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Author Benjamin Lorr wandered into a yoga studio - and fell down a rabbit hole. Hell-Bent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of American yoga. Benjamin Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found the yoga reinventing his life. He was studying Bikram Yoga (or "hot yoga") when a run-in with a master and competitive yoga champion led him into an obsessive subculture - a group of yogis for whom eight hours of practice a day in 110-degree heat was just the beginning. So begins a journey.

It's hard. You struggle with your health. People tell you, “It's your genes.” Or they recommend medicine or surgery as your only options. Unfortunately, conventional medicine has ignored the basics of what it takes to build health and reverse disease, offering nothing more than medical interventions to control such problems, and nothing to reverse them. But no longer!

Whipping your body into shape, especially when you hope to achieve this quickly, can be one of the toughest challenges you ever face. But it can also be one of the best things you ever do for yourself. Everything, from your mental health, physical health, and relationships, can be drastically improved by getting fit.