Oh well, it's not like the point of raising them is so that they have a full, long life until old age. They make eggs and when their egg production slows naturally, they make soup. The bones in the soup feed new chickens and the circle of life goes on.
This is true. I moved from eastern Europe to Sweden and was there for ... 3 years or so. I moved after I had the 'misfortune' to be witness to two things:
1) An entire neighbourhood in Stockholm rioting and burned down. 'The Rinkeby riots' they called it. I was shocked, never had experience something like that in my life.
2) A fucking grenade attack in Malmo.
After the grenade thing I said fuck it, fuck this place, I'm going back home.
I'm not British but an EU citizen living in the UK. Look, as much as I don't like the UK government being overly zealous, on this point - this guy is right. The UK is miles away from what the likes of Lithuania, France, Italy, Australia, USA and others have done.
There is no mask requirement. There is no vaccine requirement. People on the street and in businesses have stopped wearing masks, and going to work does not require you to get a vaccine - no matter the profession.
You can go get a haircut or your nails done, or go to the pub or a football match without a mask and without a QR code.
You can get a QR code if you want, there might be a business that requires it - but they're shooting themselves in the foot because there are alternatives - and people will go use the alternative. If you want to go in a hotel in Germany for example, you need a QR code. If you don't have one, you have no alternative - because ALL hotels require it.
In the UK, if you do manage to find that one hotel asking for QR codes, all you have to do is walk down the street to the next hotel and they won't be requiring it.
It really is - a recommendation - but not being enforced by the police, government or any other laws whatsoever. On this, the UK has been great.
i live in central london and haven't dealt with a bank for 3 years
people go: but how?!?! you can't do this, you can't do that, you can't bla bla bla.
bullshit. you CAN do anything the fuck you want. all you need is the willpower to do it although it involves a lot more relationship building, but most people today are anti-social and would rather suck bank cock instead so they just think that 'different' 'harder' means 'impossible'.
anyway, i work remote, i get paid in crypto, i don't declare shit or pay any tax. i pay my rent in crypto (in the past i also paid it in cash, easy enough - just withdraw from a crypto atm). i buy with cash or crypto.
if you really must, you can get a pre-paid debit card which you fund with crypto and it works the exact same way as any other card, but i'd rather not support visa or mastercard or any of that jewery.
if it wasn't for crypto, i'd be fucked, since nobody pays cash in hand for work anymore these days, but... i'd ultimately find a way.
what do I get out of this? 6 things:
1) I find and deal with people I like and trust, to a degree
2) I have complete control over my finances - there's no credit score this, debt that, know your customer this, interest that
3) I don't support, give money to, or deal with banks in any way
4) The government knows jack shit about my spending habits
5) I earn a 12%-80% (it varies, but always within this range) APR on all my money. I basically live off the interest now (see decentralized finance if interested)
6) Best of all: I paid zero taxes in like, forever. If the taxman comes, they have no trace whatsoever of anything because I never associated crypto with my actual name. It's always crypto to cash without any KYC or direct crypto spending routed through Monero
Also, I started hoarding gold and shipping it offshore to bury on a plot of land I bought in another country, so there's that. If shit hits the fan, I'll get the fuck out of dodge, grow potatoes, and use to gold to stock-up and establish a forward base for anything I need there.
I feed my chicken anything. ANYTHING. They will eat anything offered, and they're plump as hell. Leftovers from a family of 4 will feed 20 chickens every day.
The worst part is: they eat other chickens too. In fact, they love leftover chicken bones more than grass.
Wait hold up, they want to vaccinate you even if you're remote? So let me get this straight: you might be in a different country altogether, but they still want you to get injected?
To protect the protected?
How are people's heads not exploding yet? What am I missing? How can EVERYONE ELSE be clinically insane yet declare the sane the insane?
I've been using IPFS for a year now. Decentralized is the way to go. My only problem with it is that it's not very private. Like, at all. It is censorship resistant, but it isn't private. Your IP is visible if you host or serve any image.
Why? It's the only one I found which:
1) Still takes Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash with a -10% discount and has done so for over 5 years without fail
2) They also accept cash in the post via snailmail if you prefer that
3) They require no sign-up, no email, no name - you just click a button and it generates a random account for you. Meaning, you can have a new account each day, week, year, or for however long you pay
4) They actually fight for privacy: they constantly put out helpful tools built by them such as a DNS leak checker, a private DNS maintained by them, and other things
5) They are open source completely
6) They haven't changed pricing for as long as I've been using them - years and years
I'm in no way affiliated with them but I've tried so many others and I've always returned to Mullvad. I never left Mullvad though, that's the beauty of it - they don't force you into year long subscriptions with all kinds of shitty discounts.
They practice a flat rate no matter the time, and it's a very fair one, and instead they survive - and thrive - on building a really good product.
Speed is top notch. No disconnects. I can't recommend them enough.
I've never taken a test - but in a few months, I will really, really have to cross a border and after weeks of searching, there seems to be absolutely no legal way of me crossing it without a test.
So I've searched around. There are now tests that they send at home, you spit in them, and send them back. They give you the result in less than 24 hours.
My plan is simple: I've got an English bulldog and he can't wait to drool all over it.
There are several 'providers' and they cost a lot but here's one for those wondering about them: https://www.haloverify.com/
The thing is, that test costs £60 or more. The vaccine costs the government £20 or so. No matter what you do, big pharma wins. I'm trying to not give them any money, because fuck them.
You don't use Indeed to apply for jobs, you use it to see who's hiring and for what. You then find the website, you then find their recruitment manager, and you then send an actual paper letter to said recruitment manager.
If you can't find their name, you send an email to [email protected] or to whomever you think is the head honcho for that particular department.
It depends what you're applying for though. If it's not something to do with computers, you're way better off printing off an intent letter and resume, and going directly to the place where you want to work.
'Ohhh but that takes time, I'd rather just apply to 2000 jobs in Indeed'. Well, alrighty then.
The way I got my job at a nice comfy start-up with no woke anything and a laid back CEO was by actually staking out the entrance of the office building they were based at until around 7pm when their CEO came out - I straight-up approached him and went: 'Hei man, I know I'm a rando, but I've read up a lot about what you do here and about you, and I'd love a chat about working with you. Here's my res...'
He went: 'I'm actually off to have a beer with the team, come along for a beer?'
I had a beer and a chat over a darts game and actually had a good time, job or no job. A few days later, he offered me a job. They weren't 'officially' hiring, but found a spot anyway. I've been there every since.
'Mate, either you're gonna comply with this, or I'm gonna arrest you, so what's it gonna be?'
Response: 'No, I'll comply'.
Video ends.
The appropriate response would have been:
'You fuckwads have no right to arrest me. So you'll have to shoot me because I'll fucking fight you with all I've got. Get the fuck off my property' and slam the door shut.
I got somewhat fired because of the coof and my views on coming back to the office without a vaccine. So I told them to get fucked and got a remote job, with a company registered in another country, which pays in crypto.
I then packed up and gave my country the finger, moved to a fucking paradise where $500 a month gets you a higher standard of living than £4000 a month in London.
Not only more than doubled my income because zero taxes, but I'm now spending less than 5% of my pay to live way better than I did before, in a sunny, warm and friendly place. No, not some third-world shithole, still in Europe.
95% savings rate and living the good life. This shit is insane and if I can keep it up for just a year, I can fucking retire in this place.
The plandemic is a blessing in disguise if you have the balls to tell people to get fucked. I didn't think I had it in me but it was pretty much the best decision I've ever made.
I lost 5kg and they came back within days after starting to eat again, even though I kept it to way under my necessary.
What I'm doing now, more longer term is different:
Intermitted Fasting (only eat between 4pm and 10pm) + A 40 hour fast (Saturday 10pm to Monday 4pm - I call it No Food Sunday) ever week + Eating only eating under my normal necessary by at least 30% deficit.
This way, I can learn how to eat healthy (keeping under my necessary by a lot means I have to prepare healthy but satiating meals - which usually means vegetables, raw fish and smoked meat, eggs, nuts).
This way I can still fast once a week.
This way I can continue almost indefinitely. It will take me about 6 months to get to my desired optimal weight, at which point I'll increase my daily requirements by 10% and add 2 lifting days. Right now, I'm only doing one swimming day.
My piss smells like fruits. I'm always thirsty. I have wild dreams. I dreamt about aliens that can only be contacted by a nigger in a bathtub on LSD last night.
Now for the blood tests:
I've seen little to no changes in HBG, HCT or Platelets.
My lymphocytes and neutrophils are under baseline however. No vitamin deficiencies so far, but my bilirubin is raised above baseline.
Too much B12 (?!)
Deficient in phosphate - advised to eat more eggs and dairy.
I normally only eat once a day, so a 24h for me is normal. I've tried a 72h one in 2019 and it went well so in 2020 I did a 7 day one. Water only.
I'd say that the first 48h are the hardest for anyone used to eating at least twice a day, so unless you're doing a 72+ one, you're getting the short end of the stick - since you'll only ever be experiencing the period where your body goes through the process of getting into full ketosis, and not much of the actual 'metabolic switch' when you're body switches from running on glucose to running on ketones.
I tracked my blood glucose and level of ketones and my metabolic switch was around the 60h mark, with the full effect (as you can see there's a curve even after, the switch is just the mid-way point in which more than 50% of your energy comes from ketones).
Here's how it looks: https://thequantifiedbody.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Glucose-Ketones-Fast-mimicking-diet.png
What most people should be after is to remain in the period after the switch for as long as they can.
Eating anything that has calories - and I do mean anything, will raise your blood glucose level and produce an insulin response (thus brining you out of ketosis) - so the only way to go about this is water only. No, no diet drinks either, since even though they don't have calories, the sweeteners do produce an insulin response.
I recommend 72h fasts for everyone. Once a month. If you're actually looking to lose weight, not just better your health, then I'd go as far as recommend 4 day ones.
For the rest of everyone, a 24h fast doesn't do much from a health perspective, but it will from a weight perspective, if you don't go abusing food the next day because 'you haven't eaten anything yesterday'. Just eat normal the next day, you'll feel just as full.
The science of fasting is quite well understood, and it can have very, very strong beneficial health effects. There are dedicated 'fasting clinics' in Russia, Germany and many other countries. You go in, you're not given food but you're kept under medical supervision. These are usually reserved for people that want to do 20 or 40 day water fasts. Here's a cool documentary about a Russian one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4TdlGagQ5M
By the way, the 40 day water fast is also called a 'biblical fast' because yes, you guessed it - the bible advocates for one every now and then.
Here's what happened to me during the 7 days of a water fast:
1) My nails and hair stopped growing
2) I had a lot of diarrhea until I learned I need to drink natural water (i.e the one that came from the ground, even if the carbonated it) since that one contains sodium, potassium and magnesium naturally.
3) My skin cleared. I don't have skin issues to begin with but I looked... better.
4) I usually take a shower and 12 hours later I already have dandruff. I had zero dandruff after this for almost a week. I noticed it around Day 5.
5) I lost about about 0.5kg per day.
6) Headaches in the first 48h, problem sleeping in the first 3 nights.
7) Insane levels of energy and mental clarity from Day 3 on-wards.
I'm planning a 10 day one and won't ever do a 48h ever again. I don't see the point. I'd rather do a 10 day one once every 6 months instead of 2 days ever month.
Besides massive health benefits I'd say that the best thing about this is: Once you fast, you're naturally attracted to healthy foods after. A fucking cucumber tastes like heaven, peas are out of this world and a simple bowl of chicken stock is worth its weight in gold as far as you're concerned. The effects persist, especially if you push yourself a bit. They stop the moment you eat any processed food or anything that has added sugar.
ZorbaTheGreek 5 points 2.5 years ago
I'm european and I once had an american gurlll put off by my dick because it looks so strange with all that skin.
She was a roastie, with like, a double whopper down there, and had the nerve to ... that.
I wasn't offended, I was more amused that the brainwashing about cut dicks is so far gone in the states that people think uncut is unnatural.
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ZorbaTheGreek 0 points 2.5 years ago
Oh well, it's not like the point of raising them is so that they have a full, long life until old age. They make eggs and when their egg production slows naturally, they make soup. The bones in the soup feed new chickens and the circle of life goes on.
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ZorbaTheGreek 0 points 2.5 years ago
This is true. I moved from eastern Europe to Sweden and was there for ... 3 years or so. I moved after I had the 'misfortune' to be witness to two things:
1) An entire neighbourhood in Stockholm rioting and burned down. 'The Rinkeby riots' they called it. I was shocked, never had experience something like that in my life.
2) A fucking grenade attack in Malmo.
After the grenade thing I said fuck it, fuck this place, I'm going back home.
/v/WorldNews viewpost?postid=6179ba077c036
ZorbaTheGreek 1 point 2.5 years ago
I'm not British but an EU citizen living in the UK. Look, as much as I don't like the UK government being overly zealous, on this point - this guy is right. The UK is miles away from what the likes of Lithuania, France, Italy, Australia, USA and others have done.
There is no mask requirement. There is no vaccine requirement. People on the street and in businesses have stopped wearing masks, and going to work does not require you to get a vaccine - no matter the profession.
You can go get a haircut or your nails done, or go to the pub or a football match without a mask and without a QR code.
You can get a QR code if you want, there might be a business that requires it - but they're shooting themselves in the foot because there are alternatives - and people will go use the alternative. If you want to go in a hotel in Germany for example, you need a QR code. If you don't have one, you have no alternative - because ALL hotels require it.
In the UK, if you do manage to find that one hotel asking for QR codes, all you have to do is walk down the street to the next hotel and they won't be requiring it.
It really is - a recommendation - but not being enforced by the police, government or any other laws whatsoever. On this, the UK has been great.
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ZorbaTheGreek 1 point 2.6 years ago
lol i fucking hope so
i live in central london and haven't dealt with a bank for 3 years
people go: but how?!?! you can't do this, you can't do that, you can't bla bla bla.
bullshit. you CAN do anything the fuck you want. all you need is the willpower to do it although it involves a lot more relationship building, but most people today are anti-social and would rather suck bank cock instead so they just think that 'different' 'harder' means 'impossible'.
anyway, i work remote, i get paid in crypto, i don't declare shit or pay any tax. i pay my rent in crypto (in the past i also paid it in cash, easy enough - just withdraw from a crypto atm). i buy with cash or crypto.
if you really must, you can get a pre-paid debit card which you fund with crypto and it works the exact same way as any other card, but i'd rather not support visa or mastercard or any of that jewery.
if it wasn't for crypto, i'd be fucked, since nobody pays cash in hand for work anymore these days, but... i'd ultimately find a way.
what do I get out of this? 6 things:
1) I find and deal with people I like and trust, to a degree
2) I have complete control over my finances - there's no credit score this, debt that, know your customer this, interest that
3) I don't support, give money to, or deal with banks in any way
4) The government knows jack shit about my spending habits
5) I earn a 12%-80% (it varies, but always within this range) APR on all my money. I basically live off the interest now (see decentralized finance if interested)
6) Best of all: I paid zero taxes in like, forever. If the taxman comes, they have no trace whatsoever of anything because I never associated crypto with my actual name. It's always crypto to cash without any KYC or direct crypto spending routed through Monero
Also, I started hoarding gold and shipping it offshore to bury on a plot of land I bought in another country, so there's that. If shit hits the fan, I'll get the fuck out of dodge, grow potatoes, and use to gold to stock-up and establish a forward base for anything I need there.
/v/whatever viewpost?postid=617355a85e817
ZorbaTheGreek 2 points 2.6 years ago
I feed my chicken anything. ANYTHING. They will eat anything offered, and they're plump as hell. Leftovers from a family of 4 will feed 20 chickens every day.
The worst part is: they eat other chickens too. In fact, they love leftover chicken bones more than grass.
/v/Homesteading viewpost?postid=61708d7a0ddc3
ZorbaTheGreek 9 points 2.6 years ago
Wait hold up, they want to vaccinate you even if you're remote? So let me get this straight: you might be in a different country altogether, but they still want you to get injected?
To protect the protected?
How are people's heads not exploding yet? What am I missing? How can EVERYONE ELSE be clinically insane yet declare the sane the insane?
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ZorbaTheGreek 1 point 2.6 years ago
Video version for those who want to be hit even harder in the feels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THqAY3u5oY
Look to the entire video for full effect. Don't skip ahead, it's only 1:32 and it's worth your attention, I promise.
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ZorbaTheGreek 1 point 2.6 years ago
I've been using IPFS for a year now. Decentralized is the way to go. My only problem with it is that it's not very private. Like, at all. It is censorship resistant, but it isn't private. Your IP is visible if you host or serve any image.
/v/whatever viewpost?postid=615aa7f2b893f
ZorbaTheGreek 3 points 2.6 years ago
Hand's down: Mullvad.
Why? It's the only one I found which:
1) Still takes Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash with a -10% discount and has done so for over 5 years without fail
2) They also accept cash in the post via snailmail if you prefer that
3) They require no sign-up, no email, no name - you just click a button and it generates a random account for you. Meaning, you can have a new account each day, week, year, or for however long you pay
4) They actually fight for privacy: they constantly put out helpful tools built by them such as a DNS leak checker, a private DNS maintained by them, and other things
5) They are open source completely
6) They haven't changed pricing for as long as I've been using them - years and years
I'm in no way affiliated with them but I've tried so many others and I've always returned to Mullvad. I never left Mullvad though, that's the beauty of it - they don't force you into year long subscriptions with all kinds of shitty discounts.
They practice a flat rate no matter the time, and it's a very fair one, and instead they survive - and thrive - on building a really good product.
Speed is top notch. No disconnects. I can't recommend them enough.
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ZorbaTheGreek 4 points 2.6 years ago
I've never taken a test - but in a few months, I will really, really have to cross a border and after weeks of searching, there seems to be absolutely no legal way of me crossing it without a test.
So I've searched around. There are now tests that they send at home, you spit in them, and send them back. They give you the result in less than 24 hours.
My plan is simple: I've got an English bulldog and he can't wait to drool all over it.
There are several 'providers' and they cost a lot but here's one for those wondering about them: https://www.haloverify.com/
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ZorbaTheGreek 1 point 2.6 years ago
If you're going to be shitposting, might as well buy a proper door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET9SNXpeORY
/v/whatever viewpost?postid=61575389a4104
ZorbaTheGreek 2 points 2.6 years ago
Would this actually be possible? Radio waves are... waves, just like light is a wave, correct?
Can you gravitationally bend them enough so that they completely 'boomerang' as you put it, back to the source of origin?
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ZorbaTheGreek 3 points 2.7 years ago
same
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ZorbaTheGreek -1 points 2.7 years ago
I'm not, I'm just trying to get home to Serbia, but I need to do a short stop in Bulgaria while I'm at it.
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ZorbaTheGreek 0 points 2.7 years ago
The thing is, that test costs £60 or more. The vaccine costs the government £20 or so. No matter what you do, big pharma wins. I'm trying to not give them any money, because fuck them.
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ZorbaTheGreek 0 points 2.7 years ago
The population of Hungary is 9.7 mil. so 200k out of that is about 2% of the total population.
The equivalent of that relative to the U.S population would be 6.5 mil.
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ZorbaTheGreek 0 points 2.7 years ago
You're doing it wrong.
You don't use Indeed to apply for jobs, you use it to see who's hiring and for what. You then find the website, you then find their recruitment manager, and you then send an actual paper letter to said recruitment manager.
If you can't find their name, you send an email to [email protected] or to whomever you think is the head honcho for that particular department.
It depends what you're applying for though. If it's not something to do with computers, you're way better off printing off an intent letter and resume, and going directly to the place where you want to work.
'Ohhh but that takes time, I'd rather just apply to 2000 jobs in Indeed'. Well, alrighty then.
The way I got my job at a nice comfy start-up with no woke anything and a laid back CEO was by actually staking out the entrance of the office building they were based at until around 7pm when their CEO came out - I straight-up approached him and went: 'Hei man, I know I'm a rando, but I've read up a lot about what you do here and about you, and I'd love a chat about working with you. Here's my res...'
He went: 'I'm actually off to have a beer with the team, come along for a beer?'
I had a beer and a chat over a darts game and actually had a good time, job or no job. A few days later, he offered me a job. They weren't 'officially' hiring, but found a spot anyway. I've been there every since.
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ZorbaTheGreek 5 points 2.7 years ago
After all that shouting the video ends with:
'Mate, either you're gonna comply with this, or I'm gonna arrest you, so what's it gonna be?'
Response: 'No, I'll comply'.
Video ends.
The appropriate response would have been:
'You fuckwads have no right to arrest me. So you'll have to shoot me because I'll fucking fight you with all I've got. Get the fuck off my property' and slam the door shut.
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ZorbaTheGreek 1 point 2.7 years ago
I got somewhat fired because of the coof and my views on coming back to the office without a vaccine. So I told them to get fucked and got a remote job, with a company registered in another country, which pays in crypto.
I then packed up and gave my country the finger, moved to a fucking paradise where $500 a month gets you a higher standard of living than £4000 a month in London.
Not only more than doubled my income because zero taxes, but I'm now spending less than 5% of my pay to live way better than I did before, in a sunny, warm and friendly place. No, not some third-world shithole, still in Europe.
95% savings rate and living the good life. This shit is insane and if I can keep it up for just a year, I can fucking retire in this place.
The plandemic is a blessing in disguise if you have the balls to tell people to get fucked. I didn't think I had it in me but it was pretty much the best decision I've ever made.
/v/whatever viewpost?postid=611ad6519c628
ZorbaTheGreek 0 points 2.7 years ago
Stop using Bitchute, this account isn't available in my region because it contains 'Holocaust denial' > https://files.catbox.moe/qy5zgc.png
/v/Plandemic viewpost?postid=611967b83b125
ZorbaTheGreek 1 point 3.0 years ago
Hei man! Great for you! I've done the same.
I lost 5kg and they came back within days after starting to eat again, even though I kept it to way under my necessary.
What I'm doing now, more longer term is different:
Intermitted Fasting (only eat between 4pm and 10pm) + A 40 hour fast (Saturday 10pm to Monday 4pm - I call it No Food Sunday) ever week + Eating only eating under my normal necessary by at least 30% deficit.
This way, I can learn how to eat healthy (keeping under my necessary by a lot means I have to prepare healthy but satiating meals - which usually means vegetables, raw fish and smoked meat, eggs, nuts).
This way I can still fast once a week.
This way I can continue almost indefinitely. It will take me about 6 months to get to my desired optimal weight, at which point I'll increase my daily requirements by 10% and add 2 lifting days. Right now, I'm only doing one swimming day.
My piss smells like fruits. I'm always thirsty. I have wild dreams. I dreamt about aliens that can only be contacted by a nigger in a bathtub on LSD last night.
Now for the blood tests:
I've seen little to no changes in HBG, HCT or Platelets.
My lymphocytes and neutrophils are under baseline however. No vitamin deficiencies so far, but my bilirubin is raised above baseline.
Too much B12 (?!)
Deficient in phosphate - advised to eat more eggs and dairy.
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ZorbaTheGreek 1 point 3 years ago
This plant allowed me to live for 15 more years, enough to get access to a new treatment that cured my life.
Guess the disease I had.
/v/Nature viewpost?postid=60942c4db0d94
ZorbaTheGreek 1 point 3 years ago
I'm not the OP but not only guns are illegal in the UK, but so is pepper spray. We're not allowed to carry any sort of defense.
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ZorbaTheGreek 1 point 3 years ago*
I normally only eat once a day, so a 24h for me is normal. I've tried a 72h one in 2019 and it went well so in 2020 I did a 7 day one. Water only.
I'd say that the first 48h are the hardest for anyone used to eating at least twice a day, so unless you're doing a 72+ one, you're getting the short end of the stick - since you'll only ever be experiencing the period where your body goes through the process of getting into full ketosis, and not much of the actual 'metabolic switch' when you're body switches from running on glucose to running on ketones.
I tracked my blood glucose and level of ketones and my metabolic switch was around the 60h mark, with the full effect (as you can see there's a curve even after, the switch is just the mid-way point in which more than 50% of your energy comes from ketones).
Here's how it looks: https://thequantifiedbody.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Glucose-Ketones-Fast-mimicking-diet.png
What most people should be after is to remain in the period after the switch for as long as they can.
Eating anything that has calories - and I do mean anything, will raise your blood glucose level and produce an insulin response (thus brining you out of ketosis) - so the only way to go about this is water only. No, no diet drinks either, since even though they don't have calories, the sweeteners do produce an insulin response.
I recommend 72h fasts for everyone. Once a month. If you're actually looking to lose weight, not just better your health, then I'd go as far as recommend 4 day ones.
For the rest of everyone, a 24h fast doesn't do much from a health perspective, but it will from a weight perspective, if you don't go abusing food the next day because 'you haven't eaten anything yesterday'. Just eat normal the next day, you'll feel just as full.
The science of fasting is quite well understood, and it can have very, very strong beneficial health effects. There are dedicated 'fasting clinics' in Russia, Germany and many other countries. You go in, you're not given food but you're kept under medical supervision. These are usually reserved for people that want to do 20 or 40 day water fasts. Here's a cool documentary about a Russian one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4TdlGagQ5M
By the way, the 40 day water fast is also called a 'biblical fast' because yes, you guessed it - the bible advocates for one every now and then.
Here's what happened to me during the 7 days of a water fast:
1) My nails and hair stopped growing
2) I had a lot of diarrhea until I learned I need to drink natural water (i.e the one that came from the ground, even if the carbonated it) since that one contains sodium, potassium and magnesium naturally.
3) My skin cleared. I don't have skin issues to begin with but I looked... better.
4) I usually take a shower and 12 hours later I already have dandruff. I had zero dandruff after this for almost a week. I noticed it around Day 5.
5) I lost about about 0.5kg per day.
6) Headaches in the first 48h, problem sleeping in the first 3 nights.
7) Insane levels of energy and mental clarity from Day 3 on-wards.
I'm planning a 10 day one and won't ever do a 48h ever again. I don't see the point. I'd rather do a 10 day one once every 6 months instead of 2 days ever month.
Besides massive health benefits I'd say that the best thing about this is: Once you fast, you're naturally attracted to healthy foods after. A fucking cucumber tastes like heaven, peas are out of this world and a simple bowl of chicken stock is worth its weight in gold as far as you're concerned. The effects persist, especially if you push yourself a bit. They stop the moment you eat any processed food or anything that has added sugar.
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