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Gut Health & Blood Sugar Books for Women Over 40
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items The best gut health, blood sugar, and longevity books for women over 40, recommended by a Registered Holistic Nutritionist in Toronto working with women worldwide. Real reads on digestion, energy, and bloating. Nutrition books for women over 40 who w...
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Gut Health
Longevity & Aging Strong
Glucose & Metabolism
Blood sugar runs everything: energy, skin, mood, cravings, belly fat, brain fog. These are the books I hand to every client over 40 who tells me she's doing everything right and still tired, puffy, and gaining weight in her midsection. RHN-approved r...
The book that made blood sugar make sense for the first time. Jessie Inchauspé breaks down ten simple hacks for keeping glucose steady so you stop crashing at 3pm, stop fighting cravings at 9pm, and stop wondering why you're tired all the time. No CG...
Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar|Hardcover
The sequel that turns the theory into a four-week plan you can actually do. Jessie Inchauspé walks you through cutting cravings, getting energy back, and feeling like yourself again with 100+ recipes that don't require a personal chef or imported ing...
The Glucose Goddess Method: The 4-week Guide To Cutting ...
Dr. Casey Means is Stanford-trained, a former surgeon, and the co-founder of Levels (the CGM company). This is the book that connects the dots between metabolism and almost every chronic symptom women 40+ are told to just live with. Brain fog, anxiet...
The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
The clinical deep-dive for women 40+ who want to understand WHY their body is doing what it is doing. Dr. Benjamin Bikman is a pathophysiology professor and one of the leading insulin resistance researchers in the world. He connects insulin resistanc...
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of the Immune System and How to Build a Stronger Body, Better Health, and Longer Life
Dr. Jason Fung is Toronto-based, University of Toronto medical school, and the godfather of the modern intermittent fasting movement. This is the book that proves what every woman 40+ already knew in her body: calories in calories out is bullshit. It...
Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Weight Loss and Health
Gut Health
The gut is the front door to everything else. Hormones, immunity, sleep, cravings, mental health, skin. These are the books that changed how I eat, how I work with clients, and how I think about food as medicine. RHN-curated for Canadian women 40+ wh...
The book that broke the silence around gut health and made it cool. German scientist Giulia Enders is a one-of-a-kind voice — funny, smart, accessible, not afraid to talk about literal digestion. She covers everything: why bloating happens, why food ...
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ|Paperback
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz is a gastroenterologist who treats gut disease for a living and writes like a real human. His message is simple: fibre diversity from plants is the foundation of a healthy microbiome. He gives you the framework to actually eat for...
Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Way to a Healthier You
Dr. Emeran Mayer is a UCLA gastroenterologist and one of the leading researchers on the gut-brain axis in the world. This is the book that proves anxiety, mood, food cravings, even the way you make decisions, all run through your gut. For women 40+ w...
The Mind-gut Connection: How The Hidden Conversation Within ...
The Sonnenburgs are Stanford microbiome researchers and this is the science textbook version of gut health for the woman who actually wants to understand what is happening down there. They cover how modern life (antibiotics, ultra-processed food, ove...
The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Health with Gut Microbes
Longevity & Aging Strong
The books that taught me aging is a sport. Muscle is the longevity organ. Strength is non-negotiable. Brain, bones, sleep, energy, all of it. These are the reads I recommend when a woman over 40 stops asking "how do I lose weight" and starts asking "...
The book that flipped my brain on what aging actually is. Dr. David Sinclair is a Harvard geneticist who argues aging is not inevitable. It is a loss of cellular information that can be slowed, paused, and in some cases reversed. He walks you through...
Lifespan: Why We Age—And Why We Don’t Have To
Dr. Gabrielle Lyon coined the term "Muscle-Centric Medicine" and this is the book that changed how I coach every Toronto client over 40. Muscle is the largest endocrine organ in the body. Lose it and you lose metabolic health, bone density, blood sug...
Forever Strong: A New Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well
The book that recalibrates everything you have been told about hormone replacement therapy. Dr. Avrum Bluming (oncologist) and Dr. Carol Tavris (social psychologist) walk through the 2002 Women's Health Initiative study that scared a whole generation...
Estrogen Matters: How Hormone Therapy in Menopause Can Improve Well-Being and Longevity Without Increasing Breast Cancer Risk
"Women are not small men." That is Dr. Stacy Sims' opening line and it sums up why this book matters. Sims is an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who finally wrote the manual for how active women should actually train, eat, fuel, and rec...
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