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How Your Body Works

Sleep, movement, breath — the fundamentals most people ignore.

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Collection index

A shelf with an argument.

Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.

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01

James Nestor

Breath

The perfect breath is this: breathe in for about 5.5 seconds, then exhale for 5.5 seconds.

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02

Tom Rath

Eat Move Sleep

The quality of your life is built by what you repeatedly do with your body each day.

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03

Michael Greger, Gene Stone · 2015

How Not to Die

Prevention becomes powerful when the healthiest meal stops feeling exceptional and starts becoming the default.

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04

Peter Attia

Outlive

The goal is not to live longer. The goal is to live better for longer.

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05

Shawn Stevenson

Sleep Smarter

Sleep is not the absence of work. It is the biological process that makes your best work repeatable.

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06

John J. Ratey

Spark

Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function.

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Timothy Ferriss

The 4-Hour Body

What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it. Efficiency is still effectiveness.

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08

Satchin Panda

The Circadian Code

Your body keeps perfect time when you give it clear, repeatable signals.

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09

Brendon Burchard

The Motivation Manifesto

Motivation is not found. It is declared, defended, and practiced until it becomes identity.

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10

Gabor Mate, Daniel Mate · 2022

The Myth of Normal

Healing is not the pursuit of a perfected self, but the recovery of the real one in conditions where truth can be safe.

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Matthew Walker · 2017

Why We Sleep

Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day.

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