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If healthy guys stop eating for six days, their stress hormone levels don’t really go up — meaning their bodies don’t seem to treat it as a big stress event.
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Exploring the effect of prolonged fasting on kynurenine pathway metabolites and stress markers in healthy male individuals
Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2024 AugThe study looked at healthy men fasting for 6 days with no calories and found that two key stress hormones, cortisol and noradrenaline, didn’t change—just like the claim says.
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