Episode · The Mel Robbins Podcast · 2025-10-16

Books mentioned on Feel Better Now: Neurosurgeon Reveals the New Science of Healing Your Body & Stopping Pain Today

2 books · With Dr. Sanjay Gupta · Listen · Watch on YouTube

In today’s episode, you’re going to learn the new science of healing your body, stopping pain, and feeling better now. One of the world’s most respected neurosurgeons and medical experts alive is here to reveal the new frontiers in pain management and how you can feel better in your body starting today.

Mel Robbins discussed It Doesn't Have to Hurt by Sanjay Gupta. Dr. Sanjay Gupta recommended The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. It Doesn't Have to Hurt

    Sanjay Gupta · at 2:03 · mentioned 2 times

    Discussed
    “I'm so excited for your new New York Times best-selling book, It Doesn't Have to Hurt.”
    Where to get it
  2. The Body Keeps the Score

    Bessel van der Kolk · at 28:22

    The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is a prominent work explaining the physiological and psychological impacts of trauma on the human body.

    Recommended
    “If you talk to people like Bessel van der Kolk who wrote this great book called The Body Keeps the Score, I think what Bessel would suggest um is that there's something else that's probably happened in your life.”
    Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged It Doesn't Have to Hurt
“If I had to add a a more to the title of the book, you always want longer titles, I would say It Doesn't Have to Hurt as much or as long.”
Plugged It Doesn't Have to Hurt
“I mean, this book that I wrote is not about the opioid epidemic.”