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The books experts recommend most for gut health

The books most recommended for gut health across 69 podcast episodes — ranked by how many experts and episodes vouched for each, every one linked to what was actually said. Sourced opinion, not medical advice.

The list

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Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

recommended in 13 eps · 3 experts
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Dopamine Nation

Anna Lembke

recommended in 13 eps · 2 experts
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Empire of the Summer Moon

S. C. Gwynne

recommended in 10 eps · 1 expert
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The Molecule of More

Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long

recommended in 9 eps · 2 experts
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Lost Connections

Johann Hari

recommended in 5 eps · 1 expert
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The 4-Hour Chef

Tim Ferriss

recommended in 3 eps · 1 expert
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The Great Nerve

Kevin Tracey

recommended in 3 eps · 1 expert
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Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit

recommended in 2 eps · 2 experts
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

recommended in 2 eps · 1 expert
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How Emotions Are Made

Lisa Feldman Barrett

recommended in 2 eps · 1 expert
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Breath

James Nestor

recommended in 2 eps · 2 experts
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The Precipice

Toby Ord

recommended in 2 eps · 2 experts
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Finding Ultra

Rich Roll

recommended in 1 eps · 1 expert
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The Hormone Cure

Sarah Gottfried

recommended in 1 eps · 1 expert
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Sleep Wrecked Kids

Sharon Moore

recommended in 1 eps · 1 expert
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Polyvagal Theory

Stephen Porges

recommended in 1 eps · 1 expert
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Jaws: A Hidden Epidemic

Sandra Kahn and Paul Ehrlich

recommended in 1 eps · 1 expert
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What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color

Arielle Eckstut and Joann Eckstut

recommended in 1 eps · 1 expert
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Rethinking Food Reward (Annual Review of Psychology, 2019)

Ivan de Araujo, Mark Schiller, Dana Small

recommended in 1 eps · 1 expert
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The Integrative Action of the Nervous System

Charles Sherrington

recommended in 1 eps · 1 expert