So my question is simple: The "concept" that fasting is in GENERAL good for your health has been around for...? Milenia...? AFAIK even socrates or some other greek/roman famous people have known and talked about the benefits of fasting...
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So there simply HAVE TO be quite a lot (?) of people who have been doing 3 days (or even more days) fasts literally for YEARS, or even DECADES... Like started doing 3+day fasts several times a year in the... 90s etc...
My question is: Are here (on reddit) such people? Do you know such people? Have u read/heard stories about such people...?
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What ("if any") benefits were reported about/by these people who have been doing 3days+ fasts for a LONG TIME (years... decades even...)...? Like did they look on average 10 years younger? Did they lived past 90 years old...? Did they nearly ever got sick or cancer etc...?
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Any reports about people doing fasting (3days +) for YEARS (decades) and their results...?
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Thank you
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It’s impossible to say. It’s like the people who smoke all the life and live until 90+
I use it as a tool to change things in my current life here and now. I don’t think or care about the long term effects of it
Fasting brings on fat loss and that’s only a good thing isn’t it, unless you are underweight to start with
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Disney - Chris Hemsworth series about health - episode 3 - is about fasting
Part of it covers Christians in Ethiopia that regularly fast as part of religion - including one a year fasting for 3 days while taking a 3-day journey on foot to celebrate Christmas. 75 year old says he’s never even had a cold and credits it to fasting