LIVE WELL: 8 HABITS TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS Paperback – January 1, 2026

Live longer, feel better, and take control of your health—without fad diets, extreme workouts, or complicated programs. Live Well: 8 Habits to Highly Effective Health and Happiness is a science‑based lifestyle medicine guide that helps you prevent chronic disease, boost energy, improve sleep, and reduce stress using simple daily habits rooted in modern medicine and Ashtanga yoga principles.Written by Murthy Gokula, MD—board‑certified physician, lifestyle medicine expert, and concierge doctor—this practical, holistic health book combines modern medical research, habit‑change science, mind‑body medicine, and timeless yoga wisdom to help you transform your health from the inside out. Whether you are struggling with burnout, fatigue, stress, anxiety, weight gain, high blood pressure, diabetes risk, or inflammation, this book offers a clear, realistic path to healing and prevention for adults at any age, especially those navigating midlife and beyond.Inside, you will learn how to build a sustainable exercise and movement routine that supports metabolism, heart health, and longevity; eat in a way that supports weight loss, balanced blood sugar, and chronic disease prevention—without rigid dieting; and improve your sleep so your brain, hormones, and immune system can repair and recharge. You will discover simple, evidence‑informed tools to manage stress naturally, calm anxiety, protect your heart and brain, and rewire unhelpful thought patterns into a more resilient, growth‑oriented mindset that supports lasting habit change.Live Well also shows you how to integrate Ashtanga‑inspired yoga, breathwork, and other mind‑body practices into a modern, medically informed lifestyle, so you can reset your health, support healthy aging over 40, and even work to reverse lifestyle‑driven conditions with natural, sustainable changes. Along the way, you will learn how strengthening your relationships, community, and sense of purpose becomes powerful “medicine” for your mental health, emotional well‑being, and long‑term happiness.If you are searching for a realistic wellness plan you can actually stick with, a holistic lifestyle change guide, or natural ways to prevent and manage high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, and stress‑related illness, this book brings together functional and integrative medicine, self‑help, and personal growth in one concise resource. Health does not have to be complicated, and happiness does not have to wait—Live Well: 8 Habits to Highly Effective Health and Happiness gives you simple daily habits for life so you can create a sustainable wellness routine, enjoy more energy and joy now, and build the foundation for a longer, healthier, more purposeful future. This description is also structured to support online discoverability for health, wellness, and lifestyle medicine readers. Read more