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Extremely dry feeling on tongue and strange taste.

Hi all, I’m 71 hours and 56 minutes in to my first 3 day fast. The past two days I’ve been plagued with a very dry tongue and a strange almost metallic taste in my mouth all day. Is this something to be concerned about? Also, are pistachios a bad food to feed with?

Thanks!

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Answer

“Fasting puts you in nutritional ketosis as does ketogenic / very-low-carb dieting. But the metallic taste is usually a temporary and harmless keto-adaptation symptom. … The metallic taste is excess ketones. If your body is not used to using ketones, some will be excreted in the urine and saliva.”

(Copied off of google)

Answer

Yup. My teeth feels sticky, as if they are coated with something.

On the other hand you don’t need to buy anything to measure your ketones, you already know when you hit the sweet spot. if you journal your fasts start tracking this as well.

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