Has anybody done water fasting before? If so, what was the duration? I have seen a ton of health benefits online. What are some changes/experiences you underwent? I’ve been thinking about doing it, so I wanted to learn if the community has some experience with it.
You see it online but any actual medical papers saying it works?
I do for 24 hours every ekadashi
Extremely useful concept and promotes longevity. Start slow and then increase days with each cycle. 3 Days is optimal cycle. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10509423/ Not a medical advice: please research on your end and according to your own body.
Thank you!
Could you explain why 3 days is optimal? I haven’t read the paper you sent. Valter Longo has studied this stuff for a long time and settled on five days. OP, check out his Prolon fasting-mimicking diet, in which you can still eat a bit of certain foods while keeping your body in a fasting state. They have a lot of papers published using the fasting-mimicking diet, with positive results and very rare negative outcomes.
I’ve done 12 hours, feels great :)
Drink at least 3 litres water a day
Yeah the muscle mass you will lose after 24 hrs will be extremely hard to gain back, almost irreversible.
Stupidest take
You’re an apex predator in the food chain. If we lost muscle from fasting were would have never made it as a species
There’s only one cardinal rule of nutrition, and it is this: Eat food or die.
Thank you for your consumerism
I’ve done it twice at a supervised fasting center The first was tough the second was much easier. I lost about 20 pounds each time but usually you gain about 50 percent of what you lost back within a few days Overall I love it - it feels great and you feel re energize I’m fairly athletic framed - I find that I’m able to put the muscle back on in a decent amount of time - but the biggest part is I just feel energized after it’s over
So far my best is 24 days. I don’t really do it much anymore. It makes me extremely tired (shocking I know)
What was the hardest part in those 24 days?
Wtf you went for 24 days without anything but water? The last time you did it, did it end a war or get a country get independence, or something like that?