NX Express Posted November 12, 2010 Share #1 Posted November 12, 2010 Yes...the impossible is now possible. Prahlad Jani, an 82-year-old Indian yogi, is making headlines by claims that for the past 70 years he has had nothing -- not one calorie -- to eat and not one drop of liquid to drink. To test his claims, Indian military doctors put him under round-the-clock observation during a two-week hospital stay that ended last week, news reports say. During that time he didn't ingest any food or water – and remained perfectly healthy, the researchers said. But that's simply impossible, said Dr. Michael Van Rooyen an emergency physician at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital, an associate professor at the medical school, and the director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative – which focuses on aid to displaced populations who lack food and water. Van Rooyen says that depending on climate conditions like temperature and humidity, a human could survive five or six days without water, maybe a day or two longer in extraordinary circumstances. We can go much longer without food – even up to three months if that person is taking liquids fortified with vitamins and electrolytes. Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican convicted of firearms possession and imprisoned by the British, died in 1981 on the 66th day of his hunger strike. Gandhi was also known to go long stretches without food, including a 21-day hunger strike in 1932. Jani, dubbed "the starving yogi" by some, did have limited contact with water while gargling and periodically bathing, reported the news wire service AFP. While researchers said they measured what he spit out, Van Rooyen said he's clearly getting fluid somehow. "You can hold a lot of water in those yogi beards. A sneaky yogi for certain," he said. "He MUST take in water. The human body cannot survive without it." The effects of food and water deprivation are profound, Van Rooyen explained. "Ultimately, instead of metabolizing sugar and glycogen [the body's energy sources] you start to metabolize fat and then cause muscle breakdown. Without food, your body chemistry changes. Profoundly malnourished people autodigest, they consume their own body's resources. You get liver failure, tachycardia, heart strain. You fall apart." The yogi, though, would already be dead from lack of hydration. If he really went without any liquids at all, his cardiovascular system would have collapsed. "You lose about a liter or two of water per day just by breathing," Van Rooyen said. You don't have to sweat, which the yogi claims he never does. That water loss results in thicker blood and a drop in blood pressure. "You go from being a grape to a raisin," Van Rooyen said and if you didn't have a heart attack first, you'd die of kidney failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiMet86 Posted November 12, 2010 Share #2 Posted November 12, 2010 Heard about this guy a few months ago. It's quite unbelievable that he's gone months without eating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted November 13, 2010 Share #3 Posted November 13, 2010 Unbelievable, if true. Try not eating for four days and see how you feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRG Posted November 13, 2010 Share #4 Posted November 13, 2010 He must be feeding himself through a tube or something. This makes no sense as you can't live without food for nearly a week on account of death like what the article said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NX Express Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share #5 Posted November 13, 2010 He must be feeding himself through a tube or something. This makes no sense as you can't live without food for nearly a week on account of death like what the article said. He was monitored for two weeks, and nobody brought him food. He didn't have any tubes either.:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsbridge Bus Posted November 13, 2010 Share #6 Posted November 13, 2010 I don't know how it's possible, every other person who spends plenty of time without food or water eventually dies of starvation. And if this story is true, how did he do it?:eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRG Posted November 13, 2010 Share #7 Posted November 13, 2010 He was monitored for two weeks, and nobody brought him food. He didn't have any tubes either.:confused: Something doesn't seem right...just my opinion though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NX Express Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share #8 Posted November 13, 2010 I don't know how it's possible, every other person who spends plenty of time without food or water eventually dies of starvation. And if this story is true, how did he do it?:eek: I heard an Indian goddess pitied him a long time ago and gave him this supernatural power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciboii22 Posted November 13, 2010 Share #9 Posted November 13, 2010 Hell no ! , no offense or anything but indians are crazy , they live long , nothing to eat , there was the worlds tallest indian man but i dont know what happened to him . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRT Bronx Express Posted November 13, 2010 Share #10 Posted November 13, 2010 Something doesn't seem right...just my opinion though.There was this one guy (forgot where, I think Cuba?) who starved himself to death and died less than 2 months. How did this Indian yogi survive 70 years without food and water is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Sith Posted November 13, 2010 Share #11 Posted November 13, 2010 Hell no ! , no offense or anything but indians are crazy , they live long , nothing to eat , there was the worlds tallest indian man but i dont know what happened to him . Ya damn right we are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messino Posted November 13, 2010 Share #12 Posted November 13, 2010 yee kya bakwas hai? bhukha bhikhaari! besheram yogi.. BESHERAM! Hes cheating one way or another.. Maybe for the two weeks he didnt eat or drink but hes had something to drink.. Its BS.. He just wants attention is all.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Louis Car 09 Posted November 13, 2010 Share #13 Posted November 13, 2010 He`s eating these on da low!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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