You: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger

by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz, Mehmet C Oz M.D., et al.

Book Overview

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

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.

YOU: The Owner's Manual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061473677
• ISBN13: 9780061473678
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Finally in Spanish !!

Happy to have this book translated to Spanish. I was looking foward to give it to my family so they can learn how to take care of their body and health better. They loved it.

Every Home Should Have this Book!

I LOVE this book!!! Enough that I bought this "improved and expanded version" after having bought the original, and that is rare for me. It is written with a hint of humor and such a plain layman's language that EVERYONE can understand what is going on with their bodies, how they work, every organ in your body, what its job is, how to take care of it, how to protect it, improve its doing the job its meant to do, thus helping one to avoid many ills they could get, and thus less visits to the Dr. or how to better communicate with your Dr. to help them help you. Every home should have this book!!! I believe this is the only book of this kind and so complete for the ANY person. It definitely is NOT a boring read, but written in such a fun and interesting way everyone who wants to understand how their body works or is concerned about how to take care to feel better, would enjoy learning from this book. It has many drawings showing how your internal parts work . I HIGHLY Recommend it!!!

Love the book, love the audio CD better!

Ordered the book and audio CD at the same time, but the book came in first. I started the book which I found to be a slow read. Then received the CD's (8 hours/7 disc). . . I love them!! I'm able to listen in the car and when I get home, I highlight in the book things that are important to me. This way I don't feel I have wasted time reading sections that don't pretain to me but I have listened to it all. The CD's are narrated by Dr's. Roizen and Oz. I highly recommend both versions.

Down to Earth, funny, and informative

My husband's doctor suggested that he read this book, so of course my husband bought it, handed it to me, and said, "Read this and tell me what it says!" Well, I did, and I was very impressed with the quality of this book. "YOU: The Owner's Manual" is a comprehensive overview of the different organs and systems that make up the human body. Science has never really been my thing, and I was afraid that reading this book would generate unpleasant flashbacks to my high-school biology days. That wasn't the case at all. The authors present a lot of useful information in a very humorous way, which kept me very engaged. The basic goals of this book are to educate people on how the human body works and also explain what can be done to stay healthy and lower your "RealAge" (referring to ones biological age instead of chronological age). I like the fact that this book is geared toward the everyday person. The authors assume that the people reading the book aren't huge health or fitness nuts, and so the aim of the book is to explain how a little effort can go a long way. There are a bunch of tips on how to alter your lifestyle in small ways, and then the books explain how those small things will make a big difference in your overall health. The book also contains a bunch of interesting facts that will make for great dinner conversation. (Did you know that human beings grow a new set of eyelashes every five weeks? Were you aware that women who have sex without condoms are less likely to be depressed because semen acts as a powerful mood-altering chemical? This is fascinating stuff!) Finally, the book includes a 10-day diet that is designed to help people jump-start a healthy lifestyle. I haven't tried the diet yet, but I'm probably going to suggest to my husband that we give it a shot. The recipes look pretty easy to make and they also sound quite tasty! Overall, this is a fantastic book. Everyone should read it so they can learn how to protect their most important asset: themselves.

Great book, valuable info, fun

This is one of those rare non-fiction best sellers that actually deserves to be a best seller. The title gets your attention, so you crack it open expecting to spend five minutes satisfying your curiosity. Before you know it an hour has gone by and you're cruising along absorbing a wealth of medical information of intimate concern to you and your family. It does this with the aid of editorial layout techniques you've seen before ... multi-choice quizzes, truth-or-myth blurbs, factoids, clever and effective illustrations. While such techniques in other books often come across as cheesy, in this book they are used effectively, probably because they are built from such valuable and interesting information. The book is large, but it's not an encyclopedia. The focus is on organs and conditions that are most important to the aging process, and conditions most preventable. It concerns issues you talk about and are concerned with, e.g., what is the greatest threat to your arteries (its not cholesterol); what's the most revealing sign that you might have Alzheimers; fact or fiction - ginkgo biloba is a good brain function booster? Especially nice is every chapter ends with specific recommended actions. The last 57 pages regard exercise, diet, recipes. Written for the layperson in a concise but fun style. I might disagree with a minor point now and then, but on the whole this is a great additional to a health and fitness library. Each year I update my short list of recommended reading for my adult health & fitness clients. I chose books that are some combination of breakthrough, effective, satisfying, and fun. You: The Owners Manual easily makes the list. (For those interested, other books that made the list for 2006 are: Healthy Aging, Joe X, Backsmart Fitness Plan, Stretching, and George Stella's Livin' Low Carb.)