This book is packed with valuable information. Very good information provided. Thanks to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for the arc of this book in return for my honest review. Receiving the book in this manner had no bearing on this review.

On the one hand the takeaway from this book is pretty similar to many other diet books.
On the other hand if you are willing to put in the work this book has a great deal of background information not present in other books which will help you make more educated decisions. I normally have at most a few notes for an ebook, this one has a few dozen so that says something about its utility.

I have little background in science outside of computer science and this book reads like a lullaby - an interesting one - to me. Meaning it is easily understandable to me without any need to resort to googling. I am interested in health and listen to countless podcasts and picked up what I needed to get this from people like David Sinclair, Rhonda Patrick and Peter Attia. If you like those people I imagine you'd like this. I imagine without this background you'd need to put a dozen or so terms into wikipedia. The terms you'd learn are imperative to knowing how the body works so its worth the work.

In other words, if you are interested in things like how glucagon works this book is for you. If you want to be spoon-fed your information you're probably better off reading the latest Dr Oz book as you weren't planning on learning why things work and will accept shallow answers without a mechanistic explanation. Let's face it, nutrition is not a science and you will have to do your own legwork or you will be at the whims of lobbying groups pushing "super" foods with trumped up evidence or well meaning groups causing obesity epidemics by recommending low fat diets because they didn't have time to better research (and to think I like McGovern as a person!). Lastly, if you are not willing to do the work you will most likely complain about how this book is too sciencey which collectively explains the horrendous decisions our species is making.

As like most people, this book interested me because of the weight loss aspect. As someone who was already intermittent fasting, I was interested in Keto, but had never heard of protein cycling. This was very informative and is recommended.

I thought this would be a quick read, but it's packed full of scientific and nutrition info. I've been around long enough to know that this info will change in say 10 years, but for now it seems like solid advice. My only criticism is that everyone is different, and the book doesn't seem to acknowledge this and implies that this approach is for everyone -- wrong. However, it does have value and is worth trying (at least some of it).

Thanks very much for the review copy!!

This health/diet book makes a lot of sense. Our great-grandparents ate differently (both in food choice and how frequently they ate), and they weren't fighting obesity the way modern people do. The science of it makes sense, This will inspire a lot of people to eat differently!

So interesting!! I read chapters that applied to me and I have learned a ton. some of it was very scientific but I liked that

I've read many diet/healthy living books over the years, and I have to say this is one of the best I have ever come across. The author, James W. Clement, starts out by sharing a significant amount of scientific research to back up his findings. He takes on the idea that the Keto diet, famously filled with fat that is really considered unhealthy is actually a valid plan, but you shouldn't be doing it with all that animal fat. He also shares how intermittent fasting can help you live longer and lose a few pounds, but you should take breaks from it.

I loved how complete the information is, and his recommended ways to actually test how your plan is working.