Peter Thiel: I'm on human growth hormone [video]

Re:Peter Thiel: I'm on human growth hormone [video] by salimmadjd on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @06:39PM (#8765162)

@bitL is correct. 48-74 hour fasting has shown to regenerate new immune cells [1]

Also as others have said it, you go over a bump and it becomes easy. Also, there is a window where I'm rather productive and less ADD when I'm fasting.

[1] http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/277860.php

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Re:Peter Thiel: I'm on human growth hormone [video] by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @07:19PM (#8765332)

> there is a window where I'm rather productive and less ADD when I'm fasting.

Something happens to the brain during prolonged fasting (within reason), and it's something that seems pretty darn good overall.

If you practice meditation, fasting seems to help a lot.

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Re:Peter Thiel: I'm on human growth hormone [video] by kylebrown on Thursday December 18, 2014 @11:17AM (#8767956)

There are benefits to fasting for 10 hours: http://www.sciencealert.com/new-research-suggests-you-make-b...

The research was also summarized as "always gamble on an empty stomach."

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Re:Peter Thiel: I'm on human growth hormone [video] by mleonhard on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @08:53PM (#8765627)

And a better article about the study: https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regene...

The published paper: http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abstract/S1934-5909(14)00...

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