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Wow, 5 days every 6 months, that's awesome! After developing a severe asthmatic histamine intolerance I started a fasting lifestyle 9 months ago to heal my immune system. I've done 3 3-day, 1 4-day, and 1 5.5-day fasts in that time along with intermittent fasting the rest of the time. *I agree, it's definitely easier than it was at first* (I freaked out at 25 hours and ate dinner the first time I tried to go longer than OMAD, LOL), and I'm 48 hours into one right now feeling a tinge of hunger, but mostly out of habit; it's time for when I usually eat during the day.
@@allhimwithme5115 I usually drink plain seltzer water when hunger starts. It works well if you catch it early, less effective if you get hangry. I always make sure to drink plenty of water and hour or so before bed too, because I cannot sleep if I'm hungry. Day 2 is usually the worst for me, by day 3 I feel like I can conquer the world. I've gone 7 days, but I see no benefit really after 5. Good luck to you on your fast, and drink plenty of water, maybe try the seltzer. Don't be afraid to add some electrolytes as well, salt makes a huge difference if you feel lethargic or get a headache.
Very interesting! I do a 5-days water fast twice per year (March and October) since 2019, mainly for improving my immune system, and it seems to help considering that I am very little sick, and when I get sick I have mild symptoms and recover pretty fast.
I’ve been doing a 72 hr fast every week for the one month and 2 weeks, mainly because I felt fatigue at work and I didn’t want to consume coffee . So far, feeling great…I do cardio everyday as well.
@@nelipopova1030 it absolutely does improve your energy...from my experience after doing 72hrs every week I became sensetetive to what ever i consume which literally means if I even have just one cup of coffee...which I wouldn't recommend, gives same same feeling as three cups of it!!
I do 120 hrs water fast every 6 months and 96 hr every months. I normally OMAD and skip a day once a week. This is the best medicine I found in my life so far. I have own channel in Thai.
In my opinion, 5 days is just getting started for any real fasting benefits. Tyler Tolman has a great RUclips video on extended water fasting. Joel Fuhrman, M.D. has a good book on fasting though I do not agree with his food protocol. I got started after reading Rational Fasting by Arnold Ehret in 1973. I find a great burst of energy on the tenth day of a water-only fast myself. I have only gone as long as 30 days on only water. I used to do a lot of juicing but now I am Carnivore.
I'm rather interested in doing a 1-5 day water fast (haven't decided how long I want to do it, or if I'm even going to do it). My biggest reservation is how it affects muscle mass. I'm a regular gym-goer and have made good progress in my 6 months of consistent training, and a critical part of growth is adequate protein intake. The obvious problem in water fasting is... no protein intake whatsoever. Do you think it would even be beneficial for someone like me to do a small water fast? Thanks for these videos, they're extremely interesting and well put together!
I definitely understand that fear. No doubt a water fast will not help in your ability to gain muscle, but its detrimental impact will be dependent on how lean and muscular you are currently. Ultimately, however, you won't lose any appreciable amount of muscle, especially if you decide on a 1-2 day fast. That said, if this becomes routine (every month doing 5 days fasting - you'll notice muscle gain will be impaired). Hope it helps, Benjamin!
I'm _ripped_ like I was 20 years ago when I lifted weights from all the stem cells and growth hormone from going hard core into a fasting lifestyle 9 months ago. I'm 51, female, 5'2", 102 lbs and built like a house. My scale says 17% body fat; my veins pop in my hands and arms and I can do 3 chin ups and a pull-up at once. I just live my homestead life; I don't really do weight training, per se. Autophagy goes after your JUNK PROTEIN not your muscles. I hope you decided to go all in.
@@Physionic I'm stunned to hear you say that a 5-day water fast won't help you build muscle. The more I fast the more ripped I am. Stem cells, HGH, and breaking fasts with enough protein for when mTOR turns back on and my body goes to TOWN on building muscle!
@@allhimwithme5115awesome bro do you think its a good idea to water fast once per week while bulking to burn any excess fat gained and produce more human growth hormone?
@@Gamaly1389 I've been toying with that idea, doing 24 hours every week, although HGH kicks in around 72 hours, I think, and that's pretty extreme for weekly. I'm also considering doing a 3- to 4-day water fast or 1- to 2-day dry fast once a month and minimally IF in between with about 14 hours fasting per day which is very comfortable for me. That would amp up HGH and stem cells a lot more than OMAD once a week. I still have gut healing to do (minimal it seems) as evidenced by my light rosacea still stubbornly present. I'm a woman, by the way, LOL. I'm assuming I'd even be more bulked for what I've been doing if I were a man given the extra testosterone. It's the refeed that's critical in fast recovery and building the body in every way, not just muscularly.
Have you looked at the USC study on a 72 hour fast rebooting the immune system? Does it look like a well done study or was it flawed? I did a 72 hour fast for the first time in March of 2020 after Covid was declaired a pandemic. It does seem like my immune system improved a bit but hard to say since everyone was social distancing. I work in the public schools so I am exposed to just about everyone. I have been sick a few times since then but it does seem like my body fights things off faster. This could be due to me cutting out almost all sugar from my diet too.
From what I understand, there is a short term hit to the immune system but longer term it improves. Although, I haven't watched this video yet so maybe he says something different?
Eating once a day (OMAD) solves the problem of short term fasting effects. If you fast daily you will have lasting benefits, not like doing one 5 day fast and then going back to your usual programming, that's pointless.
Accoring to the reuslts he showed, at Day 98 waist circumference reduction was maintained, by about 8cm (3.1 inches), which is actually pretty significant. I wish he had spent more time on this. He just glossed over it. As an experienced prlonged faster myself, my experience corroborates this long term reduction in waist cirucumference. At minimum, doesn't this suggest a long term reduction in visceral adiposity?
Good video as always ;D! Is there such a breakdown also for the fmd diet results? Could that potentially lead to better lipid panel numbers due to less stress/ketone activation? Cuz Longo seems to be quite certain it's good for all values if I remember right?
Thanks, A. :) There will be a detailed breakdown for that study, as well. I need to put it all together, but its absolutely planned. I think it easily could, but I'm also not convinced the lipid changes are drastic enough to make any real difference - it's something I expect to look into further one day.
i did a 30 days however i needed the nessesary ekectroloids to maintain body function an quality of life after 20 days i started to become weak but needed to finish this fast into the 2nd day of chemo C.H.O.P. I felt like a tossed sack with light weight weakness and landed even into the hospital Noiw what my bloodwork has shown is the ammount of bloodplates bloodlets were extremely decreased my bloodpressure was too low 96 over 64 if i'm correct I went into the extreme zone and found out that after the fast while in chemo round 2 eating again and such i have trippled the quality of life times 3 and i'm more into meat i think i stay that way with some fruits and vegetables i feel better i walk as if on air i feel much happier more energy as usual it has really drastic effects on ones quallity of life. I cannot do this again in rapid intervals but i can do one more waterfast at the end of round 2 and 2 days into round 3 total of 5 days
Very interesting video. Just speculating here as well (sorry if it sounds a bit farfetched) , but could it be that the elevated triglycerides over a three month period may be caused by possible autophagy of fatty tissue during a waterfast (caused by the inflammation of fatty tissue). If there is less fat storage tissue available to store triglycerides, this could then explain a slightly higher presence in the blood after the waterfast period as the body cannot store it as easy. If so, the amount of autophagy during a waterfast may also vary between individuals (maybe based upon a variation in energy demand between individuals) thereby offering a possible explanation for the larger variation in triglyceride presence in the blood serum after three months. Any thoughts on this? Thanks for all of the information!
@@Physionic I didn’t think so. It can be dangerous. BP drops very low, as can blood sugar. It’s not for everyone. The most I’ve done is two days. I have no intention of doing it again! 🥶
That's true, but it can be done safely and effectively with no issue (assuming a person has enough weight/fat on them). I have some content coming out in August that will really delve deep into the topic; I'll be curious on your take then, too, Ariel, as always.
@@Physionic You know that I will “weigh in.” (Excuse the pun.) A person can always do fast-mimicking and take electrolytes, I guess. My opinion is that such an undertaking (!) should be medically supervised.
Talking about this with a girl here at work, she expressed something she had seen which suggested that a water diet for girls can be dangerous as it was claimed that the fast interfered with the female hormone cycle. True or false?
At Day 98 waist circumference reduction was maintained, by about 8cm (3.1 inches), which is actually pretty significant. I wish he had spent more time on this. He just glossed over it. As an experienced prlonged faster myself, my experience corroborates this reduction in waist cirucumference.
I see that this video is one year ago, noticed most all the names in study were asian, so, done in China? Yet, also noticed Dr Thomas Seyfried listed ,Boston College! Didn't catch what participants ate before study ,or, after study, but, TG being up after 3 months might be due to continued fat burning preference over carbs?. Lots of hype past few years now about fasting and especially water only fasting. But, surprisingly, no one mentions the" PREPOSTEROUS " notion that anyone could survive that long without eating carbs, because as all vegans will tell you, glucose is the preferred fuel for the body. Yet, here are people surviving without glucose intake, using only the glucose that the liver provides, one teaspoon! What? People can live on protein and fats , no carbs?
Ghrelin and low blood sugar increases cortisol to release glucagon that causes liver insulin resistance and glycogenesis and glycolosis to increase blood sugar and prevent glucose storage in muscles and liver as glycogen
Great in-detail analysis! As for the statistics part, I would also consider multiple pair-wise t-tests as an error in the analysis unless a correction was applied for multiple t-testing. (I have to say that I only took statistics I and statistics II, so I also have limited knowledge). Does it break ketosis if for example a glass of fruit juice is consumed? I would presume since glucose will be available, the body would enter glycolysis and interrupt the ketosis state. What do you think, or know about that?
@@Physionic Thanks for your reply :). Do you think fasting can be a weight loss tool? if yes, what do you think the best way is? IF, ADF, multiple extended fasts etc? please let me know. I'm trying to lose weight with fasting since I am insuline resistant Thanks
That strongly depends on you. AS far as i am informed Training while Casting prevents muscle loss . But If you do nothing youbwill definetly loose muscle mass
These days long water fasts are impossible for most humans anyway, as there are many medications that cannot be taken on an empty stomach. So, the large percentage of people are eliminated from the study, and could not benefit from the days long fasts anyway.
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I do a 5 day water fast every 6 months. I've been doing this for the past 5 years and I find it easier every time.
I notice the same. With each fast, the next is easier 😏👌
Wow, 5 days every 6 months, that's awesome! After developing a severe asthmatic histamine intolerance I started a fasting lifestyle 9 months ago to heal my immune system. I've done 3 3-day, 1 4-day, and 1 5.5-day fasts in that time along with intermittent fasting the rest of the time. *I agree, it's definitely easier than it was at first* (I freaked out at 25 hours and ate dinner the first time I tried to go longer than OMAD, LOL), and I'm 48 hours into one right now feeling a tinge of hunger, but mostly out of habit; it's time for when I usually eat during the day.
@@allhimwithme5115 I usually drink plain seltzer water when hunger starts. It works well if you catch it early, less effective if you get hangry. I always make sure to drink plenty of water and hour or so before bed too, because I cannot sleep if I'm hungry. Day 2 is usually the worst for me, by day 3 I feel like I can conquer the world. I've gone 7 days, but I see no benefit really after 5. Good luck to you on your fast, and drink plenty of water, maybe try the seltzer. Don't be afraid to add some electrolytes as well, salt makes a huge difference if you feel lethargic or get a headache.
Very interesting! I do a 5-days water fast twice per year (March and October) since 2019, mainly for improving my immune system, and it seems to help considering that I am very little sick, and when I get sick I have mild symptoms and recover pretty fast.
I’ve been doing a 72 hr fast every week for the one month and 2 weeks, mainly because I felt fatigue at work and I didn’t want to consume coffee . So far, feeling great…I do cardio everyday as well.
That’s dedication, Ruthie. Really impressive - stay safe.
Did it improve your fatigue?
@@nelipopova1030 it absolutely does improve your energy...from my experience after doing 72hrs every week I became sensetetive to what ever i consume which literally means if I even have just one cup of coffee...which I wouldn't recommend, gives same same feeling as three cups of it!!
I do 120 hrs water fast every 6 months and 96 hr every months. I normally OMAD and skip a day once a week. This is the best medicine I found in my life so far. I have own channel in Thai.
In my opinion, 5 days is just getting started for any real fasting benefits. Tyler Tolman has a great RUclips video on extended water fasting. Joel Fuhrman, M.D. has a good book on fasting though I do not agree with his food protocol. I got started after reading Rational Fasting by Arnold Ehret in 1973. I find a great burst of energy on the tenth day of a water-only fast myself. I have only gone as long as 30 days on only water. I used to do a lot of juicing but now I am Carnivore.
I do a 72 hour every so often
I'm rather interested in doing a 1-5 day water fast (haven't decided how long I want to do it, or if I'm even going to do it). My biggest reservation is how it affects muscle mass. I'm a regular gym-goer and have made good progress in my 6 months of consistent training, and a critical part of growth is adequate protein intake. The obvious problem in water fasting is... no protein intake whatsoever. Do you think it would even be beneficial for someone like me to do a small water fast?
Thanks for these videos, they're extremely interesting and well put together!
I definitely understand that fear. No doubt a water fast will not help in your ability to gain muscle, but its detrimental impact will be dependent on how lean and muscular you are currently. Ultimately, however, you won't lose any appreciable amount of muscle, especially if you decide on a 1-2 day fast. That said, if this becomes routine (every month doing 5 days fasting - you'll notice muscle gain will be impaired). Hope it helps, Benjamin!
I'm _ripped_ like I was 20 years ago when I lifted weights from all the stem cells and growth hormone from going hard core into a fasting lifestyle 9 months ago. I'm 51, female, 5'2", 102 lbs and built like a house. My scale says 17% body fat; my veins pop in my hands and arms and I can do 3 chin ups and a pull-up at once. I just live my homestead life; I don't really do weight training, per se. Autophagy goes after your JUNK PROTEIN not your muscles. I hope you decided to go all in.
@@Physionic I'm stunned to hear you say that a 5-day water fast won't help you build muscle. The more I fast the more ripped I am. Stem cells, HGH, and breaking fasts with enough protein for when mTOR turns back on and my body goes to TOWN on building muscle!
@@allhimwithme5115awesome bro do you think its a good idea to water fast once per week while bulking to burn any excess fat gained and produce more human growth hormone?
@@Gamaly1389 I've been toying with that idea, doing 24 hours every week, although HGH kicks in around 72 hours, I think, and that's pretty extreme for weekly. I'm also considering doing a 3- to 4-day water fast or 1- to 2-day dry fast once a month and minimally IF in between with about 14 hours fasting per day which is very comfortable for me. That would amp up HGH and stem cells a lot more than OMAD once a week. I still have gut healing to do (minimal it seems) as evidenced by my light rosacea still stubbornly present.
I'm a woman, by the way, LOL. I'm assuming I'd even be more bulked for what I've been doing if I were a man given the extra testosterone. It's the refeed that's critical in fast recovery and building the body in every way, not just muscularly.
And here I thought my triglycerides were extremely low because I did a 17-hour fast before my blood work.
awsome info bro
Regarding blood pressure, is there much advantage in having a lower blood pressure than 120/80? At what point would it be considered too low?
Are you on meds for BP
Have you looked at the USC study on a 72 hour fast rebooting the immune system? Does it look like a well done study or was it flawed? I did a 72 hour fast for the first time in March of 2020 after Covid was declaired a pandemic. It does seem like my immune system improved a bit but hard to say since everyone was social distancing. I work in the public schools so I am exposed to just about everyone. I have been sick a few times since then but it does seem like my body fights things off faster. This could be due to me cutting out almost all sugar from my diet too.
From what I understand, there is a short term hit to the immune system but longer term it improves. Although, I haven't watched this video yet so maybe he says something different?
Both made you better
Does fasting effect stem cell activity or production?
Yes our body triples output after day 3 surprise
Eating once a day (OMAD) solves the problem of short term fasting effects. If you fast daily you will have lasting benefits, not like doing one 5 day fast and then going back to your usual programming, that's pointless.
Accoring to the reuslts he showed, at Day 98 waist circumference reduction was maintained, by about 8cm (3.1 inches), which is actually pretty significant. I wish he had spent more time on this. He just glossed over it. As an experienced prlonged faster myself, my experience corroborates this long term reduction in waist cirucumference. At minimum, doesn't this suggest a long term reduction in visceral adiposity?
Tried it once; went ok. The second time I did the fast, on the third day I had some weird heart palpitations so I stopped.
If you have a strong heart push through, our heart naturally slows on day 3 normal event
Good video as always ;D!
Is there such a breakdown also for the fmd diet results? Could that potentially lead to better lipid panel numbers due to less stress/ketone activation? Cuz Longo seems to be quite certain it's good for all values if I remember right?
Thanks, A. :) There will be a detailed breakdown for that study, as well. I need to put it all together, but its absolutely planned. I think it easily could, but I'm also not convinced the lipid changes are drastic enough to make any real difference - it's something I expect to look into further one day.
Does a cup of black Yerba mate tea break a fast? In the morning
i did a 30 days however i needed the nessesary ekectroloids to maintain body function an quality of life after 20 days i started to become weak but needed to finish this fast into the 2nd day of chemo C.H.O.P.
I felt like a tossed sack with light weight weakness and landed even into the hospital
Noiw what my bloodwork has shown is the ammount of bloodplates bloodlets were extremely decreased
my bloodpressure was too low 96 over 64 if i'm correct
I went into the extreme zone and found out that after the fast while in chemo round 2 eating again and such i have trippled the quality of life times 3 and i'm more into meat i think i stay that way with some fruits and vegetables
i feel better i walk as if on air i feel much happier more energy as usual
it has really drastic effects on ones quallity of life.
I cannot do this again in rapid intervals but i can do one more waterfast at the end of round 2 and 2 days into round 3 total of 5 days
Wow, sounds so intense. And here I am wondering if 3 days wpuld be ok for my body after chemo😂
What would the effects of cortisol from living in a lab during the fast result in?
Very interesting video. Just speculating here as well (sorry if it sounds a bit farfetched) , but could it be that the elevated triglycerides over a three month period may be caused by possible autophagy of fatty tissue during a waterfast (caused by the inflammation of fatty tissue). If there is less fat storage tissue available to store triglycerides, this could then explain a slightly higher presence in the blood after the waterfast period as the body cannot store it as easy. If so, the amount of autophagy during a waterfast may also vary between individuals (maybe based upon a variation in energy demand between individuals) thereby offering a possible explanation for the larger variation in triglyceride presence in the blood serum after three months. Any thoughts on this?
Thanks for all of the information!
I'm wondering the same thing because I do mimic fasting and a thorough blood panel always shows a high lipids value. My body fat as a woman is 17%.
Just exercise daily, LDL and HDL levels stay somewhat balanced.
Have YOU done a five-day water fast?
Nay.
@@Physionic I didn’t think so.
It can be dangerous. BP drops very low, as can blood sugar. It’s not for everyone. The most I’ve done is two days. I have no intention of doing it again! 🥶
That's true, but it can be done safely and effectively with no issue (assuming a person has enough weight/fat on them). I have some content coming out in August that will really delve deep into the topic; I'll be curious on your take then, too, Ariel, as always.
@@Physionic You know that I will “weigh in.” (Excuse the pun.)
A person can always do fast-mimicking and take electrolytes, I guess. My opinion is that such an undertaking (!) should be medically supervised.
Good :)
Talking about this with a girl here at work, she expressed something she had seen which suggested that a water diet for girls can be dangerous as it was claimed that the fast interfered with the female hormone cycle. True or false?
If they lose too much weight, then yes. It's called diet induced amenorrhea.
Am I wrong to deduce from this video that this 5 days fasting had no long term effects (or benefits) on any parameter that was shown here?
At Day 98 waist circumference reduction was maintained, by about 8cm (3.1 inches), which is actually pretty significant. I wish he had spent more time on this. He just glossed over it. As an experienced prlonged faster myself, my experience corroborates this reduction in waist cirucumference.
I see that this video is one year ago, noticed most all the names in study were asian, so, done in China? Yet, also noticed Dr Thomas Seyfried listed ,Boston College! Didn't catch what participants ate before study ,or, after study, but, TG being up after 3 months might be due to continued fat burning preference over carbs?. Lots of hype past few years now about fasting and especially water only fasting. But, surprisingly, no one mentions the" PREPOSTEROUS " notion that anyone could survive that long without eating carbs, because as all vegans will tell you, glucose is the preferred fuel for the body. Yet, here are people surviving without glucose intake, using only the glucose that the liver provides, one teaspoon! What? People can live on protein and fats , no carbs?
What about cortisol levels during prolonged water fasting?
Ghrelin and low blood sugar increases cortisol to release glucagon that causes liver insulin resistance and glycogenesis and glycolosis to increase blood sugar and prevent glucose storage in muscles and liver as glycogen
It decreases quickly, you looking for negative in a very beneficial process, I lost 100 lbs learning this science
Great in-detail analysis!
As for the statistics part, I would also consider multiple pair-wise t-tests as an error in the analysis unless a correction was applied for multiple t-testing. (I have to say that I only took statistics I and statistics II, so I also have limited knowledge).
Does it break ketosis if for example a glass of fruit juice is consumed?
I would presume since glucose will be available, the body would enter glycolysis and interrupt the ketosis state. What do you think, or know about that?
Thanks, Aurelius!
Yes, that would break ketosis quickly.
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How come that people regain all the weight they've lost? Is it because they returned to their old bad eating habits?
You nailed it, Savage.
@@Physionic Thanks for your reply :). Do you think fasting can be a weight loss tool? if yes, what do you think the best way is? IF, ADF, multiple extended fasts etc? please let me know.
I'm trying to lose weight with fasting since I am insuline resistant
Thanks
Do you think consuming some calories from electrolyte packets (I.e liquid IV) or green powders would affect the results?
On these types of results? No, Morgan.
@@Physionic is there any significance in the way a prolonged fast is broken if calories are equated?
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If you do 21 days will you lose muscle mass and does water fasting a faster detox than juicing?
That strongly depends on you. AS far as i am informed Training while Casting prevents muscle loss . But If you do nothing youbwill definetly loose muscle mass
These days long water fasts are impossible for most humans anyway, as there are many medications that cannot be taken on an empty stomach. So, the large percentage of people are eliminated from the study, and could not benefit from the days long fasts anyway.
FYI your sound level is rather low
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