December 18, 2025

What If You Drank Only Water for Your Entire Life?

8 minutes

Have you heard of something called water fasting? It's a type of fast that restricts everything except, well, water. Most people only water fast for 72 hours at most, but what if you did this for the rest of your life? You'd be fine, right? Haha, yeah. Not so much. What happens to your stomach without food? What damage will you do to your organs? And how many days can you last?

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00:00:00: What If You Drank Only Water for the Rest of Your Life?
00:01:30: Day One
00:01:37: Day Two
00:02:07: Day Five
00:02:23: Day Ten
00:03:23: Day Fifteen
00:03:37: Day Thirty
00:03:59: Day Forty
00:04:17: Day Fifty
00:04:54: Day Seventy

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