ADF and DRY FAST

[Eva]

I am planning to do ADF diet (alternate day fasting) and on fast day I would like to try DRY FAST.
If I am to do dry fast every second day (I have fat to lose) can I on my feast day consume salt as I normally do (2.5 tea spoon per day) + magnesium and potassium ?
Or I should completly refrain from using salt on feast days ?

[Yannick]

I am planning to do ADF diet (alternate day fasting) and on fast day I would like to try DRY FAST.
If I am to do dry fast every second day (I have fat to lose) can I on my feast day consume salt as I normally do (2.5 tea spoon per day) + magnesium and potassium ?
Or I should completly refrain from using salt on feast days ?

Can you please provide more context for diet and any health problems and medications you might be taking?

I have to assume this is a low-carb diet that you are on because it aligns with many people consuming salt on this diet (+ electrolytes). When you have carbs in your diet, your body is better able to hold unto minerals and other micro nutrients.

If you are on a low carb diet that requires salt, something like ketovore, then I assume you are already slowly losing fat on this diet. If your progress has stalled and that is why you are incorporating dry fasting, this is a dangerous situation, because it means that your body has started to normalize high cortisol levels and has lowered metabolism so drastically that even a very low carbohydrate diet is not allowing you to lose weight. (Granted some small exceptions exist here based on caloric input and body absorption capability). This strategy might help you lose a little extra weight, but there will be even more metabolic slowdown which means that you will be even more prone to regaining the weight later on. Once you decide to stop fasting I recommend looking into the dry fasting article about glucose oxidation.

You should refrain from salt on feast days, or at least bring it down by A LOT, because you risk Edema, but if you continue in a very low carb diet in between, then there is much less chance of edema, but also a lower ability to replenish lost micronutrient reserves.

[Eva]

Thanks Janek,

after watching "snake diet" channel on youtube whole day today I know what to do.

cheers