diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 36b4ee00c..e50bf7a24 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ multipart = ["mime_guess"]
 
 trust-dns = ["trust-dns-resolver"]
 
-stream = []
+stream = ["tokio/fs", "tokio-util"]
 
 socks = ["tokio-socks"]
 
diff --git a/src/async_impl/body.rs b/src/async_impl/body.rs
index d469c595e..afcce7177 100644
--- a/src/async_impl/body.rs
+++ b/src/async_impl/body.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@ use bytes::Bytes;
 use futures_core::Stream;
 use http_body::Body as HttpBody;
 use pin_project_lite::pin_project;
+#[cfg(feature = "stream")]
+use tokio::fs::File;
 use tokio::time::Sleep;
+#[cfg(feature = "stream")]
+use tokio_util::io::ReaderStream;
 
 /// An asynchronous request body.
 pub struct Body {
@@ -208,6 +212,14 @@ impl From<&'static str> for Body {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "stream")]
+impl From<File> for Body {
+    #[inline]
+    fn from(file: File) -> Body {
+        Body::wrap_stream(ReaderStream::new(file))
+    }
+}
+
 impl fmt::Debug for Body {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
         f.debug_struct("Body").finish()