Shame that the most insightful comment in this thread is heavily downvoted.

I hope that in 20 years when prolonged fasting becomes mainstream and recognized as a treatment and cure to many "incurable" illnesses, I get back the thousands of HN karma points I lost over the years to mindless downvoting of the simple truth nuggets I used to add to health related threads. I stopped doing it, the audience here is not ready to hear and be exposed to such concepts.