The longest fast was 382 days. He wasn't trying to one-up Jesus though so he avoided being smote. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast
I got in to fasting on Reddit about 5 years ago, which was stupid but I was super overweight at the time, and young enough to be resilient. It's not something I'd recommend to others but I was blown away by how much safer it is than it's often portrayed to be.
There was a whole tag on the subreddit for the "longer then jesus club". For the vast majority of people it's dangerous, but if you have the weight to lose, drink plenty of water and take salt, magnesium and potassium supplements, one month is fine. Humans, along with most animals, are surprisingly resilient to starvation, because of course we are.
Although of course, if you don't have the weight to lose, it gets potentially deadly very quickly. This is why I'd not recommend it to anybody.
Were you exhausted all the time during the fast? Or did it kind of level out after a few days?
And down the rabbit hole I went 🫡
He died at 51, 24 years after concluding his fast. They say there weren't ill effects, but I'm curious if it may have played a role in the long term. Of course, he had 51 years of environmental factors and his genetics, so it would be difficult to determine in any meaningful way.
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