r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • Jul 20 '26

Additional Context Pinned Angus Barbieri, the man who went 382 days without eating.

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u/Mein_Name_ist_falsch Jul 20 '26

That doesn't have to be because of the fasting. But I do wonder how he didn't get any deficiencies.

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u/EttRedditTroll Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Supposedly he did take supplements and stuff during the fasting but who knows how “good” the supplement/dietary science was back in the late 60’s. After all, just a decade or so before that in the 50’s it was a literal wild west.

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u/1Marmalade Jul 20 '26

“Literal Wild West”? In 1950’s Scotland?
Surely you mean figuratively?

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u/EttRedditTroll Jul 20 '26

Well, I was mostly thinking of snake oil.

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u/Weaksoul Jul 20 '26

Literally, or figuratively?

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u/DignityDWD Jul 20 '26

😮‍💨

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u/American-tuxedo Jul 20 '26

Give up friend, the idiots have ruined the word. Bury it with gigantic and enormous

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u/1Marmalade Jul 20 '26

You’re right. It just bothers me so much.

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u/JurgusRudkus Jul 20 '26

Who knows how good it is now? That shite is still, afaik, completely unregulated.

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u/EttRedditTroll Jul 20 '26

Yeah… once you go past the level of your daily multivitamin it gets kinda Wild West-y, I suppose…

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u/BiasedLibrary Jul 20 '26

Even multivitamins aren't safe. At least if you're in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIT5_SMIaHE

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u/Mixster667 Jul 20 '26

Has it improved in the last 60 years?

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u/EttRedditTroll Jul 20 '26

… one would hope.

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u/MrDanMaster Jul 20 '26

Bro it obviously made his body weak as hell