Below is a list of books that I have read that continue to influence me in how I approach my practice and the world.
Integrative Medicine, Innate-Healing, Mind-Body Medicine
- Love, Medicine and Miracles, Bernie Siegel
- The Power of the Mind to Heal, Joan Borysenko
- Manifesto for a New Medicine, James Gordon
- The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline, Dale Bredesen
- Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity, Ronald Epstein
Neuroplasticity (Reversing Dementia, Cognitive Decline, and Learning Disorders)
- The Brain’s Way of Healing, Norman Doidge
- The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge
- The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline, Dale Bredesen
- Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar–Your Brain’s Silent Killers, David Perlmutter and Kristin Loberg
Whole Food Plant-Based Diet
- The China Study, T. Colin Campbell
- Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Caldwell Esselstyn
- How Not to Die, Gene Stone and Michael Greger
- The Spectrum, Dean Ornish
Supplements, Spices, and Anti-aging Medicine
- Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman
- Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease, Bharat Aggarwal
Nonpharmacologic Approaches:
Cancer and the Epidemiology of Cancer
- Comprehensive Cancer Care, James Gordon
- Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny, Michael Gearin‑Tosh
- Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, Kelly A. Turner
- The China Study, T. Colin Campbell
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Reversing Depression and Anxiety
- Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-stage Journey Out of Depression, James Gordon
Spiritual
- Many Lives, Many Masters, Brian Weiss
- Messages from the Masters, Brian Weiss
- The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav
- Proof of Heaven, Eben Alexander
- Autobiography of a Yogi, Parmahansa Yogananda
- A Search in Secret India, Paul Brunton
- Journey of Souls, Michael Newton
- Children’s Past Lives, Carol Bowman
- The Bright Light of Death, Annabel Chaplin
Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Healing with Whole Foods, Paul Pitchford
Yoga and Ayurveda
- Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing, Vasant Lad
- The Science of Yoga: The Risks and Rewards, William Broad
- Yoga as Medicine, Timothy McCall
- Hatha Yoga, Theos Bernard
- One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life, Eddie Stern
Vaccines
- The Vaccine-Friendly Plan, Jennifer Margulis and Paul Thomas