That's interesting video thanks. So at ~30:05 Valter Longo says,
"If you go over 12h of fasting everyday you have up to 2 fold increase in chance you're gonna have your gallbladder removed".
I have never heard this either! And I do go without food for more than 12h 99% of the days, for many, many years! And I've never had problems with gallbladder.
And I believe, most people go without food most days for that long, no? It's just 12h! 8 is considered normal for sleep, what's left? 2+2? Or take Jack Lalanne. He'd go to the gym first thing in the morning and ate after he spent 6h there. He surely fasted for more than 12h every day too.
I don't know where Longo got this. I presume the odds of having gallbladder removed are so low that having it doubled does not change much. The reason for gallbladder removal is usually stones -- I personally never had them and no one in my family, ever. On the fasting forums someone periodically pops up asking what if they have stone(s). The thing is once you get into ketosis, on the 3rd day, your liver starts dumping so much bile, that if there were stones, they could be dislodged and block the passage and yeah, then gallbladder goes. But people who had some "sludge" (which I guess is just some thickening of the bile which shows on the ultrasound) all reported that long-term fasting (weeks!) cured all that (meaning that they had ultrasound after the fast and the dr. was amazed -- where did all go?) But this is real fasting, at least 10 days.
Longo is talking about 12h. I do not consider this fasting. Fasting is when you don't eat for the whole day.Otherwise, that was an eating day. You ate once a day. That's an adult thing to do. I know nothing about this "non-fasting" fasting. We are not mice, for whom 12h is a long time. It's normal for a human to go a day or two without eating.
Re allergies, never had them. And never heard of your kind, sorry, so don't know what to tell you. I heard of hyves or when the face swells (forgot what it's called in en) but that's about it. But hey, I'm glad it's helping you. You should share your experience, so we all learn
Edited by xEva, 29 March 2018 - 02:55 AM.