Journalist and Author
Matt Richtel is an American journalist for The New York Times and the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his series on distracted driving. He is the author of A Deadly Wandering and holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the Columbia School of Journalism.
by Matt Richtel
Richtel tells the story of the immune system through the lives of four patients, two with cancer, one with HIV, one with autoimmune disease, to show how a finely tuned defense system keeps us alive. He argues that modern stress, sleep loss, and hygiene extremes have thrown this delicate balance into disarray.
The books Matt Richtel references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Robert Sapolsky
Sapolsky traces every human behaviour, from aggression to empathy, through biology, from the millisecond before an act back to evolutionary pressures millions of years ago.
by Matthew Walker
Walker presents evidence that sleep deprivation damages memory, immunity, and lifespan. Eight hours is not optional, it is the single most effective thing you can do for health.
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Mukherjee traces the entire history of cancer from ancient Egypt to modern immunotherapy. Part biography of the disease, part chronicle of the researchers who fought to understand it.
by Randolph M. Nesse
Nesse applies Darwinian thinking to medicine, arguing symptoms like fever and anxiety are evolved defenses, not malfunctions. Evolution explains why we're vulnerable to disease.
Who Matt draws from, and who draws from Matt — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.