Timothy Ferriss

The best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek outlines a program for healthy living that draws on 15 years of research and interviews with leading doctors and health-care experts to offer insight into genetic factors, nutrition requirements and fitness practices. 200,000 first printing.

An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

The 4-Hour Body

Gavin

I like self-experimenters - they risk themselves to give knowledge to, potentially, billions - but the one thing they must have is a sense of the limits of their findings.

This is a hodgepodge of extreme, nominally scientific Pareto "lifehacks" for: rapid weight-loss, lazy bodybuilding, polyphasic sleep blah, regeneration from chronic injury, DIY female orgasm therapy. 

His conspicuous consumption of medical attention is risible ("Just $3800 four times a year for this battery of vanity tests!"); as is his name-dropping as self-promotion. 

Ferriss has a... creative grasp of biochemistry, and his brute lack of self-doubt lets him be productively provocative (e.g. "I do not accept the Lipid Hypothesis of cardiac disease"; "DO NOT EAT FRUIT"). He quotes heavily from experts, and he does do everything he advocates. 

The main advantage of him is that he is fearless about ridicule, actually following what he sees as the evidence. Thus there's a long section on the bodybuilding potential of vegetarian diets - which got him lots of scorn from the meathead-o-sphere - as well as an idiosyncratic list of the substrates that vegists are often missing. (Boron, anyone?)

He's pretty fixated on testosterone and infertility. I initially scoffed at his fear of phones irradiating his testicles - but there actually is reason to think so. Not your average loud guru pseud.

Sam Al-Wahid

This book revolutionised the way I look at my fitness, diet, and wellbeing. That sounds like high praise indeed, but it is very justified.

I read the book from cover to cover, even the stuff that I had to look up and read about in greater detail. This book inspired me to learn more about the human body; physiology, brain function, and biochemistry especially. I think it was when I was about 2/3 of the way through when I had that 'eureka' moment and realised what I needed to do to be the man I've always longed to be.

Get this book if you want to make simple yet meaningful change in your life. You won't be disappointed!

Mike Gregory

This was an amazing book. Very insightful and informative. Tim never fails to put in as much data as your brain can handle. He’s very thorough and yet does not bore you, even with a lot of scientific data. If you want results, read a Tim Ferriss book!

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Heiki Riesenkampf

Do you want to lose fat, double testosterone, get the perfect posterior or give your partner a fifteen-minute female orgasm? Whatever your physical goal, The 4-Hour Body eclipses every other health manual by sharing the best kept secrets in the latest science and research to provide new strategies for redesigning the human body. And you don't need to exhaust yourself. International bestselling author, Timothy Ferriss, helps you reach your true genetic potential in 3-6 months with a commitment of less than four hours per week. You can pick and choose from a menu of options, from simple to extreme, for dramatic body changes. Based on over 15 years of research and with personal stories, amazing before and after photos, recipes and sidebars, The 4-Hour Body will give unbelievable results and change the way you look forever.

The 4-Hour Body An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

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