I want to do an extended fast while drinking chicken broth. Has anyone done this? Does it break fast?
I’ve done it. Broth is an excellent delivery system for getting your necessary daily sodium. I would echo the advice to supplement additionally. I took a magnesium supplement and a multi-vitamin twice daily.
Great for weight loss. Not sure I would agree that it’s bad for autophagy. Autophagy is always going on at some level, even when you’re not fasting. Fasting ramps it up, but consuming the tiny number of calories in broth isn’t going to short out the process. Maybe dampen it just slightly, but not to a degree that you’re likely to notice.