<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moate</author><text>No. It&amp;#x27;s 36 hours straight of not eating. Think of it like this: You eat dinner at 7 PM, and you go to bed at 11 PM Sunday and wake up at 7 AM. that&amp;#x27;s 12 hours of not eating. You don&amp;#x27;t eat anything at all on Monday, and again go to be at 11 PM. You&amp;#x27;ve now fasted 29 hours. You sleep until 7 AM, for a total of 36 hours. You then immediately eat breakfast.&lt;p&gt;If you sleep for 8 hours and don&amp;#x27;t snack before bed, you would probably &amp;quot;fast&amp;quot; for 12 hours in a day incidentally</text><parent_chain><item><author>andreygrehov</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t it the same as what he said in &amp;quot;Do you mean you fast for 12 hours on each of Monday, Wednesday and Friday, totalling 36 hours&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>bad_user</author><text>No, I mean I don&amp;#x27;t eat anything on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If you count the hours, that&amp;#x27;s 36 hours windows, as it includes sleep.</text></item><item><author>r_c_a_d</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused. Do you mean you fast for 12 hours on each of Monday, Wednesday and Friday, totalling 36 hours? Or you fast for 36 hours starting on Monday, Wednesday and Friday... which would be all of Monday and half of Tuesday etc?</text></item><item><author>bad_user</author><text>Fasting is great for weight loss and for lowering your insulin resistance, which is now considered by many the main cause of obesity and of course type 2 diabetes. This has been shown by studies.&lt;p&gt;Some say that fasting activates &amp;quot;autophagy&amp;quot; which has great health benefits, supposedly being great for preventing the remission of cancer: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Autophagy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Autophagy&lt;/a&gt; — but note that I could not find any concrete study or proof of it, this being anecdotal evidence from some clinics that advise their patients to do fasting instead of chemotherapy.&lt;p&gt;I practice fasting for 36 hours, 3 times per week. Monday, Wednesday and Friday I don&amp;#x27;t eat or drink anything other than water and coffee. You can go shorter, like one meal per day in some days or longer, e.g. 5 days is easy once you get used to it.&lt;p&gt;As a tip: eating high fat, low carbs meals before fasting helps. Also if you get dizzy or if you get cramps, you probably have an electrolytes imbalance and you need to stop your fast. If that happens to you, make sure to take salt (sodium) and possibly magnesium supplements. Once I started doing that, the dizziness and the cramps stopped. But document yourself first and consulting a doctor and doing some blood work might be good ideas.&lt;p&gt;This is a pretty good book on the subject: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-Alternate-Day&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;1628600012&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-A...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Periodic fasting starves cisplatin‐resistant cancers to death</title><url>http://emboj.embopress.org/content/early/2018/06/06/embj.201899815</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>magneticnorth</author><text>I believe they mean that they don&amp;#x27;t eat from, say, 8pm on Sunday night until 8am Tuesday morning (and again covering Wednesday and Friday).</text><parent_chain><item><author>andreygrehov</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t it the same as what he said in &amp;quot;Do you mean you fast for 12 hours on each of Monday, Wednesday and Friday, totalling 36 hours&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>bad_user</author><text>No, I mean I don&amp;#x27;t eat anything on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If you count the hours, that&amp;#x27;s 36 hours windows, as it includes sleep.</text></item><item><author>r_c_a_d</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused. Do you mean you fast for 12 hours on each of Monday, Wednesday and Friday, totalling 36 hours? Or you fast for 36 hours starting on Monday, Wednesday and Friday... which would be all of Monday and half of Tuesday etc?</text></item><item><author>bad_user</author><text>Fasting is great for weight loss and for lowering your insulin resistance, which is now considered by many the main cause of obesity and of course type 2 diabetes. This has been shown by studies.&lt;p&gt;Some say that fasting activates &amp;quot;autophagy&amp;quot; which has great health benefits, supposedly being great for preventing the remission of cancer: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Autophagy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Autophagy&lt;/a&gt; — but note that I could not find any concrete study or proof of it, this being anecdotal evidence from some clinics that advise their patients to do fasting instead of chemotherapy.&lt;p&gt;I practice fasting for 36 hours, 3 times per week. Monday, Wednesday and Friday I don&amp;#x27;t eat or drink anything other than water and coffee. You can go shorter, like one meal per day in some days or longer, e.g. 5 days is easy once you get used to it.&lt;p&gt;As a tip: eating high fat, low carbs meals before fasting helps. Also if you get dizzy or if you get cramps, you probably have an electrolytes imbalance and you need to stop your fast. If that happens to you, make sure to take salt (sodium) and possibly magnesium supplements. Once I started doing that, the dizziness and the cramps stopped. But document yourself first and consulting a doctor and doing some blood work might be good ideas.&lt;p&gt;This is a pretty good book on the subject: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-Alternate-Day&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;1628600012&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-A...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Periodic fasting starves cisplatin‐resistant cancers to death</title><url>http://emboj.embopress.org/content/early/2018/06/06/embj.201899815</url></story>