These days it’s 37 degrees, I was thinking of doing a 3-4 day dry fast. Anyone have experience dry fasting in such heat?
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Yes. It does depend how much you will be in the direct heat and tolerate that. Listen to your body. You can dry fast in any kind of weather if your body is adaptable and you listen to it as to when to stop. Some people believe you can’t dry fast in heat but we are all different. I for example can dry fast in heat easily. You just have to be mindful
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Be prepared for dry fasting imposing two issues for your consideration regarding high ambient temperatures during your fast:
- Excess water loss. This is due to evaporative perspiration required to cool the body, i.e. sweating profusely into dehydration is possible. If your body has been well trained in mobilizing fatty acids for energy (i.e. you’re ketoadapted) you should be fine and able to convert enough endogenous water from fat; however, monitor yourself and don’t do anything physically demanding or foolish in terms of excessive heat exposure.
- Internal body heat. The body feels likes it’s on fire on the inside and craves cold when in an extended dry fast. This is very common to dry fasting experiences after the first initial days, whereby internal heat becomes so intense that you will crawl the sheets looking for cold spots, sit in front of AC vents, douse yourself with ice water repeatedly, and/or in winter go outside and walk barefoot and naked in the snow. If you are only dry fasting for a few days you might not experience this intense internal heat, for if you did then your ambient high temperatures would become unbearable and you would need to break your fast.
Best of luck on your path.