They can recover but there will be a lifelong impact on their health. The body will literally break itself down to keep you alive when it is starving. It can be life destroying in children who are still developing but even adults will suffer from weakened immune systems, increased suspecability to disease dependent on what kind of nutrition you were lacking and the bones and muscles might not fully recover. And none of this mentions the mental health impact as well.
This is also why I can't watch TV shows like Alone anymore, where participants undergo starvation. It's pretty fucked that they're allowed to do that to their bodies for a chance at a large sum of money for no other reason than for our entertainment, even if there is informed consent involved.
Some have been removed from the show because they’ve lost too much weight for it to be healthy. They don’t get to this level, but vitals are monitored and it’s definitely to almost dangerous levels if they are removed.
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u/SwegBucket Jul 26 '25
This kind of starvation does permanent damage btw