The human being is perfectly equipped to fast for several weeks but during the retreats we will never exceed 11 days...
One of the people who lasted the longest was certainly Andreas Mihavecz, an 18-year-old Austrian. Accidentally left by the police in a detention cell in 1979, he spent 18 days without access to water or food. He was not weakened at all after 18 days but relieved that his cell was open
Faster cleaning and autolysis
The acute need for water will cause the body to move more quickly into the fat consumption phase (lipolysis) than in a water fast. Logically, this also leads the body more quickly into the deep cleansing phase since a large part of the body's metabolic waste is stored in fat. Thus, it is estimated that it takes about 36 hours (or even less) in a dry fast to start using fat compared to about 3 days in a water fast. The fact that proteins are less profitable than fats to produce water has an impact: in dry fasting, lean and muscular tissues are preserved more than in water fasting. In addition to the use of fat to produce water, the body will be able to use all the excess water stored in the body in the form of edema and will even, after a few days of dry fasting, be able to absorb moisture. of the air as evidenced by Russian research on the subject.
Endogenous water production
The body loses water every day and we know that dehydration of the body can be fatal. This explains why dry fasting is seen as impossible and dangerous in popular belief, including by some water fasting specialists. However, the body is able to produce water endogenously in the absence of external supply. This is also the case for camels which do not store water but fat in their humps, or even migratory birds which fly nonstop. Fats have been shown to combine with oxygen to produce water and carbon dioxide. Thus, 100 g of fat produces approximately 110 g of water. We call metabolic water this water created inside the body itself by oxidation of fats mainly. By comparison, proteins can also be oxidized to produce water, but only 42 g of water will be obtained for 100 g of protein. Fat cells (adipocytes) are both a source of energy to compensate for the lack of external food intake but are a metabolic source of water in the absence of external fluid intake. Understanding these mechanisms explains why in dry fasting, everything is accelerated.
Healing fever and waste management
Most people who experience dry fasting testify to quickly experiencing a feeling of intense heat. It differs greatly from the experience of water fasting, during which an opposite sensation of cold is often felt. This fever is the hallmark of the effectiveness of dry fasting. This rise in internal heat reflects a strong increase in the metabolism of the immune response and the acceleration of waste processing. cold baths to further raise body temperature to 40.2°C. This leads us to answer one of the great mysteries of dry fasting: how is waste disposed of? In water fasting, it was very often repeated to drink enough to help the kidneys to eliminate because the intestinal emunctory is no longer used by absence of food. Nobel Prize in Medicine André Lwoff devoted much of his research to the effects of fever on the elimination of toxins from the body. He explains that the induced internal heat allows the destruction of waste inside the cells themselves. The waste would therefore not be evacuated but endogenously neutralized by specialists in dry fasting.
Improved kidney function
The biggest fear that crystallizes around dry fasting concerns the kidneys. How will they work in the absence of water, is there not a risk of damaging them? Both experience and science prove that the opposite is happening. A study of adults who fasted dry for 5 days showed an improvement in creatinine clearance (a marker of renal filtration quality) by 167%. It is mistakenly believed that the kidneys need fluid to function when it is quite the opposite: the kidneys filter and process the fluids of the body. But the more liquids there are, the more the kidneys work. Fasting without bringing the liquid is to offer a time of rest to the kidneys which will naturally unclog and regenerate. In dry fasting, the only water to be processed is metabolic water, which does not require additional transformation work.
The acute need for water will cause the body to move more quickly into the fat consumption phase (lipolysis) than in a water fast. Logically, this also leads the body more quickly into the deep cleansing phase since a large part of the body's metabolic waste is stored in fat. Thus, it is estimated that it takes about 36 hours (or even less) in a dry fast to start using fat compared to about 3 days in a water fast. The fact that proteins are less profitable than fats to produce water has an impact: in dry fasting, lean and muscular tissues are preserved more than in water fasting. In addition to the use of fat to produce water, the body will be able to use all the excess water stored in the body in the form of edema and will even, after a few days of dry fasting, be able to absorb moisture. of the air as evidenced by Russian research on the subject.
Endogenous water production
The body loses water every day and we know that dehydration of the body can be fatal. This explains why dry fasting is seen as impossible and dangerous in popular belief, including by some water fasting specialists. However, the body is able to produce water endogenously in the absence of external supply. This is also the case for camels which do not store water but fat in their humps, or even migratory birds which fly nonstop. Fats have been shown to combine with oxygen to produce water and carbon dioxide. Thus, 100 g of fat produces approximately 110 g of water. We call metabolic water this water created inside the body itself by oxidation of fats mainly. By comparison, proteins can also be oxidized to produce water, but only 42 g of water will be obtained for 100 g of protein. Fat cells (adipocytes) are both a source of energy to compensate for the lack of external food intake but are a metabolic source of water in the absence of external fluid intake. Understanding these mechanisms explains why in dry fasting, everything is accelerated.
Healing fever and waste management
Most people who experience dry fasting testify to quickly experiencing a feeling of intense heat. It differs greatly from the experience of water fasting, during which an opposite sensation of cold is often felt. This fever is the hallmark of the effectiveness of dry fasting. This rise in internal heat reflects a strong increase in the metabolism of the immune response and the acceleration of waste processing. cold baths to further raise body temperature to 40.2°C. This leads us to answer one of the great mysteries of dry fasting: how is waste disposed of? In water fasting, it was very often repeated to drink enough to help the kidneys to eliminate because the intestinal emunctory is no longer used by absence of food. Nobel Prize in Medicine André Lwoff devoted much of his research to the effects of fever on the elimination of toxins from the body. He explains that the induced internal heat allows the destruction of waste inside the cells themselves. The waste would therefore not be evacuated but endogenously neutralized by specialists in dry fasting.
Improved kidney function
The biggest fear that crystallizes around dry fasting concerns the kidneys. How will they work in the absence of water, is there not a risk of damaging them? Both experience and science prove that the opposite is happening. A study of adults who fasted dry for 5 days showed an improvement in creatinine clearance (a marker of renal filtration quality) by 167%. It is mistakenly believed that the kidneys need fluid to function when it is quite the opposite: the kidneys filter and process the fluids of the body. But the more liquids there are, the more the kidneys work. Fasting without bringing the liquid is to offer a time of rest to the kidneys which will naturally unclog and regenerate. In dry fasting, the only water to be processed is metabolic water, which does not require additional transformation work.
Des études expérimentales ont confirmé: tissu adipeux, kystes, tumeurs, abcès
diminuent rapidement et disparaissent souvent complètement avec une abstinence alimentaire stricte et prolongée.
En s'abstenant de nourriture et de liquide en même temps, les processus de régénération du corps se produisent beaucoup plus rapidement et "mieux", c'est-à-dire le corps guérit de lui-même dans près de 100 cas sur 100.
diminuent rapidement et disparaissent souvent complètement avec une abstinence alimentaire stricte et prolongée.
En s'abstenant de nourriture et de liquide en même temps, les processus de régénération du corps se produisent beaucoup plus rapidement et "mieux", c'est-à-dire le corps guérit de lui-même dans près de 100 cas sur 100.