I’ve done 3 5-day water fasts the last 5 years and what’s really crazy is after day 2 your mind starts to clear and your tongue and sweat start to smell from all the impurities.
I have found fasting actually helps inflammation. Tendinitis in elbow and knees disappears
I would have to take a vacation to do a week long fast...because there would be too many safety risks at work and driving.
And since my company was bought up, they cut our PTO to 56 hours,just 7 days a year.
Boy do I ever want European vacation time and sick days.
Anyway, after three days of fasting you start burning ketones, and that causes your breath to smell.
It’s not “the impurities,” that make your taste & sweat, etc., strange, it’s the acetone which is a breakdown product of fat metabolism. (Fat breaks down to acetoacetate, which loses CO2 spontaneously to make acetone.)
The farthest I’ve been able to go is 3 day fasts. The massive headaches always bring me out of it. I’ve tried electrolytes and all, but the headaches always make me break the fast. They are brutal.