Tag: Nutritional deprivation

While the body can only last about three days without any water, with adequate hydration, some records suggest people have survived with no food for weeks or even several months. This remarkable resilience of the human body, in a state of starvation with access to water, is influenced by a complex process of metabolic changes.

Acute starvation can lead to life-threatening complications, with death typically occurring after 60 to 70 days without food in a healthy adult. Acute starvation is defined as a severe deficiency of calorie intake over a relatively short period, causing the body to undergo significant metabolic shifts to survive.