Episode · Huberman Lab · 2026-03-09
Andrew Huberman & Alex Marson: books mentioned on Huberman Lab
Avoiding, Treating & Curing Cancer With the Immune System | Dr. Alex Marson
Dr. Alex Marson, MD, PhD, is a Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Alex Marson recommended The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee and The Case Against Perfection by Michael J. Sandel.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Emperor of All Maladies
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of cancer that traces the disease from its earliest historical mentions through modern scientific efforts to cure it.
Recommended“If anyone's really interested, I would highly recommend the this book The Emperor of All Maladies, which is a which is really a biography of cancer as a disease and talk about I mean, the long history of going back as far as there's records of tumors of various kinds and and the misery associated with that.”
Where to get it
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The Case Against Perfection
The Case Against Perfection by Michael J.
Recommended“There's another book that I I would I would recommend here that I read years ago and I actually I'm probably overdue to go back and and reread this. This predates CRISPR technology, but there's a Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel who years ago wrote a short book called The Case Against Perfection.”
Where to get it
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Plugged Protocols
“For those of you that haven't heard, I have a new book coming out. It's my very first book. It's entitled Protocols, an Operating Manual for the Human Body.”