Additional Information Page 4 â4, _. 2. Safety The safety of calcium disodium EDTA, disodium EDTA, and many other salts of EDTA has been reviewed by the FDA, the EPA, JECFA and the Cosmetics Ingredient Review Board (CIRB, Lanigan and Yamarik 2002), and has been the subject of reviews in the public literature.
How about doing it 11 days in a row? A man in Cornwall, England, actually went 11 consecutive days without a wink of sleep. On May 24, 2007, Tony Wright, a 42-year-old horticulturalist, claimed to have beaten the record of 264 hours (exactly 11 days) set in 1964 by 17-year-old American Randy Gardner. Wright had some practice: he had already been through more than 100 sleep deprivation experiments, the longest one lasting eight days. He also employed a unique raw-food diet. Wright claims that his regimen of salads, avocados, bananas, pineapples, nuts, seeds, carrot juice and herbal tea helped his brain stay awake.
In a comfortable environment, however, an adult can last without water for a week or more. Andreas Mihavecz, an 18-year-old Austrian man, may have survived the longest without drinking water: Police accidentally left him in a holding cell for 18 days in 1979. It's a fuzzy record, though, since he allegedly licked condensation off the walls of the prison.