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The paper published by Dr Sudhir Shah makes it clear that dozens of people had access to Hira Ratan Manek during the study and he went on at least one excursion: " Most surprisingly, he had himself climbed the famous Shatrunjay mountain ( Palitana hill ) on 4. 4. 01, on 401st day of his legendary fasting along with 500 fellowmen without anybody ’ s help, within 1. 5 Hrs.

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The paper reports that the subject lost 19 kg of weight during the study period.

Neither the experiment, as described in the paper, nor the paper itself have been validated by any other well-known scientific or medical journal.