You: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition by Mehmet C Oz Md

You: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition by Mehmet C Oz Md

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 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.

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

MICHAEL ROIZEN is the Cleveland Clinic's Chief Wellness Officer, the Dr. Oz Show's Chief Medical Consultant, the author of four #1 New York Times best-selling books, and the founder of the prominent RealAge.com website. He has anesthesiology and internal medicine board certifications. He's won an Ellie, an Emmy, and the Paul G. Allen Award. The National Library of Medicine's Rogers Award for Outstanding Medical Communicator. He has also headed an FDA advisory committee and has over 175 peer-reviewed articles to his credit.

He resides in the city of Shaker Heights, Ohio.DR. The Dr Oz Show's Medical Director is MICHAEL CRUPAIN. He is a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine and part-time faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is board certified in preventive medicine. He was the director of food safety testing at Consumer Reports before joining The Dr. Oz Show.

He's an Emmy-winning producer who's also served on an USDA advisory group, authored many peer-reviewed studies, and cooks every day. He currently resides in New York City.