My Opinion on Dry Fasting: Dr. Berg
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 8 April 2020
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Today we’re going to talk about dry fasting, and I’m going to share with you my opinion about it. There are a lot of benefits of fasting, but is one type of fasting better? Let’s look at dry vs. wet fasting.
What is dry fasting?
Dry fasting is fasting (not eating) without any water or liquids of any kind.
What is water fasting?
Water fasting is when you’re fasting, but you’re drinking water.
There are also two types of dry fasting:
Soft dry fasting:
This is when you’re allowed to use water when you brush your teeth or take a shower.
Hard dry fasting:
This is when you do not expose any part of your body to water at all.
The body can typically only go around three days without water. But, your body will go a lot longer if you’re just restricting food and not water because you still have a fat reserve to live off of.
There is no research or studies comparing dry fasting and wet fasting side by side. But, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a bad thing or that you won’t get amazing results. In theory, dry fasting may work well for some people for one day. If you wanted to try dry fasting, I wouldn’t go longer than one day. Then, you can compare a day of doing a dry fast and a day of doing a wet fast and see what works best for you.
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So I had this question come up. What is my opinion on dry fasting? So I decided to |
| 0:48.6 | create a short video just to give you my opinion. So what is dry fasting compared to water |
| 0:54.0 | fasting? Dry fasting is |
| 0:56.0 | fasting or not eating without any liquids, any water of any kind. Water fasting is when you're |
| 1:02.8 | fasting, yet you're drinking water. And then there's two types of dry fasting. There's soft dry and |
| 1:09.2 | hard dry. Soft dry is when you're allowed to use water when you're |
| 1:13.5 | brushing your teeth or taking a shower. Hard dry is when you're not exposing any part of your |
| 1:18.9 | body to water at all. So that being said, our bodies usually will only last about three days without |
| 1:25.3 | water, sometimes a little bit longer, sometimes a little bit shorter. |
| 1:28.9 | But your body will last a lot longer if you're just restricting food in that water, |
| 1:33.1 | because you have a lot of reserve, a fat reserve to live off of. |
| 1:37.1 | Now, in Ramadan, they are doing a dry fast for one day between sunrise and sunset. |
| 1:43.6 | And there's quite a bit of research when people are doing |
| 1:46.0 | a dry fast during Ramadan. But unfortunately, there's no research on comparing a dry fast to a wet |
| 1:55.0 | fast side by side. So I pretty much looked everywhere and I could not find even one research study. But because |
| 2:03.4 | there's no research doesn't necessarily mean that it's not a good thing or can't get amazing |
| 2:07.5 | results. There's just not enough data to tell you for sure if it works better than a wet fast. |
| 2:14.1 | Now, in theory, when you're during a dry fast, you're adding more stress to the body. |
| 2:17.9 | So hypothetically, you could potentially get better results for a day. But for most people, |
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