“Funny, fascinating, entertaining and informative – like an episode of Stephen Fry's QI.”
Take a tour through your body and the many ways it can fail in What's Wrong with You?An Insider's Guide to Your Insides.
Everybody has a body, and everybody gets sick. But unless you go to medical school, the mechanisms behind your medical symptoms remain a mystery.
Why do you get diarrhoea when you’re stressed?
Why do both teenagers and bodybuilders get acne?
Why do you feel like yawning when you’re tired, nervous, or when you think about yawning (like now)?
Why do many men go bald, but women don’t?
Over a billion health-related Google searches – more than one in every 15 Google enquiries – are made every day. Ask ‘Dr Google’ about your headache or fever and it will spew forth a bewildering, and often terrifying list of possible diagnoses, invariably topped by brain cancer or a parasitic infection. What Dr Google won’t tell you is the infinitely more interesting bit: what's actually going on in your body to make you feel sick.
In What's Wrong With You? Dr Sarah Holper takes you on an extensive tour through your body, explaining how its failings cause your medical symptoms. Packed with memorable patient encounters, cultural diversions, historical oddities and insider doctor secrets, Dr Holper arms you with the knowledge you need to understand why your body reacts to illness the way it does.
Reviews
"Enjoyed every minute reading this book. Sarah Holper’s witty humour and writing style made it so easy to understand how the body works; plus I love the bonus snippets of interesting stories at the end of each chapter. Almost every page is highlighted with knowledge I found useful."
★★★★★ Goodreads
"Vigorously educational and energetically interesting... Dr Holper makes complex matters of our health sound clear and straightforward. Her writing is conversational rather than academically pedantic."
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"Reading this felt like my brain was being massaged."
★★★★★ Goodreads
"Fun, informative, concise. I absolutely loved it, laughed my butt off at some points and learned a lot."
★★★★★ Goodreads
"A most entertaining, well researched book full of fascinating information. Lots of laugh-out-loud material and you'll come away far more knowledgeable about what makes you tick… Highly recommended."
★★★★★ Goodreads
Awards
Featured in Audible's Best of 2021 collection as an Outstanding Non-Fiction title.
Featured in Audible’s collections – '“Must-Listens”, “Audiobooks We Love” and “Non-Fiction Everyone's Talking About”.
In The Media
Extensive feature adapted from What's Wrong With You? published in the Daily Mail (UK)
Feature interview in The Advertiser (SA Weekend)
Interview published in Moje Zdrowie, a leading Polish health magazine.
