3 day fasting to reset immune system
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Undated
Summary
Before getting ME, andypants had done several 3-to-10-day fasts and felt refreshed by them; the first attempts after falling ill, at up to 44 hours, instead left their muscles "really achey" with mild PEM and seemed to make things worse. Scaling back to a 36-hour fast went much better ("no PEM today"), and they settled into a routine of 36-hour and alternate-day fasts that they say bring weight loss and more energy without hunger or deprivation.
What they credit
Credits Diet, Trauma & somatic work, Extended water fasting (3+ days).
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