Indian patient Prahlad Jani claims he has survived without food and water for more than seven decades.
 
Currently being held in isolation by India’s Defense Research Development Organization, Prahlad Jani has now gone six days without food or water and has yet to demonstrate any signs of hunger or thirst (he hasn’t crapped or peed either).  Doctors feel the long-practicing “breatharian” might possess some hidden “key” that will help save lives.  And by “lives,” they mean, naturally, military lives:

Mr Jani is regarded as a breatharian who can live on a ‘spiritual life-force’ alone.  He believes he is sustained by a goddess who pours an ‘elixir’ through a hole in his palate.  His claims have been supported by an Indian doctor who specializes in studies of people who claim supernatural abilities, but he has also been dismissed by others as a “village fraud.”

India’s Defence Research Development Organisation, whose scientists develop drone aircraft, intercontinental ballistic missiles and new types of bombs believe Mr Prahlad could teach them to help soldiers survive longer without food, or disaster victims to hang on until help arrives.  “If his claims are verified, it will be a breakthrough in medical science,” said Dr G Ilavazhagan, director of the Defence Institute of Physiology & Allied Sciences.  “We will be able to help save human lives during natural disasters, high altitude, sea journeys and other natural and human extremities. We can educate people about the survival techniques in adverse conditions with little food and water or nothing at all.”

A short documentary on Prahlad Jani and breatharianism follows below:

 
Man Claims To Have Had No Food Or Drink For 70 Years