Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

Written by Katy Bowman

Narrated by Katy Bowman

”Move Your DNA is a landmark in explaining biomechanics."

- Dr. Joan Vernikos former director of NASA’s Life Sciences Division and author of Sitting Kills, Moving Heals. 

This new expanded edition of the bestselling Move Your DNA features an exercise glossary and three-level exercise program, accessible to audiobook listeners in the FREE EXERCISE PROGRAM PDF DOWNLOAD! 

Accessible and fascinating, Move Your DNA is a game-changer in the world of health, fitness, and movement science. Hailed as offering a pioneering and paradigm-shifting perspective on exercise, this book: 

• explains how movement works right down to the cellular level
• examines the differences between the movements in a typical hunter-gatherer's life and the movements in a convenience-riddled lifestyle• discusses the issues with using exercise like movement vitamins instead of addressing the deeper issue of a poor movement diet
• contains a three-level movement program to help those of all strengths and fitness levels transition to a movement-rich lifestyle

Move Your DNA contains corrective exercises, habit modifications, and simple lifestyle changes to free ourselves from the diseases of affluence and discover our naturally healthy, reflex-driven selves. 

The "movement is not optional" argument is so convincing, this audiobook was designed to be listened to while walking - each chapter listing the mileage for that section. An average walker will complete 20 miles while listening!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your audio library along with the audio.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Propriometrics Press
• Release date: Sep 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9780989653930

Katy Bowman

Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader of the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman, M.S. is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Her 10 books, including the groundbreaking Move Your DNA, have been translated into more than 16 languages worldwide. Bowman teaches movement globally and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences such as the Ancestral Health Summit and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Her work has been featured in diverse media such as the Today Show, CBC Radio One, the Seattle Times, NPR, the Joe Rogan Experience, and Good Housekeeping. One of Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change and an America Walks Woman of the Walking Movement, Bowman consults on educational and living space design to encourage movement-rich habitats. She has worked with companies like Patagonia, Nike, and Google as well as a wide range of non-profits and other communities to create greater access to her move more, move more body parts, move more for what you need message. Her movement education company, Nutritious Movement, is based in Washington State, where she lives with her family.

Reviews for Move Your DNA

[Nico · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Easy to understand, goes through a lot. PDF appears to be missing though.

[James · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Positively life changing information! Absolutely fascinating and scary how we've got it health so backwards with what we think as technological advancement..

[Jessica Cherrett · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Loved the way the information was presented and fantastic to have such a clear guide in a very complicated topic. While I already would describe myself as a mover I look forward to regaining some of the strength and flexibility lot to me through to many hours sitting.
Thanks to the author + their team for making this available.

[wyvernfriend · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is not a book you could borrow from the library to follow the advice from, it's a book you borrow from the library, realise that it resonates and buy your own copy. Or you read it, think about it and decide that you may have to work up to this. All the stuff you would have to do to lead up to this is pretty life-changing, it is interesting to read and I'm not sure I got all of the biology stuff.

[bangerlm · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

am a huge fan of Katy Bowman. Her holistic yet thoroughly scientific approach to health and wellness is extremely fascinating and incredibly effective. I have experienced first hand how releasing tensions and correcting alignments can fix seemingly unrelated health issues--and thus believe her when she says that the majority of chronic ailments our society suffers, have mechanical components that are largely unaddressed. The first part of the book is fairly technical discussing adaptions of the muscles and cells at microscopic levels. While it may be a bit much for some people I love the technical details and kind of wished for even more. The middle part of the book mostly describes how our modern environment causes our body to adapt into adopting damaging chronic positioning that cause us to restrict our ranges of motion. For instance don't sit on your tail bone, stand with your feet straight instead of pointing out, drop your ribs, ramp you head back over your shoulders instead of jutting it forward, straighten your legs instead of keeping your knees bent. She also points out the irony in that even those who are diligent exercisers are usually still sedentary for the majority of the time, and that the exercises most of us do for health are just more inputs that cause us to adapt to restricted ranges of motion instead of ones that promote greater ranges of motion and thus why many extremely fit people suffer from poor overall health. She also discusses the psychology of how if you are participating in movement as part of you daily life versus as a compartmentalized chore or activity, the greater an impact it will have on your overall health. Then in addition to adjusting your daily habits of sitting, standing, walking, etc she does offer some corrective exercises that can be done to help us mimic some natural motions we often miss in our modern lives. While the descriptions are thorough and contain pictures and also excellent notes on how our body can try to "cheat" to avoid the desired effect, I recommend watching her free youtube videos or downloading some of the $5 classes she offers, as videos are a better media for explaining exercises clearly.It is difficult to do a complete synopsis of the ideas she presents --and thus why she has written three books and has tons of videos, interviews, blog, etc, but once you have absorbed enough of what she says you get the bigger picture of how it is all connected.