What Doesn't Kill Us What Doesn't Kill Us

What Doesn't Kill Us

How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

    • 4.4 • 96 Ratings
    • $6.99

Publisher Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover how harnessing our body’s evolutionary adaptations to environmental stressors can help us unlock its full capabilities—now with a new preface and afterword

“Informative, fun, and with a healthy degree of danger, this is a book for the adventurer in all of us.”—Gabrielle Reece, co-founder, XPT (Extreme Performance Training)

Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a whisper of what anyone today might consider modern technology. Those feats of endurance now seem impossible in an age where we take comfort for granted. But what if we could regain some of our lost evolutionary strength by simulating the environmental conditions of our ancestors?

Investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney takes up the challenge to find out: Can we hack our bodies and use the environment to stimulate our inner biology? Helping him in his search for the answers is Dutch fitness guru Wim Hof, whose ability to control his body temperature in extreme cold has sparked a whirlwind of scientific study. Carney also enlists input from an Army scientist, a world-famous surfer, the founders of an obstacle course race movement, and ordinary people who have documented how they have cured autoimmune diseases, lost weight, and reversed diabetes. In the process, he chronicles his own transformational journey as he pushes his body and mind to the edge of endurance, a quest that culminates in a record-bending, 28-hour climb to the snowy peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro wearing nothing but a pair of running shorts and sneakers.

An ambitious blend of investigative reporting and participatory journalism, What Doesn’t Kill Us explores the true connection between the mind and the body and reveals the science that allows us to push past our perceived limitations.

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2017
January 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Harmony/Rodale/Convergent
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
3.6
MB

Customer Reviews

mexceh ,

Overall a win

This is overall a fantastic book. I gave it 4 stars because in places it got a bit self indulgent in a way that didn’t add to the narrative, also the book did not outline as much depth on the method than I was hoping for, but that may have been a misinterpretation on my part of the title and narrative therein. All of which is merely personal opinion, and overall was still a fun read and I would recommend.

Colleen

버핏안 ,

내안의 자아를 찾게끔 도움을 주는 저서

거짓 편안함을 벗어버리고 자유를 만낏하자

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