In a world saturated with health misinformation and wellness trends, this carefully curated collection features books grounded in scientific research and written by medical professionals. From gut health and weight management to strength building and hormone balance, these evidence-based guides offer practical strategies backed by real science. Ready to discover what your body truly needs to thrive?
Science-Based Books for Transforming Your Wellbeing
Gut Health: The South African Guide
9780798185691 | Human & Rousseau | TPB
Vickie De Beer
When your gut is healthy, you thrive. When it’s damaged, everything falls apart.’
What if the secret to more energy, a stronger immune system, improved digestion and effortless weight loss didn’t lie in expensive supplements, but in healing your gut? This book is the complete solution you’ve been looking for – part medical guide, part recipe book – built entirely on scientific research and designed for real life.
This isn’t another fad diet. It’s the definitive guide to transforming your health from the inside out, using practical strategies and real foods that work.
Get ready to learn:
• Why your gut controls everything – from brain function to weight, explained simply.
• Which foods are secretly harming you – and which can heal your gut lining naturally.
• What to cook – a complete 7-day repair meal plan with gut-healing recipes for every meal.
• How to make your own fermented foods – step-by-step recipes for healing, homemade probiotics including yoghurt, kefir, sauerkraut and kimchi.
• How to cook delicious meals that nourish, repair and restore your gut.
This isn’t just another health book. It’s the manual your body wishes it had come with.
A Guide to Weight Loss Injections: How to maximise weight loss, minimise side effects – and keep the weight off
9781035430420 | Headline Home | PBO
Dr David Cavan
An expert doctor’s guide to everything you need to know about weight loss injections – including how to maximise weight loss, minimise side effects and keep the weight off.
Health experts believe that a new class of drugs known as GLP-1s, better known as weight loss injections such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, have a significant role to play in transforming people’s health and reducing obesity rates in the UK and worldwide.
In this book, Dr David Cavan, a renowned authority on all aspects of diabetes and the use of semaglutide (Wegovy, Ozempic) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro), reviews the history, development, safe use of, benefits and risks of the latest generation of this class of important medications. Up to date with a rigorous understanding of both the latest scientific research and informed by years of clinical experience, this book gives the reader all the facts.
A Guide to Weight Loss Injections will help you first to decide whether weight loss injections are right for you, then guide you every step of the way. You will learn not just how to minimise side effects and achieve your weight loss and other health goals while using them, but also how to make the lifestyle changes to ensure the weight loss will be maintained afterwards.
The Diet Whisperer: BEYOND WEIGHT-LOSS JABS: Includes a 12-week, fat-loss plan to lose weight naturally
9781399751780 | Yellow Kite | TPB
Paul Barrington Chell & Monique Hope-Ross
There’s no denying that weight-loss jabs and pills have helped millions of people shed weight, but what happens when you give them up?
After coming off medication, you are often thrown into a medical vacuum with no place to turn. Doctors have neither the time nor expertise to help with the next part of their weight-loss journey. This is exactly where this book comes in – filling the void and guiding you skillfully onward to maintaining or losing the unwanted weight.
Combining decades of clinical experience with cutting-edge science, Dr Paul Barrington Chell and Dr Monique Hope-Ross identify the BIG FIVE root causes of weight gain and causes of other long-term conditions both physical and mental. Poor cellular health results in our body no longer burning fat- this book uncovers why our modern diet – refined carbs and UPFs – is making us fat, and what we can do about it.
Whether you’re using weight-loss medications, thinking about them, or simply looking for a better weight-loss solution, Beyond Weight Loss Jabs offers you a sustainable, natural plan to maintain your weight loss success – without lifelong medication.
The Forever Strong PLAYBOOK: A six-week, science-based plan to sharpen your mind, strengthen your body, and get healthy at any age
9780349445267 | Piatkus | TPB
Gabrielle Lyon
From the trusted voice behind the instant New York Times bestseller Forever Strong™, Dr Gabrielle Lyon’s companion PLAYBOOK delivers actionable protocols to transform body and mind.
Get fit, prevent disease, and future-proof your body with step-by-step strategies to build strength, reduce fatigue, and sharpen your focus at any age.
Packed with ground-breaking science, muscle-building exercises, informative graphics, and easy-to-follow, protein-forward recipes, The Forever Strong™ PLAYBOOK is the ultimate guide for anyone who wants to feel stronger, move better, and stay energised.
Discover exactly how to think, eat, move, and recover for optimal health.
With all new, innovative tactical strategies to further enhance muscle health, this guide provides a comprehensive six-week programme to help you build muscle, optimise your nutrition, sleep better, and build lifelong habits with protocols customisable for everyone from beginners to advanced athletes.
Inside, you’ll find:
– 60+ protein-packed, nutritious, and flavourful recipes covering breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and drinks.
– 100+ illustrated, at-home and gym-friendly exercises to help you build muscle, maintain mobility, and improve your balance, including an interactive guide to keep you on track.
– Mindset strategies to build discipline, manage stress, and stay consistent, including actionable tips to align your daily habits with your long-term goals.
– Science-based advice on how to improve your sleep, enhance your recovery, and support circulation with hot and cold therapies, and much more.
Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain: The Five Pillars of Enhancing Your Gut and Optimizing Your Cognitive Health
9781804193976 | Short Books | TPB
Dr Partha Nandi
Cognitive decline is not your destiny. You can improve your brain function through small steps taken every day.
Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain by gastroenterologist and health advocate Dr. Partha Nandi highlights the latest research on the gut-brain connection, giving you a clear protocol for maintaining brain health, and slowing or reducing the effects of neurodegenerative diseases as you age. This book details:
THE VITAL GUT-BRAIN CONNECTION
Discover the profound link between your gut and brain, and explore how this connection shapes your emotions, cognitive abilities, and overall mental health.
NUTRITION’S ROLE IN GUT AND BRAIN HEALTH
Unlock the secrets of a diet that nurtures your gut microbiome, paving the way for enhanced brain function, reduced inflammation, and a shield against cognitive decline.
A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF LEAKY GUT SYNDROME
Dive deep into the causes and consequences of leaky gut, or increased intestinal permeability, learning how it can trigger systemic inflammation and affect brain health.
A HOLISTIC APPROACH
Embrace Dr. Nandi’s five pillars of health – nutrition, movement, community, spirituality, and purpose – for a comprehensive strategy that nurtures gut health and, in turn, boosts cognitive function and overall vitality.
THE IMPACT OF THE MICROBIOME ON NEURODEGENERATION
Learn about the critical role of your gut’s microbiome in preventing and battling neurodegenerative diseases like stroke, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s.
Healthy Hormones: A practical guide to balancing your hormones
9781761501388 | Murdoch Books | BPB
Belinda Kirkpatrick & Ainsley Johnstone
Discover how to feel your best and balance your hormones, naturally. Healthy Hormones is about making small and realistic changes to help your body function at its optimum level.
Naturopath Belinda Kirkpatrick helps you understand your hormones and provides easy ways to manage symptoms, hormonal conditions and fertility through diet and lifestyle.
Expert nutritional advice and lifestyle tips are combined with answers to the many questions that women have asked Belinda during a decade of clinical practice.
Healthy Hormones features 50 deliciously healthy family recipes, specially created, styled and photographed by recipe developer Ainsley Johnstone. The dishes are tailored around hormone-balancing ingredients and nutrient-dense fertility foods.
Live Forever?: A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death
9781836431084 | Oneworld Publications | BPB
Prof. John S. Tregoning
Time wants you dead. Not just you, but your friends, family, pets – everyone you’ve ever met…
‘A beautifully written book about life and death: busts myths, explores the stories of science and history, and ultimately is rich and uplifting.’ Dr Adam Rutherford
With over 17,000 known diseases affecting humans, and countless poisons, carcinogens and toxins in our environment, it’s a miracle that our bodies manage to keep us alive. And that is, of course, if they don’t betray us themselves, whether through cancers or autoimmune conditions.
Biomedical researcher Professor John Tregoning tells the unlikely story of how, against all odds, we manage to stay alive. Taking an organ-by-organ tour of the human body, Tregoning embarks on his own experimental quest, testing ‘life-extending’ diets and exercise regimes to separate fact from fad. Exploring the multitude of ways our bodies can kill us, from inherited genetic conditions, through heart attacks, arrythmias and angina, onto the delicate workings of the brain, Live Forever? offers compelling insight into how our bodies work, how we can best look after them – and ultimately live longer, healthier lives.
