#11 - AMA #2: the Nothingburger — results from Peter’s week-long fast between two weeks of nutritional ketosis — and answering questions on all things fasting
The Peter Attia Drive
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Is There a Suffering Effect of Fasting?
Tim Ferris did a fasting meditative silent retreat so he did a vipassana retreat for seven or ten days i think it was seven days and he also fasted during that period of time. He wondered if there's some relationship to the experience where you're just you have this heightened sense of awareness and you're you become more sort of conscious of your surroundings. And how much of a common element or elements are consistent between the experience i had with sleep and this state that you're describing? I don't know if those two things square with this idea of having this awareness have it like you know no it does, Tim said.
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