Books by Steven Gundry, M.D.
Dr. Gundry’s bestselling books have been translated into over 30 languages and sold over 3 million copies worldwide.
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2018
The Plant Paradox Cookbook
2019
The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy
2019
The Plant Paradox Family Cookbook
2022
Unlocking The Keto Code
2024
Gut Check
2025
The Gut-Brain Paradox
2025
The Gut-Brain Paradox
Improve Your Mood, Clear Brain Fog, and Reverse Disease by Healing Your Microbiome
In his previous bestselling books, Dr. Gundry taught readers how to improve health and well-being by supporting our gut health. In The Gut-Brain Paradox, Dr. Gundry focuses on brain health and reveals how our gut microbiome is driving our thoughts, feelings, behaviors—not to mention, our mental, emotional, and neuronal health. And he shows us how to heal our microbiomes to take back control of our minds. Available April 15, 2025.
2024
Gut Check
Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health
In this groundbreaking addition to his New York Times bestselling Plant Paradox series, Steven R.Gundry, MD offers a definitive guide to the gut biome and its control over its home—us!—revealing the unimaginably complex and intelligent ecosystem controlling our health and teaching us how to heal our guts to prevent and reverse every type of disease.
We may believe that we are the masters of our fates, but in reality, we are at the mercy of hundreds of trillions of single-celled organisms that exert control over every aspect of how our minds and bodies function. These are the diverse species of microbes living in our guts, mouths, and skin that work together synergistically to communicate with each other and with every system in our bodies. You are your microbiome’s home, and it wants to take care of you, but first you have to protect it.
In Gut Check, Dr. Steven Gundry reveals the emerging science proving that Hippocrates was right – all disease begins in the gut. When our microbiomes are out of balance, it affects our immune systems, our hormone levels, our mental health, our longevity, and our risk of developing autoimmunity, heart, and neurodegenerative disease, as well as arthritis, diabetes, and cancer. Yet, not all hope is lost: disease can also be healed in the gut if we choose to treat our microbes right. In Gut Check, Dr. Gundry shows us how.
In his warm, authoritative voice, Dr. Gundry provides us with the keys to unlocking our gut health, allowing our bodies, and its microbiome, to function at their highest potential. Sharing shocking new research as well as a detailed eating plan with food lists and recipes to heal and rebalance the microbiome, Gut Check provides the cutting-edge information and tools we need to repair our health and reclaim our lives.
2022
Unlocking The Keto Code
The Revolutionary New Science of Keto that Offers More Benefits Without Deprivation
Like many doctors and nutrition experts, bestselling author Dr. Steven Gundry has long endorsed the ketogenic diet—a style of eating that heavily restricts carbohydrate intake to make the body burn fat for fuel. Because ketosis offers a variety of health benefits, including weight loss, reduced risk of illness, and enhanced energy, Dr. Gundry believed his patients’ efforts to adhere to the challenging regimen was worthwhile. That is, until his research uncovered a shocking truth: We’ve gotten keto all wrong.
In Unlocking the Keto Code, Dr. Gundry reveals the biological mechanism that makes keto diets so successful: a cellular process known as “mitochondrial uncoupling.” As it turns out, ketones are not the magical fuel source they’ve been made out to be; in fact, the body cannot run on ketones and fats alone. Over the long term, a very low carb-diet can lead to muscle wasting and poor cognitive health.
Luckily, you don’t have to restrict all carbs to reap the benefits of ketosis; you simply have to have enough ketones and other plant compounds called polyphenols present in your body to “unlock” the process of mitochondrial uncoupling. In this insightful, empowering, eminently practical book. Dr. Gundry explains the many ways readers can ignite this process, from feasting on plant-based foods (carbs that are typically off-limits on a keto diet!) to enjoying ketone generating foods such as goat and sheep milk products, to implementing a timed eating schedule. You will even discover the real reason how superfoods, even apple cider vinegar, work their magic; and its not what they you think!
Grounded in cutting-edge science, this is the book for all the people who have tried and failed on a keto diet; for vegetarians and vegans who want to go keto; and for anyone who wants to lose weight and enjoy better health while eating a wide variety of foods. With food lists, hacks, and all-new recipes, Unlocking the Keto Code makes going keto easy and enjoyable for the first time. Available March 8, 2022.
2021
The Energy Paradox
What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone
In his bestselling books, The Plant Paradox and The Longevity Paradox, Dr. Steven R. Gundry offered game-changing perspectives on our wellbeing. In The Energy Paradox, Dr. Gundry expands upon his previous discussions of gut, microbiome, and mitochondrial health, linking immune malfunction to the mental and physical symptoms of fatigue—including exhaustion, brain fog, depression, anxiety, and low metabolism.
As Dr. Gundry explains, feeling tired, moody, and zapped of energy is not normal, no matter your workload or age. Fatigue is an SOS flare from the body, one that is intended to alert us that something is wrong. In his clinical work, Dr. Gundry has found that his patients who complain of feeling sick and tired all the time almost always have something in common: the inflammation markers of a leaky gut.
In The Energy Paradox, Dr. Gundry will offer readers the information and tools necessary to quiet the autoimmune battle raging within—a battle that depletes precious energy reserves, leaving you drained and prone to mood disorders and weight gain. With new guidelines on how to increase mitochondrial energy production and nourish the microbiome; 30 new Plant Paradox-approved recipes; and lists of energy-boosting foods to consume and energy-depleting foods to avoid, The Energy Paradox will help readers take back their lives, giving them the energy they need to feel, look, and be their best.
2019
The Plant Paradox Family Cookbook
80 One-Pot Recipes to Nourish Your Family Using Your Instant Pot®, Slow Cooker or Sheet Pan
In just the last three years since Dr. Gundry’s bestselling book, “The Plant Paradox” released, millions of people have experienced dramatic health benefits of adopting a lectin-light lifestyle.
After experiencing incredible personal success on Dr. Gundry’s protocol, many Plant Paradox followers wanted to share it with their families. However, the questions remained: How do I make this lifestyle work for my entire family—and is it safe for my kids?
Now, with The Plant Paradox Family Cookbook (80 One-Pot Recipes to Nourish Your Family Using Your Instant Pot®, Slow Cooker or Sheet Pan), Dr. Gundry answers these questions and lays out a plan to set the whole family up for a lifetime of gut (and overall) health.
The Plant Paradox Family Cookbook also offers families practical tools for transitioning to the Plant Paradox lifestyle, as well as 80 delicious recipes, including: single pan suppers like Skillet Pizza and Pastured Chicken Nuggets; pressure cooker meals like Portobello Pot Roast and “Spaghetti” and Meatballs; lunchbox essentials like Vegetable Roll-Ups and Avocado and Cheddar Sweet Potato Toasts; two delicious bread recipes and sweet treats like Olive Oil Walnut Spice Cake and Almond Butter and Jelly Popsicles.
“The Plant Paradox Family Cookbook is about the dishes we all love—made with foods and ingredients that love you back.” – Dr. Gundry
2019
The Longevity Paradox
How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age
Most of us assume that aging means living with declining health, including prescription drugs, disease and chronic pain. So, while we may be living longer, we’re not living better–that’s the paradox of aging.
Now, from Dr. Steven Gundry, author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox, comes a groundbreaking plan for living a long, healthy, and happy life: The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age.
Working with thousands of patients, world-renowned heart surgeon and cardiologist, Dr. Gundry has discovered that the “diseases of aging” we most fear are not simply a function of age; rather, they are a byproduct of lifestyle choices over decades.
The Longevity Paradox is the culmination of the results he has observed in patients, analysis of an enormous amount of recent research on the gut biome and his study of the world’s longest-lived communities.
In it lies the true secrets to the fountain of youth. To find out how to live your best, longest life, get your copy today!
2019
The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy
The 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Live Lectin-Free
Now, in The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy, Dr. Gundry makes it simpler than ever to go lectin free. His 30-day challenge offers incentives, support, and results along with a toolkit for success. With grocery lists, meal plans, time-saving cooking strategies, all-new recipes, and guidance for families and those following specialized diets (including ketogenic and vegan), The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy is the all-in-one resource Plant Paradox fans and newcomers alike need to jumpstart results reap the health benefits of living lectin-free.
2018
The Plant Paradox Cookbook
100 Delicious Recipes to Help You Lose Weight, Heal Your Gut, and Live Lectin-Free
In 2017, Dr. Steven Gundry’s The Plant Paradox revealed the hidden toxin lurking in seemingly healthy foods like tomatoes, zucchini, quinoa, and brown rice — a class of plant-based proteins called lectins.
The book became a massive New York Times bestseller, dramatically improved the health of hundreds of thousands, and changed the conversation around gut health, inflammation, weight loss and so much more.
Now, “The Plant Paradox Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes to Help You Lose Weight, Heal Your Gut, and Live Lectin-Free” is available in bookstores. Dr. Gundry offers a collection of over 100 delicious, healthy, and diverse recipes to help readers maintain their new way of eating, for life.
2017
The Plant Paradox
The Hidden Dangers in “Healthy” Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain
Is it possible that everything you’ve heard about diet, weight, and nutrition is wrong? Dr. Gundry’s second book promises to shatter almost every myth you’ve been told about what makes up a “healthy” diet.
“The Plant Paradox” reveals the #1 danger in the American diet: a toxic protein hidden in plants called lectins. Lectins are found in hundreds of common foods, like wheat, beans, potatoes, nuts, and diary.
“The Plant Paradox” offers a full list of high-lectin foods, simple substitutions, a step-by-step detox plan, and delicious lectin free recipes. This Program, outlined in the book, has helped thousands of DR. Gundry’s patients to lose weight and recover from long-standing health disorders.
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