Misleading article on dry fasting from Healthline?

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Of course. Dry fasting is not consuming food nor water for a period of time. It is hard to find quality information about dry fasting, particularly from “reputable” sources.

From the article:>Foroutan says it’s likely that dry fasting would lead to dehydration.

> “While fruits and vegetables do contain water, it would be difficult to get enough water that way to be optimally hydrated,” she said.

Yet here’s a set of videos from Cole Robinson where he does not directly drink any water for 30 days - only getting his water from cucumbers, and as a product of burning fat from his single meal per day. I believe he had lab work done before and after showing he was fine.

Also, take a look at the study on the sidebar - https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/357718

And the takeaway:

> The clinical examination of the participants showed a satisfactory physical condition of the participants during all 5 days of FWD (dry fasting). > On day 2 and 3, 7 participants showed signs of fatigue, 2 nausea, 1> headache, and 3 muscle pains. However, these symptoms were easily> relieved through rest or warm bath and subsided 24–36 h later. On> day 4 and 5, all participants had a controllable feeling of thirst, but> none showed any signs of dehydration. Interestingly, all participants> described intervals of stamina and euphoria.

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Good grief, what a misinformed article 😅

Personally yes, I would recommend getting water from fruits and vegetables when REFEEDING. But that’s not what makes a dry fast. It’s abstaining from water. The author really needs to do more research on dry fasting. You’ve got it right about restricting all water intake - dry fasting is abstaining from water for a period of time. Eating in any form is not dry fasting lol…what an article

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Fake news. The official information out there is mostly junk. You can’t trust any of it. There seems to be a lot of misinformation about health being pushed out intentionally into Western Media in the last 5 years to cause people harm. As xxina is funding most of Western Media presently, it might be them.

There seem to be 2 broad camps of people writing about it out there.

1. People who know nothing about it, but need to write an article about ‘something’ for their newspaper, so just kind of free-style some auto-wisdom of the first few things they thought about having just thought about it for the first time in their life now. Combined maybe with a story of one time they didn’t eat, and they became ‘so sick’. They usually stick a thousand warning stickers on it and tell you to get advice from a Doctor (as if anyone is going to do this) and other things you could have guessed up yourself.
2. Then there is a group, who seem to be funded - by what motive I don’t know - who are very keen to scare anyone from going near it. I don’t know whether this would be food companies who profit from obesity, or countries with misinformation departments that wish to damage the West, but somebody

So you’ll see articles like “Dry fasting is a recent fad, invented by YouTube influencers - don’t do it”. And they’ll find some single doctor somewhere to quote what they want.

It is rare you read sensible information from someone who has ever done it more than once for an article.