hi, i’m just wondering how dry fasting actually works? from what i know, water is required for all cellular processes including metabolisation of fat stores so wouldn’t it be counter productive? also, after your body is deprived of water it wants to hold onto water so it would make you gain ridiculous amounts of water weight no? it just seems unnecessary and dangerous to go without water
Human study looking at benefits of dry fasting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98AZyWQeIzg
When to dry fast? https://youtu.be/xk4jJef_Z0k
Is dry fasting the quickest way to reset your body? https://youtu.be/R0-UQoTjVOE
Can you burn more fat with dry fasting? https://youtu.be/y_-_Dw-ph-Y
dry fasting and skin: https://youtu.be/PfrlyS-Bzyo
Is dry fasting the best way to improve brain health?: https://youtu.be/dZQflMQjmns
5 reason to dry fast : https://youtu.be/NACfAX_W3Ng
Who shouldn’t dry fast? https://youtu.be/YIRJVALmYaw
There’s lots of information out there from a variety of people, but I like her videos. They’re short and well explained while also based on scientific studies. She also never recommends long-term dry fasting. 24hrs or less is what she recommends.
Personal opinion: I’m iffy on long-term dry fasting for 99% of the population. I feel like a lot of people go to extremes, dry fasting for 5, 7, 10 days with little to no experience under the belts and almost no preparation, and I think a lot of internet experts downplay the dangers of doing that, while forgetting that people can literally die without food and water. Even if you don’t die, it can throw your body into chaos because it is literally dying.
That said, plenty of people train their body over years and years to do extended dry fasts. Those who take the time to do so typically do that for healing or spiritual purposes, and they can indeed survive some massively long dry fasting, like 20+ days. But they’ve trained their bodies for years.
I think people tend to think that if something is good for you, more of it is better. That’s not always the case.
I did one dry fast that was 55hrs, then transitioned to a water fast that lasted 88. It was easier than expected, but I didn’t like how my body responded afterwards. It freaked out way harder than it typically does on a water-only fast, and my weight rebounded and then some. First time I’d ever had that happen.
So while I do wish to incorporate the dry fasts for the reported health benefits, my plan is to keep it under 36hrs, with most being 12-16hrs. I think you’d get more benefits and stay safer by consistently intermittent dry fasting than you would going 10 days.
Please note that here is no formal proof of what I’m about to say. Dry fasting is hardly well researched on a theoretical basis.
To answer your question: why not?
The fact that water is needed doesn’t prove that we should be drinking all the time nor that water restriction cannot have benefits.
By the way, there exists a process by which the body of most animals resist dehydration and it is based on osmolytes accumulation in tissues.
Regarding why it could be good to restrict water: it’s possible that some signaling in the body (some nuclear receptors) depends on osmolarity (concentration of ions/molecules in the blood) and that those signals activates required processes. We know that some hormones (vasopressin, oxytocin and multiple other) are produced when water is restricted. Water intake could influence circadian rythms. There could be physico-chemical processes that are based on osmolarity or other physical properties (look deuterium depleted water). Osmolytes themselves could have some good properties.
One example:
Intermittent drinking, oxytocin and human health
Another example:https://www.reddit.com/r/Dryfasting/comments/os6gja/research_thread/h82fcsi
The body converts fat to water. I believe its a similar metobolic process to how birds convert stored body fat to water when migrating. The bar-tailed godwit can fly for up to 11 days without stopping and loses 40% of its body weight over the course of its migration.
Metabolic water. It comes off at a rate of 3lbs per day for the first 8 day’s from my experiments. X
Be safe. And dry fast only if you have spare fat reserves on your body.
> after your body is deprived of water it wants to hold onto water so it would make you gain ridiculous amounts of water weight no?
i would love to hear how you gain water weight without drinking water(or eating foods that contain water). OP I know it’s been a month and you haven’t responded to anyone here which probably means you were trolling but seriously… please answer op UwU