About the Book: Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy,
Healthy Self
In many ways, were more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered,
temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives be the leading cause of
many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping
investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid
visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning
trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive
solution: discomfort. Easters journey to understand our evolutionary need to be
challenged takes him to meet the NBAs top exercise scientist, who uses an
ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical
country