The Science of Fasting

Doing a Lenten fast at this time - about 65 hours into it at the time of this writing (Tuesday at 6pm last eats). Almost buckled last night but went to bed early to escape the temptation. I'm in a stronger mode today. Not sure how long I'll go. I'd like to do a minimum of 4 days.

Last night to help me with my willpower I went to rewatch The Science of Fasting on Prime (for about the fourth time). I couldn't find it on Prime (it's still on YouTube). While looking for it I found a 1:20 documentary simply called Fasting.
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It wasn't as good and if I had watched this one first, I'd have been more skeptical about fasting. The Science of Fasting was much better, IMO. I couldn't shoot any holes in it and I tried. And this video at times came across very infommercial-like. Fasting did have the Italian biologist at USC from TSofF, Valter Longo. I like him.

This documentary is broken into 7 parts about different fasting methods - Time-Restricted Feeding, Intermittent and Prolonged Fasting, Long-Term Water Fasting, Religious Fasting, Eating Disorders, Improvising or Fasting Unsafely, Fasting Mimicking Diet, and Juice Fasting.

I did get some new nuggets of info:
- I learned more specifics about the body's circadian rhythm. I'm a breakfast skipper, which is good, but a notorious late night eater. I'm going to work on that.
- There are some unsafe clinics conducting long-term water fasting and some of the dangers of unmonitored long-term water fasting.
- Fasting Mimicking Diet was new to me and the product ProLon. I'm going to do more homework on it. Quick look is pricey - $250 for a five-day kit.

It's worth a watch, but production quality and scientific explanations lacked, IMO. A lot of interesting case studies.

All right, almost time to power through the lunch temptation. ?