And if I do, when should I start taking electrolytes again? As soon as i take my first sip of water? What happens if I do or don’t take electrolyte right away? Thanks!
If you don’t drink too much water you don’t need any electrolytes. I always start with dry and when I can’t take it any more start sipping water here and there never more than 500 ml in 24 hours and do fine. Never fasted more than 7 days so can’t say how you feel after but till 7 day I was fine and reached the goal so broke it.
One can dry fast and then break into a water fast, but there is strong advice not to do it the other way round, as it causes hardship on the body.
In any fast don’t take electrolytes, unless you want to do it for whatever reason.
The claim that the body needs electrolytes when fasting is crap science. It is proposed by the same charlatans who sell supplements – it is meant to make you buy something completely unnecessary and unsubstantiated by direct practice or true scientific research.
Fasting is a holistic process under which your body already has the innate intelligence and complete nutritional supply to take care of itself for the entirety of any fast. The notion that the human fasting process and it’s natural biologic capacity, one perfected over millennia, now somehow in the last 30 years needs an assembly of human manufactured chemical additives in order for fasting to work correctly is utter bullshit.
The point and process of all fasting is comprehensive rest to facilitate accelerated elimination, not addition. Take nothing because you need nothing.
Some have said, “there’s a sucker born every minute”.
Don’t be one.