Tag: Starvation survival

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.

In 1965, a Scottish man named Angus Barbieri began a medically supervised fast that would ultimately last 382 days. This incredible feat of human endurance, performed under strict medical observation, saw him survive solely on liquids and vitamin supplements, and stands as the record for the longest anyone has gone without food and survived.