By Ekaterina Kerub
HUMAN:
AN INSTRUCTION
MANUAL
Your body is not chaos.
It is a system.
A practical, unconventional instruction manual for understanding the body as an interconnected biological system rather than a collection of isolated symptoms.
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Inside HUMAN
An engineering manual
for your body.
The book uses an engineering metaphor to examine breathing, movement, the nervous system, circulation, muscle tension, nutrition, sleep, stress and recovery.
Written with clinical precision, engineering logic and sharp humor, it is a manual for learning how to read your own system more intelligently.
The system.
And its connections.
- Breathing & movement
- Breathing and the diaphragm; posture, movement and muscle tension.
- Flow & control
- Circulation, lymphatic flow and the nervous system.
- Fuel & recovery
- Nutrition, sleep, stress and recovery.
- Everyday maintenance
- Body awareness, compensation and adaptation; thinking about symptoms, practitioners and cause-and-effect.
For the reader
who wants to understand.
- Readers who feel that something is wrong even when they have repeatedly heard that “everything is normal.”
- Readers who want to understand how body systems interact.
- Readers interested in the logic of compensation, adaptation and recovery.
- Readers who want an educational framework for observing their own body more intelligently.
Authorship & intellectual property
Russian Federation
Patent for Invention
No. 2744997
The patent names Romanova Ekaterina Vladimirovna as holder and inventor of a method of manual facial reshaping involving the face, neck, shoulders, upper back and upper third of the chest.
Patent protection is not evidence of therapeutic efficacy.
Read the exact patent detailsThis book is educational and does not replace individual medical diagnosis or treatment.
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