Why is Filinov (and apparently almost everybody here) recommending not to alternate water fasts with dry fasts? Or to start with a dry fast and then switch to water and not the other way round? I wasnt able to research the reason.
Do you think it benefits more to alternate between water / dry then just sticking to water for 28 days or is it problematic? Does anybody have experience on their own with this?
I was recommended to incorporate short dry fasts of 2-3 days within my water fast for healing efficacy of chronic pain/multiple tendon injury. I am on day 12 of 28 day water fast. I did a 24h dry fast for the first time a couple of days ago. And yesterday I broke my 2 day dry fast. Now back on water fasting.
The first dry fast was extremely difficult. It was something totally new to me. The 2 day dry fast was better. Now I am feeling pretty good.
Indeed, the Russian fasting school (Sergey Filonov, Igor Khoroshilov, and others) prescribes undertaking 1-3 days of dry fasting before water fasting, not vice versa. Logic is as following. They proceed from the idea that the main healing effect of water fasting starts after 5-6 days from the beginning, after the so-called acidotic crisis (see https://dryfasting.info/duration-of-fasting/ ). Dry fasting accelerates the onset of the acidotic crisis. In this case, it occurs on the second or third day, not on 5-6th day. So if you undertake a dry fast before the water fasts you get in the healing period a lot faster. When you are in, you can switch to water fast.
Note: correct name is Filonov, not Filinov.
You can dryfast and waterfast and alternate between the two. It depends entirely on you. The question that was asked of Dr.Filinov is can you go from a 40 day waterfast into a dryfast his recommendation was “no” because it would be too taxing on the body. This is probably true for most people. But, again it depends entirely on the person. Because some people can fast for 40 days and still have an abundant of fat on there bodies and feel no intense fasting effects. In this case switching to a dryfast even after longer than 40 days would be completely okay.