The Stoic Body: An Ancient Twist To Modern Health

by Philip Ghezelbash

A unique, unconventional, and thought-provoking look at modern health.“Minus flying cars and travelling at the speed of light, cutting-edge technology today was science fiction a few decades ago. We now understand almost all there is to know about the human body down to a molecular level – yet obesity, disease and depressive lifestyles are our greatest opponents. In an age which dismisses much of ancient literature as old and outdated, more people are coming to realise that time must be taken to reflect on the wisdom of those who came before us in order to resolve the issues in front of us.”

In The Stoic Body, Philip Ghezelbash explores a wide range of societal issues through a combination of modern scientific research and ancient lessons to give you the practical knowledge you need to dominate your health, fitness and mind.

We all know to eat more vegetables and move more. But to truly live a healthy life and build a resilient body we must first aim to develop our character. This book will inspire, challenge and help you become a stronger version of yourself. 

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Philosophy

277 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2017

Reviews

[Rachael Hunter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even though this book starts out saying it's not designed for the fairer sex, I chose
to ignore this and feel like it was the correct choice to make. There are two pieces of gender specific advice and only one might be gender specific: firstly that women may have problems with fasting. I'm not a doctor but I am a woman and I (slightly disappointingly for my stoic practice) have no problems with a 16/8 fast. I've never heard of the evidence that women have problems with fasting before. Secondly some of the advice re sexual pleasure is pretty gender specific. From a female perspective it is totally unnecessary and potentially harmful, but obviously the author never meant it to be female specific, so all good. Overall the whole book could have had the same content but just included female examples eg flat stomach in addition to washboard abs as a workout goal, and it would have been more inclusive. I did get some fantastic advice from this book, with my favourite one being rules not goals. Well worth a read regardless of gender, race or sexual preference (although people with same sex partners might also find the sex chapter a little closed minded).

[William Tarbush · Rating 5 out of 5]

Studies in nutrition and habits

This book has a lot of study summaries on the care of one's body. It also wrote on common sense in Stoicism. The book does not prohibit anything, but suggests moderation. I found it enjoyable and easy to read

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful and informative

I enjoyed the various themes within the book, and it led to me, later pondering other thoughts and insights.

My view, it's a useful reference for creating a stoic mindset.

[Jonah Popi · Rating 5 out of 5]

A useful book providing great insight into how the stoic philosophy can be used to inspire better health and meaning in your life. It isn't a perfect book but it gets the ball rolling and I think that its momentum is way more important than the seemingly arbitrary end goal of being perfect. It has left me inspired to apply its ideas in the area of my life. I can see the benefit of coming back to this book and occasionally skimming through certain topics to get a simple and pretty solid understanding. I gave this book a personally high rating because to me great books are the ones that remain tools of inspiration and incite well after you read and revisited them.

[Sidi Mohamed · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a perfect introduction to the topic of stoicism in practice in the normal day to day life. Even though, I came across quite a few spelling mistakes, the general topics of the work were very interesting.

[Frederick Josey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read!

Unbelievable work on part of the author. Well written book. Young author! Very impressive work that I will lean on moving forward.

[Marie Larson · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was informative and made great sense to me. I was raised with many of the principles, but new information was presented that seemed to make a lot of sense.