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I do not encourage dry fasting for more than 24 hours. </disclaimer>

Fasting is misunderstood by most people. Almost all symptoms are caused by detoxification. When your body doesn't need to detox, fasting does not cause symptoms besides weakness/tiredness.

Dry fasting is nothing new. My community has a tradition of doing a 24 hour dry fast every month. I've never known of anybody that had symptoms beyond the expected detox.

I've done this monthly dry fast for 20 years now. I used to have very mild symptoms (ie detox), but they stopped once I adopted a vegan diet.

On a bet, I once dry fasted for 50 hours without any symptoms. I do not endorse such a long dry fast--I'm just putting it out there.