The healing amplifies with time. I’ve gone 8 days and it was a truly healing experience - so much can be detoxified and cleansed. And in the grand scheme of things, a week or so is not much time at all for how much dry fasting does for the body. This is what makes it the king of healing
Because they (want to) believe it helps.
Yes, at this point of history, most claims you’ll hear about dry fasting are still mainly beliefs. I’ll explain what I mean by that:
Dry fasting isn’t wildly studied at all. Let alone prolonged DF.
I’ve dry fasted for up to 11 days.Yet, even with such first hand experience, I would not make any definitive claim about it. That wouldn’t be scientific enough.
I even acknowledge that I may have damaged my health to some degree.It’s really hard to tell, because the feedback is quite indirect.
People claiming that prolonged dry fasts have such or such “super-healing effects” are just believers, for the most part. As in: they may have read about it, or even tried it a bit, but did they really experience deep healing on a repeated and measurable fashion? Like, honestly.
I’m not saying they’re wrong. They may be right. But still. No solid repeated proof = belief.
A widespread observation is that weightloss is greatly accelerated when dry fasting. This is common enough to be asserted as a fact.
But how much of the speedup is due to sheer water-loss (instead of “durable” fat-loss)?
And even if the speedup is due to fat-loss, how do you prove that accelerated fat-loss leads to accelerated tissue healing?
And even if dry fasting creates accelerated healing, how do you prove that this healing counterbalances the possible health side-effects, like possibly putting lots of stress on the kidneys (a very fragile and hard to regenerate organ)?
Then, add all the context, like the persons background, activity during the fast, present health situation, etc.
Repeat on many people and do actual measurements, by tracking the appropriate metrics (which are… ?)
And there you’ll (maybe) have it: a proof or disproof that prolonged dry fasts are more beneficial for health (as opposed to what we have now: hearsay and wishful thinking)
Sorry for being a little dry (ha!) but this had to be said.
i’ve been fasting for 10 years. started with water fasting and the last 3 years explored dry fasting. i did plenty of soft dry fasts in the 60 hour and this year I reached 7 day soft dry fast. I found more mental health recoveries and deeper insights at the 7th day compared to fasting every week 16-60 hours.
before my findings the consensus here didn’t have much for people outside of 120 hours.
because fasting is very personal and people here forget about the medical risks of not having salt (hyponatremia ) or other electrolytes during a fast, i would not take their words at much value.
nose breathing with buteyko method and shorter hard dry fasts provides equivalent mental clarity found in a 7 day soft dry fast.
If you’re stranded in the desert for 3 days, your chance of survival is extremely low. Guinness Book of World Records is 20 or 21 days. Anecdotally, people have gone longer than that. The book, The Phoenix Protocol says that 11 days will get to the root of the disease.