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Ben Greenfield explains how to ease the rough first days of fasting. Exogenous ketones supply what your body can't yet make, hydrogen-rich water blunts hunger hormones, and electrolyte replacement counters losses from early ketosis.
Ben Greenfield explains how to ease the rough first days of fasting. Exogenous ketones supply what your body can't yet make, hydrogen-rich water blunts hunger hormones, and electrolyte replacement counters losses from early ketosis.
Taking ketones in the first couple days of a fast does help. The reason it helps is because your body is not really used to using ketones. It's not efficient at burning fat to make a really high level of ketones. So assisting that will absolutely help. Hydrogen water that you've talked a lot about on your show is dramatic, actually. Studies show that it actually helps with ghrelin, so it cuts hunger. And it also takes a lot of the. You know, the first two or three days of a fast is typically when you get most of your symptoms. It knocks down a lot of those symptoms that you may get. Now, you have to understand, fasting symptoms are normal during a fast. In the beginning, for some people, I can fast. I get no symptoms, but I fast a lot. But most people will get symptoms just like when they go into ketosis. They'll get symptoms just because they're getting rid of a lot of electrolytes. Right. And they need. Taking electrolytes can be very helpful in the beginning of a fast, just like going into ketosis.
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