Somebody really should've told these folks about pranic energy. Guess they didn't get enough sunlight, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

It's plenty sunny in South Sudan and they're starving right now. Maybe they're not doing it right.

As I have said before: I'm willing to take the challenge to prove it (people here say that money is not the problem).

So just start collecting funds and make a suggestion for a protocol/contract. Let's put our actions where our mouths are. Let's do this. My email is in this thread and should be in my profile as well. I'm waiting...

Well, I don't know about others, but personally I wouldn't get much out of spending my effort disproving obvious quackery. It certainly wouldn't be effective at stopping future claims of the same nature, since the practitioners could always claim their method wasn't tested. It probably wouldn't even be effective at stopping you from thinking it works, because you gotta have a screw loose to believe this stuff in the first place.

It's enough evidence for me that billions of people have died from starvation, including people from all nations, religions, and races. Pretty much all of them were strongly opposed to dying and would've loved to learn one weird trick to remain living.

Thankfully, there's no money in peddling such garbage to people who actually struggle to obtain enough food. That would be truly evil. Selling $2000+ "Pranic Living Workshops" to new-agey first worlders is mostly harmless old-fashioned scamming, though the occasional mark does starve themselves to death now and then.

As I've said before, I'm willing to take the challenge, if I'm paid enough. 8 weeks in the mentioned metabolic chamber is doable. Try me.

You might be delusional, but no this really has been tested and everyone failed.

PS: As recently as 1996 - 2015 there was a million dollar bounty for demonstrating this could work. It was not collected.

> this really has been tested and everyone failed.

Source?

> As recently as 1996 - 2015 there was a million dollar bounty for demonstrating this could work. It was not collected.

Source? (I am willing to take a plane tomorrow to demonstrate that right away, just tell me who to contact.)

One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge ended in 2015 when James Randi retired. But, it should not be that hard to get something similar setup if you really want.

I am not going to dig that far into this but read https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/breatharians/ as a starting point.

As I've said before, I'm willing to take the challenge, if I'm paid enough. The mentioned metabolic chamber is doable. Try me.

We should collect some money. I would be willing to chip in $1000 if someone could demonstrate that.

I'm ready to demonstrate that if the money is right and the funding is credible.

Here's my suggestion for the approximate conditions:

1 week on water only, no food. Full medical and 24-hour video surveillance, and all kinds of tests (blood, urine, you name it) to show that nothing is wrong with my body. If I win, I collect the prize.

If you make serious progress in raising money, you can contact me at john_999 at gmx dot net

One week is not enough. I have fasted for a week myself. That's easy. You mentioned "couple of weeks" so six or 8 weeks would be more appropriate.

Ok, it's really only a matter of the amount of the prize to collect. I remain open for suggestions.

If this "method" makes it possible to live "a healthy life without food" and is, according to you "the ultimate life & health hack"...

...then why are you so adamant about collecting funds to do it? Don't you want to live a healthy life? Are you not interested in the ultimate life and health hack?

> why are you so adamant about collecting funds to do it? Don't you want to live a healthy life? Are you not interested in the ultimate life and health hack?

I already apply the method for a couple of weeks now. The money would be needed to cover all expenses but most of all to motivate me enough to take the time off and live a couple of weeks in what amounts to "medical solitary confinement" conditions in some medical institution.

Sure, I can toss in 1,000$. But, the prize is not as hard as simply running tests like this.

Just ask an MD what test would be required. Then talk to some SV VC and/or set up a Kickstarter campaign. Then contact me.

If you are willing to sit inside a metabolic chamber then feel free. https://www.pbrc.edu/news/making-an-impact/?ArticleID=344

The problem is not incentive, if you can demonstrate this that's not going to be a problem. People have spent 100 billion+ trying to break physics demonstrate it's wrong and money would be plentiful.

Ok, that looks a bit like solitary confinement. But ultimately, it just pushes the prize money up. I remain open for suggestions.