u/Xelhexan

As long as we don’t develop technology and AI so much so that it can be self sustainable it won’t annihilate us. We must keep humans integral to AI’s survival.

Everyone's standard advice for extended fasting is "talk to your doctor," which is fine, but nobody here outright says exactly why you should. Your thiamine stores last roughly 14–21 days, ketosis masks the depletion so you feel fine, and the moment you break the fast with carbs, pyruvate dehydrogenase demand spikes and if there's no B1 to go around you get lactic acidosis, cardiac failure, or Wernicke's encephalopathy, and that can kill you or permanently damage your brain. Hospitals already know this; their protocol is IV thiamine before any glucose for malnourished/fasted patients. But that knowledge doesn't trickle down to Internet forums often. The fix is stupidly simple: 50–100 mg thiamine HCl daily past ~1 week, load before refeeding. If you're planning anything past 7 days or doing multiple shorter extended fasts regularly, supplement it. Don't wait for your doctor to bring it up.

Edit:
Also wanted to add the phosphate piece because it's the other half of the same problem. During the fast you don't need to worry about it your body holds most of it in bone and doesn't actively lose it. But the moment you refeed carbs, insulin drives phosphate into cells for ATP and glycogen synthesis. If your total body stores are depleted from the catabolic state, serum phosphate crashes and that's what actually triggers the arrhythmia.
If you fast is 1-4 weeks or if you were already underweight/deficient before: Worth having oral phosphate on hand for the refeed phase. 1,000–1,500 mg elemental phosphorus daily for the first 7 days of refeeding (e.g., calcium phosphate or a product like the "Fasting Refeed" supplement that combines it with B vitamins). If not done correctly or at all after an extended fast your heart can straight up stop beating and you croak.

Edit 2:

Comment from a user below about how they had a thiamine deficiency after only a couple of days.

Make sure you are eating correctly and supplementing were needed people.

“thanks for bringing this important knowledge to the reddit.

I got a B1 thiamine deficiency in 2024, despite taking a multivitamin and only doing fasts under 6 days. apparently, I needed more

magnesium is also an important co factor

it took around 9 months for me to get back to normal with daily supplements over 100mg”

their symptoms of deficiency:

“dysautonomia: rapid and heavy heartbeat going from air conditioning to tropical heat.

random panic or anxiety unrelated to thoughts or situations.

unusual irritability

feelings of breathlessness or "air hunger"

darkening vision and dizziness when going from lying down to standing up

occasional balance issues

my doctor (not in the US) gave me a b complex shot and recommended that I get more b vitamins. this caused me to go into a deep research dive about thiamine and magnesium”

Edit 3: be weary of possible paradoxical effects when supplementing thiamine, and taking it with ample magnesium produces a synergistic effect as magnesium is involved in thiamine reactions in the body.

This is a humiliation ritual that isn’t going to work. No one is going to know who you are Al Cisneros or Dale over. It’s over for you Boomer doom metal chuds.

Black cube matrix
Souls ascending
with speed and vigor

Pay no mind, free your mind

The pursuit of pleasure
distracts the mind
The left hand man

Beer & and pizza dipped in ranch
Now your tongues wet
Now to dry it out

Sleep it off… Holy Mountain.

The shadow of a mountain dark side of the blinds

Feeble minds

Going down to leisure

Escape to sky… brought down again

Finish your quest you feeble minds

Buddha killed a man and freely ran
The man’s name was Buddha

Sam and Sarah shook their hands

Now they regret him and now hes freeing the nuns.

Enlightenment sent 10 men dead
You can thank the lion sun for your red hands

Yaldabaoth 33 wizards stoned the Mason

Unearned knowledge they know you know
Yep

Sick video but the entire song did almost nothing for me except for the solo. First two singles were rad though.

Edit: after 3rd listen I’m enjoying it more now

This was supposed to be Killing Floor 3! and it flopped like an over cooked cake!

I am just see if they play any of the classics. I don’t know how well I’ll be able to stomach seeing anyone but Pike up there ripping Holy Mountain though, it’s gonna feel so wrong but I’m sure it will still be good.

Appearntly the movie was released in 2019, I do not remember this but that was right before COVID and the pandemic warped time forsure.

You guys really are a bunch of silly goofs you know that right? Garry is a fucking genius who took a stupid little half-life 2 mod all the way to the bank and now runs an almost billion dollar private gaming dev company that he built himself. Have some fucking faith for Christ sake. The guy will deliver, why you doomers waist your life in here saying this nonsense is really mind boggling.
And also it’s Gmod 2… yea I said it.

It was planned everything is going just swimmingly. Doomers lay off the doom.