>> To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive analysis of adverse events experienced during medically supervised, water-only fasting conducted to date. Overall, our data indicate that the majority of adverse events experienced were mild to moderate and known reactions to fasting. This suggests that the protocol used in this study can be safely implemented in a medical setting with minimal risk of a serious adverse event.
If only "the majority" of adverse events were mild to moderate known reactions, how many were severe? How many were unusual? And what does the medical setting provide (clearance, planning, monitoring, intervention) that people fasting on their own might lack?
Edit: It seems HN as a culture has a dislike of self confidence when it comes to health.
Yes, you can take care of yourself for the most part.
Fasting is done by many people in many cultures all over the world.
It seems this is a new concept to US citzens and maybe they are afraid of the idea that health is mostly a personal choice.
If fasting can be undertaken safely by an individual not in a health care setting, how? What is the mechanism for safety? What are some signs that fasting is veering towards unsafe- for that matter, what's unsafe fasting, anyway?
You should probably be asking is not fasting safe.
We live a lot longer than we used to, it's important to have data that backs up your claims. Just saying that people have done it for a long time doesn't mean much.
He specifically mentioned religions that have safe fasting practices, as demonstrated by people who have been fasting for thousands of years. Your argument is a strawman fallacy.
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-true-story-of-a-man-who-sur...
When you read books in history winter sucked because the lack of food. They would normally ration and it would literally be feast or famine. Just the way we evolved was to be able to do this.
It's safe because humans had no access to dental hygiene. Think about it, humans had neither toothbrush or toothpaste. And there where no dentist. Humans had to go through life without proper dental hygiene.
Obviously, not taking good care of your teeth is not a good idea. Even though our ancestors didn't.
TBF our ancestors weren't eating much
Also looks like cleaning our teeth goes much further back then tooth paste (19th Century Invention) https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/ancestors-eat-to-clean-tee...
[1] https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/dentistry/the-inv...