage your complex stressors are a distraction…

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Broken, Bankrupt, and Dying

How to Solve the Great American Healthcare Rip-off

Brad Spellberg · 2020

As Americans, we spend trillions of dollars more on healthcare than anyone else in the world, yet we have shorter lifespans. Patients are crushed by medical debt, sometimes forced to choose between paying for medications, rent, or food. Healthcare workers are…

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The Anatomy of Wellbeing

Monisha Bhanote · 2022

Cell care is self-care. No one knows your body better than you. If you want to improve your health, it's time to turn off autopilot and listen to your body. Every day, you have the opportunity to maintain the health of your body’s cells or compromise their…

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Tafolla Toro

Lorenzo Gomez

The great lie of our society is that mental health and mental illness are the same. Lorenzo Gomez wants to dispel that notion for good. In his new book, Tafolla Toro, he reaches back in time to share stories of his turbulent, traumatic, and often violent…

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The Third Eye Diet

Intuition Nutrition for Spiritual Activation

Alyssa Malehorn · 2021

When you’re on a path of spiritual and intuitive awakening, you will at some point run into blockages that hijack your progress. These can be programs, habits, conditioning, or patterns you’ve picked up that sabotage your efforts to meditate, become more…

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Esophagus Attack!

Doug Lake · 2021

It's normal for a big Thanksgiving dinner to come with a side of physical discomfort, but when Dr. Doug Lake experienced ripping chest pain after only one bite of turkey, he knew something was wrong. Thankfully, it wasn't a heart attack, but it was his first…

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The 77 Laws of Six Pack Abs

Peter Tzemis · 2021

Call me superficial, but the world has a unique response to a guy who walks around with a shredded six-pack. They know that you’re someone special. Someone different. No matter how many times you’ve failed in the past or how “bad” your genetics are, carving a…

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Unstoppable

4 Steps to Transform Your Life

David Hauser · 2019

Contrary to popular belief, pain, exhaustion, and weight gain aren’t inevitable human conditions that we must endure as we age. No matter how old you are, or how powerless and overwhelmed you may feel about your health, one thing is certain: you can live an…

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Fertile Ground

Spenser Brassard · 2024

Why can’t I get pregnant? On the quest to become a mother, you’re willing to do anything and everything. You spend endless hours at doctors’ offices and online searching for answers, no sacrifice is too great. But there’s a reason this doesn’t work: it’s…

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From Doctor to Patient

Healing Cancer through Mind, Body and Spirit

Diva Nagula · 2019

When you’re first diagnosed with cancer, or you have a loved one who is, you can’t help but feel lost and afraid. Your waking hours are met with confusion, anxiety, and a slew of questions for which you can’t find a suitable answer. You have qualified doctors…

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Stay Hungry

Furious Pete · 2015

Furious Pete is one of the best competitive eaters in the world. He holds multiple Guinness World Records and has eaten just about everything you can imagine. What started as a party trick to entertain his friends turned into a career that has taken Pete…

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Hack Your Fitness

Jay Kim · 2017

Cardio exercises. Weight training. Calorie counting. You’re hitting the gym five days a week and eating healthy, balancing a busy career and family responsibilities, but your workout isn’t working out. Despite the hours spent pedaling, running, and lifting…

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Pinot Rocks

Michael Browne · 2020 · Audiobook

Intense, but elegant. Spirited, yet refined. The complexities that describe Michael Browne’s wines describe his life experiences, too. With a tumultuous childhood and an adolescence filled with feelings of isolation, Michael joined the circus when he was…

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Cancer

The Journey from Diagnosis to Empowerment

Paul Anderson · 2020

Devastating. There’s no other word to describe the feeling when you or someone you love is diagnosed with cancer. On any given day, you might rotate between feelings of disbelief, anger, and grief. You may even feel like you’ve lost control over your own…

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The Body Cooperative

Sam Slattery · 2022

Are you tired of being treated like you’re just another number in the expensive, conveyor-belt healthcare industry while you struggle with less-than-ideal health? Are you frustrated with the endless onslaught of contradictory health information, advice, and…

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Who is Carter?

Matthew Abbott

On July 30, 2010, Matt and Emily were blessed with the birth of a healthy baby boy, Carter Matthew Abbott. Just six days later, Matt and Emily were faced with the decision to either take Carter off of life support or continue down a path with little to no…

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Called to Care

A Medical Provider's Guide for Humanizing Healthcare

Larry Benz · 2026

Experience the golden standard of healthcare today. As a medical professional, you operate in a more disconnected environment than your predecessors. Compliance standards and excessive documentation keep you in front of screens instead of patients. Low…

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BROKEN

Buffy Lloyd-Krejci · 2022

Our elderly loved ones deserve to live out their final days with dignity and respect, not to be left alone to die in a broken system. But even before the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious diseases ran rampant in US nursing homes. Between one and three million…

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Hardwired for Happiness

Ashish Kothari · 2022

We live in a world of abundance and prosperity. Technology has brought us closer and keeps us more connected than ever before. Medical advances protect and heal us. And yet, so many of us trudge through life feeling heavy, empty, stressed, and alone. The…

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