At first I said I would break after 9 days, then 10 days, now I’m pushing it to 11 Days :D
On the home stretch - wish me luck!
I’m curious - is there a point of diminishing returns when it comes to fasting? I spoke to a lot of people who did 40 day water fasts, and they all told me that after 30 days the healing starts to slow down a little bit. You’re still healing, but not as much. Anyone know if this is true with dry fasting? I feel like I’m kind of reaching that point.
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UPDATE: I ended breaking my fast after 10 days… my body told me to stop. I think it was because 9 days previous to starting this fast, I had completed a 9-day dry fast. It was a bit too much for me.
Go as deep as your body fat will allow you to go. Or you will regret not doing so.
If you hit super low body levels <5% and you still haven’t healed your injury.
You break the fast.
Then.
You come back with more stored body fat this time and go even deeper, time wise.
If that doesn’t work. Then dry fasting is not the answer.
Monitor your fat levels for safety. You can’t make the journey without the fuel.
Yo OP with something like a shoulder injury, your body is going to need optimal catabolic and anabolic states to reduce inflammation, eat junk protein, and regenerate tissue. You would likely be better off doing something like rolling 48s/72s with high high high protein refeeds.
If I were workin on a serious shoulder injury, I would do rolling 72s and refeed on as much heavily salted ribeye as I could eat and drink 2-3 liters of coconut water. Maybe even throw in some raw liver.
I think It’s more effective to do 4 or five day dry fasts one after the other than anything longer. I don’t have any basis other than personal experience but that’s all anybody else on here has anyways.