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Aamir Saeed Malik is Professor at Brno University of Technology, where he heads the Cognitive & Neural Engineering Research Group. He came to health the long way round: a PhD in mechatronics, then years of brain-imaging research. He has written five scientific books; Fix the Floor is his first for general readers.
Aamir Saeed Malik is Professor at Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, where he heads the Cognitive & Neural Engineering Research Group.
He came to health the long way round. His doctorate, from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, is in mechatronics — the engineering of systems that sense, decide and act. He spent the years since using brain imaging to catch stress, anxiety and depression at their earliest signs, work that has taken him through South Korea, Malaysia, Australia and now the Czech Republic. In Malaysia he headed CISIR, the national center for neuroimaging research.
That engineer's habit — asking not what has broken but where a system fails first — is what produced this book. Health, he argues, is not a collection of separate problems but one system standing on five pillars, and like any chain it fails at its weakest link.
His research has earned more than 13,000 citations and seven granted patents. He has written five scientific books; Fix the Floor is his first for the people that science was meant to help.
| Title | Fix the Floor |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Your health breaks at its weakest link. Find yours. Fix it. |
| Author | Aamir Saeed Malik, PhD |
| Publication | October 2026 |
| Publisher | Published independently by Aamir Saeed Malik |
| Paperback ISBN | 978-1-7648715-0-1 |
| Ebook ISBN | 978-1-7648715-1-8 |
| Trim | 6 × 9 in |
| Extent | 410 pages |
| BISAC | HEA010000 · HEALTH & FITNESS / Healthy LivingSEL016000 · SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / HappinessHEA049000 · HEALTH & FITNESS / Aging & Longevity |
| Formats at launch | Ebook and Color Paperback will be available on Amazon from 3rd October 2026 |
| Fact | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Five pillars — nutrition, fitness, sleep, personal habits, social connection | The book's own structure |
| A home self-assessment across eight domains, in about fifty minutes, needing no laboratory and no wearable | Chapter 3 |
| Twelve chapters, four parts | The book's contents |
| 52 figures and 28 tables | Counted in the manuscript |
| A companion research map of 138 entries — 25 conditions, 46 nutrients, 13 body systems, 54 non-diet levers | Derived from The Healthspan Map v10 |
| 1,254 evidence links, drawn from 558 sources, each one named and traceable | Derived from the same workbook |
1. You're not a doctor. Why should anyone take health advice from you?
I've spent three decades measuring health in a laboratory — brain imaging to catch stress, anxiety and depression at their earliest signs. That's thirteen thousand citations and seven patents, all of it written for other scientists. What I'm not is a doctor, and this book doesn't practice medicine: it doesn't diagnose, prescribe or replace anyone's clinician. What it practices is measurement — showing you where your own system is weakest, so you and your doctor are looking at the same thing.
2. People try one fix at a time — the diet, the steps, the supplement. Why does that keep failing them?
Because every one of those fixes is partly right, and none of them is the whole. If your sleep is what's dragging you down, the best diet in the world won't move you. Strengthening what's already strong changes nothing. You have to find the weakest link first.
3. You say health breaks at its weakest link. What does that mean for someone already doing a lot right?
It means the effort may be going to the wrong place. Someone who eats well, walks daily and still feels flat is usually strong in four pillars and weak in one — and the one they're not thinking about is the one holding them back. The book's job is to find which.
4. The book asks people to score themselves. Isn't that risky — telling someone a number about their own health?
It would be if the number were a verdict. It isn't — it's a mirror. The score tells you where to look, not what's wrong with you, and the book says so on the page. It works alongside a doctor and never in place of one.
