You Being Beautiful
The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty
Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
with Ted Spiker, Craig Wynett, Lisa Oz, and Arthur W. Perry, M.D.
Illustrations by Gary Hallgren
To all who radiate outer beauty
because they treasure inner beauty
This publication contains the opinions and ideas of its authors. It is intended to provide helpful and informative material on the subjects addressed in the publication. It is sold with the understanding that the authors and publisher are not engaged in rendering medical, health, or any kind of personal professional services in the book. The reader should consult his or her medical, health, or other competent professional before adopting any of the suggestions in this book or drawing inferences from it. For medicine and herbal supplements, remember that herbals and nontraditional medicines can have side effects with traditional medicines and even foods. Pregnant and nursing moms should check with their doctor and pharmacist about these, and even traditional medicines.
In addition, this book sometimes recommends particular products or websites for your reference. Drs. Oz and Roizen are not affiliated in any way with such products or entities (with the exception of the Real Age website). In some instances, other coauthors or contributors may be affiliated with a referenced product or website, but recommendations were made independent of such affiliation. In all instances, bear in mind that there are many products or websites other than those recommended here that may work for you or provide useful information to you.
The authors and publisher specifically disclaim all responsibility for any liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, which is incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of this book.
CONTENTS
Note to Readers
Dedication
Introduction
Your YOU-Q: Measure Your Inner and Outer Beauty
Part I: Looking Beautiful
1. In the Flesh: Make Your Skin Glow
2. Head of Class: How to Save Your Hair
3. Oral Victories: Your Mouth and Teeth Are a Portal to Your Inside—and Say a Lot About Your Outside
4. Digital Revolution: Shape Up Your Hands and Feet
5. Great Shape: How to Get the Body You’ve Always Wanted
Part II: Feeling Beautiful
6. Energized and Revitalized: Power Up Your Body by Resetting Your System
7. That’s Gotta Hurt: How to Manage Your Major Aches and Pains
8. Get in the Mood: What You Can Do to Straighten Out Your Mind
9. The Worry War: Solve Your Most Troubling Job and Money Issues
Part III: Being Beautiful
10. That Lovin’ Feeling: Improve Your Relationships with the People Close to You
11. That’s the Spirit: How to Find True Happiness
The Be-YOU-tiful Plan: Live the Ultimate Beautiful Day (and Improve Your YOU-Q)
YOU Tools: More Strategies for Helping You Become Even More Beautiful
Appendix: Healing with Steel - Finding the Right Plastic Surgery for You
Searchable Terms
Acknowledgments
Other Books by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. OZ
Copyright
About the Publisher
YOU Tools
Health Utensils (Your Medicine Cabinet, Home Hygiene, Infection Protection)
The Biophysical Battery: Energy Blood Tests
INTRODUCTION
For those of you who think beauty is about mirrors, makeup, and how many pudding packs you have to sacrifice to fit into your skinny jeans, then pull up a chair, postpone your top-of-the-hour Botox appointment, and hear this.
Beauty isn’t some vapid and superficial pursuit that exists solely to sell products, wag tongues, and produce drool. Beauty is actually precisely perceived, purposeful, and rooted more in hard science than in abstract and random opinion. From the time we started prancing around the world with our body-hair parkas and leafy lingerie, evolution has pushed us to be more beautiful. And that’s why beauty serves as the foundation for our feelings, our happiness, and our existence. In fact, beauty doesn’t reflect our vanity as much as it does our humanity.
Beauty—dear appearance-obsessed friend—is health.
We already know that beauty is always on your mind, because it’s on everyone’s minds. You can’t help but think about it or suppress it—consciously or not—every time you step in the shower or in front of the mirror. It drives many of the decisions you make about exercise and eating, and it determines how you choose between the black dress and the white pants.
This kind of traditional beauty—the outer kind—really isn’t just about looking good. Outer beauty serves as a proxy of how healthy you are; it’s the message you send to others about your health.* Way back when—before