Banned from r/fasting

I responded to someone’s comment on r/fasting with references to some social media accounts of individuals performing lengthy dry fasts, as well as a link to the 5 day dry fasting study you can find here in the “research” thread, and was permanently banned from the subreddit 🤦‍♂️ Absolutely unbelievable. I wasn’t advocating everyone run out and do it - someone mentioned that humans die after three days without water, so I showed them some notable anecdotes of that not being the case (August Dunning, @fastingwithtrevor) and a link to some actual science. Bummer.

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I wouldn’t feel too bad about it lol.

Most fasting proponents out there are against dry fasting and mostly stick to water fasting because lack of water/minerals can impact your heart/brain bla bla bla.

Millions of people in the world (religious or otherwise) do dry fasts yearly perfectly fine. Some people dry fast simply because they have nothing to eat and no clean water to drink.

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I just mentioned intermittent dry fasting (like in Islam) on a Keto thread and mod goes like: such a foolish thing to do, … plenty of evidence and studies…

Well, just accept it. People need another 10-20 years for a green light from researchers, to confirm things that people were doing safely for thousands of years. Even autophagy was proven to work only recently and it’s nothing but the most basic essential ability of humans

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I consider that sub a baby sub because people have to be monitored so tightly that you can’t even mention something we naturally do every night. Any sub that doesn’t allow for active and expansive discussion is a waste of time, just sucks that people won’t learn about dry fasting because of some sulky moderators

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Same happened to me; people were scaring some dude that his father would die because he wanted to dryfast, and I tried to point out that a lot of people do it and are fine. Toxic as hell, and we don’t need to fill our feed with toxic, do we?