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Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

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Re: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

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Post by TheJurgen »

grishka wrote: post #27
TheJurgen wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would you like to know?

What the device is and how it works.

Basis as a system works with multiple passive, continuous inputs. The goal is to help you track your health without thinking about tracking your health - where many people fail. So to use Basis today (get the minimum benefit) you would need to use a glucose tracking biosensor (that we provide) and have an activity tracking wearable (e.g. Apple Watch, Oura ring, etc). It’s possible to use Basis with your own continuous glucose sensor (if you are diabetic let’s say) and already get those regularly. Depending on the peripherals/wearables you have you could also feed your water intake and temperature in the data as well.

Re: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

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Post by qnd »

zenyc wrote: post #4

It would be interesting to see the same breakdown analysis with different diets.

Hey zenyc, we did 2 cycles of Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) and tracked our markers during the 5 day fast: [1] blood glucose (trending down) [2] body fat percentage (trending down) [3] ketone levels (trending up)

Here the writeup: https://www.artlapinsch.com/fmd/

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Post by nsomaru »

TheJurgen wrote: post #17
zenyc wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One that stresses the body and is not a fast

How about the American diet. A week on pizzas, burgers, sodas and donuts with real time data?

Yes and compare with a healthy diet. Control as many variables as possible (eating time, exercise time and duration, etc)

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Post by FriedrichN »

I don't believe in these over-engineered 'quanitified self' solutions. Just get yourself a simple step counter and go for one or two walks a day and try to up the step count by a bit every time and don't eat like an asshole. It's worked for me for a long while now.

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Post by im3w1l »

peteretep wrote: post #11

> At the 3-day mark, I've hit a key milestone in cellular regeneration. My body has broken down old immune cells and generated new ones (Cheng et al., 2014). ... if you were a mouse. Here's the article being referenced: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24905167/

So... is it good to break down old immune cells?

Re: Body on a 3-day fast: Real-time data with Basis

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Post by jermaustin1 »

A personal story about fasting:

About 8 years ago, I had a particularly stubborn stomach bug, that just would not go away. After a week I went back to the doctor, and he was reluctant to put me on anti-biotics incase it was viral, and also he was generally anti-anti-biotics if your immune system could do it on its own. So he had me do a 3 day fast. Only water, and once a day a small bottle of Gatorade. Day 1 was easy, day 2 was hard, day 3 was actually easy again. On day 4, I was told to reintroduce food slowly and to eat as close to unprocessed foods as possible, so I had a bowl of watermelon for breakfast, a cup of oatmeal for lunch, then for dinner... McDonalds.

The outcome was the bug did die, but I no idea if it was from the fasting or just that it had been 10 days. But the fasting wasn't that hard, and I felt better afterward.

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Post by bfieidhbrjr »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #38

A personal story about fasting: About 8 years ago, I had a particularly stubborn stomach bug, that just would not go away. After a week I went back to the doctor, and he was reluctant to put me on anti-biotics incase it was viral, and also he was generally anti-anti-biotics if your immune system could do it on its own. So he had me do a 3 day fast. Only water, and once a day a small bottle of Gatorade. Day 1 was easy…

The gatorade sounds horrendous, to dump a ton of sugar on you when fasting. It was probably for the electrolytes, a pinch of salt would have worked without all the junk in gatorade. And then you rarely need it on just a three day fast, only if you're dizzy. And if you're dizzy it means you've drunk too much water.

Glad you're better though!

Reddit fasting sub is ok to learn more, though they have some hangups like dry fasting.

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Post by ConfusedDog »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #38

A personal story about fasting: About 8 years ago, I had a particularly stubborn stomach bug, that just would not go away. After a week I went back to the doctor, and he was reluctant to put me on anti-biotics incase it was viral, and also he was generally anti-anti-biotics if your immune system could do it on its own. So he had me do a 3 day fast. Only water, and once a day a small bottle of Gatorade. Day 1 was easy…

Why Gatorade... I assume for electrolyte? There are so many better alternatives. I had a serious electrolyte imbalance first time trying Keto diet. Took a potassium supplement and immediately got better.
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