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Hi Yannick, I am 45, male, 5'9". I weigh now 162.3 lbs. I am doing my 3rd dry fast. First was 3 1/4 days. Then 50 hours. And now I am at 4 days 18 hours dry fasting. My starting weight was 178.8 lbs on Monday. I started with 2 day water fast and then into dry fast. I was attempting an 11 day dry fast to cure my eczema and other health issues like a weird issue going on with my skin. It's not really eczema, it's not a bacterial infection at this point, if it was fungal it is being treated for that just in case but the itching and tingling and weird sensations are nothing I ever had. Doctors are uncertain. So also why I was doing this dry fast. To heal this. Also my left elbow started hurting in June. And the right one out of nowhere also started hurting in October. Doctor say it's most probably epicondylitis. Since I don't have money for a physical therapist, I am doing this dry fast to heal this as well.

I was just advised today by someone knowledgeable in dry fasting to not jump from a 3 day to an 11 day dry fast. To go up on a gradient. Like 3,5,7,9 and then 11. This might be good advice. What do you think? If so, I will be ending my dry fast tomorrow morning at 9:30am for a 5 1/2 day dry fast. I will go into a 24 hr water fast and start eating Tuesday morning.

But, this is the part that really scares me and confuses me. What to eat, step by step throughout the day and for the continuing days. I was advised the refeeding window is twice the fast period. With the water and dry fast combined I will have done 8 1/2 days. So I would need to do a 17 day refeeding. Is this correct? Logically, restarting the digestive track will not take this long. Hopefully max 5 days. So I get the need to eat healthy, lots of vitamins and minerals, vegetables and fibers and good fat and protein. But the first few days to restart the full digestive system is critical to be done properly.

Therefore, could you please give me a step by step protocol to what to do and eat during these so many days, before I can eat normally but healthy?

It would be incredibly appreciated as I have to start this soon and it scares me at this point.

Thank you so much in advance for all your help with this.

James wrote: Sun Oct 26, 2025 7:40 pm Hi Yannick, I am 45, male, 5'9". I weigh now 162.3 lbs. I am doing my 3rd dry fast. First was 3 1/4 days. Then 50 hours. And now I am at 4 days 18 hours dry fasting. My starting weight was 178.8 lbs on Monday. I started with 2 day water fast and then into dry fast. I was attempting an 11 day dry fast to cure my eczema and other health issues like a weird issue going on with my skin. It's not really eczema, it's not a bacterial infection at this point, if it was fungal it is being treated for that just in case but the itching and tingling and weird sensations are nothing I ever had. Doctors are uncertain. So also why I was doing this dry fast. To heal this. Also my left elbow started hurting in June. And the right one out of nowhere also started hurting in October. Doctor say it's most probably epicondylitis. Since I don't have money for a physical therapist, I am doing this dry fast to heal this as well.

I was just advised today by someone knowledgeable in dry fasting to not jump from a 3 day to an 11 day dry fast. To go up on a gradient. Like 3,5,7,9 and then 11. This might be good advice. What do you think? If so, I will be ending my dry fast tomorrow morning at 9:30am for a 5 1/2 day dry fast. I will go into a 24 hr water fast and start eating Tuesday morning.

But, this is the part that really scares me and confuses me. What to eat, step by step throughout the day and for the continuing days. I was advised the refeeding window is twice the fast period. With the water and dry fast combined I will have done 8 1/2 days. So I would need to do a 17 day refeeding. Is this correct? Logically, restarting the digestive track will not take this long. Hopefully max 5 days. So I get the need to eat healthy, lots of vitamins and minerals, vegetables and fibers and good fat and protein. But the first few days to restart the full digestive system is critical to be done properly.

Therefore, could you please give me a step by step protocol to what to do and eat during these so many days, before I can eat normally but healthy?

It would be incredibly appreciated as I have to start this soon and it scares me at this point.

Thank you so much in advance for all your help with this.

Knowing your diet for the last few weeks or months would help answer this question better. Lots of examples on the newest Miro Board #2; you can get the links on the newest Scorch miro board article on dryfastingclub.com as a paid member.

Depending on whether you have been keto-adapted (fat-adapted) for a few months, it means that you can push the dry fast without having to adhere as strictly to the 3,5,7,9,11 strategy. That strategy is for those who are coming from a high-carb / vegetarian / SAD diet and their liver and body struggle with the fasting adaptations and require a gradual warm-up. So based on diet, you can make the right choices. I personally went into a 9 day dry fast after doing a 5 day my first time. My speed run recommendations are always something like 1. fat adapt 2. do a 3 day dry fast to understand what's going on, take a small break, then go for the 7-9 day. But if you're not fat-adapted, this can be dangerous advice. Google what fat adaptation means, specifically on a keto diet, what are the signs, and it should say on average it takes 2-3months to fat adapt.

I don't like the slow, gradual approach, because it takes months and feels inefficient. I want the effects quickly, and then I want to exit the starvation state and go full out into abundance and healing.

When I see skin issues, I first think of hypothyroidism. This can mean a lot of different things, but if you take your daily oral temperature and it's not above 96.6 then your body is not producing enough energy from the calories you are feeding it, this can go on for a long time and it will result in lots of things like lowered immune system, less blood flow, higher stress hormones, etc and all of these lead to eczema, psoriasis, etc. When immune system is low for a long time, parasites and funguses get a foothold and can become systemic, so that's something to watch out for often with weird chronic illnesses. Fluconazole 200mgdaily for 3-6 months is a common hail mary type of recommendation when you have symtpoms associated with systemic candidasis, which i think most people with CFS have.

After the fast, I think it is going to become critical that you take glucose oxidation seriously and use the necessary bridge, which is slow-release liothyronine (SR-T3). Look up chronic-illness.ca; that is kind of the magic thread that holds everything together and creates miracles when paired with dry fasting.

The tennis elbow is probably a mix of T3/energy/metabolism issues, unless you are losing muscle mass rapidly, or eating a lot of calcium with insufficient vitamin K, and potentially getting problems like calcification? Remember, not enough energy causes muscle problems because no energy = spasm = and even less energy = rigor mortis, same for the brain and the immune system.

For some people, the 9-day dry fast is just enough to heal them, especially if the problem was not there for YEARS and wasn't extremely severe. Good luck.

PS working on updated protocols for refeeds on a new Miro board, but I really dislike giving exact protocols, it's been a pet peeve of mine, but I realize many people want exact numbers and ideas, so i'll create a few different ones for different situations. Right now, I'll give you a very basic one for a 5-day DF.

1 DF (dry fasting) Same as in Day 0
2 DF Same as in Day 0
3 DF Same as in Day 0
4 DF Same as in Day 0
5 DF Same as in Day 0
6 20:00: 300 ml juice (drunk with a tsp)
07:00: 300 ml juice (drunk with a tsp)
12:00: 500 gr. fruits (chewed 20 times per bite)
16:00: 300 ml juice (drunk with a tsp)
7 20:00: 300 ml juice (drunk with a tsp)
07:00: 300 ml juice (drunk with a tsp)
12:00: 400 gr. boiled potatoes or rice along with 2–3 Tbsp olive oil and 2–4 Tbsp fresh lemon juice (chewed 20 times per bite).
Up to 300 ml of water a day
8 20.00: 250 ml juice (drunk with a tsp.)
07:00: 400 gr. fruits (chewed 20 times per bite)
12:00: a light meal, e.g., 500 g boiled or baked food (no fried or sauteed) or fresh salad along with 3–4 Tbsp cold-pressed olive oil and 2–4 Tbsp fresh lemon juice (chewed at least 20 times per bite).
Water as little as possible.

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

Day 6, 7, and 8 have 20:00 before 07:00 is this not in order?

it should be, 6->20:00 indicates that it was broken in the evening before bed at 8PM

Also there is refeed concepts and ideas explained in the scorch protocol miro board and even here: https://www.dryfastingclub.com/refeed-s ... -advanced/

Hi Yannick, first let me apologize for the late reply. I thought I would get an email when you replied but never received one. I actually thought you never got back to me. I did read many info on your website about refeeding. I ended up doing a 3 day water fast after to be safe and go on a gradient, and then I went ahead and did partly what you had on your website and partly what I had done before after my 14 1/2 day water fast in January which was very successful.

So recently, I went to check if you had replied, just in case, and you had the very next day and a very detailed reply, so I would like to thank you very much for that. So generous! You bring many good points and I bought a thermometer and I am just starting to check my temperature to see if I have a problem there.

Also I checked the SR-T3. It is a bit expensive and the shipping is quite expensive so first, before ordering any, I wanted to know for how long you would think I would need to take this so that I can at least order it all in one shot and save on the shipping cost. I am guessing it is one tablet a day? So one bottle will last me 50 days?

I will do another dry fast when I can and this time it will be for 9 1/2 days. I always start in the evening and end in the morning. I find this is best.
Except for my health problems like eczema, I am a very healthy person, exercise and eating very healthy food and I have done many detoxes. Basically all my life I have tried to heal my body from eczema. I hope to succeed finally soon. Would be a dream come true. I know the body can heal from this if all causes are handled properly and if the body is given the proper setting/circumstances/materials.

The fasting is not hard for me. I find the refeeding to be the hardest part. I did many fasts and intermittent fasting and keto diets over the past 6 years. The tough part of the dry fast I just did was on Day 4. I forgot the name, something like acidosis? Body trying to rebalance the acidity of the blood. I didn't know what was happening so that was a bit scary, but the next day I felt great. I heard that on a 9 day dry fast this happens twice. Is this correct? I would assume on Day 4 and Day 8, perhaps?