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Episode 2: Starvation Survival - Enduring Beyond Emptiness Summary: When the body is deprived of food, a complex cascade of physiological adaptations begins to preserve essential functions. This episode documents the most extreme cases of starvation survival, starting with Angus Barbieri's medically supervised 382-day fast where he consumed only water, vitamins, and electrolytes while losing 276 pounds. It investigates how the 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash endured 72 days in the freezing mountains despite heightened metabolic demands from extreme cold and high altitude. The narrative also examines the Irish hunger strikers who survived between 46 and 73 days before death, providing rare documentation of the complete progression of starvation physiology. Through metabolic science and cutting-edge research on autophagy (the body's cellular recycling system), the episode reveals how human physiology can adapt to extract maximum survival value from minimal nutritional resources, challenging conventional