Your body requires nutrients to function. Deliberately depriving your cells of those nutrients can't possibly be good for them and likely does them harm. You evolved to survive such catastrophes of course, but the key word is "survive".
What states of mind can be induced by fasting is a separate consideration, it seems to me.
I don't think deprivation is the right model. Cells are still getting nutrients, just from different sources, particularly fat. Animals have 500 millions of years of evolutionary experience using this energy source.
I would be more concerned about the harm caused by not using this metabolic pathway, at least occasionally.
s1artibartfast|1 year ago
I would be more concerned about the harm caused by not using this metabolic pathway, at least occasionally.
even_639765|1 year ago
Fat contains lipids, not nutrients save the fat soluble ones.