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CROSSOVER EVENT: Tim Ferriss’s "The 4-Hour Body"

Apr 16, 2026 · 1h 8m

Summary

Maintenance Phase hosts Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbs are joined by Peter Shamsheri to critique Tim Ferriss’s *The 4-Hour Body*. They dissect Ferriss’s “slow-carb” diet, supplement stacks, and extreme biohacking methods, such as weighing his own feces. The group mocks his reliance on anecdotal evidence, anti-expert rhetoric, and the absurdity of treating health optimization as a tech startup problem.

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