First week fast capped off with a two-day Dry Fast.
Channel: The Fasting Atheist
Date: 2017-12-17

Wherein I describe the utility of dry fasting to help one stay the course of one's water fast.

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There is VERY little published data on the this subject, mainly because it is deemed unethical (cringing, whinging litigious fear state that we live in!) to study people in the fasting state, let alone the dry fasting state.
But I assure you folks that if you are interested in this idea, and are prepared to develop (or exercise, in the case where you already possess them) good research skills, heightened critical powers so as to sift the wheat from the chaff, you WILL find a huge body of evidence in support of the advantages of dry fasting: anywhere between 16 hours in the day, to 3 day, 5 day, right up to 11 day dry fasts. Admittedly you must build up this. 
The method that is often recommended is to "cascade dry fast"; the method is as follows:
1 day water fast followed by 1 day dry; 2 day water, 2 day dry; increasing in like fashion up to 5 day wet, 5 day dry. 

Metabolic water.
Metabolic water is the water made by the body's own processes of oxidizing available fuel and turning it into a very pure water, to sustain the system in the harsh internal environment of absence of exogenous water.
So, for instance, during the dry fast you will continue to urinate, at first a very dark, cloudly urine. 
After extended periods this often goes clear, but more of this in a subsequent video.
A camel will rely almost entirely on metabolic water while in caravansari; the human mammal, only about 18%, normally; but in the dry fast this goes up "to the yazoo" (when I get more scientific data, I'll post it :) )
Weight loss is speeded up; and in the fasting "community" (which, I remind you, good rationalists) is full of crack pots and deranged religious "seers", so, "pinch of salt", right?) the rule of thumb I constantly come across is that 1 day of dry fasting has the effect of 3 days water fasting.

Having said all this about dry fasting's virtues, I am completely new to this and simply experimenting at the moment: I repeat, everything I do is to subserve the ultimate goal of getting through the complete fast; so, a couple days dry spread through the last week helped me enormously with nausea and was therefore instrumental in helping me continue the fast.