Top Health Books: A Few Favourites and Recent Reads

Unconventional Medicine is both a call to action and a roadmap to a more 'common sense' approach to healthcare.  A great overview of where our current health care system is at (hint: not good) and where we can hopefully improve. 

Unplugged speaks to those who have become a bit too reliant on their wearable technology.  The overriding message is to let technology work for you opposed to being a slave to your technology.

If we exercise for an hour per day but sit the rest, we are still only moving 4% of our day!  Move your DNA highlights the need for more movement during our day.

At 100 pages, Barefoot Strong is a short read but one of the best books we've seen about holistic care for your feet.  Great to see a book touching on things like nutrition and hip strength/mobility as factors in our long term foot health.

We've read a lot of books on nutrition and we find Wired to Eat to one of our most recommended.  Easy to read a great overview on how our food affects our physiology and practical takeaways on how to improve our nutrition.

Brain Maker is another book about the importance of our gut microbiome (it's so important!).  Dr. Perlmutter is a world renowned neurologist who lists the ever increasing links between conditions like alzheimer's, dementia, ADHD, autism and a host of other health issues with our gut health.  

Tripping Over the Truth: The Return of the Metabolic Theory of Cancer is very interesting look at where we've come with cancer research over the last century.  The first 3/4 of the book is mostly history (which is super interesting) with the last 1/4 of the book being more practical information to use when faced with this disease.  

Definitely not just for runners, Ready to Run is great guide of how to take better care of our musculoskeletal system.  A very in depth guide on how to use the different mobility tools available on the market today (Tune Up balls, sticks, floss bands, rollers etc).  

Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival was definitely a bit ahead of it's time as it was written in 2000 and some of it's key points are just now becoming more mainstream.  The author definitely doesn't hold back on her views (backed by some strong research) as to why why we're facing such a health crisis.