YOU: The Owner's Manual

ABOUT BUILT TO MOVE

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Simple and proven physical practices designed to improve the way your body feels—less stiffness! fewer aches and pain!—and boost the overall quality of your life, no matter how you spend your time. From the innovators behind The Ready State and the movement bible Becoming a Supple Leopard.

“The definitive guide for building an all-around healthy and high-performing body and mind.” —Andrew Huberman, Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University & Host of The Huberman Lab Podcast

After decades spent working with pro-athletes, Olympians, and Navy Seals, mobility pioneers Kelly and Juliet Starrett began thinking about the physical well-being of the rest of us. What makes a durable human? How do we continue to feel great and function well as we age? And how do we counteract the effects of technology-dependence, sedentary living, and other modern ways of life on our body’s natural need for activity? 

Have you ever thrown your back out doing something as seemingly harmless as picking up groceries?

Are you avoiding activities you once loved because of pain, injury, stiffness or fatigue? Have you witnessed the tragic deterioration of an elderly loved one’s life after a slip and fall?

The billion-dollar fitness industry has led us to believe that one hour of exercise a day is what it takes to sustain our bodies.

 Yet decades coaching some of the highest-performing individuals on the planet (Oscar winners, Navy SEALs, former presidents and Olympic athletes) have shown Dr. Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett (1.3 million followers across platforms) firsthand the essential physical practices that truly support elite performance.

 Contrary to popular belief, they discovered that the secret lies in what you do the other 23 hours of the day when you aren’t exercising.

 And it turns out that the practices that support elite performance are the very same practices that can help the rest of us—anyone at any age and any fitness level—achieve a durable, pain-free body.

 The best part? Exercise is extra credit, not a prerequisite!

Their #3 New York Times Best Seller, BUILT TO MOVE: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully (Knopf; April 4, ’23) is the antidote to our sedentary lifestyle and unveils the little levers we can all pull throughout our busy days to maximize our body’s function and make a huge difference in how we feel and how successfully we age—starting right here, right now.  

 The book offers:

BUILT TO MOVE is the first holistic systems approach to building a resilient, adaptable, healthy body that can do what you want it to do for as long you may live—whether that be gardening or a triathlon.

This book introduces readers to a set of simple principles and practices that can be done in just 10 minutes a day, leading to greater ease of movement, better health and a happier life doing whatever it is you love to do. Most of these practices are not things you’re going to hear or read about anywhere else.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.

Worried about memory loss and dementia risk? This new book will show you easy-to-follow steps to keep your brain healthy. DEMENTIA PREVENTION: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain, by Emily Clionsky, MD, and Mitchell Clionsky, PhD. In dementia Prevention, they combine the most current scientific findings about Alzheimer's disease and other dementias with their experience to you through a science-based tour of dementia, including how your brain works and how its function is affected by everything from blood circulation and blood pressure to sugar levels, medications, vision, and hearing. You will learn how your activity level, weight, habits, mental outlook, and social engagement may affect your likelihood of developing dementia. Dementia Prevention provides a dementia risk checklist to better understand your personal risk profile to help you on your journey. The authors' training and experience as behavioral scientists will help you set better goals, identify roadblocks to success, and overcome these obstacles. Forgetfulness and confusion are not an inevitable part of growing older — you can make changes to keep your brain working well into your 70s and beyond. From how you breathe while you sleep to what you do socially and physically every day.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.

Living with Breast Cancer (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Jennifer A. Shin, MD, MPH, is a medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer and a palliative care specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is the author of Living with Breast Cancer (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.

Dr. Roizen talks about the latest health headlines that YOU need to know.

At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob’s Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman’s body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women’s liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America’s obsession with the female form has affected her own life’s journey and the psyche of all women today.

From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr’s life-long passion. A Boob’s Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you’ll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.

It's not a stretch to say that the last few years have left Americans more tired than ever. However, for many people who have trouble sleeping, they are more than tired. Each night is an anxious odyssey where getting a good night's sleep feels like a battle to win rather than the easy and refreshing experience it should be. The problem is that too many people approach sleep as an issue of control rather than focusing on changing their relationship to sleep. The truth is that we all already know how to sleep – we don't need a formula to fix it, or a collection of tips to optimize it because perfection is neither necessary nor sufficient for sustainable sleep health.

Dr. Jade Wu, behavioral sleep medicine specialist and researcher, has helped hundreds of patients over the last ten years. Her debut book Hello Sleep: The Science and Art of Overcoming Insomnia Without Medications (on-sale February 7, 2023 from St. Martin's Press; $28.99; ISBN 978-1250828408) is a guide for those with insomnia to help them shift their relationship with sleep to make it enjoyable and natural again. Even those without insomnia will find explanations and recommendations to improve their own sleep habits.