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There's something to the whole regenerative thing and fasting. Best I remember feeling in my adult life was after a 60 day fast. Not what I'd do today, or at l

There's something to the whole regenerative thing and fasting. Best I remember feeling in my adult life was after a 60 day fast. Not what I'd do today, or at least not the same way, but I highly recommend every healthy human fast for at least 7 days once every couple years. The plural of anecdote is not evidence, YMMV, consult your doctor, I don't even play one on the internet, etc. That being said, I'm currently on day 3 of an extended fast myself.

habibur 4y ago
So what do you take in those days? Like 60 days fasting. Only water? Vitamins? Salt?
- TimSchumann 4y ago
  I did water only for the first 30 days, which was stupid, and then supplemented electrolytes -- mainly Sodium, Magnesium, Potassium -- from days 31 onward. That one was super strict, no coffee, no tea, nothing. EDIT - Also, this is _not_ how I would go about this now 5+ years later with more experience under my belt.
  - SemanticStrengh 4y ago
    Wait what? English is not my native language, are you saying you didn't eat any food for 30 consecutive days??
    - wwarek 4y ago
      60 days as I understood - first 30 days just water and then the next 30 days water with electrolytes
      - SemanticStrengh 4y ago
        This guy should be dead, his body should have digested himself. How can someone not eat anything by his own will for more than a few days ? (5-7 max) you should pass out. Also in the case that were true, let me be clear: No food intake for multiple days is extremely dangerous for your health, it will upregulate autophagy, apoptosis and will break your mitochondria bioenegetics which will explode your oxidative stress (and therefore DNA breaks) and will induce partial ischemia/hypoxia/hypoglycemia which leads to an accelerated ageing process. Autophagy is nice, in little dose, and is best emulated pharmacologically (e.g. via some polyphenols)
        amelius 4y ago
        I guess he ate some bugs in his sleep.
        TimSchumann 4y ago
        Not sure why I’d pass out from just not eating, I had plenty of body fat on me for the entirety of the fast. I wasn’t starving myself. Estimating by weight loss my metabolism was still burning well over 2500kcal daily at the end of the fast.
        HanMei_333 4y ago
        Agreed. Pretty much my numbers as well - around 300 gr weight loss a day. An example: A person with 14 % body fat and 74 kg body weight has around 10 kg fat. That is more than enough to go for about 30 days without any calorie intake.
        TimSchumann 4y ago
        Yeah, my weight loss was around 1.3 lbs or 600 grams daily. I'm a large human though.
        lm28469 4y ago
        That's not how it works at all. Not drinking water will damage/kill you real fast, not eating food on the other hand is pretty safe for most people. The longest fast was ~380 days [0] If you have some fat (75% of westerners are heavily overweight or obese) you can easily fast on water only for weeks, of course you're not going to be able to exercise heavily every day or run a marathon. But if you're an overweight office worker with no other health issues you'll be just fine. For anything over a week you probably should get medical assistance to keep an eye on vitamins and electrolytes, but you're not going to drop dead/unconscious/destroy your DNA What's dangerous is starvation, aka fasting until your body starts giving up, but for the average westerner that's going to take a long time. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast
      - TimSchumann 4y ago
        Correct. Which, for the record, I would never repeat and wasn't what I now consider safe. Electrolyte supplementation on an extended fast is important, and I drank way _way_ too much water in the early weeks of that fast, which is also dangerous.
    - TimSchumann 4y ago
      60 consecutive days

habibur 4y ago

So what do you take in those days? Like 60 days fasting. Only water? Vitamins? Salt?

TimSchumann 4y ago
I did water only for the first 30 days, which was stupid, and then supplemented electrolytes -- mainly Sodium, Magnesium, Potassium -- from days 31 onward. That one was super strict, no coffee, no tea, nothing. EDIT - Also, this is _not_ how I would go about this now 5+ years later with more experience under my belt.
- SemanticStrengh 4y ago
  Wait what? English is not my native language, are you saying you didn't eat any food for 30 consecutive days??
  - wwarek 4y ago
    60 days as I understood - first 30 days just water and then the next 30 days water with electrolytes
    - SemanticStrengh 4y ago
      This guy should be dead, his body should have digested himself. How can someone not eat anything by his own will for more than a few days ? (5-7 max) you should pass out. Also in the case that were true, let me be clear: No food intake for multiple days is extremely dangerous for your health, it will upregulate autophagy, apoptosis and will break your mitochondria bioenegetics which will explode your oxidative stress (and therefore DNA breaks) and will induce partial ischemia/hypoxia/hypoglycemia which leads to an accelerated ageing process. Autophagy is nice, in little dose, and is best emulated pharmacologically (e.g. via some polyphenols)
      - amelius 4y ago
        I guess he ate some bugs in his sleep.
      - TimSchumann 4y ago
        Not sure why I’d pass out from just not eating, I had plenty of body fat on me for the entirety of the fast. I wasn’t starving myself. Estimating by weight loss my metabolism was still burning well over 2500kcal daily at the end of the fast.
        HanMei_333 4y ago
        Agreed. Pretty much my numbers as well - around 300 gr weight loss a day. An example: A person with 14 % body fat and 74 kg body weight has around 10 kg fat. That is more than enough to go for about 30 days without any calorie intake.
        TimSchumann 4y ago
        Yeah, my weight loss was around 1.3 lbs or 600 grams daily. I'm a large human though.
      - lm28469 4y ago
        That's not how it works at all. Not drinking water will damage/kill you real fast, not eating food on the other hand is pretty safe for most people. The longest fast was ~380 days [0] If you have some fat (75% of westerners are heavily overweight or obese) you can easily fast on water only for weeks, of course you're not going to be able to exercise heavily every day or run a marathon. But if you're an overweight office worker with no other health issues you'll be just fine. For anything over a week you probably should get medical assistance to keep an eye on vitamins and electrolytes, but you're not going to drop dead/unconscious/destroy your DNA What's dangerous is starvation, aka fasting until your body starts giving up, but for the average westerner that's going to take a long time. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast
    - TimSchumann 4y ago
      Correct. Which, for the record, I would never repeat and wasn't what I now consider safe. Electrolyte supplementation on an extended fast is important, and I drank way _way_ too much water in the early weeks of that fast, which is also dangerous.
  - TimSchumann 4y ago
    60 consecutive days