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Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

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Re: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's now a number of studies on effects of fasting on chemo therapy patients, and they all make the same claim of regeneration through autophagy for some types of leukocytes.

If so, why not cite those?

I will add a non comprehensive list of relevant papers at the end of the post for anyone who wants to look further into the research.

Re: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

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I love how there are exactly zero technical details on the website about how this Basis thing works and what it is. It's chock-full of marketing copy and unnecessary animations instead. But from the early access form I can gather that it's going to have a monthly subscription (of course, it's 2021 after all) and probably need proprietary consumables.

Re: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

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post #23

> it’s important to break your fast with a nutritious, balanced meal that will further enhance the all-around cell and tissue health-boosting exercise you just undertook Could you give some examples? What's safe to eat?

My fast break meal is a piece of watermelon spinach, avocado and macadamia nut salad with EVOO one egg omelette.

Watermelon is very easy for stomach to digest even though it has a fair amount of fructose and would otherwise not be considered optimal for first meal. The breaks are to see how stomach is reacting to food introduction. Rest of the options are made as options that activate sirtuins (restorative cellular signaling) while system is sensitive to new inputs.

Re: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

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post #24

I love how there are exactly zero technical details on the website about how this Basis thing works and what it is. It's chock-full of marketing copy and unnecessary animations instead. But from the early access form I can gather that it's going to have a monthly subscription (of course, it's 2021 after all) and probably need proprietary consumables.

What would you like to know?

Re: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

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post #24

I love how there are exactly zero technical details on the website about how this Basis thing works and what it is. It's chock-full of marketing copy and unnecessary animations instead. But from the early access form I can gather that it's going to have a monthly subscription (of course, it's 2021 after all) and probably need proprietary consumables.

What would you like to know?

What the device is and how it works.

Re: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

#30

Off-topic, but I wonder if/when realtime glucose monitoring will ever come to the Apple Watch and other activity trackers.

Wasn't Google developing contact lenses to monitor glucose a decade ago?

I'd forgotten about that. Apparently they stopped development on it in 2018 [0].

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46262520

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