Physician and Nutrition Advocate
Michael Greger is an American physician and author of How Not to Die, advocating for a whole food, plant based diet grounded in nutritional science. He is the founder of NutritionFacts.org, a nonprofit providing free evidence based information on healthy eating.
by Michael Greger
Greger argues that a whole-food, plant-based diet can prevent and often reverse the 15 leading causes of death, from heart disease to cancer. He marshals thousands of peer-reviewed studies to recommend his 'Daily Dozen' food checklist as a prescription for longevity.
The books Michael Greger references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
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.
by Rachel Carson
Carson's 1962 expose revealed how pesticides were silently poisoning ecosystems and human health. The book launched the modern environmental movement and led to the DDT ban.
Who Michael draws from, and who draws from Michael — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.