So I just completed a 72 hour fast and I was wondering if some other froggies had any experience with it. I found I really wasn’t hungry the whole time it was just the headaches and dizziness. I did take Celtic sea salt and sodium bicarb and lots of water. Any suggestions to decrease the headaches and dizziness?
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When you say "I took Celtic sea salt," how much did you take?
When I fast, and I've gone longer than 72 hours, I only drink water with sea salt, roughly 9-10 grams/liter. It ends up being a lot of salt and a lot of water, because I drink plenty and don't measure it. I never got a headache or felt dizzy.
Sea salt has all the electrolytes you need. Electrolytes are just a fancy word for minerals in water, and sea salt has the full selection of every mineral that the body uses.
Don't know about the bicarbonate, though. I suspect that's causing the headaches, so I'd remove that. But it could be lack of (sea) salt, if you're not getting enough. That can leave you faint, especially if you're drinking a lot of (unsalted, or very low salt) water or other beverages.
Another potential issue is if, before fasting, you were on a carb-heavy diet. That will definitely leave you with low energy, including faintness and potential dizzy spells, regardless of what else you do during the fast. To solve that, you'll have to retrain your body to be less carb-dependent, and to burn more fat instead. That will take time, but is worth doing as it will increase your vitality immensely.
I did a third of a teaspoon of bicarb and the third of a teaspoon of Celtic sea salt, three times a day.
The dose of sodium bar carb is .1 -.2 g/kg.
So my dose was 5 to 10 g so I asked AI how many teaspoons that was. My dose ended up being 1/3 of a teaspoon three times a day. I might’ve done a little less because I did a heaping fourth of a teaspoon.
If you look at that sodium bicarb video above, it tells you what the dosing is in there.
I'd say it's the lack of salt that gave you headaches and dizziness.
Definitely going to do more research before I attempt this again and find an electrolyte made for a fasting.
IMO, you might work yourself up to a very low carb routine before starting another fast. I've been no carb / carnivore for over a year now, and never felt better since being a teenager. I'm now in my 50's.
This is the guy I follow. https://darkovelcek.wordpress.com/introduction/ He'll tell you throughout many of his posts, that sea salt is the only collection of electrolytes you need. I only drink salted water now, and I go through at least 6 heaping teaspoons daily, dissolved in water.
Read his intro, and if it makes sense to you, then read more of the posts that interest you. He gets into some very eclectic stuff about quantum healing and energy fields that doesn't speak to me or have a practical application (and he's totally awake to, and on board, with Q), but everything he's said about diet has been proven true in my experience.