The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
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"Garlic. Clove after clove. It's that simple."
The homeless man didn't want anything and never asked for anything. He was earnest. After
sharing his advice, he just walked away.
As unusual as this encounter was, I had, in fact, been looking at garlic for some time. This was
just the nal anecdotal push I needed to begin experimenting at much, much higher doses. The
homeless man's contribution to my latest cocktail made it all come together.
The nal feedback from one guinea pig, a semiprofessional athlete with approximately 9%
bodyfat at 200 pounds, was representative: "I've lost 6 pounds of fat in the last week. This is un-
freaking-believable."
Allicin, one component of garlic, appeared to be the missing fourth ingredient in a
supplement stack I'd been refining for two years: PAGG.
Before: ECA
From 1995 to 2000, I experimented with a fat-loss cocktail that comprised ephedrine
hydrochloride, ca eine, and aspirin--the famed and research-proven "ECA" stack. This was the