Academy of Sciences of Heroesland

In other words, options like "take a pill and don't eat for a week," as you can imagine, are not viable.
Options like "take a pill and don't eat all day" are more realistic, but again, goodbye liver.

Well, firstly, it's not "swallowed," but taken. Pigs eat. Secondly, have you heard of glucose, which is introduced into the blood of people in a coma to sustain their lives? Thirdly, you simply don't believe in the possibilities of modern biochemistry.