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Whether you fasted for half a day or a full month, you should feel accomplished. Taking deliberate action to improve your health or testing your limits is something worth celebrating. What’s Happening With Your Body: Easing Out of Fasting Mode In 2003, worried, the Center for Disease Control, part of the US Department of Health and Human Services asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to take a fresh look at the available evidence focusing not on blood pressure, but mortality and heart disease. Your body is built to go through long periods without food or water and it’s perfectly capable of dealing with zero intake of calcium or phosphate, especially if you’re fasting for just 1-3 days. You’d only want to consider taking a multivitamin or something like that if you’re fasting for longer than 5-7 days or so.

Sodium – the most common one that you can find in your regular table salt. Sodium helps to balance the body’s fluids, regulate blood pressure, contract muscles and direct nerve signaling If

Khandia R, Dadar M, Munjal A, et al. A comprehensive review of autophagy and its various roles in infectious, non-infectious, and lifestyle diseases: Current knowledge and prospects for disease prevention, novel drug design, and therapy. Cells. 2019;8(7):674. doi:10.3390/cells8070674 You may notice bad breath that takes on a fruity smell in the initial stages of fasting. This is a result of elevated ketone levels, in particular the ketone acetone, which is released through the breath[ *]. Acetone is created spontaneously from the breakdown of acetoacetate and is the simplest and most volatile ketone. It diffuses into the lungs and exits the body when you exhale. Fasting these first few days can be difficult, but there are mental and physical benefits. Mentally, the act of fasting is an excellent way to exercise your willpower. Similar to the strength runners might feel after pushing their body to run that extra mile, people who choose to fast can feel strength as they fight through those natural urges to eat. Physically, there are incredible cleansing and heart health benefits taking place, too. As BMR lowers, fat in the blood starts to disappear as it’s metabolized for energy. This process promotes a healthy heart, and for some, improves cholesterol levels by boosting HDL levels. [ 2] Stage 2: Day 3-7 If you’re fasting for a really long time (like 23 hours each day), then naturally it becomes more helpful to consume extra salt. If you’re only fasting for a couple extra hours per day (e.g. a 14-hour eating window), then you probably don’t need to change that much. How Much Salt Do You Need During Extended Water Fasting? During stage three, your body starts to enter into a “healing mode.” This healing process begins as your digestive system takes a rest from the common stressors and toxins it endures on a daily basis. As a result, your body has fewer free radicals entering the mix, and oxidative stress decreases. [ 4]

This stage is when your body transitions into fasting mode and, for many people, it’s the most challenging part of their fast. This stage is where you start to feel the hunger pangs as you skip your regular mealtime routine. Most first time fasters start to feel a reduction in their energy levels. These effects can induce a negative mood or irritability for most fasters. It’s wise to prepare yourself for the possibility of being short on patience during this stage. What’s Happening With Your Body: Battery Save Mode With the loss of excess water, your body also flushes out electrolytes like sodium, potassium and magnesium. Your body needs to produce sugar for energy when fasting, so it begins a process called gluconeogenesis, during which your liver converts non-carbohydrate materials like lactate, amino acids, and fats into glucose. As this occurs, your basal metabolic rate (BMR) uses less energy and your blood pressure and heart rate are lowered. Think of this as your body going into “power saving mode”[ *]. When you consume a typical diet of carbohydrate rich foods, your body breaks down sugars and starches into glucose. Glucose is the primary source of energy for the body. However, when you fast or go into ketosis glucose becomes limited, and your body must turn to fat stores for the energy it requires. Your body breaks fat down into glycerol and fatty acids. The liver synthesizes ketones using glycerol. The glycerol is broken down by the liver for additional glucose, and finally, those ketones are used by your brain as glucose becomes less available. [ 1] Benefits: Weight Loss and Cleansing Studies suggest that hunger is a symptom people typically experience during the first days of a fasting regimen.Hyponatremia: Also called water intoxication, hyponatremia occurs when the water and salt lost through sweating are replaced by water only. You shouldn’t exercise during a water fast because you lose salt through perspiration and won’t replace it by eating food or drinking sports beverages. It’s true that your body can go through short periods of absolutely no food or water at all and it’ll have a tremendously beneficial hormetic effect on your overall health. However, the key is doing it intermittently while still getting the essential nutrients for survival. RULE OF THUMB: Get at minimum 2000 mg-s of sodium a day (1-2 tsp of salt). If you’re physically active or sweat a lot, then aim for 4000-7000 mg-s (2-3 tsp of salt). Mixed with water. Potassium and Fasting However, not all fasts provide the same benefits. There are multiple stages of fasting, and the benefits you get from fasting depend on the length of your fast. Fatigue may be more common in the initial days of an intermittent fasting regimen as your body excretes large amounts of salt and water through the urine. This can lead to dehydration and low salt levels, too ( 19).