In this video I'll uncover which is better for you water fasting or dry fasting.
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Dry fasting is an ancient religious practice that has been around for many years.
Now one of the things that's become very popular over the past couple years is intermittent
fasting. This has been a trend that has just been really found to help so many people improve
their health with the resurgence of intermittent fasting along came with it is dry fasting.
Now a lot of people find that intermittent fasting worked very well for them and then
they heard that dry fasting can offer them even better results. So the question is; is
that even true? Let's go ahead and talk about dry fasting better. Let's unpack this topic
as to what it is, what it can do for you and stick around to the end of this video because
we want to really share a couple different experiences that I've seen people come across.
So stick around to the end but before we get started I'm Doctor Zyrowski and welcome to
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you excel your health and your life. Let's go ahead and talk about this topic of dry
fasting. Now when we talk about dry fasting we have to make sure that we understand it's
different than water fasting. This is two different things. Now water fasting is going
to be like your typical 16:8 intermittent fasting or one meal a day and you're drinking
water during that fasted period. Now dry fasting is going to be where you are literally doing
like the one meal a day or 16:8 and you are not consuming any water and you're also abstaining
from food during this time.So you're basically consuming nothing at all. So that's drying
fasting but dry fasting is really broken down into a couple other categories. Let's talk
about that as to what they are. Now first there's the hard dry fast and the hard drive
fast is where you're going to be consuming nothing throughout the day. So you're not
consuming any food. You're abstaining from water as well but one of the things you are
also not doing is you're not coming into contact with water. You wouldn't jump in a pool. You
wouldn't take a shower. You wouldn't wash your hands and you wouldn't brush your teeth.
You just would not come into contact in any way that is considered a hard dry fast. Now
there's another type of fasting that's a dry fast and that is the soft dry fast. Soft dry
fast is very similar. The difference is that you would allow yourself to come into contact
with water but you would not be drinking any beverages throughout the day including water.
So once again it's a dry fast and you are allowing yourself to come in contact with
water but you're not drinking water. Now if you've used either these let me know in the
comment section below. I'd love to know your experience with them. Now intermittent dry
fasting is going to be where you're using one of these methods but you're using the
intermittent fasting style. You're doing 16:8 or one meal a day and you're not drinking
water during that time. That's your typical intermittent dry fasting. When we look at
most people who are doing dry fasting this is how they're doing it right in this category
here. When we look at the process of the Muslim religion where they're going and doing Ramadan
and they're dry fasting from sunrise to sunset essentially this is what they're doing right
here. Now there is also prolonged dry fasting and this is where you're going to do a dry
fast for 24 hours or longer. Now this is a practice that I've seen many people put in
the comment section that they've been doing. I've had people tell me that they've done
three-day dry fast. I've even had people say they did a 5-day dry fast. Have you done any
prolonged dry fasting? Let me know in the comment section below. Now there's a couple
things that we need to talk about here because we have to be very cautionary when it comes
to this topic because you know the human body is designed to go for a longer period of time
without food. The human body is not designed to go for a long period of time without water.
When we look at much of the research out there what it tells us is that it can be fatal if
we do not consume water for more than three days. Biologically some fatal processes start
to occur and it can be very dangerous. So like I said in the comments section I've had
many people go and tell me they've done extended dry fast but according to the research we
have to be very careful with anything over three days when we talk about dry fasting.
When we look at different scenarios where people were stuck out in the wilderness or
people w ere you know trapped somewhere without water in many cases they were drinking things
like their urine and that's how they survived for a longer period of time. Or they had some
sort of a strange water source but it wasn't typically that they were doing nothing at
all and dry fasting for any type of extended period of time. So once again we have to approach
this with extreme caution and we have to be very serious when we go and start implementing
processes; different practices like this. A lot of people see online videos and different
blogs and they decide “Hey, I'm gonna try this” but it may not be right for you. So
you have to be careful! Not all health is created equal and one person just because
they're doing it doesn't mean that you should do it as well. Now let's go ahead and talk
about some of the best practices for dry fasting now that we know the different types and we
know that we have to proceed with caution. First of all we want to make sure that we're
starting with water fast. If you're like let's say eating an unhealthy diet; let's say you've
never fasted before. It's probably not a good idea to jump right into a dry fast. So what
we want to do is we want to go and make sure that we start with a water fast. Do 16:8 water
fast. Do one meal a day water fast and then once you got that down you can progress into
some sort of dry fasting. Now we also want to make sure if we want to basically feel
the best throughout this process and even get some of the best results that we're in
the state of ketosis going into it. Many people state that when they go and they do dry fasting
they are feeling much much better if they are in ketosis before going and proceeding
forward with that. Now in this video I'm saying a lot of people state because there is not
some enormous book of research out there on dry fasting very important to understand that.
Now also when we look at dry fasting there's a couple things to understand about that research.
Is that when we talk about dry fasting a lot of the research is done on the process of
Ramadan, the Muslim practice, the religious practice but it's not actually done on checking
to see if dry fasting works better than intermittent fasting. When you look a lot at a lot of those
studies about dry fasting and Ramadan. Essentially you know what they're finding is that yeah,
people lost weight. People had good results in reversing insulin resistance. People had
all these amazing results but we know that intermittent fasting works for all of those
same practices. All those different health problems as well and so when we look at research
we didn't really find any that compared the two. And so if you didn't find any to compare
the two and say which one works better from a research perspective we don't really know
which one is better. Now what I can tell you is that I've heard a lot of doctors say this
and I've also heard a lot of just you know, individuals who have used dry fasting; state
that they feel that they get much better results doing dry fasting versus water fasting. Now
it supposedly helps increase autophagy and you're going to actually get better results
with autophagy. It helps reduce inflammation to a further extent supposedly. It helps boost
your immune system. It helps get blood sugar under control. A lot of people are saying
that they find that it burns far more fat doing dry fasting than water fasting. Then
it helps improve brain function and improve blood pressure. So what we're seeing here
is that this is many of the same things that regular intermittent fasting works for just
fine. Whether you get better results with doing a dry fast well you know like I said
a lot of people are stating that they do but there's no research out there that's saying
that dry fasting is going to work better for you all day long. We have to approach it with
caution because we can get problems like dehydration. A lot of different things can come up and
so we need to always make sure that when implementing any health strategy we're very cautious about
it and typically when doing dry fasting. Doing things like 16:8, one meal a day, dry fasting
is going to be far better than doing any type of prolonged dry fast. So anyway take that
into consideration put in the comment section below your experience with dry fasting. A
lot of people are doing this seeing great results. I personally don't do this on a regular
basis. I like to do water fast but put in the comment section below share your opinion
on this. Give this video a thumbs up. Share with your friends and then be sure to check
out this video over here on balancing your electrolytes because there's nothing that's
going to throw your electrolytes off like doing a dry fast. Check it out. With exercise
with OMAD with keto we can work on bringing those levels of electrolytes up and feel so
much better.