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Only a DEXA scan can tell you whether you’ve lost muscle or not during fasting. You shouldn’t rely on visual appearance… I made that mistake myself.
The two things that can give you reliable information are a DEXA scan and bone density. That’s why long fasts, especially over the long term, can ...

Hello if someone train with weight during the 5 days dry fast you think it will amplify autophagy? So 5 days dry fast with workout = 7 days dry fast without workout

You say to take creatine to prepare for the dry fast, if I understood your protocol correctly. But won’t that raise creatinine levels and cause a problem during the dry fast?

I see that you say one should not exceed 5 days of dry fasting because it is safer and maximizes autophagy. Does that mean that autophagy is at its maximum between 3 and 5 days and doesn’t go any further?

Hello, I hope you’re doing well.
I wanted to know what you think about Valter Longo’s fasting-mimicking diet, or the sardine fast based on one or two cans of sardines that Dominic D’Agostino talks about to mimic a water fast.
They say that doing this for a month will activate the mechanisms of ...

Very interesting. That mean that when we are in long term ketosis we can jump directly into 5 days dry fast.

Hello Yannick,
First of all, thank you for taking the time to answer our questions.
Do you think that someone who has cancer and maintains a GKI below 2, as Thomas Seyfried recommends, could do 3 to 5 days of dry fasting per month, followed by 25 days keeping the GKI below 2.0 — basically eating one ...