Water fasting combined with binge-purging is just binge-purging.
There is lots of documented, clinical evidence of alternate-day fasting improving health.
BBC Documentary: Eat, Fast and Live Longer
A three-day water fast stimulates the production of more stem cells than you get in a $10,000 stem cell therapy session, plus according to clinical study it buffers the side-effects of chemotherapy.
Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system
The human body evolved to go through periods of feast and famine.
>>There are no documented cases of people dying from water fasting.
BS.
Folks who try to run a marathon on water only end up in the med tent.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hyponatremia+causes+marathon+water&cad=h
If they’re lucky.
Agree - I didn’t even want to start on the health BENEFITS of water fasting, because that’s probably too much to handle at once for the ‘nutritionists’ who might be here.
But yes, early humans didn’t take down mastodons 3 times a day, at the same hours, as part of a healthy cave-man existence. They ate whenever the hell they could, and that was often many days between meals...and they lived long enough to keep having kids.