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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly.There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species,...
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Clean Mind, Clean Body: A 28-Day Plan for Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Self-Care

Tara Stiles - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

A life-changing 28-day detox for body and mind from wellness expert and Strala Yoga founder Tara Stiles.Most of us are constantly plugged in and stressed out - tethered to our phones and e-mail, overworked and inactive at our desk jobs, and out of touch with what our bodies and our brains...
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker PhD - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert - Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab - reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.Sleep is one of the most...
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How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Michael Greger - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller"This book may help those who are susceptible to illnesses that can be prevented." -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama"Absolutely the best book I've read on nutrition and diet" -Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones SolutionFrom the physician...
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The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage

Kelly McGonigal
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Willpower Instinct introduces a surprising science-based book that doesn't tell us why we should exercise but instead shows us how to fall in love with movement.Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet many of us feel it's a chore....
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Science of Yoga: Understand the Anatomy and Physiology to Perfect Your Practice

Ann Swanson - DK
Format: Paperback

Explore the physiology of 30 key yoga poses, in-depth and from every angle, and master each asana with confidence and control.Did you know that yoga practice can help lower your blood pressure, decrease inflammation and prevent age-related brain changes?Recent scientific research now backs...
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The Well-Gardened Mind: The Healing Power of Plants, Earth, and the Outdoors

Sue Stuart-Smith - SCRIBNER BOOKS CO
Format: Hardcover

The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the "real" life that lies outside. But when we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life in nature through which destruction and decay are followed by regrowth and renewal. Gardening...
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How to Be Well: The 6 Keys to a Happy and Healthy Life

Frank Lipman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In How to Be Well, best-selling author and leading health expert Dr. Frank Lipman shares his formula for lifelong vitality - the Good Medicine Mandala. Illustrated by a circular system of six rings, the Good Medicine Mandala contains more than 100 simple steps to what really works to improve...
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Food What the Heck Should I Eat?

Mark Hyman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman sorts through the conflicting research on food to give us the skinny on what to eat. Did you know that oatmeal actually isn't a healthy way to start the day? That milk doesn't build bones, and eggs aren't the devil? In Food:...
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The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age

Dr. Steven R Gundry M.D. - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox comes a groundbreaking plan for living a long, healthy, happy life.From the moment we are born, our cells begin to age. But aging does not have to mean decline. World-renowned surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry has been treating...
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Mayo Clinic Family Health Book

Scott C. Litin - Mayo Clinic
Format: Hardcover

The comprehensive 5th edition of the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book draws upon the knowledge and expertise of more than 4,500 physicians, scientists and researchers. Prior editions of this trusted medical reference guide have sold more than 1.5 million copies. And with 38 chapters and almost...
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Just Move!: A New Approach to Fitness After 50

JAMES P OWEN - National Geographic
Format: Paperback

This step-by-step guide, written by a best-selling author and former Wall Street titan, provides all the information - and inspiration - you need to feel better, reduce aches and pains, and push back against aging with a personalized fitness program that's right for you. Whatever your...
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Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness

QING LI - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The definitive guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happinessNotice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent. As a society we suffer from nature deficit...
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What to Eat When: A Strategic Plan to Improve Your Health and Life Through Food

Michael Roizen - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

NY Times best-selling author Dr. Michael Roizen reveals how the food choices you make each day--and when you make them--can affect your health, your energy, your sex life, your waistline, your attitude, and the way you age.What if eating two cups of blueberries a day could prevent...
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The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss

Jason Fung - Greystone Books
Format: Paperback

Fung zeroes in on why insulin resistance has become so prevalent and offers specific outside-the-box solutions that have emerged as the key to maximizing health." - Jimmy Moore, author, Keto Clarity and Cholesterol ClarityEverything you believe about how to lose weight...
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Nature's Best Remedies: Your Guide to Medicinal Herbs, Foods, and Essential Oils for Health and Well-Being

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

A guide to the world's most therapeutic foods, herbs, spices, and essential oils will allow the healing power of nature to energize your body and enrich your life, providing a surefire path to good health and well-being.This authoritative guide to the foods, herbs, spices, essential oils,...
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Running Is My Therapy: How Running Can Help You Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Fight Depression, Ditch Bad Habits, and Live Happier

SCOTT DOUGLAS - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

From a New York Times-bestselling author and lifelong runner, a groundbreaking guide to fighting depression and anxiety one run at a timeWhether you're a runner struggling with depression or anxiety or someone who is depressed and anxious looking for a scientifically supported way to improve...
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The Healing Self: A Revolutionary Plan for Wholeness in Mind, Body, and Spirit

Deepak Chopra - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity.In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, super bugs, and the aging process The...
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The Dubrow Diet: Interval Eating to Lose Weight and Feel Ageless

Heather Dubrow - Ghost Mountain Books
Format: Hardcover

When you've tried practically every diet and have struggled for years to reach and maintain a healthy weight, what do you do next? If you're Heather and Terry Dubrow, MD, you create your own diet based on cutting-edge and Nobel-prize winning science that promises not just unprecedented...
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Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy

Bret Contreras - Human Kinetics Publishers
Format: Print book

Increase strength, build mass, burn fat, and define your muscles. With full-color anatomical illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and training advice, Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy is the authoritative resource for sculpting your physique without free weights, machines, or expensive...
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The Healing Power of Essential Oils: Soothe Inflammation, Boost Mood, Prevent Autoimmunity, and Feel Great in Every Way

Eric Zielinski - Harmony
Format: Paperback

Eric Zielinski, D.C., host of the Essential Oils Revolution summits, offers a soup-to-nuts guide to mastering essential oils for vibrant health and well-being, featuring dozens of recipes and formulations for restful sleep, reduced inflammation, balanced hormones, and more.Achieving true...
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Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave

Alice Gregory - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover

Sleep is vital to the way we learn, remember and forget, to how we feel about family and partners, our wellbeing, and our mental and physical health. It is essential for life itself. In Nodding Off, renowned sleep researcher Alice Gregory explores every aspect of sleep, from the different...
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10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story

Dan Harris - It Books
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 Living Now Book Award for Inspirational MemoirNightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable.After having...
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The Keto Diet: The Complete Guide to a High-Fat Diet, with More Than 125 Delectable Recipes and 5 Meal Plans to Shed Weight, Heal Your Body, and Regain Confidence

Leanne Vogel - Victory Belt Publishing
Format: Paperback

Leanne Vogel, the voice behind the highly acclaimed website Healthful Pursuit, brings an entirely new approach to achieving health, healing, weight loss, and happiness through a keto-adapted lifestyle with The Keto Diet: The Complete Guide to a High-Fat Diet. For too long...
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Dirty Genes: A Breakthrough Program to Treat the Root Cause of Illness and Optimize Your Health

Ben Lynch - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

Instant National BestsellerAfter suffering for years with unexplainable health issues, Dr. Ben Lynch discovered the root cause - "dirty" genes. Genes can be "born dirty" or merely "act dirty" in response to your environment, diet, or lifestyle - causing lifelong,...
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Strengthen Your Back: Exercises to Build a Better Back and Improve Your Posture

DK - DK
Format: Paperback

DK's Strengthen Your Back provides easy-to-follow exercises that improve mobility, flexibility, core stability, and strength to help treat an existing condition or reduce chances of future injury. This handy guide is perfect for anyone who wants to take an active role in his or her health...
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Clean and Lean: 30 Days, 30 Foods, a New You!

Ian K. Smith - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Building on the principles in Ian K. Smith's bestselling The Clean 20, Clean and Lean introduces four new important components to the eating plan:--A full day-by-day 30-day weight loss diet--Intermittent fasting (skip breakfast, lose weight) --A pure, simple, effective exercise...
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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

HECTOR GARCIA - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai - the happiness of always being busy - as revealed by the daily habits of the world's longest-living people "Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years." - Japanese proverb According...
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The Wellness Mama 5-Step Lifestyle Detox: The Essential DIY Guide to a Healthier, Cleaner, All-Natural Life

Katie Wells - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

Katie Wells, author of The Wellness Mama Cookbook and founder of wellnessmama.com, finally shares the secret of how she manages six kids, a company, and a career without sacrificing a healthy lifestyle with this step-by-step, comprehensive guide to clean, natural living.By following...
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Find Your Path: Honor Your Body, Fuel Your Soul, and Get Strong with the Fit52 Life

Carrie Underwood - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I want to be healthy and fit 52 weeks of the year, but that doesn't mean I have to be perfect every day. This philosophy is a year-round common-sense approach to health and fitness that involves doing your best most of the time - and by that I don't mean...
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The Fasting Fix: Eat Smarter, Fast Better, Live Longer

Andreas Michalsen - Penguin Life
Format: Hardcover

In The Fasting Fix, Dr. Andreas Michalsen--one of the world's leading experts on fasting--lays out the clear, indisputable science that fasting, when combined with a healthy diet, is the key to healing chronic illnesses and living longer.Dr. Michalsen draws from his decades of medical...
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Your Body in Balance: The New Science of Food, Hormones, and Health

Neal D Barnard MD - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The shocking new science of how hormones are wreaking havoc on the body, and the delicious solution that improves health, reduces pain, and even helps to shed weight. Hidden in everyday foods are the causes of a surprising range of health problems: infertility, menstrual cramps, weight...
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How to Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered

Mark Bittman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Mark Bittman and physician David Katz cut through all the noise on food, health, and diet to give you the real answers you need What is the "best" diet? Do calories matter? And when it comes to protein, fat, and carbs, which ones are good and which are bad?...
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The Wellness Remodel: A Guide to Rebooting How You Eat, Move, and Feed Your Soul

Christina Anstead - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

The star of HGTV's Flip or Flop Christina Anstead partners with celebrity nutritionist Cara Clark to help women remodel their lives - in mind, body and spirit. Christina Anstead, star of HGTV's Flip or Flop and Christina on the Coast, is known for her boundless energy, positive...
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Brain Wash: Detox Your Mind for Clearer Thinking, Deeper Relationships, and Lasting Happiness

David Perlmutter
Format: Hardcover

Fight back against a modern culture that is rewiring our brains and damaging our health with this practical, doctor-approved plan for healing that includes a ten-day boot camp and forty delicious recipes.Contemporary life provides us with infinite opportunities, along with endless temptations....
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The 4 Season Solution: A Powerful New Plan for Feeling Better, Living Well, and Powering Down Our Always-On Lives

Hartwig, Dallas - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling coauthor of the runaway bestsellers The Whole30 and It Starts With Food presents a paradigm-shifting plan that shows you how to boost energy, improve health, and feel happier by living more in tune with the seasons.With his runaway bestsellers...
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Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care: Answers for Everyday Health Problems

Martha P Millman M.D. - Mayo Clinic Press
Format: Paperback

Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-Care, Seventh Edition, provides reliable, practical, easy-to-understand information on more than 300 common medical conditions and issues relating to your health. No book can replace the advice of your doctor or other health care provider. Instead, our intent...
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