Don’t mean this to be a weird post and it has relevance here. I’ve been doing IF for a month now ( again done it before on and off for religious reasons). Have been masturbating whilst I’ve been doing apart from the first week or so. In that week it was so easy to go on long fasts and I had so much energy and since then I’ve been doing 14/16 hour fasts instead of atleast 18.
I don’t know if it’s the semen retention or the willpower you get from abstaining but it seems easier again. Might be placebo but I doubt it.
I had to read that like four times to get what you were trying to say.
Anyway, if that logic was true than people who have regular sex wouldn’t be able to fast as effectively. And I’m sure there are plenty of people - myself included - who can say that that isn’t true…