I believe extended fasting was something Dr. Fung used with his morbidly obese patients with kidney disease. With special meals to help them transition throughout.

But there's nothing that won't be marketed to a person's literal death, and there are people who make a living by going too far, and convincing others to do so. He had a podcast a while back that described the medical process.

I'm not surprised it wouldn't work the same way in healthier people. And despite all my jokes about low carb jail, it's happened: bariatric surgeons put people in the hospital on a low carb diet because it's now a medical emergency.

You'd think we'd learn from that... and behind the scenes, perhaps we have. The food landscape now is both worse and better than it was when I started low carbing in 2003.

Look at all we've learned since then! While paddling against the corporate tide.

It's inspiring.