Life from Light: Is it Possible to Live without Food? - A Scientist Reports on His Experiences [Paperback]

I've read the book, and tried the techniques. Most of the book is devoted to testimonials from people - and what is interesting is their universal claims of benefits from not eating, but also showing how they couldn't continue because their families and friends directly or indirectly applied social pressure to stop. If you go out, for example, how often is what is we do in socializing revolve around drinking or eating something? These testimonials always seem to end with this: that we are so based in our instincts that we have to relate to other people through ingestion as a background activity.

The book is dismissive of Jasmuhinn. Jasmuhinn was not the originator of the process - she simply quoted someone else who came up with the idea in Australia, and filled out a book and career based on it. There are plenty of historical claims of those who stopped eating - usually in a religious context. Any reviews, such as above, that mention Jasmuhinn miss the mark entirely. Are all the stories, including those in the 20th century, of individuals not eating, of being isolated for observation and not getting ill (Jasmuhinn plainly has problems here) to be dismissed as nonsense?

As a primary condition, it is stated that if anyone in following the technique starts to get a pain in their liver after 3 days they should stop immediately. People who go beyond that pain are ignoring the advice given, and really only have themselves to blame. Michael Werner is not making a career out of this - his book reports on others who purport to have done this, and he is asking those with enough curiosity to read it. It is not for everybody, but the fact that there are people who are claiming to have actually stopped eating, who have no reason to defraud or make money out of it, points to a phenomenon that needs to be studied rather than dismissed because a few have been hurt or died while not following the primary cautions. We have to be careful, but not childish in trying to avoid everything that might hurt us.

Michael Werner is not making a career out of this - he is a research scientist. Nor is the MD who is doing the same - the word for this is inedia - who has written the forward of the book.

My take on this: I have found that stress in work directly affects whether I can do this or not. The result is this: I eat, but my daily food intake is half (1,200 calories) of what is claimed that an adult needs as a regular intake to stay healthy. Without work stress, I can get by on very little - much less than 1,200 calories. As a result, I am healthier than I have ever been - all pains and aches and colds and little illnesses have gone, while I observe all those around me continuing to get ill as they eat 2 or more times what I do. Michael Werner can drive 18 hours without tiring - I can do the same but for 12 hours. I think I conceptually know what is happening, but cannot actually physically describe the mechanisms. Neither can Dr. Werner. That is what needs to be studied, and researched objectively - not dismissed because it doesn't agree with one's view of reality. If you do that, all you will ever see is your own reality.

Compared to all the other stuff written about "Life from Light" this is nothing short of excellent.

It lets you know how to do "it" and also the problems associated with it

Interesting idea, would like to try it one day..I would recommend it, think it's a worthwhile read for anyone. Really easy to read