Man Goes Without Food or Drink for Seven Decades

[SirJosephPorter]

There is a Yogi in India who claims that he has gone without food or water for seven decades. Now, at first glance there may be nothing to it. Many people make all kinds of claims; most of them tend to be exaggeration or outright phony.

However, Indian doctors decided to test his claim. The put him in a hospital for two weeks and observed him with round the clock vigilance. He was under constant surveillance from a team of 30 medics equipped with cameras and closed circuit television.

For two weeks he did not eat or drink anything. Nor did he go to the toilet (of course). The doctors hope that the findings, set to be released in greater detail in several months, could help soldiers survive without food and drink, assist astronauts or even save the lives of people trapped in natural disasters.

So, how does he do it (and now there is no reason to doubt his claim that he has spent seven decades without food or drink)? We don’t know. There is still so much about human body that is unknown. Where does he get the energy, from sunlight?

During the 15-day observation, which ended on Thursday, the doctors took scans of Jani's organs, brain, and blood vessels, as well as doing tests on his heart, lungs and memory capacity.

"The reports were all in the pre-determined safety range through the observation period," Shah told reporters at a press conference last week.

'Starving yogi' astounds Indian scientists

Anyway, he has gone back to his village and to his prayers and meditation.

 

[bill barilko]

So, how does he do it

.......prayers and meditation

 

[Ron in Regina]

I can see (& believe) this, as long as the guy died in 1940.

 

[lone wolf]

Yogi ... and no pickinick baskets?

 

[Liberalman]

BooBoo says Yogi is smarter than the average?

 

[Bar Sinister]

I don't see a problem with a simple magician's trick. It is not more baffling than making an airplane disappear. Most skilled magicians could duplicate the feat.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

I don't see a problem with a simple magician's trick. It is not more baffling than making an airplane disappear. Most skilled magicians could duplicate the feat.

There is no magic trick here, he was under surveillance 24/7. We are not talking of levitation trick here, done with wires. There was only the Yogi on a hospital bed and nothing else. He was not carrying a whole bunch of equipment with him (as magician would during magic experiments).

And indeed, can any magician live without going to bathroom for 14 days? From the article, I understand the results will soon be published in scientific journals. They don’t publish magic experiments in scientific journals.

Indeed, I would like to see a magician perform the trick of going without food or drink for 14 days (and without going to bathroom for 14 days).

The fact is, there is still plenty about the workings of human body, about its physiology that we don’t understand.

 

[JLM]

That is just one of thousands of mysteries to man yet unsolved.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

So, how does he do it... ?

Fraud.

 

[CDNBear]

Fraud.

Leave it to you, to shed light on those little mysteries...;-)

 

[TenPenny]

How does he do it?

Easy. First of all, he's not white. Second, he's not a Christian. Therefore, anything reported about him is, quite definitely, true and verifiable.

Now, if he were a Christian, this would obviously be some fakery dreamed up the the Republican Right Wing Christian Extremists.

But it's not, so it is therefore true and real.

 

[DaSleeper]

I wonder if his wife and son said it was possible:?:

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Fraud.

Possibly. They have said the results will be published in scientific journals, we will see if they do that. If they don't and only report it on internet blogs, then of course it is fraud.

 

[karrie]

My first assumption was, "... that he knows of." Knowing people who sleep eat, I would have simply assumed, even if he was being honest, that was what was going on.

 

[darkbeaver]

Possibly. They have said the results will be published in scientific journals, we will see if they do that. If they don't and only report it on internet blogs, then of course it is fraud.

Scientific journals include plenty of fraud. There isn't any human institution yet that can foil determined human ingenuity, especially the fraudulent variety.

 

[petros]

Does he fart?

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Scientific journals include plenty of fraud. There isn't any human institution yet that can foil determined human ingenuity, especially the fraudulent variety.

Sure it does. However, when something goes against common sense (like this does), I don't see any reputable scientific journal publishing it without ample documentation, without getting it refereed from skeptics of the first order. Let them publish in a reputable journal such as Nature or Science and I am sold.

 

[lone wolf]

Whichever be thine fertilizer....

 

[Bar Sinister]

There is no magic trick here, he was under surveillance 24/7. We are not talking of levitation trick here, done with wires. There was only the Yogi on a hospital bed and nothing else. He was not carrying a whole bunch of equipment with him (as magician would during magic experiments).

And indeed, can any magician live without going to bathroom for 14 days? From the article, I understand the results will soon be published in scientific journals. They don’t publish magic experiments in scientific journals.

Indeed, I would like to see a magician perform the trick of going without food or drink for 14 days (and without going to bathroom for 14 days).

The fact is, there is still plenty about the workings of human body, about its physiology that we don’t understand.

Actually in tests of so called psychics in the US, scientists were shown to be remarkably easy to deceive. One of the main reasons for this what that the scientists in question were incredibly trusting. It apparently did not occur to them that the people they were supposedly observing would actually cheat to obtain the desired results.

Let me test this swami. I'd put him in an airtight vault with two weeks supply of air and leave him there. However, I would first check certain body cavities to make sure he did not have an intestine full of food concentrates and water. This case speaks more closely to the gullibility and sloppiness of the observers more than anything else.

 

[JLM]

This is where religion comes into play, he has a pact for osmosis with God.