Hey friends, I was interested in checking out dry fasting, more specifically because I want to combine it with sensory deprivation and the complete lack of requiring any consumable content appeals to me. I do have experience with water fasting (25 days)
I do have some questions:
-Aside from obvious convenience, what are additional advantages/benefits of performing dry fasting vs water fasting?
-What things do I need to prepare for that are unique to a dry fast?
-I would like to attempt a dry fast for no more than 3 days / 72hours. From my understanding this is the limit for dry fasts, should I practice shorter dry fasts leading up to a 3 day dry fast or does having extensive experience with water fasting basically prepare me for this?
-Any additional advice is welcome! Thanks
I just read the phoenix protocol and you should too but here are some talking points I wrote out yesterday.
Well I read the book. Pretty fascinating. What it comes down to is that it’s much more dangerous to water fast first of all. By drinking water and consuming other minerals it’s throwing off built in rate limiting factors that your body has evolved around. Second, you’re much more prone to lose muscle mass when water fasting than dry fasting. This is very important if you think about it. It’s drastic. As in your body targets almost entirely fat cells because it needs the metabolic water which it can’t get from muscles. And lastly, it is about 4x more potent in inducing autophagy so the total time you fast dry can be 4 times shorter but just as effective.
Also, an added effect from the metabolic water is that it replaces all your exogenic water with pure h2o which has a strong detoxification effect and any bad bacteria issues can be starved out from a lack of water from your gut after 5 days. In some cases it can starve out viruses as well but that’s much longer.
3 days is a good goal, but it is no means a “limit.” I follow a dude who has done multiple 20 day dry fasts. I’m not recommending that, but just making sure you are aware that it’s possible (and he says very beneficial!)