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Re:Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecula... by moltar on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @03:32PM (#20813578)
IMO it’s not unsafe. The longest supervised fast was a whole year long. The person was obese and only supplemented vitamins if I remember correctly.

Fasting is how we evolved to eat. We didn’t have Costco and fridges 10k years ago.

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Re:Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecula... by javagram on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @03:44PM (#20813694)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/

Note, however, he died relatively young although he did live a few decades after the fast https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast

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