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I’m all for fasting but a 20-day fast without medical supervision sounds crazy.

• loceng 6y ago
  I never argued no medical supervision? Many people find it much easier to take a daily electrolyte supplements while fasting, part of that is to increase blood pressure in the body - so you'll avoid the added effects and added pressure on the system of that. If you're underweight then you shouldn't be fasting, that's the main concern from my understanding. Some people may just want to make sure their blood sugar levels are healthy, perhaps along with checking for other abnormal factors. Obviously people who may be fasting to lose weight may have other dis-ease progression due to the weight or that caused their weight gain. One other problem is many people don't understand how to come off of a fast properly - and eating slowly isn't necessarily how. In reality what will happen is if you don't know what foods you're normally eating that cause irritation/inflammation in your GI tract and you return to those foods, you're in for a very uncomfortable and painful experience because the contrast from being away from those foods - from a low to no inflammation state to then introducing them again, it's not fun and I say that from experience; it's part of the process of how an elimination diet can work to help you understand what foods you can tolerate or not, or you can do Igg food sensitivity testing and save yourself a lot of trial and error time - though those tests don't account for all sensitivities, so people need to not blindly trust that they are encompassing all possibilities.
• c17r 6y ago
  Check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast