i'm tired of seeing mrbeast being continuously portrayed as a saint that can do no wrong
I watched the video because I'm a liberal:
He only made it through 14 days and in that time he lost 20 lbs. He had medical supervision.
Also he made a pinned comment:
Also for more context, I have Crohn’s disease (basically my gut has tons of inflammation) and I wanted to give it a break from food to see if that would help reduce inflammation because Crohn’s sucks. I learned a lot about how I can use fasting to reduce my inflammation and I’m glad I did this challenge :)
Know a guy with Crohn's and had a significant portion of his intestines removed. Shit can be life ruining
What if Jesus fasted in the wilderness but was also a hypebeast
:doubt:
I haven't got my Batchelor's yet, but from what I've learned of medicine so far this sounds like a straight-up lie.
On a less sarcastic note, assuming he's staying hydrated this article in healthline (https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/how-long-can-you-live-without-food#individual-time-period) suggests that he'd die some time after day 21 (at most, depending on factors like body fat and glycogen reserves) and would most likely require a medical intervention before then.
Edit: on the other hand, protesters on hunger strike have lasted 40, and one of the sources linked in the article states that in ideal conditions a human may last as long as two months but this wasn't without serious long term consequence to their health.
As an actual licensed doctor, what in the fuck are you talking about Jesse. This is a grandma tier belief. Famine and starvation is a huge part of our genetic legacy as humans. We are highly adapted to fasting.
I mean shit it's even passed on via epigenetics, most animals have some form of response towards starvation since calories can be hard to come by at times. Still kinda dumb that this mfer is doing it and I feel a bunch of kids are going to copy it.
Assuming he isn't straight up lying for clicks, he could get calories from drinking stuff like milk and protein shakes and not die of starvation even when he's technically not eating. That would feel absolutely awful tho, so he probably didn't do it.
If he's getting any calories at all, let alone drinking shakes, then it would be laughably pointless to make a video about. It's still eating, even if its liquid and people do that all the time. Plenty of people who fast go for 30 days with zero calories and report being only healthier and feeling better for it.
I ate 500 calories a day of boiled chicken and cucumbers for a few months and don't remember ever feeling fatigued because I had the fat to burn.
Zero calories for 30 days is at best gambling with your health. Your body will just shut down any function that's not necessary for immediate survival and you're seriously risking organ failure by the end of it. Anyone who says they voluntarily consumed 0 calories for 30 days and is healthier for it is lying either to themselves or you.
This is just wrong and I've consulted several doctors about it (M.D.s and a PhD nutritionist). Our bodies are made to live off our own fat so long as there is fat there to be used, so while what you said may be true for a person with little spare body fat, it's not true for (e.g.) most americans. As for some systems shutting down, that's part of the point. With the large energy expenditure that digestion requires no longer being needed, it can be "spent" elsewhere, such as autophagy, the using up of dead or unneeded cells to repair other systems.
I have talked to (or at least was present when listening to them talk) literally dozens of people who have fasted for a month or more and none of them experienced any ill health effects. My almost-2-week fast improved my own health more than any other single thing I've done, except for maybe quitting alcohol.
Unfortunately I need to do both again.
Oof, I suppose you could survive a while on ,like, protein shakes and vitamin supplements, etc. Not a good idea though.
I've personally water fasted (nothing but water, salt, and potassium - zero calories) for 12 days and it was only beneficial, not detrimental to my health. It also wasn't all that difficult since my body was used to shorter fasts already. I've known people who have gone significantly longer and 30 days isn't extremely uncommon. Like you mentioned, a lot depends on how much fat a person has stored up, but even someone already at their ideal BMI could fast for 30 days without any lasting negative consequences if done correctly.
What? No, with medical supervision (aka: infusions of necessary vitamins or whatever and proper water intake) it's actually very unlikely you're in any danger fasting for a month. I've done fasts multiple times and honestly once you get past the first few days you feel pretty good.
It takes a couple of days for your body to completely give up on using carbohydrates and after that you start feeling less tired, and most of the bad initial side effects can be negated by immediately drinking more water mixed with electrolytes to front load the loss you'll experience right away. Obviously you need to continue drinking electrolytes and maintaining some kind of intake of vitamins. With medical supervision you can get regular testing done that makes clear what you might be missing and that makes it far easier/safer
If only he had died 😔, I cant wait to ignore more these cringe click bait videos in my feed while I'm listening to music while I drive.
Somehow I doubt he actually killed himself (but uncritical support if he did).
I am, in fact, gonna hand it to em': His video titles/thumbnails seem almost specifically designed to troll Hexbear, and it works lol.
