On: A year without food (2012)

[cupcake-unicorn]

Thanks for this article - I've often wondered how long one could live by fasting if they were quite overweight, and this helped answer it.

I feel like a 2 year old asking this, but, "He defaecated infrequently, roughly every 40 to 50 days."

How does that work if he wasn't eating any food?

[geetee → cupcake-unicorn]

I'm going to guess filler from pills, dead cells accumulating, and the occasional spider that crawls into your mouth while you sleep.

[jcampbell1 → cupcake-unicorn]

Shit is brown because red-blood cells are constantly recycled and replaced and they come out in your poo. He had to shit out his old dead blood at some point.

[D9u → cupcake-unicorn]

Technically, he was eating something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6131711

[lostlogin → cupcake-unicorn]

Have you see what a new born baby produces? That liver is still ticking along...

[pyre → lostlogin]

To be fair, a new born baby has a full digestive tract. They have been 'eating' and 'defecating' during the last leg of the pregnancy while in the womb. That stuff has to empties out of their system when they are born.

[five18pm → cupcake-unicorn]

Dead cells, liver byproducts