Fasting - full water only variety - has anyone here tried it?
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Undated
Summary
Hufsamor did a 10-day water-only fast (with a teaspoon of Himalayan salt per liter) under a doctor's supervision as part of a small group of four ME/CFS patients the doctor was treating with repeated fasts. They were "very, very sick throughout the fasting" and say they would never have completed it without the doctor present, but went on to repeat the fast several more times. Results in the doctor's wider group of about ten patients were mixed: one reached almost full recovery but had to refast every three months to sustain it, while another could not tolerate refeeding afterward, vomited everything and required IV fluids in hospital. Hufsamor's own lasting outcome from repeating the fast is not fully spelled out beyond continuing to do it.
What they credit
Credits Diet, Extended water fasting (3+ days), Salt, fluids and compression.
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