>>76012537
Yeah exactly what it says on the tin.

I started doing it because I've had insomnia for over 30 years and it has definitely impacted my cognition. Fasting is beneficial for "neural housekeeping" in the brain and as you said, it helps your body get rid of garbage. I also think that restoring insulin sensitivity has the additional benefit of giving me a bit more baseline cognitive and physical energy.

But, fasting also helps revert tolerance to psychoactive substances, any and all of them. Cannabis, caffeine, stimulants of various kinds, they all become more potent after a fast.

And that leads to my final reason, and for me fasting itself is psychoactive. Around the 22-24hour mark something shifts in my cognition, I become really clear-minded, very straightforward goal-driven. There is very little decision-making or planning needed for things I want and need to do ,which has become ever-more complex as I have to cognitively keep things together despite the impact of a life long of insomnia, and a particular period of near-total sleep deprivation for 3 years that fuckin scarred my mind. What the fasted mindspace has allowed me to do and achieve in life combined with the persistent effects of fasting on my body and mind is incredible.

Also some psychoactive substances, like modafinil, caffeine and LSD have incredible synergy with the fasted mindstate. They are all stronger, but there is also a kind of 1+1=3, especially with LSD, which really lets me just... straighten everything out in life that needs to be straightened out when I take it curing a fast, but I haven't needed to for about a year now.

Oh and finally, the HGH increases it gives. It has really helped with my gains.

>How long did/do you fast for?

Minimum 18 hours, for me 24-28 hours constitutes a solid fast. 36 hour max. Once a week. But lately I've been experimenting with one 21-hour fast, a short refeeding window of about an hour, then another 21-hour fast.

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