spend up to three years hunkered

An Italian sociologist hopes to spend up to three years hunkered in a small, chilly underground cave in central Italy to better understand the body’s natural cycles, the daily newspaper La Repubblicareported.

Maurizio Montalbini, 53, moved into his new grotto home this week. He intends to pass more than 1,000 days drinking water from a small pipe, and eating food pills at meals. But he has also brought a few treats: four kilograms of honey, two kilograms of nuts, and 1.5 kilograms of chocolate, according to La Repubblica.

His sojourn aims to better understand the body’s natural rhythms to determine better medical dosages and fight stress and insomnia.

I’ll bet you $1000 he doesn’t last a year! I’m sure I’d go nuts if I was stuck in there for THREE years! Holy smokes!