Hi all,
Comparing dry fasting and water only fasting, does anyone know whether the liver starts the process of ketosis earlier in dry fasting or in a similar time to water only fasting? When I have water only fasted it has always been between 2 and 3 days.
Just curious if anyone has any info on this!
thanks.
Because I have already used a therapeutic dry fast many times, I also tried to answer this question. I have never been rewarded because there is no info about this specific subject in any literature; even Filonov's book red by me in its original language, neglects this subject.
I believe that our body always requires not less than 2-3 days to create a state of ketosis, and it does not matter if it is during a dry or water fast.
Actually, on a DF I go into ketosis faster. On the WF it can take me up to 5-6 days to get into ketosis, even mild ketosis. Whereas on the DF it takes 1-3 days.
However, on the WF I go into heavy ketosis (140) by day 8 and on DF even after 10 days ketosis is only moderate.
I think each individual is different based on how your metabolism, fat stored, etc. I have a lot of stored fat and my body tends to exhaust it glycogen quickly so initially thought I would reach ketosis quickly and it was not so.
Thanks for your information fastinganne and himitsuhime. It goes to show that we are all slightly different, I usually start ketosis after 2.5 days. So far I have only managed 28 hours dry fasting before I had water. It feels like very different things are going on in the body when compared to water only fasting which are hard to describe.
Its very interesting and I will try to pursue this method for a while since I benefit from water only fasting, though lately I have had a complete lack of willpower in getting beyond 3 days - I have previously had no problem fasting anywhere up to 28 days.
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