"With the gentle and wise expertise we have come to expect from Drs. Pulde and Lederman, WELLNESS TO WONDERFUL is the next step to understanding your health and your potential in deeply transformative ways. I can't wait to share this with everyone I know." -Mayim Bialik, PhD, Neuroscientist, Author, Actress, Jeopardy Host "Matt and Alona have integrated the best of diet and lifestyle to create a whole and complete model of care based on their decades of experience and study."-Dean Ornish, MD, NY Times Best-Selling Author, President and Founder, The Preventive Medicine Research Institute "Simply the best book on Whole Health on the market today. If you have been looking for the pathway to health, vibrancy, joy, and peace, then this book is a must‐read." -Scott Stoll, MD, Co‐founder, Plantrician Project "I am going to recommend WELLNESS TO WONDERFUL as a must-read for all my patients." -Joel Fuhrman, MD, Author, Eat To Live, NY Times Best-Selling Author "WELLNESS TO WONDERFUL should be in the center of our book collection, at eye level!" -T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Co-Author, The China Study, NY Times Best-Selling Author "Alona and Matt have masterfully integrated facets of health most of us are not aware vitally need our attention."-John Mackey, Co-Founder and former CEO, Whole Foods Market, Best-Selling Author Why Choose This Book: Because investing in your health and wellbeing is better than paying for hospitalizations and illness. Everything Drs. Pulde and Lederman recommend comes from decades of extensive research and experience. Do you want to experience greater health, longevity, and overall joy? Do you want to be trim and full of life, with the energy to pursue the activities you enjoy? Do you want to eat foods that taste delicious and promote your health and wellbeing? Do you want to sleep peacefully and wake up rested? Do you want to stop living in a state of chronic stress? Do you want to have strong meaningful relationships with your friends and family? WELLNESS TO WONDERFUL shows you how! New York Times Best-Selling Authors Alona Pulde, MD and Matthew Lederman, MD bring you WELLNESS TO WONDERFUL, taking you from diseased to healthy, overweight to trim, lethargic to energetic, discouraged to hopeful, and isolated to joyfully in connection. This is the path from illness to Wellness, all the way to Wonderful - don't settle for anything less! The authors have spent decades treating chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, auto-immune disorders, and obesity with their diet and lifestyle medical practices. With Whole Foods Market co-founder John Mackey, they co-authored The Whole Foods Diet and The Whole Foods Cookbook. They also authored the NY Times best-seller The Forks Over Knives Plan, Forks Over Knives Family, and Keep It Simple, Keep It Whole. The word wellness is most often used to describe an aspirational state of physical health, attained by attention to diet and lifestyle. Drs. Pulde and Lederman believe existing healthcare models fail to consider the measurable impact of integrating authentic connection with family, friends, colleagues, spirit, and the natural world. WELLNESS TO WONDERFUL helps to provide a clear understanding and tools to achieve this path. In this book you will learn: To implement our 9 fundamental pillars for living healthier, longer, and with greater joy; How to live healthy and well and prevent, or possibly reverse, illness and chronic disease; Ways to optimize sleep, nutrition, activity and play; Skills to boost the relationships in your life, specifically with family, friends, and work; The health benefits of reconnecting with spirituality and the natural world