Food as Medicine
Below are some engaging books on the foods we eat, and how we can improve our nutrition.
Farmocology
In Farmacology, practicing family physician and renowned nutrition advocate Daphne Miller introduces us to the critical idea that it’s the farm where that food is grown that offers us the real medicine. In each chapter, Farmacology reveals the surprising ways that the ecology of our body and the ecology of our farms are intimately linked. Read More…
The Art of Fermentation
The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt
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Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and Diet Dictocrats
Sally Fallon dispels the myths of the current low-fat fad in this practical, entertaining guide to a can-do diet that is both nutritious and delicious.
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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods. Read More…
Food as Medicine Everyday: Reclaim Your Health with Whole Foods
“Food As Medicine Everyday is a guide to improve our well-being by making healthy lifestyle choices. It provides strategies needed for a balanced approach to eating. It answers questions on the nutrients we need for healthy functioning, what foods have these nutrients, and how to shop for these foods. Read More…
Microbiome
Below are a few recommended books on the Microbiome.
Missing Microbes
Dr. Martin Blaser discusses his hypothesis that the overuse of antibiotics, c-sections, and antiseptics has permanently changed our microbiome and are causing an increase in modern diseases such as obesity, juvenile diabetes, and asthma.
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The Human Superorganism: How the microbiome is revolutionizing the pursuit of a healthy life
The Human Superorganism explains the trillions of microbes that co-habitate within us, and delivers must-have information for how we can harness their power to prevent disease and thrive alongside them.
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Teaming with Microbes
Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms.
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The Hidden Half of Nature
The Hidden Half of Nature reveals why good health―for people and for plants―depends on Earth’s smallest creatures. The authors show why cultivating beneficial microbiomes in the garden holds the key to transforming agriculture and medicine.
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Oxygen: The molecule that made the world
Oxygen explaining modern killer diseases, why we age, and what we can do about it. Nick Lane has written other noteworthy books including:
- Sex, Power and Suicide
- The Vital Question
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Virolution
The extraordinary role of viruses in evolution and how this is revolutionizing biology and medicine.
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The Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection
This groundbreaking book explains the revolutionary new science of psychobiotics and the discovery that your brain health and state of mind are intimately connected to your microbiome.
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Our Ecosystem
Below are a few recommended books. If you have any other must-read suggestions please send them our way for review.
The Unsettling of America: Culture & AgricultureLyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Wendell Berry contests that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline, and discusses that as a nation we are more estranged from the land then we have ever been before. Other noteworthy books include Our Only World and Letters to a Farmer. Read more here…
Dirt: the Erosion of Civilizations
An engaging natural and cultural history of soil from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the idea that we are―and have been―using up Earth’s soil.
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The Soul of Soil: A Soil-Building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers
The Soul of Soil provides essential information about one of the most significant challenges for those attempting to grow organic vegetables: the creation and maintenance of healthy soil.
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Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change is the first book to explore the link between a warmer world and the explosion of what has become an everyday menace in the lives of millions: ticks. Read review or click here to read more.
Unlocking Lyme
Get an overview of common misconceptions about what Lyme disease is (hint: it’s more than just a tick bite and Borrelia infection). Discover the limitations of long-term antibiotic use, plus learn about natural therapies for healing symptoms (including pain, depression, insomnia). Read more.