Gravity. We know how it works. Yet, we never have paid much attention to it with health issues. Dr. Brennan Spiegel’s book enlightens us with this invisible force.

It’s especially great for people that feel lost without a cure for a large list of medical conditions such as musculoskeletal weakness, abdominal pain, cervical neck arthritis, nerve issues, high blood pressure, gut issues and feelings of depression.

The body is complex and it’s not easy to explain the medical jargon. Dr. Spiegel communicates using common words such as pumps and tubes inside of us that need to be aligned with good posture in order to work well. Parts are repeated as he tries to get his point across in different ways.

Much is about posture, diet and exercise. There are a few advanced techniques on how to help people with sleep and feelings of anxiety. He also adds his personal stories and those from patients to help readers understand a variety of symptoms. After each chapter, he has review points which I found very helpful. And at the end, he has included resource materials.

It's been my experience that doctors want a quick fix: prescribed drugs and sometimes physical therapy. Most of the time, it relieves the pain. Yet, there are too many cases as described by Dr. Spiegel that are unanswered. Let’s hope that gravity will be the new word that is integrated into more medical treatment plans.

My thanks to St. Martin’s Essentials and NetGalley for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this book with an expected release date of October 7, 2025.

Thank you for NetGalley for providing this ARC.

This book is about the suggestion that many health issues are related to what the author calls "gravity intolerance".

It's a super interesting concept and left me to think about many things.

I was surprised by how well written the book was since it was written by a medical professional, not an author. I did find out at the end that the author used AI to clean up his writing. He provides examples of what he put in and what he got out. I appreciate that he told us this in the book and I think it's important for people to know going into the book, so I decided to mention it in my review.

I felt that the chapters were too long for such a short book, but the little recal blurbs at the end of chapters were nice.

The general concept of the book is very much just a theory, but it seems like an interesting concept to think about and look more into. It doesn't seem to suggest any super out there unproven medical advice, it's mostly things like 'drink more water' and 'stand up straight'. I was glad because I was a little worried that it'd get too pseudo sciency.

Antigravity meditation seems like a very interesting concept.

I think this would be a good read for people who enjoyed "The Body Keeps The Score".