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anonuser123456 on Nov 27, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar int...

Fasting is not starving, it's just metabolizing your existing food stores. For people with large body fat stores, you by definition cannot be 'starving'.

He does not recommend that very lean individuals fast.

hoka-one-one on Nov 27, 2020 [–]

>it's just metabolizing your existing food stores

These things are a hell of a lot more complex than you're making them out to be.

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