My approach shares principles with the Slow-Carb Diet including substituting many fruits with vegetables and cutting out most “white stuff” (or, as Michael Pollan says, “The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.”) which is important to staying low-carb.īefore reading this book, I didn’t think much about the minimum effective dose of, well, anything. Don’t eat white stuff unless you want to get fatter.”Īfter lots of self-experimentation using a glucometer to see how carbs impact my strength- and endurance-based performance, I’ve found that my body operates best on a low-carb/high-fat ratio. That is bad news if you eat anything white or ‘enriched’. That’s right–it’s used to produce diabetes. Researchers use alloxan in lab rats to induce diabetes. “Just for fun, another reason to avoid the whites: chlorine dioxide, one of the chemicals used to bleach flour (even if later made brown again, a common trick), combines with residual protein in most of these foods to form alloxan. Tim Ferris created The Slow-Carb Diet which has 5 rules including avoiding white carbs (except for cauliflower) and limiting fruit to once a week. I covered each chapter in notes and highlights worth reading but I’ve compressed that down to 3 things I learned from reading this book that still has an impact on me. The book is loaded with pictures, graphs, and diagrams that help illustrate a variety of techniques (exercises, stretches, etc.) and the results of his anecdotal experiments.Ī lot of what I read back then was fringe science but it has stood up to the critics and much of it is now well-recognized and practiced (although I don’t hear anyone talking about 15-minute female orgasms). The 4-Hour Body is a 500+ page book that combines his personal experience with interviews and experiences with the best in the fields of topics including muscle gain, sleep, injury prevention, sex, nutrition, and longevity. He rode the “4-Hour” wave with The 4-Hour Chef and another called 4-Hour Body An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman. From there he has become respected for his podcast interviews and his work and funding with psychedelics through Johns Hopkins. Tim Ferris skyrocketed to stardom with his first book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich back in 2007. “The major fears of modern man could be boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat.”
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