Pull

How Gravity Shapes Your Body, Steadies the Mind, and Guides Our Health

By: Brennan Spiegel

Narrated by: Brennan Spiegel

Gravity doesn’t just pull apples from trees—it shapes our bodies, minds, and even our emotions. In PULL, Brennan Spiegel, M.D. reveals how this invisible force influences everything from digestion to depression—and how building gravity resilience can help us find balance, stand stronger, and live longer. This progam is read by the author.

As long as life has existed on Earth—from the simplest organisms to Homo sapiens—gravity has inexorably shaped our world. Gravity dictated how we were built, the mechanisms that allow us to stand upright, to pump blood to our extremities, to support our capacious brains. But to what extent does gravity also shape our sensations, emotions, and overall well-being? And how can we take this force of nature into account for better health?

In PULL, Brennan Spiegel, M.D. presents a groundbreaking exploration of how gravity influences conditions of body and mind that have puzzled medical professionals for centuries. Starting with a simple observation at a family dinner and culminating in a new approach to gravity-based health and wellness, PULL is a captivating journey through the human body’s inner struggle to keep us upright and healthy.

Why do people with depression literally feel like they’re being dragged to the ground? Why do you get that butterfly feeling in your stomach when going down a roller coaster? Why do you get it when you are “falling” in love? What can we learn from astronauts with heartburn and swollen faces to inform our lives back on Earth? How do gut microbes help us fight gravity? And most importantly, how can we change our relationship with gravity for the better? To get there, Spiegel proposes the concept of “gravity resilience,” a fresh perspective on traditional interventions like weight loss, exercise, diet, and meditation. Rather than just lifestyle choices, these treatments share something profound and unexpected in common: they all enhance our resilience to gravity.

Rooted in hard science, buttressed by compelling storytelling, and punctuated with actionable strategies to boost your own gravity resilience, PULL is an eye-opening, life-changing audiobook.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press Essentials

Groundbreaking

Dr. Spiegel's unifying framework of gravity tolerance is brilliant, and fundamentally reshapes and dramatically improves our understanding of what it means to be "healthy".

His unique ability to make such a significant topic readily accessible, interesting, and compelling demonstrates his truly deep understanding of both his subject matter, and of the humanity of his reader and himself.

Exceptional storytelling and innovative thinking

Pull is nothing short of a medical masterpiece. What Dr. Spiegel is attempting to do and explain in this book goes beyond a pure biological understanding of the body, but he creates a theory which is perhaps metaphysical. His brand of storytelling and in-depth but easy to understand explanations keep you turning page after page. Expand your horizon and get the book. It’s a must read.

So obvious, yet so obscured

You may begin feeling the idea too obvious or the connections too loose, but you quickly see it all come together in truths of our daily existence. I got so much out of this book and everyone will identify with some of these explanations of how gravity influences our experience of our day to day life.