diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 67c1990..50db374 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -53,9 +53,11 @@ time = "0.1.42"
 [dev-dependencies]
 env_logger = "0.6"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
+tokio = { version = "0.1.7", default-features = false, features = ["rt-full", "tcp", "fs"] }
 tokio-tcp = "0.1"
 libflate = "0.1"
 doc-comment = "0.3"
+bytes = "0.4"
 
 [features]
 default = ["default-tls"]
diff --git a/examples/async_stream.rs b/examples/async_stream.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3081483
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/async_stream.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+#![deny(warnings)]
+
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate futures;
+extern crate bytes;
+extern crate reqwest;
+extern crate tokio;
+extern crate tokio_threadpool;
+
+use std::io::{self, Cursor};
+use std::mem;
+use std::path::Path;
+
+use bytes::Bytes;
+use futures::{Async, Future, Poll, Stream};
+use reqwest::async::{Client, Decoder};
+use tokio::fs::File;
+use tokio::io::AsyncRead;
+
+const CHUNK_SIZE: usize = 1024;
+
+struct FileSource {
+    inner: File,
+}
+
+impl FileSource {
+    fn new(file: File) -> FileSource {
+        FileSource { inner: file }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Stream for FileSource {
+    type Item = Bytes;
+    type Error = io::Error;
+
+    fn poll(&mut self) -> Poll<Option<Self::Item>, Self::Error> {
+        let mut buf = [0; CHUNK_SIZE];
+        let size = try_ready!(self.inner.poll_read(&mut buf));
+        if size > 0 {
+            Ok(Async::Ready(Some(buf[0..size].into())))
+        } else {
+            Ok(Async::Ready(None))
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn post<P>(path: P) -> impl Future<Item = (), Error = ()>
+where
+    P: AsRef<Path>,
+{
+    File::open(path.as_ref().to_owned())
+        .map_err(|err| println!("request error: {}", err))
+        .and_then(|file| {
+            let source: Box<Stream<Item = Bytes, Error = io::Error> + Send> =
+                Box::new(FileSource::new(file));
+
+            Client::new()
+                .post("https://httpbin.org/post")
+                .body(source)
+                .send()
+                .and_then(|mut res| {
+                    println!("{}", res.status());
+
+                    let body = mem::replace(res.body_mut(), Decoder::empty());
+                    body.concat2()
+                })
+                .map_err(|err| println!("request error: {}", err))
+                .map(|body| {
+                    let mut body = Cursor::new(body);
+                    let _ = io::copy(&mut body, &mut io::stdout()).map_err(|err| {
+                        println!("stdout error: {}", err);
+                    });
+                })
+        })
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let pool = tokio_threadpool::ThreadPool::new();
+    let path = concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "/LICENSE-APACHE");
+    tokio::run(pool.spawn_handle(post(path)));
+}
diff --git a/src/async_impl/body.rs b/src/async_impl/body.rs
index 1bc256d..42119a1 100644
--- a/src/async_impl/body.rs
+++ b/src/async_impl/body.rs
@@ -137,6 +137,18 @@ impl From<&'static str> for Body {
     }
 }
 
+impl<I, E> From<Box<dyn Stream<Item = I, Error = E> + Send>> for Body
+where
+    hyper::Chunk: From<I>,
+    I: 'static,
+    E: std::error::Error + Send + Sync + 'static,
+{
+    #[inline]
+    fn from(s: Box<dyn Stream<Item = I, Error = E> + Send>) -> Body {
+        Body::wrap(::hyper::Body::wrap_stream(s))
+    }
+}
+
 /// A chunk of bytes for a `Body`.
 ///
 /// A `Chunk` can be treated like `&[u8]`.
diff --git a/tests/async.rs b/tests/async.rs
index 4a50662..b36d929 100644
--- a/tests/async.rs
+++ b/tests/async.rs
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ extern crate libflate;
 extern crate reqwest;
 extern crate hyper;
 extern crate tokio;
+extern crate bytes;
 
 #[macro_use]
 mod support;
 
-use std::io::Write;
+use std::io::{self, Write};
 use std::time::Duration;
 
 use futures::{Future, Stream};
@@ -16,6 +17,8 @@ use tokio::runtime::current_thread::Runtime;
 use reqwest::async::Client;
 use reqwest::async::multipart::{Form, Part};
 
+use bytes::Bytes;
+
 #[test]
 fn gzip_response() {
     gzip_case(10_000, 4096);
@@ -231,3 +234,51 @@ fn gzip_case(response_size: usize, chunk_size: usize) {
 
     rt.block_on(res_future).unwrap();
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn body_stream() {
+    let _ = env_logger::try_init();
+
+    let source: Box<Stream<Item = Bytes, Error = io::Error> + Send>
+        = Box::new(futures::stream::iter_ok::<_, io::Error>(
+            vec![Bytes::from_static(b"123"), Bytes::from_static(b"4567")]));
+
+    let expected_body = "3\r\n123\r\n4\r\n4567\r\n0\r\n\r\n";
+
+    let server = server! {
+        request: format!("\
+            POST /post HTTP/1.1\r\n\
+            user-agent: $USERAGENT\r\n\
+            accept: */*\r\n\
+            accept-encoding: gzip\r\n\
+            host: $HOST\r\n\
+            transfer-encoding: chunked\r\n\
+            \r\n\
+            {}\
+            ", expected_body),
+        response: b"\
+            HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\
+            Server: post\r\n\
+            Content-Length: 7\r\n\
+            \r\n\
+            "
+    };
+
+    let url = format!("http://{}/post", server.addr());
+
+    let mut rt = Runtime::new().expect("new rt");
+
+    let client = Client::new();
+
+    let res_future = client.post(&url)
+        .body(source)
+        .send()
+        .and_then(|res| {
+            assert_eq!(res.url().as_str(), &url);
+            assert_eq!(res.status(), reqwest::StatusCode::OK);
+
+            Ok(())
+        });
+
+    rt.block_on(res_future).unwrap();
+}