How Long Can You Go With Just Water

Adult female living on water-only diet stops on twenty-four hours 47 later on realizing she could exist encouraging others to 'starve to decease'

In 45 days Naveena Sine has lost 20per cent of her body weight, taking her five-foot four-inch frame downward from 159 to 126 pounds

Published: xv:37 BST, 18 June 2013 | Updated: 19:08 BST, eighteen June 2013

A woman trying to live on naught but water for upward to six months is calling information technology quits after 47 days.

Naveena Shine, 65, from Redmond, Seattle, stopped eating on May 3 in a bid to explore breatharianism - the concept that food is non necessary and sunlight provides all of the nourishment the torso needs.

Simply on Dominicus she announced via Facebook and YouTub e that she is ending the extreme cocky-experiment because she has realized that information technology's 'totally dangerous' and probable to cause death.

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Navenna Shine

Naveena Shine

Extreme self-experiment: Naveena Shine seen in the first week of not eating (left) and six weeks afterward (right)

The retiree, originally from the Uk, likewise says that she didn't want to be responsible for others trying to 'live on light" without having their 'conventionalities systems lined upwardly'.

She continued: 'Somebody doing this without all of that in place is synonymous to watching a tightrope walker high in the air, admiring them and thinking you can do it too.

'Now that I see all that feedback, I am really seeing that it is totally dangerous'

'If I got up there and tried to copy them, the result would be instant death.'

Ms Smoothen will 'slowly' resume eating on June nineteen. In 45 days she has lost 20per cent of her body weight, taking her 5-foot four-inch frame down from 159 to 126 pounds.

Other than water she has likewise been drinking tea with a 'splash of milk' and recently started taking daily vitamin supplements.

HOW LONG Tin can SOMEONE Alive ON WATER Solitary?

Dr Alan D. Lieberson explains in the Scientific American the length of survival without nutrient is influenced by factors such every bit torso weight, other health considerations and, about chiefly, the presence or absence of dehydration.

Unlike total starvation, well-nigh-full starvation with continued hydration has occurred frequently, both in history - during famines, for example - and in patients nether medical supervision.

A Q&A section on New York'due south Colombia Academy website explains that afterwards ane mean solar day without food, the trunk will have used upwards its carbohydrates. Later that, it's on to the fat reserves.

The average person plain has enough fat reserves to live for four to half-dozen weeks without food. From at that place the body begins to use its protein reserves - basically, the body itself - which causes irreparable damage to vital organs including the brain.

It states that on average people tin can terminal for most eight weeks on water alone, give or take about a week for an over or underweight person, respectively.

Unpleasant side effects of her no-food diet have included 'sensations of bile' at the dorsum of her throat, sickness, nausea and constipation.

It besides impacted on her social life. On day vii she wrote: 'My friends had a barbeque this night! I could not actually smell it but I could hear them all having a skillful fourth dimension. They did ship me their love just no steak!

'Food is such a social connection that to give up the addiction to food as well requires learning how to interact in a non-nutrient situation.

'Imagine going to a hymeneals or a party or a buffet and not eating! I don't even want to think of information technology!'

Confined to the aforementioned four walls, Ms Shine has been filling her fourth dimension with movies, exercise and sleep.

In ane of her video entries she claimed she felt 'very well' and only occasionally experienced 'twinges of what feels similar hunger'.

Withal, now she days that negative public reaction has caused her to reconsider what she is doing.

'There are a lot of people who are genuinely concerned for safe and genuinely don't think it's possible and believe information technology to exist dangerous,' she said on Lord's day.

'Now that I encounter all that feedback, I am really seeing that it is totally dangerous.'

Under surveillance: The retiree installed security cameras around her home to prove she didn't sneak snacks

Under surveillance: The retiree installed security cameras effectually her dwelling to bear witness she didn't sneak snacks

Doctors have warned that information technology is not possible for humans to photosynthesize, and iv deaths have been linked to people who patently had tried.

Too extreme: Ms Shine set out to survive on nothing but water for six months

Too extreme: Ms Polish gear up out to survive on goose egg only h2o for vi months

Some other motivating gene for ending the experiment, says Ms Shine, is that she's out of money.

Originally she hoped publicizing her efforts through social media would assist proceed her financially adrift, only to date she has only received $425 in contributions via her website.

For the experiment she maxed out her credit cards buying equipment such every bit viii security cameras. She had them installed in her minor trailer to evidence she wasn't sneaking snacks.

The concluding day she ate solid nutrient was on April 30. She then embarked on a three-day juice cleanse and underwent colonics in grooming for the prolonged fast.

As for her first meal, she told The Seattle Time s it will consist of 'lemon juice for vitamin C and a spoonful of maple syrup in warm h2o for energy'. She will and so move on to liquidy vegetables such as spinach or zucchini sautéed in water.'

There are thought to be more than than 5,000 breatharianists and light nutritionists worldwide.