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How do you avoid cramps and sleeping terribly during extended fasts?

If I go beyond 2 days, I get cramps and sleep like total garbage. I keep tossing and turning all night. It’s pretty frustrating, as I’ve completed longer fasts before (30 days, 17 days, 15 days, 7 days, numerous 3-6 day water fasts, etc…), and I would do it more often if it wasn’t for the fact that I know I’m gonna get no sleep during it.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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Following. I’ve slept like absolute shit on this 72 hour fast. I’d like to do a 48 hour fast every week, but the prospect of insomnia is a real fasting-boner killer. It’s not electrolytes for me - I have a ton of them.

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