How Not to Die

It was during this time of facing the unknown that my cousin Amy called me.

She recommended a book called How Not to Die by Michael Greger, M.D. She'd read it, and it changed her life.

Being an avid reader, I downloaded the e-book and devoured it, learning a great deal about nutrition and plant-based eating.

It was the beginning of a dramatic change in my life.

Well, so go-to person for anything nutrition-related is Dr. Michael Greger.

He wrote How Not to Die.

It was a huge Times bestseller book.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and in terms of how to destroy laziness, I mean, laziness is just, it's a natural biological urge, just like eating, you know, donuts is a natural bio- you know, eating concentrated sources of calories, right? Our bodies, we evolve in the context of scarcity.

And so the, the problem is how not to die of starvation.

How do you not starve, die of starvation? You try to eat as many calories as you can, and you try to expend the least calories, right? You wanna get the most calories for the least amount of work.

So what does that mean in today's world? That means eating donuts on the couch.

There's The China Study.

There's a book called How to- How, How Not to Die, Michael Greger.

Um, a big thing to watch, like, one of my films, watch What the Health? Everything in there is triple sourced.

Again, we try to have people debate us, 'cause that, a lot of backlash came with that film.

Sources cited and other details are available on each video's page.

Information about my books, How Not to Die, How Not to Diet, and How Not to Age is all at nutritionfacts.org slash books, including some of the newer titles, including Lowering LDL Cholesterol Naturally with Food.

All proceeds from all book sales that I get go to charity.

And I've got a new book in the publication pipeline, How Not to Hurt.

And that was when, you know, I kind of went on the internet and I just started doing my own research and came across Dr. Michael Greger.

and read his book, How Not to Die, I think three times in a month.

And if you've read it, you know, it's like really, really thick.

I listened to it on pretty much repeat on my way to and from the hospital.

There are so many books.

I would recommend, of course, outside my book, one of the books I would recommend to understand the power of food as medicine would be Dr. Michael Greger's book, How Not to Die and How Not to Diet.

Those are really earth shattering books in terms of breaking everything down.

I will also recommend the book Back to Eden.

And can you please recommend a book or books that are influential, Johnny?

Well, outside of the ones I just mentioned, for sure, I'll start off by saying definitely Dr. Michael Greger's book or books.

He has How Not to Die and How Not to Diet.

And those are great books.