I will not consume any food or anything else save for water, fasting salts, lemon juice, turmeric, and a multivitamin for 25 straight days starting January 2nd 2024.

I fast for health benefits (autophagy, research for which won the 2016 Nobel Prize for medicine) and for spiritual reasons - written about in Matthew and Luke in the New Testament and by Gandhi in his autobiography.

There's no tricks or amputations involved just some hunger pangs and grit.

To prove no deviation on the way I'll have a weigh-in and photos at the start and end with at least one other trustee and expect to lose 1 lb/day over the period ~ 25lb.

I am raising for the Bishop Wordsworth School Foundation, which supports socially deprived pupils of the school with uniforms, travel to and from school and school trips, as well as long-term capital projects for the school.