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YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body that Will
YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body that Will
YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body that Will
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YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body that Will

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The #1 bestseller that gives YOU complete control over your body and your health.

With new health studies and advice bombarding us every day, few people know much about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout the miraculous system that is the human anatomy.

YOU: The Owner's Manual challenges preconceived notions about how the human body works and ages, and takes you on a fascinating grand tour of all your blood-pumping, food-digesting, and numbers-remembering systems and organs—including the heart, brain, lungs, immune system, bones, and sensory organs.

In this updated and expanded edition, America's favorite doctors, Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, discuss how YOU actually have control over your genes. Discover how diseases start and how they affect your body—as well as advice on how to prevent and beat conditions that threaten your quality of life.

There are also 100 questions asked by you, and answered by the experts. For instance, do you know which of the following statements are true?

  • As you increase the amount you exercise, the rewards you gain from it increase as well.
  • If you're not a smoker, you have nothing to worry about when it comes to your lungs.
  • Your immune system always knows the difference between your own cells and enemy invaders.
  • The biggest threat to your arteries is cholesterol.
  • Memory loss is a natural, inevitable part of aging.
  • Stress is the greatest ager, and controlling it changes which of your genes is on.

Did you answer "true" for any of the above? Then take a look inside. Complete with exercise tips, nutritional guidelines, simple lifestyle changes, and alternative approaches, YOU: The Owner's Manual debunks myths and gives you an easy, comprehensive, and life-changing How-To plan—as well as great-tasting and calorie-saving recipes—that can help you live a healthier, younger, and better life.

Be the best expert on your body!

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperAudio
Release dateApr 29, 2008
ISBN9780061688133
YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body that Will
Author

Mehmet C. Oz

Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., is the multiple Emmy Award-winning host of The Dr. Oz Show. He is a professor and vice-chairman of surgery at Columbia University, the medical director of the Integrated Medicine Center, and director of the Heart Institute at New York Presbyterian/Columbia Medical Center.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A lot of good information and it covers a lot, but I was put off a bit by the puns, jokes and current event references. It made this quite a bit harder to read. I suppose he's trying to reach a wide audience, but I would have preferred more depth and less wordplay.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Be the expert on YOUR bodyThis book contains so much awesome information that it is hard to read it all front to back, I found that I did a lot of skipping around, depending on what information I was looking for, or what caught my eye as interesting as well.Chapter 15 contains many FAQ's that are helpfulChapter 13 is all about The Owner's Manual Diet, not focusing on pounds lost, but rather making you feel better & help you live longer & slow the effects of aging. Complete with menu ideas & recipies to choose from.Chapter 6: Gut Feelings: Your Digestive SystemChapter 3: Do you Mind: Your Brain & Nervous SystemChapter 8: Sex Marks the Spot: Your Sexual OrgansThis book also touches on working out, strength training, etc.Throughout there are different tests that you can take, such as Action 5: Test Yourself - regarding hearing, Myth or Fact? are all over the book to test your knowledge a bit & factoids are there as well to teach you a bit too.Factoid: Excessive sweating, a condition called hyperhidosis, which affects 25% of Asians, comes from a malfunction of the sympathetic nerves that cause an inappropriate amount of sweat from your extremities.......Botox is know to help with this in 90% of people.Myth or Fact? Your eyelashes are mostly decorative. - They primarily protect your eyes against pollen & other items in the environment, but they also can sense when something is coming towards the eye, which gives you a microsecond to react - and close it. You grow new eyelashes every 5 weeks, and some medications actually make them grow.So needless to say, this book covers alot! Your Whole Body! It is a great reference to have on hand & I am really glad that I have this one to read & refer back to. I especially like the Q&A section at the back.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Pretty good reference for the non-medical student/professional. Easy read, well organized, helpful important notes at the end of each chapter.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The same basic idea as the Real Age books Roizen has written, i.e., what you can do to make your real age younger than your chronological age, presented in body systems – heart, lungs, bones, muscles, etc. Lots of good information, but so annoying that it was painful to read. Terminally cute. Many pop references. The drawings had elves in them, along with lame jokes that make it harder to see what is presented. I would give it 5 stars for information and 0 stars for being annoying, so I guess that makes it a 3 star rating.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The most down-to-earth, easy to follow health manual with simple guidelines to better health. Give it to someone you care about!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Heard this book when it was featured on 'Oprah.' Interesting. You do learn a lot from it though and take a lot in. Found myself referring to it all the time with relatives and their health problems.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book is OK if you know very little about anatomy. I suppose it's intended to help patients be better informed about their own bodies-how they work, what all the organs are. Hopefully, if you've taken (and paid attention to) a highschool biology class, you remember this stuff. Not for anyone who knows anything about medicine, biology, physiology and anatomy. Or for women. The most annoying part about the book was (despite a small ammount of information about PMS), this book seemed to be entirely written for men, by men.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    this book, written by two doctors, offers invaluable advice on what you should do to keep yourself healthy. Not only the things you want to do personally--diet, exercise, etc., but how to choose insurance plans, what to look for in doctors, hospitals, etc. This is an exceptional book.