Day Water Fast Results: Blood Ketones, Glucose & Weight. A walk- through of the 5- day water fast with the tracked results (ketones, glucose, weight) and the practical do’s and don’ts to make the most of the experience. I’m not a fan of cancer. The only people I’ve lost in memory – my grandfather and other close family – it was cancer that took them. NOT putting an end to the fun of life because of cancer has been a part of my plan since my early 2. So after my discussion with Dr. Thomas Seyfried in episode 1.
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I was looking forward to put his 5 day water fast “cancer insurance policy” to work. As I read into the details to start planning my prolonged fast what I found convinced me even more this was something I had to do soon.
Maybe what I discovered would inspire you to try a 5 day fast soon too? Fasting for Reasons Beyond Cancer.
Since getting bitten by a tick in Phuket, Thailand a few years ago I’ve been fighting some chronic health issues. I discovered that it’s probable that these are at least in some part due to lyme disease and babesiosis infections I only got documented earlier this year (and thus had never been treated for). It bears mentioning, since there’s a fair amount of non- rigorous and dubious material on the internet on the subject of lyme disease in particular, that this was documented via the Ig. M/ Ig. G labs, and met CDC criteria. What does this have to do with fasting? It comes down to this: Having a stronger immune system gives you a better chance of eliminating lyme.
Since in cases like mine where it was not treated in the early stages it seems to be relatively tricky and long- winded to get rid of. I’ve made it a rule to collect and put into practice anything that improves the odds of a quicker recovery. Some of his recent work showed that prolonged fasts (e.
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Seyfried) can regenerate up to 3. Or in other words, a fast can eliminate old tired (and most probably damaged and dysfunctional) white blood cells and replace them with more effective shining new ones. I’ll admit this got me excited. It was definitely something I wanted to add into the “war plan” my integrative doctor and I had put in place against lyme and babesiosis. If you have any chronic health issue and are undergoing any treatments you should do the same.)As you’ll see below, the 5 day water fast (and other prolonged fasting configurations) has many potential upsides. After having gone through the experience and seeing the quantified results, I can say it’s something I will use as a tool frequently going forward.
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Most likely once per month, or once per quarter. The Upside: Reasons to Do a 5 Day Water Fast. Beyond the potential health and longevity upsides there were also a couple of others I was particularly interested in. First, the health benefits: Reduce future cancer risk or as a tool for those with cancer to combat it (details in this episode with Dr. Seyfried)Promote longevity and slow aging (via similar mechanisms to caloric restriction)Multi- system regeneration providing potential improvements in the immune system and mental performance (Valter Longo’s work – this 2. Reduce diabetes risk and cardiovascular disease risk and improve blood sugar regulation. The non- health benefits are perhaps more personal to me: Building greater mental resilience through the process of overcoming the challenge of a fast?
The stoics used hard life experiences to learn to deal with the mental ups and downs of life more easily. Exposing yourself to more extreme hard challenges numbs you to the emotional pain and you find you become more indifferent to life’s ups and downs (read less reactive). You can read up on this in the book The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday (which I must have listened to 8+ times), or articles on the philosophy of stoicism on Tim Ferriss’ blog. A 5 day fast struck me as exactly the type of “safe but challenging experience” that builds mental resilience more generally. Once the fast is done, you realize it’s absolutely not a big deal.
And other life challenges also seem to dim in their intensity and importance. A new life experience: What would it feel like to fast for 5 days? How would it effect my body?
We should all experience the extremes of the human experience provided they are within the limits of safety and healthy. It’s an important tool to learn about ourselves, our limitations, strengths and weakneesses – self awareness is a skill that can be learned. Going to the extremes to get a real feel for the breadth of life is part of living a life well lived. It wasn’t till day 3 till I broke the 2 mmol/L threshold and went beyond, eventually peaking at nearly 7 mmol/L blood ketones. At the same time my blood glucose hit a stable low of just under 6. L. Overall, I felt less mentally sharp and found the fast hardest between the end of day 1 till around beginning of day 3. In my case the switch in the blood results follows closely the ease of the experience for me – once blood ketones and glucose inverted the experience was easier.
Seyfried recommends the use of a Glucose- Ketone Index for monitoring the therapeutic value of the fast against cancer. The goal is to have your value of this index below 1 which is considered the . So I was in the therapeutic zone for all of days 4 and 5.
Exactly on plan: My blood glucose, ketone and GKIC markers settled into the expected ranges Seyfried outlines in his book for the fast. That’s between 5. L for blood glucose, and between 6 and 7 mmol/L for ketones. Lagging Metabolism Adjustment at End of Fast.
When I hit the 1. I dug into a couple of big bowls of bone broth.
Quickly full and satisfied seemingly as if the fast had never taken place. The next day I had a higher carb than usual breakfast.
We’re not talking crazy, just some blueberries and yacon syrup (for the gut, will talk about this soon in another episode) with bulletproof coffee (ghee, MCT oil and coffee). Despite this my ketones stayed high and actually hit their peak of the whole experiment (6. L) nearly 2. 4 hours after the fast had ended. This makes sense. It’s normal to see a lag of response of the blood readings the first 3 days of the fast while you adapt to ketones/ fatty acid metabolism.
So it follows that there would be a lag in the switch back to primarily glucose metabolism. Was Weight Loss Permanent? Cycling into 5 day fasts say once per month, could be quite effect based on my data (~loss of 1 lb per day in terms of permanent weight loss, not just momentary during the fast). If weight loss isn’t desirable, which is my case, you’ll need to compensate to regain lost muscle weight post fast.
Within a few days I had recovered one third (3 lbs) of the 9 lbs I’d lost during the fast. I consciously made an effort to eat as per usual to see if it the weight would naturally come back on.
Two weeks later after the end of the fast (day 1. Actively compensating for this in between future fasts will require consciously eating to gain weight. HRV, Muse Calm and Mental Performance. I also tracked my HRV with the ithlete app, my daily meditation sessions with the Muse Calm and my mental performance via reaction tests at Quantifed Mind. These weren’t my main focus for this fast, so the data isn’t extensive enough to make any big conclusions. However, looking at what I collected, I plan to take a closer look at mental performance and HRV in future fasts. First thing in the morning HRV dipped at the start of the fast (day 1 and 2) and go back to my normal range from then on.
This is a pretty good fit with how I felt during the fast. The first two days were a little rough as I had a headache, but from then on I felt more . Something to keep an eye on for future fasts especially as I have to deal with my own personal variable – adrenal fatigue. Adrenal Fatigue Confounder? I have documented adrenal fatigue currently (low cortisol output as a knock on effect of the chronic stress from lyme disease and babesiosis infections). I suspect the adrenal fatigue would be the cause of any negative HRV impact, and would be personal to me (if you’ve tracked HRV during a fast let me know your experience in the comments).
This may have been behind or contributed to my less consistent sleep and shorter duration sleep as noted before. It is very common (even fashionable) to fast on meditation retreats. The idea the retreats promote is that fasting helps to calm the mind. Although I got my best Muse Calm score to date on one morning (8.
I didn’t notice any real difference between fasting and my normal scores. The 5- Day Fast Experience. Two of my fellow entrepreneur buddies (Patrick Stiles and Patrick Kelly (@pjkmedia)) recently also did the 5 day water fast so we caught up to share notes on our experiences. Our experiences turned out to be pretty different in some areas. You can listen to our full note swapping discussion in this episode. Here’s the brief highlights of my experience from the discussion: Day 1 and day 2 were a little challenging in terms of hunger but not that noticeably (I put this down to my previous experience with intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets)A headache from the end of day 1 to the beginning of day 3 (potentially linked to the switch in brain from glucose to ketone use)On day 4 and 5 the physical weakness was a lot more noticeable and there was some slight dizzyness when standing up at times. My sister mentioned afterwards that she feared for her 1 year old son’s wellbeing when I was playing up close with him towards the end of the fast.
Given the high ketone levels, this would mostly be due to high acetone levels in the breath. Fasting tends to lead to detoxification, and potentially stress your detoxification system, as you break down body fat including accumulated fat- soluble toxins and process them. While dealing with lyme these have occurred from time to time (added lyme biotoxin burden causing overload), so it’s unsurprising that adding broken down fat- soluble toxins would lead to this currently. I took activated charcoal daily to help bind and clear any toxins from my system.
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