Olive oil: Harcombe vs Phinney?

(Kirk Wolak) #21

Paul,
The 2-3 videos I watched of Phinney pulling up the data and severely chastising fasting as stupid, he DID NOT mention short fasts as fine. I believe ONE of them, be basically said “Keto works fast enough, you don’t need fasting… It’s hard enough to get people to do Keto!”

Now, I think he may have updated his opinion since those older videos, and to that degree, I would stand corrected.

But I am honestly someone who needs fasting. TRF. To place a proper boundary!

Thanks for all of your good posts, Paul!

(Bacon is a many-splendoured thing) #22

He has, in some of the more recent ones. If you can find his presentation at Ketofest 2019, I believe he mentions short fasts fairly favourably.

I come from a religious tradition that has a few thousand years’ experience with fasting for spiritual reasons. I’m not sure what we’d find if we could go back and examine some of those desert hermits, but the common wisdom from the tradition is that up to forty days seems to be okay. But the tradition has always discouraged fasting that long, since it is often motivated by spiritual pride, and not by other, healthier desires.