How do I actually take care of my body?

Attia references Walker's Why We Sleep on sleep as longevity pillar.

Outlive→ cites →Why We Sleep

Kross cites van der Kolk's Body Keeps the Score work on trauma to argue that chronic chatter physically wears down the body through sustained stress-hormone exposure.

Chatter→ cites →The Body Keeps the Score

Longo references Mukherjee's cancer biology to explain how fasting-mimicking diets sensitize malignant cells while protecting healthy ones during chemotherapy

The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight→ cites →The Gene

References van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score on trauma held somatically, applied to her patients' physical symptoms and dissociation

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed→ cites →The Body Keeps the Score

Bryson's chapter on sleep leans on Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep, citing Walker for the evidence that teenage sleep schedules and chronic sleep deprivation damage health.

The Body: A Guide for Occupants→ cites →Why We Sleep

Stixrud and Johnson draw on the autonomy research from Deci and Ryan's self-determination theory, the same body of work Pink synthesized in Drive, to argue that children need to feel in control of their lives to develop healthy motivation

The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives→ cites →Drive

The Extended Phenotype is Dawkins's intellectual sequel to The Selfish Gene. He extends the gene-centric view to argue that genes reach beyond the body to influence the wider environment.

The Extended Phenotype→ cites →The Selfish Gene

Walker cites Kahneman on sleep deprivation impairing cognition.

Why We Sleep→ cites →Thinking, Fast and Slow

Hari draws on Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep to argue that sleep deprivation is a core, under-recognised driver of the collective attention collapse.

Stolen Focus→ cites →Why We Sleep

Pollan cites Walker's Why We Sleep research on REM dreaming when discussing how psychedelics and dream states share mechanisms of loosening the default-mode network's grip on cognition.

How to Change Your Mind→ cites →Why We Sleep

Nestor draws on Walker's sleep research to explain how mouth breathing fragments sleep architecture and drives apnea, reinforcing the book's case for nasal breathing at night

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art→ cites →Why We Sleep

Nestor builds on van der Kolk's trauma-body framework, using it to explain why slow breathing regulates the vagus nerve and calms stored stress responses

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art→ cites →The Body Keeps the Score

Pollan invokes Carson's warning about industrial chemistry reshaping nature to frame how food science has similarly degraded the modern diet

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto→ cites →Silent Spring

Ratey invokes Csikszentmihalyi's flow research to explain how rhythmic exercise produces the focused, absorbed brain states athletes describe as runner's high

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain→ cites →Flow

Ratey builds on Goleman's emotional-intelligence framework to show how exercise strengthens the prefrontal-limbic circuits that regulate mood and impulse

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain→ cites →Emotional Intelligence