Tim Ferriss’s "The 4-Hour Body" (feat. Peter Shamshiri)

So for folks who are unfamiliar, Tim Ferriss's primary sort of claims to fame are his long running podcast and this previous book, The Four Hour Workweek.

He's like a life hack guy and an optimization guy.

Mm

hmm.

He's also sort of by trade, a tech guy and an investor.

And like many tech guys and investors, he is rich.

And that has given him the brain disease of I am rich, ergo, I must be right about everything.

And also, I must be a wellness influencer.

I feel like all these fucking guys want to be like gurus.

Before the four-hour work week, he sold a supplement called Brain Quicken.

Yeah, the four-hour

brain.

I looked into the active ingredients.

And it feels like very like trademark Tim Ferriss that he is listing out a bunch of like very scientific names for things.

He's doing the thing of saying ascorbic acid instead of just saying vitamin C. He's saying niacinamide instead of vitamin B.

So it sort of obscures that what this pill is, is like there's some adaptogenic mushrooms in it.

There's some B vitamins.

There's some amino acids.

There's some ginkgo.

There's some ginseng.

And there's a fuck ton of caffeine.

So like

it was largely a caffeine

pill.

People are like, I feel amazing on this.