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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

YOGI BARE



Study on yogi Prahlad Jani’s fasting concludes

India’s Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences concluded its study of 82-year-old yogi Prahlad Jani Jani, a hermit from Ahmedabad who claims to have lived without food or water for the last 70 years, was under the close watch of three video cameras 24 hours a day.

Researchers conducted various medical tests on him. The research team, consisting of 35 scientists, could not find any evidence that Jani ate or drank anything during the 15 days.

Doctors have not found any adverse effects in his body from hunger or dehydration. They think that yoga exercises may have caused Jani’s body to undergo a biological transformation. The researchers said tests found that his brain is equivalent to that of a 25-year-old. The doctors said that after fasting for two weeks, Jani was healthier than the average 40-year-old.

Jani said he left home when he was 7 to live as a wandering monk, and was blessed by a goddess a year later. He claims that there is a hole in his palate through which his head drops nectar, giving him nutrition and enabling him to live without food or water.

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1 comment:

Randolf Richardson said...

I suspect that this is a scam, and that the researchers are in on it. How can they test that his brain is equivalent to that of a 25-year-old anyway?

Many things are very fishy about this. The body needs a certain minimum amount of food and water to survive, plain and simple.

Will this guy be selling a book or movie rights in the near future? I wouldn't be surprised if he (or at least one of his researchers) does.