Reading the study, it appears that for the most part, each day the patient's diet was restricted to a multivitamin and 1000 calories worth of carbohydrates. Ov

Reading the study, it appears that for the most part, each day the patient's diet was restricted to a multivitamin and 1000 calories worth of carbohydrates. Over the course of 382 days, the patient's weight went from 456 to 180. The patient adapted to fasting well and had no ill side effects except for one instance of passing out in the hospital during tests. One interesting fact is that ketones were seen in the patient's blood plasma all throughout the fast. I wondered if the 1000 calories of carbohydrates might significantly hamper ketone production, but apparently not. Or perhaps the ketone measurement was taken before administering the carbs? That particular detail wasn't clear to me. Should the HN submisison title reflect that this research was published in 1973? In the Urinary excretion patterns section it was noted that "A breakdown in the renal control of electrolyte excretion has been reported to occur in some pations after 40 or 100 days during prolonged fasting (Runcie & Thompson, 1970)." - I wonder what discoveries since 1973 concerning this have been made.