I am now in the habit of fasting every month.
Last month I did a longer (five-day) fast which I worked in with eating no fibre before a colonoscopy.
They removed an adenoma polyp (non-malignant) which had shrunk due to the fast. (My stools had been "D" or crescent-shaped, as the polyp had been almost blocking the sigmoid (the bit of colon that connects the descending colon to the rectum).
Monthly 68-hour fasts are now routine for me, so I expect no drama... but watch this space for updates.
Keep at it & good luck !
Good luck S11m 👍
I do remember reading about your fast last month. It sounded like a very positive experience on balance. Interesting to hear the effect the fast had on the polyp.
Hope your long fast this month is also positive.
I ended the 68-hour fast Yesterday morning, with half a litre of full-fat live yoghurt... and then a keto-ish carvery (no Yorkshire pudding or potatoes, and very little root vegetables).
Refeeding syndrome is a possible complication of ending a fast, and is, I think due to the massive insulin rush you would get if you ended the fast with a high-carbohydrate meal.
Fasting is a good opportunity to fix you microbiome by getting rid of the "bad" bacteria and replacing it with the good bacteria from the live yoghurt. Last time I fasted was the last time it was 30 Centigrade - and it does not help.
Exercising in a fasted state burns off your glycogen reserves, and gets you into ketosis and autophagy, so, 24 hours in, I walked 5.4Km, and 48 hours in I walked 7.1Km. This was hard - and I had to take it steady and rest regularly. I get upper-body exercise by taking a pruning saw and a machete and cutting back the bramble bushes.
I use the HRV4Traing app, which tells me how fit I am, and is an indication of longevity and this tells me fasting is good for me. Dr Mindy Pells says that fasting improves her HRV.
I feel great - and I am thinking about fasting every fortnight instead of every month.
Dr Mindy Pelz says that exercising three days or more into a fast is too much stress on your body - and I think that the 7km walk I did 48 hours into this fast was too hard, and I think that is why I have not felt as good after this fast as I did after the last one. Indigenous people can run down an antelope nine days into a fast... but they must be better fat-adapted than us Europeans!
There is no benefit in getting older if you do not get wiser!
Diabetics CAN fast