{"product_id":"better-when-youre-not-watching-why-your-health-works-best-without-an-audience-9798195367282","title":"Better When You're Not Watching: Why Your Health Works Best Without an Audience","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joshua Sussfeld\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Eating Disorders \u0026amp; Body Image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if your body works best when you stop trying to optimize it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMackey Sasser was one of the best-throwing catchers in baseball, until one day he wasn't. The arm was the same. The shoulder was the same. What changed was that he started watching himself throw. The story has a name in baseball. It has a wider name in biology. \u003cb\u003eAlmost everything that keeps you alive works better when you are not paying attention to it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative, science-rich book, Joshua Sussfeld takes a hard look at the wellness industry's central premise: that constant self-monitoring leads to better health. Drawing on cutting-edge research from psychoneuroimmunology, interoception science, the gut microbiome, chronic pain neuroscience, and the placebo effect, he makes a case the wellness industry does not want you to hear. \u003cb\u003eThe body, on the whole, is not a problem to be solved. It is a system to be left alone.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross fourteen chapters, the book takes you through: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy heart rate variability trackers measure something they damage by measuring it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe new neuroscience of \u003ci\u003einteroception\u003c\/i\u003e and why \"listen to your body\" is much more complicated advice than it sounds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow chronic pain is being successfully treated by teaching patients how pain actually works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe mouthwash on your bathroom counter that may be raising your blood pressure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy a thirteen-year-old downloading a fitness app can land in clinical underweight in four months\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat the optimization industry is really selling, and the religious appeal underneath the marketing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book takes care to draw a clear line between the small set of cases where medical supervision saves lives, and the much larger industry that has sold ordinary people the idea that their bodies need constant external watching. Insulin saved a generation of children. Continuous glucose monitors marketed to non-diabetics produce orthorexia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not a recommendation to ignore your body.\u003c\/b\u003e It is a recommendation to listen to a smaller, more meaningful set of signals from it, and to stop trying to monitor the larger set of signals that, by their nature, work better when not monitored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eWhy Zebras Don't Get Ulcers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wellness Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNatural Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOutlive\u003c\/i\u003e, and anyone who has wondered, quietly, whether all the tracking and optimizing is actually helping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe kind of book you can finish on a long flight and remember for years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882835755159,"sku":"9798195367282","price":1014.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195367282.webp?v=1781097399","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/better-when-youre-not-watching-why-your-health-works-best-without-an-audience-9798195367282","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}