Publishing November 15, 2026
Health by Habit
Take Charge and Master Your Health
You already know that food, movement, and sleep matter. Knowing was never the problem. The problem is twenty years of putting your health behind everything else and no credible way to undo it at 55. Here is the way through — the right habits, in the right order, at a pace a working man can hold.
Foreword by Anthony Iannarino · No charge to reserve
“I can't wait to be able to hand out copies to my patients.”
Dr. Nola MacDonald, DO
Physician
“It doesn't promise miracles, and that restraint is exactly what makes it trustworthy.”
Charles R. Justiz, PhD
Former NASA research pilot
“He writes as the man who lived it, not the expert looking down from the podium, and that's exactly why it lands. If you're over 50 and quietly outsourcing your health, read this and take charge.”
Jon Ferrara
Founder of Nimble
Why this book exists
There Is No Easy Button. But There Is a Roadmap.
For years, I was looking for the thing that would finally fix me.
I tried injections, chiropractors, massage, lotions, gadgets, supplements, stem cells—anything that promised relief. I wasn’t avoiding effort. I was looking in the wrong place.
Then came nine procedures in fourteen months.
My doctors were good at their jobs, but no one could give me a plan for the other 8,760 hours of the year. That was the part I had to own.
So I stopped searching for the next fix and started building a system. I read the research, tested it in real life, discarded what didn’t hold up, and kept what did.
This book is that roadmap.
There is no easy button. But there is a way forward.
Inside
Four parts.
Ten chapters.
One direction.
Part One
The Foundation
How health slips away quietly, why outsourcing it to specialists stops working, and how habits are actually built. The most important move you make is the decision to stop waiting.
Part Two
The Pillars
Motion, food and sleep, in that order and for a reason. Pull these levers consistently and your body responds. Ignore them and it keeps the score.
Part Three
The Hidden Variables
The pillars tell you what to do. The hidden variables determine whether it lasts. Mindset, stress, purpose and community, treated as structural rather than soft.
Part Four
Your Turn
The 90-day sequence that turns the reading into a plan with a starting line. You do not need more information. You need a first move.
Plus the appendices you will actually use: the Six Moves, each distilled to the single most important thing to do first, the food principles, the 90-day sequence, and the questions to bring to your next appointment.
Written for you if
- ✓You are over 50 and the cost of the last twenty years is showing up.
- ✓You have started before and stopped before, more than once.
- ✓You want a plan you can hold alongside a job, a family, and a bad knee.
- ✓You are tired of health advice that changes every eighteen months.
Look elsewhere if
- —You want a 30-day body transformation.
- —You are looking for supplements, peptides, or a shortcut.
- —You already have a system that is working. Keep it.
“A framework that meets midlife men where they actually are, not where we wish they'd started twenty years ago.”
Kristen Coffield
Founder, The Culinary Cure
“Over twenty years in the fitness industry, I've heard every question there is. Health by Habit covers all of it in one book. I watched Alan make these changes firsthand. He practices what he preaches.”
Tate Ford
Fitness Director, Club Loveland
The author
A man who had to figure it out at 59.
Alan D. Martin spent 35 years building teams and businesses in high tech while his health slid. Chronic back pain, a failing knee, an ankle that changed the way he walked, and a cane he did not expect to need for another twenty years.
He applies the same discipline he used to run technology companies to the problem of rebuilding a body after fifty. He writes from the far side of it, a few steps ahead on the same road.
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Also from Health by Habit
The book gives you the plan. The subscription is where you run it.
Daily Compass for direction, the Habit App for the daily work, The Playbook for training, and Insights to show what is moving. Every habit the book asks you to build has somewhere to live.
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