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> I know a lot of people have subjectively good experiences with multi-day fasts, but I saw a talk where the presenter showed evidence that long fasts (more tha
by sweeneyrod 7y ago
> I know a lot of people have subjectively good experiences with multi-day fasts, but I saw a talk where the presenter showed evidence that long fasts (more than 72 hours) can cause long-lasting metabolic changes which weren't recovered even several years later.
I thought one of the benefits of fasting was long-lasting metabolic changes (for the better).
- skohan 7y agoSo my understanding is that there are positive changes associated with spending time in a state of ketosis, which is brought on by fasting as well as extremely low-carb diets: especially in the case of people who are already suffering insulin-related metabolic damage (like diabetes, prediabetes, or insulin insensitivity), there's evidence nutritional ketosis can help to halt or reverse that damage. What the talk I linked in the other comment talks about is something different: there's evidence that prolonged periods of severe calorie restriction can make your metabolism's bias move more toward storing calories and away from expending energy.