What If You Stopped Eating Food?

How long can your body and brain diet through fasting, starvation or survive with no food?

Created by: Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown
Written by: Greg Brown
Illustrated by: Max Simmons
Edited by: Sel Ghebrehiwot & Mitchell Moffit

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[Xxxbluebirdxxx]

I thought they were going to mention eating disorders for moment.

[alykgray]

THE MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL.

[ceruleandusk]

Cool, so I can eat once every 3 days and never die of starvation. Fasting let's go!

[Malabarismo]

A video on fasting and ketosis could be nice!

[dpetfmy]

Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell.

[PeterTMT]

"Your fat stores would be depleted in several weeks" My time to shine!

[ColmanLegrand]

"What If You Stopped Eating Food?" you die

[sander]

What if I stopped watching AsapSCIENCE?





I'd be less worried about dying

[laceyrobbins]

Short answer: I would be sad if I didn't eat.
Long answer: It depends how long.

[punkuin]

*Mitochondira* ooh, I know this...Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

Looks like biology class wasn't totally pointless after all.

[dookiepookie_]

* Sees the video notification *
Me: What if I stopped eating?




*die*

[AbudBakri]

You guys completely forgot to discuss Ketosis and how that feeds the need to be more accurate about this.

[meatloaf]

The brain can burn keton bodies from the beta-oxydenation of fatty acids, so proteins are not the only source of energy after glicogen depletion. And actuallu keton bodies work for brain pretty well.

[paclaire]

I have an idea! Do you think you guys could make a video about what happens when you stop eating sugar, in a similar style to your “What Happens When You Stop Smoking”?

Like if you agree

[sarahparker]

Video title: "What if you stopped eating food?"
Video content: "What happens when you DO eat food."

[sparrowk]

I'm glad throughout the video he used the word "starving" and not "fasting" as this video is accurate if you are in a starving state but not fasting. I'm sure AsapSCIENCE knows this and is why they choice that word but just putting this comment in so people know there is a difference.

[Chazahc]

Welp thanks for the info for my homework.. 😂

[jonahschwam]

I’m so happy that you guys have been producing such great content lately and at such a fast rate! Fascinating stuff.

[catisadisaster]

Why does tickling make us laugh?
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[kyliek.]

The energy conversion part seems a lot like rocket science... ☄️🙇‍♀️ *brain flies away*

Edit: still in ‘high school’ (as Americans call it) but I just started learning AS biology...