Maintenance Phase
Tim Ferriss’s "The 4-Hour Body" (feat. Peter Shamshiri)
April 16, 20261h 8m · 11,783 words
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We're joined by Mike's If Books Could Kill co-host to revisit a biohacking diet book for the boys. Support us: Hear bonus episodes on Patreon Watch Aubrey's documentary Buy Aubrey's book Listen to Mike's other podcast Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more Links! The 4-Hour Body Does Glycemic Index Matter for Weight Loss? An Examination of the Evidence New! Improved! Shape Up Your Life! The 4-Hour Body: The Real App You Are Working On Is An App Called Yourself Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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Also, it sort of just assumes that, like, eating healthy and exercising are just chores that nobody would want to do deliberately, right? It's like, what's the least amount of tennis that I can play to, like, be shredded? But, like, surely the actual advice would be, like, find something you like doing. No, because he specifically says about both the diet and the exercise, you should not enjoy it.
“Rather than debate meta-studies, I simply weighed my poo.”
“it's sort of like a prototype of what has become a real sort of core ethos of the Maha movement, right? Which is just like, fuck experts. Nobody gets to decide but you what's good for you. It's not your doctor. It's not the newspaper. But it is an airport book.”
“he's trying to do, like, a science-y version of, like, a shitty misogynist sort of dating book. Right, you're doing card tricks, I'm eating beef.”
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