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Looking at the first chart here, I'm seeing a big divide between domestic products and imported products. Things like cars, T.V.s, clothing, computers, household furnishings, all almost exclusively produced internationally, while things like childcare, healthcare, housing, and food are either domestically produced by default (i.e. childcare, I imagine >99% of Americans don't send their kids overseas when they need a babysitter), or are mostly sourced domestically (i.e. food, things like grains, vegetables, livestock are bought from within the country).

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Not during the fast, just plain water.

Good point to bring up here which is electrolyte shortage can produce some of the very symptoms i felt. I completely failed to consider this (or even read some Fasting-101 blog post or NIH study) before jumping feet first into a three day fast. Take this as a rule of thumb: Is there anything you'd want to know that a 5-minute google search could tell you?

I saw your original Vavilov post and thought it was a great idea. The history of cereal crops is really interesting, and Vavilov, like the other greats in the field during the 20th century (i.e. Borlaug), had a successful strategy(ies) for enhancing food production that boiled down to:

1. Scour the globe for the crops that grow in the harshest conditions.
2. Collect the seeds.
3. Plant elsewhere.

Utterly simple and it worked. Huge impact for the betterment of humanity. I found this to be inspiring and tickling to my sense of aesthetic, so I tried a three-day fast (25th... (read more)