Fasting in plain English, from someone who’s actually done it.
From the gentle on-ramp of 12:12 to the gold standard of 72 hours. One ladder, climbed at your pace, by a bloke who’s done it, not a man in a lab coat.
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The 7-Day Planner
A proper week to find your feet. Track it, learn it, feel the difference, then decide where you go next. Yours free.
The Book
The 72-Hour Fast: thirty chapters, from why it works to your first 72, hour by hour. Kindle, paperback and hardcover.
The PDF Journal
Twelve weeks of pages that catch regain at three pounds, not a stone. A free PDF to print at home when you buy the book.
Hunger is a wave, not a gauge. It comes, it peaks, it passes.
Why listen to me?
I’m not a doctor. I’m not a dietitian. I’m a curious bloke who got fed up of feeling tired and creaky, tried the oldest experiment in the human cookbook (not eating for a bit) and found it worked. Then I spent years reading the proper scientists, testing it on myself, and writing down what actually held up.
Everything here is borrowed, honestly, from the people who did the real work: Fung, Pelz, Longo, Attia, Panda and a handful of others. I’m the cook, not the farmer. What I’ve added is the running order, plain English, and a refusal to sell you anything that doesn’t work. More about me →
The ladder
Seven rungs. Climb at your pace. Most people find their level somewhere in the middle, and that’s a complete answer.
- 12:12: the overnight twelve. Your great-grandmother did it without trying.
- 16:8: the one most people live on, happily, for years.
- 18:6 and 20:4: the warrior windows.
- OMAD: one meal a day. A rung, not a religion.
- The 24: dinner to dinner, once or twice a week.
- The 36 and 48: where the deeper benefits start to show up.
- The 72: three days. The gold standard, a few times a year.
From the diary
I started writing this down in 2017, long before the book, and I still write every week. The newest are below. The old ones are still here too, with a note where I’d say it differently now.
- Dear Reader, Its been 4 years to the week we started this little blog…
- Good Fats? And how to get em’!
- Eggs Is Eggs Is Eggs & Choline
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Greg x
