Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

By Katy Bowman

Book Overview

Move Your DNA explains the science behind our need for natural movement - right down to the cellular level. It examines the differences between the movements in a typical hunter - gatherer's life and the movements in our own. It shows the many problems with using exercise like movement vitamins instead of addressing the deeper issue of a poor movement diet. Best of all, Move Your DNA contains the corrective exercises, habit modifications, and simple lifestyle changes we need to make in order to free ourselves from disease and discover our naturally healthy, reflex driven selves. From couch potatoes to professional athletes, new parents to seniors, readers will love Katy's humorous, passionate, and above all science based guide to restoring your body and reclaiming your life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0989653943
• ISBN13: 9780989653947
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Propriometrics Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

More Life, Less Gym

The distinction Katy Bowman makes is simple and important: exercise and movement are not the same thing. One is a packaged ritual performed at scheduled intervals. The other is what our bodies were built for: continuous, varied, purposeful physical engagement woven through the fabric of daily life. Bowman pushes back gently but persuasively against the 150-minutes-a-week standard, not by demanding more intensity but by asking for more life. Walk more. Do your own chores. Carry things. Cook food. Climb something. Stand consciously, move intentionally, engage your body as a matter of ordinary living rather than a compensatory habit. The argument is accessible, the delivery concise, and the underlying case genuinely compelling. Our bodies do not want scheduled exertion; they want constant, natural, meaningful movement. If you need both the why and the how, this is an excellent place to begin.

Brilliant!

This book is a brilliant compilation of how we use (or don't) our body and how movement affects our present and our future health. She explains in a way we non-science people can easily understand. Such a great wealth of knowledge. Read this book! It will really change your life!