138 sats \ 7 replies \ @faithandcredit 29 Aug 2023 \ on: Daily discussion thread
3 more hours and i will be ending my 72 hour fast. It would have been nice to get 12 more hours for the alleged "stem cell" regeneration. But ive had enough?
72 hours is solid. How do you like to end them?
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This time im cooking some chicken and broccoli. Im actually excited.
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Nice. That's the longest I've ever done and I found it pretty unpleasant.
Have you tried dry fasting? I just started playing around with that.
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Dry fasting sounds unhealthy depending on the amount of time. I think the consensus is 72 hours for most of the benefits, and drink plenty of water with electrolytes as well. I was feeling really weak after 48 hours so decided to add salt to the water (It acts as a basic electrolyte). The weakness sort of disappeared but then i got nauseous instead and acid reflux. But it could also be because the water i had prepared was contaminated (I used empty coca cola bottles and i could taste sugar when i started drinking from the second one which was about 30 hours in(I was travelling on a ship the whole time and didnt want to use the water that was available or buy some bottled water, i know greedy af, but still) Anyway i will try again near the end of the year by being even better prepared and see if i have better results comfort wise. Sorry about the rant.
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I'm not into long continuous fasts anymore. I'm just going dry for the duration of my daily intermittent fasts. Supposedly, some of the benefits start happening over that same time frame; like autophagy and increased mitochondrial fat burning.
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