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Critic Response

The objection

“Mono-diets cause eating disorders. Telling people to eat only one food for five days is reckless and feeds disordered patterns.”

Our headline response

We agree the concern is serious — and we explicitly exclude individuals with a personal or recent family history of eating disorders from the protocol. A bounded 3- to 5-day cycle with structured refeed is not a long-term mono-diet, but the screening and language matter.

The headline above is our short, defensible answer — substantive on its own. The full rebuttal below — the data tables, the per-citation reasoning, the places where the critic has a real point and where the data clearly disagrees — is published to Inner Circle members.