Nutrition is complex, and the voices we follow don’t all agree with each other — or with us — on everything. That is healthy. What follows is a list of the books, podcasts and newsletters we have found interesting and useful. Members are perfectly capable of reading them, weighing the arguments, and deciding what they think.
Peter Attia — Outlive (2023). The definitive modern text on longevity as a personal-health project. Attia’s framing of the four horsemen of age-related death — cardiovascular disease, cancer, neurodegeneration and metabolic dysfunction — and his case for Medicine 3.0, a preventative and measurement-led approach to long-term health, has shaped how much of the longevity space now thinks and talks.
Mark Hyman — Young Forever (2023). Hyman’s synthesis of the longevity field for a general reader. Covers the biological hallmarks of ageing, dietary strategies, supplements, sleep, stress, and the importance of purpose and community. Readable, practical, and comprehensive without being dense.
Casey Means — Good Energy (2024). Means’s argument that metabolic dysfunction sits underneath most of the chronic conditions of modern life — from mental health to fertility to neurodegeneration — and that mitochondrial health is where the conversation should start. Particularly strong on the connections between food, blood sugar, and whole-body function.
Michael Greger — How Not to Age (2023). Greger’s exhaustive treatment of the evidence on ageing and nutrition. Densely cited, organised around the biological pathways of ageing, and firmly in the plant-forward tradition.
David Sinclair — Lifespan (2019). The book that brought the biology of ageing to a general audience. Sinclair is one of the most influential researchers in the sirtuin and mTOR pathways that underpin much of longevity science today.
Chris van Tulleken — Ultra-Processed People (2023). The best popular account of the ultra-processed foods argument. Van Tulleken combines a month-long self-experiment on an 80 per cent UPF diet with deep reporting on the food industry. The single most useful book for understanding why UPFs have become the central battle in public nutrition.
Tim Spector — Food for Life (2022). Spector’s synthesis of the microbiome research that has done so much to reshape nutrition thinking over the past decade. Covers plant diversity, fermented foods, personal response variability, and the case against one-size-fits-all dietary advice. The book that popularised the 30-plants-a-week principle.
Michael Pollan — In Defence of Food (2008). Still the best short book on how to think about eating. Pollan’s three-sentence formulation — eat food, not too much, mostly plants — remains the most useful piece of dietary advice compressed into that few words.
The Drive — Peter Attia. Long-form interviews across exercise, nutrition, sleep, hormones, mental health, and emerging longevity interventions. The most serious ongoing conversation in the longevity space.
The Doctor’s Farmacy — Mark Hyman. Hyman in conversation with researchers, clinicians, and fellow practitioners across longevity, metabolic health, and functional medicine.
ZOE Science & Nutrition — Jonathan Wolf, Tim Spector, Sarah Berry. Weekly conversations on nutrition, gut health, and emerging research, usually anchored to a specific food topic or recent study. Accessible, evidence-led, and responsive to what’s actually being published.
Huberman Lab — Andrew Huberman. Stanford neuroscientist Huberman’s long-form episodes on sleep, exercise, nutrition, stress, and cognitive performance. Often goes deep on mechanism and protocol — useful for members who want to understand the biology behind the recommendations.
Peter Attia’s weekly newsletter extends The Drive with written pieces and subscriber Q&A. Mark Hyman’s weekly newsletter covers a wide range of functional-medicine and longevity topics. Casey Means publishes a weekly Substack on metabolic health. ZOE sends regular updates from its research team on gut and nutrition science. For members who want rigorous, independent summaries of the evidence on individual nutrients and supplements, Examine.com is the best non-commercial source we know.
Nutrition is a slow-feedback system. The effects of any single week are barely noticeable; the effects of a decade are enormous. The members who benefit most from Forever Well over the long run are not the ones who chase the newest finding or the loudest voice. They are the ones who build a pattern that compounds quietly, year after year, while everyone else is arguing about the latest headline. Everything in this brief has been aimed at helping you do that. We hope it has been useful.
