Serve to Win
Novak Djokovic on the gluten-free switch he credits for his 2011 season
Published in 2013, half memoir and half eating plan. Djokovic recounts surviving the bombing of Belgrade, then the discovery that his body could not process wheat, and what cutting gluten did for a career that had been stalling on aches and breathing trouble. The back half is a fourteen-day plan with weekly menus, recipes, notes on digestion and, in the publisher's words, the same exercises he does before each match. William Davis, M.D., wrote the foreword. Read it as one athlete's account of what worked for him: research on gluten avoidance for people without celiac disease is thinner than the book implies.
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Tennis player · Record 24 Grand Slam singles titles
His own 2013 book, built around the fourteen-day gluten-free plan he credits for the season that took him to world number one, with menus, recipes and the exercises he does before a match.
Source: Penguin Random House: Serve to Win
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