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What follows is purely anecdotal and just my experience, but protracted fasting had obvious changes on my general mental health. My experiences were a month of

What follows is purely anecdotal and just my experience, but protracted fasting had obvious changes on my general mental health. My experiences were a month of 3 day water fasts followed by a meal (whole foods like plants and steak), and since then (this was 2 years ago) I do a 3 day fast every 1-2 months or so. I also was able to stop craving sugars (sodas/ candy, etc) after that first long fast. I have nothing conclusive, but I suspect that the changes in my mental health and dietary cravings have to do with killing off chunks of my microbiome in the first long fast. Could just be either placebo or other life changes (I turned 40, my wife had left me a month before, and I gave up drinking for 6 months during and after the fast). So your milage may vary, but if your question is sincere, it might be easier to modify a biome by trimming it back rather than adding to it. I'd be super stoked to have contradictory / corroborating evidence, though.

theshrike79 8y ago
Another voice for fasting from here too. I do 16:8 intermittent fasting and my energy levels are a lot better. Basically I just eat my last meal around 19:00 and skip breakfast. Lunch around 11:00. I may have a sugar free energy drink in the morning to pick me up (my poor stomach doesn't approve coffee any more, too much of it in my younger days... =) )
- cageface 8y ago
  I’ve been doing this too and I was skeptical but it does seem to be making a significant difference. My blood sugar levels are a lot more stable and I don’t get hungry and shaky anymore. I can easily skip another meal now too if needed and it’s no problem.
johnfn 8y ago
Your life left you a month before and you think that it wasn’t that but the fasting that affected your mental health?
- scarecrowbob 8y ago
  Well, who knows? The changes to my general modes of dealing with stuff were pretty dramatic. I don't think that my wife leaving made it easier to not eat sweets, but who knows? I was still pretty upset, I just wasn't suicidally depressed, which was a fair improvement. And as I have continued with the fasting through the months, I have felt better around those times when I'm fasting.
- immernerstheime 8y ago
  I am not scarecrowbob, nor the mages og game of thrones , who can see with the eyes of crows and Condors, but... in my eXperience of leaving life around 30 days ago the facts that affected my mental health , yaeh... but you know the movie Blue Immensity , like my previously private known as immerseintheimmensity, the guy was immerse in the Only One Ocean, the One... that connects all seven Seas and five Oceans, As For they are One, freaking All Only One Onipresent Ocean...As the Skyes and the One Sky the guy did not die Nor it was The End of the Movie... when he goes swimming with the Dolphins or dancing with the wolves... nor had the deer died, the deer is as alive as fire, in the mouths of people in the names of children that birth right now in this very second, like poetry like the legacy of The Spirit of The Forest of Princess Mononoke and the legacy of Hentaro Miyazaki and his drawings of light and paintings of brightness like Wu Ze Tian , previously known as Wu Zhao currently known as The Brightness and The Light
justanotherjoe 8y ago
wait, are you saying that you're general mental health changed for the better, or for the worse? I think you forgot to mention that.
- scarecrowbob 8y ago
  LOL. Yeah, for the better.
  - justanotherjoe 8y ago
    I had to ask because the tone of the article is beneficial microbiota that corresponds with happiness. To kill microbiotas by fasting seems to go against the article...
    - dTal 8y ago
      I imagine, if there's any relationship to fasting at all, it's that the fast doesn't so much kill all bacteria but changes the population profile in a beneficial way. For example, perhaps bacteria that subsist on refined sugars can't tolerate starvation so easily.
- infimoinfinito 8y ago
  It depends on how you see it, half full or fully full, your mood is much better, you run and jump and play and make sports like a champ like better then Ever and you enjoy the life the beach and the sun, so it sounds like your mood have changed for much better, but... you speak with the birds and the trees around the streets the parks and the beaches, so it sounds like the mental health changed for worse, but... anyway, no matter how you see it , it changed for a much happier life
ptah 8y ago
giving up alcohol is doing wonders for me too
- immernerstheime 8y ago
  they conserve snakes in alcohool in jars of glass snakes poisonous most probably that they capture around their houses in my Patria Mother Brazil thanks... well so it not conserves the snakes very well there is a Argentinian music band named Conservados En Alcool yaeh but I think keeping away from alcohol, Away , mind you what I write , not always , is Away , keep walking to yeah keep walk journey daily yaeh io cool... keep cool too too 22 .. .. look trough two two glasses .. .. to to keep your Vision Beyond Reach as for two two glasses are three and equals 3 as helps the memory forgets what your Vision see or at least keep out of reach... Keep The Vision Beyond Reach Keep cool Keep walking please thanks ~look trough 2 too you , look to trough a pair of glasses hand tailored for you and a glass of jonie walker fully full or half full how you like it and it makes 3 makes indeed 3 it makes three, as you Sea it makes three makes tea makes thee as you Sea on the See equals three you see you sea you see...

theshrike79 8y ago

Another voice for fasting from here too. I do 16:8 intermittent fasting and my energy levels are a lot better. Basically I just eat my last meal around 19:00 and skip breakfast. Lunch around 11:00. I may have a sugar free energy drink in the morning to pick me up (my poor stomach doesn't approve coffee any more, too much of it in my younger days... =) )

cageface 8y ago
I’ve been doing this too and I was skeptical but it does seem to be making a significant difference. My blood sugar levels are a lot more stable and I don’t get hungry and shaky anymore. I can easily skip another meal now too if needed and it’s no problem.

johnfn 8y ago

Your life left you a month before and you think that it wasn’t that but the fasting that affected your mental health?

scarecrowbob 8y ago
Well, who knows? The changes to my general modes of dealing with stuff were pretty dramatic. I don't think that my wife leaving made it easier to not eat sweets, but who knows? I was still pretty upset, I just wasn't suicidally depressed, which was a fair improvement. And as I have continued with the fasting through the months, I have felt better around those times when I'm fasting.
immernerstheime 8y ago
I am not scarecrowbob, nor the mages og game of thrones , who can see with the eyes of crows and Condors, but... in my eXperience of leaving life around 30 days ago the facts that affected my mental health , yaeh... but you know the movie Blue Immensity , like my previously private known as immerseintheimmensity, the guy was immerse in the Only One Ocean, the One... that connects all seven Seas and five Oceans, As For they are One, freaking All Only One Onipresent Ocean...As the Skyes and the One Sky the guy did not die Nor it was The End of the Movie... when he goes swimming with the Dolphins or dancing with the wolves... nor had the deer died, the deer is as alive as fire, in the mouths of people in the names of children that birth right now in this very second, like poetry like the legacy of The Spirit of The Forest of Princess Mononoke and the legacy of Hentaro Miyazaki and his drawings of light and paintings of brightness like Wu Ze Tian , previously known as Wu Zhao currently known as The Brightness and The Light

justanotherjoe 8y ago

wait, are you saying that you're general mental health changed for the better, or for the worse? I think you forgot to mention that.

scarecrowbob 8y ago
LOL. Yeah, for the better.
- justanotherjoe 8y ago
  I had to ask because the tone of the article is beneficial microbiota that corresponds with happiness. To kill microbiotas by fasting seems to go against the article...
  - dTal 8y ago
    I imagine, if there's any relationship to fasting at all, it's that the fast doesn't so much kill all bacteria but changes the population profile in a beneficial way. For example, perhaps bacteria that subsist on refined sugars can't tolerate starvation so easily.
infimoinfinito 8y ago
It depends on how you see it, half full or fully full, your mood is much better, you run and jump and play and make sports like a champ like better then Ever and you enjoy the life the beach and the sun, so it sounds like your mood have changed for much better, but... you speak with the birds and the trees around the streets the parks and the beaches, so it sounds like the mental health changed for worse, but... anyway, no matter how you see it , it changed for a much happier life

ptah 8y ago

giving up alcohol is doing wonders for me too

immernerstheime 8y ago
they conserve snakes in alcohool in jars of glass snakes poisonous most probably that they capture around their houses in my Patria Mother Brazil thanks... well so it not conserves the snakes very well there is a Argentinian music band named Conservados En Alcool yaeh but I think keeping away from alcohol, Away , mind you what I write , not always , is Away , keep walking to yeah keep walk journey daily yaeh io cool... keep cool too too 22 .. .. look trough two two glasses .. .. to to keep your Vision Beyond Reach as for two two glasses are three and equals 3 as helps the memory forgets what your Vision see or at least keep out of reach... Keep The Vision Beyond Reach Keep cool Keep walking please thanks ~look trough 2 too you , look to trough a pair of glasses hand tailored for you and a glass of jonie walker fully full or half full how you like it and it makes 3 makes indeed 3 it makes three, as you Sea it makes three makes tea makes thee as you Sea on the See equals three you see you sea you see...