The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
Simple: by eliminating certain foods for a limited period of
time. For most omnivores, removing meat is the hardest, and--therefore--the most valuable. To
quote Dr. John Berardi (a meat-eater, like me), whom we'll meet later: "In our quest for lling
one-third of our plate with animal esh, sometimes we forget to think about what the other
two-thirds should be filled with."
The constraints of testing a primarily plant-based diet (what I'll refer to as "PPBD"), whether
pescatarian, vegan, or elsewhere on the spectrum, demands a knowledge of food that transcends
whatever you're eliminating. Even a two-week experiment produces huge permanent benefits.
For example: if you know you might become de cient in B-12 on a PPBD, you learn about B-
12, you learn about B vitamins, and you learn about vitamins in general, which might then
branch your interest out to desiccated liver (a good source), which leads you to eat grass-fed