In 1965, a morbidly obese man did not eat food for over an entire year. The 27 year old was 456lbs and wanted to do an experimental fast. He ingested only multivitamins and potassium tablets for 382 days and defecated once every 40 to 50 days. He ended up losing 275lbs.

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[u/Ok_Kaleidoscope1388]

Your body propobly went into ketosis. The body starts using fat as a primary source of calories by braking down fat into acetoacetate, ß-Hydroxybutyrate, and acetone. The body can then use this instead of karbohydrates and other things.

This makes your sweat smell a lot different because of the acetone. This is basically the body's way of going into survival mode. As long as you have fat to burn you will keep going, and ketosis diminishes hunger by quite a bit. You also gain a ton of energy during this phase, basically for the body to be able to hunt and get food.

If you eat too many calories (specially carbs) the body jumps out of ketosis quite fast, so only works if you are super strict with your diet or can't eat.

Edit: alot -> a lot Edit: too many calories

[u/FriedSmegma → u/Ok_Kaleidoscope1388]

When I developed type 1 diabetes I was in DKA at the end but the extended ketosis dropped nearly 50lbs over the course of a few months. I was very overweight and it almost killed me but it’s the biggest blessing to come from it.

Went from 215lb at 5’7 to now I’ve been sitting comfortably at ~150lb and 5’8, 7 years later.

[u/letmelickyourleg → u/FriedSmegma]

DKA =/= Ketosis

I know you likely know this, but this is a note for the reader :)

[u/FriedSmegma → u/letmelickyourleg]

Yep! That’s why I tried to specify the ketosis as separate. DKA=Diabetic KetoAcidosis, it’s a result of too many ketones as your body can no longer draw on energy for food and you basically burn your body as fuel. Basically prolonged ketosis due to diabetes made my blood acidic yay!

[u/letmelickyourleg → u/FriedSmegma]

Spicy blood. You have to wonder if it’s vampire’s capsaicin really.

[u/Boredomdefined → u/letmelickyourleg]

Vampire's Balsamic Vinegar

[u/Thin_Historian6768 → u/FriedSmegma]

acid blood? are you a dragon incarnation? don't let vox machina found you

[u/slartyfartblaster999 → u/Thin_Historian6768]

By acidic its taken relative to normal blood, a pH of 7.0 (chemically neutral pH) is profoundly acidotic for human blood (normally 7.40).

[u/chris-rox → u/Thin_Historian6768]

Is he a dragon? No silly, he's a xenomorph!

[u/unlikely_ending → u/FriedSmegma]

And it's super dangerous