Understand Your Body: Your 7-Day Journey to Optimize Health

Let's start with a grand tour. This book is a hilarious, fascinating, and totally accessible trip through your own body. You'll learn a million amazing things you never knew about the thing you live in. It's the perfect, wonder-filled introduction.

This book will scare you into sleeping 8 hours a night. It's a life-changing (and life-saving) look at why sleep is the single most important thing you can do for your health, mood, and brain. You'll never pull an all-nighter again.

You do it 25,000 times a day, but you're probably doing it wrong. This wild book explores the science of breathing and how tiny changes can have a massive impact on your physical and mental health. A total game-changer.

Ever wonder why you can't stop eating junk food? It's not your fault. This is an explosive investigation into how the food industry designs products to be maximally addictive. It will change the way you look at a grocery store forever.

Your phone, junk food, social media... we're all addicted to dopamine. This book is a fascinating look at the science of pleasure and pain, and how our modern world has thrown our brains out of balance. It's a crucial guide to finding balance in an age of addiction.

This is a heavy but incredibly important book about how trauma physically reshapes the body and brain. It explains how our past experiences live on in our bodies and offers paths to healing. It's a vital read for understanding the mind-body connection.

The final step is to ask 'why?' This book uses evolutionary biology to explain why we get sick. Why do we have allergies? Why do we get anxiety? It's a fascinating, big-picture look at the body as a product of evolution, full of messy compromises.