Here are books I’ve read that relate in one way or another to health. The hyperlinks lead to my reviews, when I’ve written one, or to Amazon’s page for the book. I invite you to follow my updates and reviews on goodreads.

(Most recent at the top)

The Iodine Crisis, Lynne Farrow

The Root Canal Cover-Up, George Meinig, DDS

The Toxic Tooth: How a root canal could be making you sick, Robert Kulacz, DDS and Thomas Levy, MD

Darwin’s on the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition, Daniel Duzdevich, PhD

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari, PhD

On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

Arthritis Reversed, Mark Wiley, MD, PhD

The Vitamin D Cure, James Dowd, MD, and Diane Stafford

The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, PhD

The Miraculous Results of Vitamin D3, Jeff Bowles

Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs and Sugar–Your Brain’s Silent Killers, David Perlmutter, MD

Iodine: Why You Need It, Why You Can’t Live Without It, David Brownstein, MD

Salt: Your Way to Health, David Brownstein, MD

Niacin: The Real Story, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, Andrew Saul, PhD, and Harold Foster, PhD

Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, Ian Tattersall, PhD

The Persecution and Trial of Gaston Naessens: The True Story of the Efforts to Suppress an Alternative Treatment for Cancer, AIDS, and Other Immunologically Based Diseases, Christopher Bird

Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and Longer Life, Nora Gedgaudas, CNS, CNT

Could it be B12?: An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses, Sally Pacholok, R.N., and Jeffrey Stuart, D.O.

The Curse of Louis Pasteur, Nancy Appleton, PhD

Alaklize or Die, Theodore Baroody

Bechamp or Pasteur: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology, Douglas Hume

A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

The Omnivore’s Dilema: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan

The Magnesium Miracle, Carolyn Dean, MD, ND

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living, Jeff Volek, PhD, RD and Stephen Phinney, MD, PhD

The pH Miracle, Robert O. Young, PhD, ND and Shelley Redford Young

The pH Miracle is a less detailed but also less frightening version of Sick and Tired, with more than a third of the book devoted to recipes, meal plans, motivational material and other resources useful for the practical implementation of Dr Young’s alkalising healing protocol and diet.

Sick and Tired, Robert O. Young, PhD, ND and Shelley Redford Young

The Great Cholesterol Con: : Why everything you’ve been told about cholesterol, diet and heart disease is wrong!, Anthony Colpo

Le Regime Hormone, Thierry Hertoghe, M.D., & Margherita Enrico

Good Calories, Bad Calories, Gary Taubes

The Calcium Lie: : What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know Could Kill You, Robert Thompson, M.D., & Kathleen Barnes

Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat: : The Secret Science Behind Physical Transformation, Ori Hofmekler

Your Body’s Many Cries For Water, Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D.

The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It, Malcom Kendrick, M.D.

Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life, Brandon Brazier

Fat and Cholesterol are Good For You, Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph.D

The Coconut Oil Miracle, Bruce Fife, N.D.

Bruce Fife is a natural doctor who has devoted many years reading about coconut oil. Coconut oil is truly a miraculous substance. And in this book, Fife has gathered everything he could find on coconut oil and presents the information in a very simple way.

The Rosedale Diet, Ron Rosedale, M.D., & Carol Colman

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond, PhD

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Faiths of Human Societies, Jared Diamond, PhD

The Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond, PhD