You two are the cutest: you motorcycle, downhill ski, multi-day water fast, and do all kinds of daring dos side by side! What a treasured partnership!

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

Aw thanks! And agreed, I am so fortunate to have Geoffrey by my side in life! ❤

I absolutely love water fasting ! I've done 6 water fasts since getting ill with long covid in 2021. My favourite length is 4 nights and 3 days, i.e., over 72 hours (after 72 hours your immune system rejuvenates itself). The first day is easy for me, I don't notice anything different, just more time to do things because I don't have to cook nor wash the dishes. The second day I sometimes feel quite sick, especially if I didn't prepare the fast well. The 3rd day I feel totally amazing, lots of energy, clear mind, super happy, I feel soooo good in my body (outside of fasting I usually feel sick, uncomfortable, pain). Thanks to fasting I don't have the following symptoms anymore: headaches (I had them 24/7 for months), mold toxicity (combined with a detox and brain training), and considerably less brain fog. It gives me also a boost in energy, helps my body detox, lifts my mood, etc. My advice: choose the right time, when you know that you can fully rest while doing it. It is a big stressor on the body, there shouldn't be additional stress in your life when you are fasting, otherwise it will be too much on your body and an unpleasant experience. It can be a very beautiful experience during which you solely focus on your well being, reconnect to yourself, etc. Drink salted water for electrolytes or buy sugar free electrolytes. You can also drink bone broth (haven't tried it). Listen to your body, it will let you know when to stop the fast. Last month I did 5 days (the longest fast up until now), I felt extremely exhausted on day 4 and 5 so I stopped but after 1 week in a dip, I woke up with a whole new level of energy. I still prefer to do about 3,5 days, which seem to be the sweet spot for me (no dip) and I can't wait to do it again in April :)

Love this from beginning to end! You guys are the BEST. I learned a lot about the Zombie Cells & ketones! This was awesome. Thanks for taking us along your fasting journey - really insightful! Also, Blue springing up for the bacon, lol. I thought it was animation at first. BTW Your meal prep for Blue puts us all to shame! Next video idea "eat as good as Raelan and Geoffrey's pomeranian."

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

🤣yes I think Blue eats the best out of all of us! Thanks for watching, Liz! And for your beautifully supportive comment, as always 💞 I would LOVE to see a video of you and Pieter on your channel!!!

Aww!! Geoffrey is such a good looking guy! And I love that you have such a supportive husband!! ❤❤

Love this different angle to your channel. Well done to the two of you! Got my husband & I thinking about it too now....

I loved the excitement of the little dog: “Hey! Now that everybody is eating again, do you mind if I join in?” 😸

Great video! Thank you ❤

Wonderful content!!

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

I think you might be biased 😉😘

Raelan would you say you need to be in somewhat of a calm nervous system/adrenal state to try this? I’m still in throws of cfs and disregulation and when I try to fast it sends my body spiralling into complete panic- did it worry you at all that this could trigger off fight of flight for you or do you feel your regulated state meant it felt safe to do this for your body? Well done you are SO inspiring, thank you for all you share 🙏🏻🌻

@carl8568

2 ай бұрын

I would say yes, I think many who have significant nervous system dysregulation have trouble with extended fasting.

@leaperrins8373

2 ай бұрын

I wouldn't recommend this for people who have a lower baseline in regards to me/cfs etc. At this stage, eating regularly is likely to help more. As your baseline improves, may be play with 16 plus hours, but with anything, start low and go slow! Your body needs to feel safe and not eating for 4 days when you are close to bed or housebound is a major stressor that your nervous system isn't likely to handle well. However, many people find that fasting and cold water therapy can help further down the recovery road, when the body can handle the stress. These therapies then become useful as they build resilience. The problem when our baseline is low, is that we don't have the resilience, so we need to be really gentle with ourselves.

This one was different! Nice to 'meet' Geoffrey. I found it interesting to think about removing 'zombie' cells from our body. First time I've ever showed one of your videos to my husband and we were both challenged and inspired to gradually increase our fasting. My favourite part is where Geoffrey does the typical husband thing and zones out while you're talking 😂 You're amazing Raelan - fearless, adventurous, and a blessing to so many. Thanks for giving back 😊

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

Haha love this! Thanks for sharing ... especially the zoning out part. Very validating ;) Best of luck to you both with this!

Thank you for sharing this with us. It inspires me to try it❤️ You two, sorry Blue, I mean you three, are so cute together.

awesome !

Well done to both of you! Nice to meet your husband, Raelan! What a lovely couple you are! Blue's cute too! I did a 5 day water fast many years before I got CFS. Probably around the early 2000's. I did it to help with stomach issues and my Naturopath said it would give my immune system a rest, as I had food intolerances. I launched into it when my husband and I took our 4 school aged children on a holiday to a beach location. I cooked everyone else's dinner each night. I didn't really crave food. I did feel quite weak though. The first thing I ate when the fast ended gave me energy, but also a sore stomach! I didn't notice any benefits from doing it, but was quite surprised how I was able to get through the whole thing. Just thought I'd share my experience. I'm not sure if there was any science around it back then. The idea to do it came from a Doctor who wrote a book about digestion issues. Take care.

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

Wow, impressive! Thanks for sharing!!

I loved this so much. Honest, raw, and yet kind of fun? For the viewer, anyway 😂. I have both LC and ME and I haven’t liked how awful I’ve felt around the 40-50 hr mark. When I hit that point, I always find myself saying, “if eating now means it takes me longer to recover from LC and ME, so be it.” I do time-restricted eating most days (eating between noon-8pm), which does make 24+ hour fasts much easier to tolerate. Two questions: 1) why not take the sugar free electrolytes starting on day one? I always take them when I do a 24+ hour fast and it makes a huge difference in how I feel. And 2) have you or Geoffrey heard of Valter Longo and his fasting-mimicking diets? You can eat 500-600 calories a day of specific foods and still technically be giving your body the same or similar benefits as water fasting, according to Longo.

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience and great questions! 1) We did actually do the electrolytes daily, we just didn't show it on camera until the end. 2) No, never heard of it! But now very curious to check it out :)

Love this!!! ❤🙏✨ So nice to do this togheter🤩 Carnivore/Animalbased + fasting helps me enormously with bealing healing from CFS 🥰 Lots of love and love to you beautifuls!

Did you notice that when your body started to adjust, that you could focus on something with much more intensity and calmness? Congratulations on making it, it's not the easiest thing to do. :)

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

On day 4 I did! I actually had a part in the video sharing this experience but the video was getting too long so some things had to go :)

Did you do anything before you started the fast to prepare for it. I’m currently on Day 3 of 5 of a juice fast. To prepare I did three days of raw fruit for breakfast and vegetables for lunch and dinner.

Oh, this was a fun surprise! :) I have been intermittent fasting (usually 20:4 daily) since mid-December and the benefits are sooo great! One of them is that I save so much money on food now and much less time preparing and eating meals. Also weight loss and fat loss and better health of course! Want to try a 36 hour fast next, maybe eventually a 4 day!

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

Wow, that's an impressive fasting schedule! Good for you!

@forisma

2 ай бұрын

I'm doing intermittent fasting at the moment too. I'm seeing health improvements as well, but no weights loss or saving on food. I eat all my necessary calories in a shorter period of time. I often struggle to get in all the necessary calories so quickly, as that much oil (I'm on keto) can be nauseating. When I wasn't on keto, I could do intermittent fasting, as I felt hungry all the time.

@wyrdwitch13

2 ай бұрын

@@forismaI'm eating a whole food plant based diet 90% of the time and losing weight as a petite, mid 50s woman with only vanity pounds to shed. I struggled with hunger the first month, but now although I do get a bit hungry at times it's very manageable.

@wyrdwitch13

2 ай бұрын

@@RaelanAgleI worked up to it. At first, I was doing about 16:8 and slowly over a month it became 20:4 or 19:5. I am losing weight even as a petite post menopause woman with only vanity pounds to shed. It's very slow weight loss-like maybe a pound or two per month at best. The first 5 pounds went in first 6 weeks, and since then much slower. I don't count calories and I eat whole food plant based 90%+ of the time. I'm doing it for the health benefits as well as the weight maintenance.

Raelan, do you know anyone who fasts while still taking their regular medication (I have 1 daily med. that is supposed to be taken with food)?

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

That's a great question. I'm not sure, I would check in with your doctor on that one.

I found that waterfast is so much harder than dry fast..with dry fast i did not had the feeling of hunger and with the waterfast i was hungry all the time 😅

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

Really?! That's so surprising! Thanks for sharing!!

I would be interested to know if anyone takes a toxin binder while fasting (bentonite clay etc) to help “grab hold of”. the toxins, presuming that your body is dumping extra toxins out of the cells into your system.

I have done 4 days/100 hrs on just water before but I don't think I made it fully in to ketosis as the hunger just continued to gnaw at me. I'm shooting for something a bit longer right now with a couple of days of dry fasting to begin with to speed up the entry in to ketosis and there's less hunger pangs without water. Yeah, you gotta have some things to do, things that aren't too physical as you can get incredibly weak and dizzy. I've bought some books to keep me occupied, a couple of them are books on fasting to help me stay motivated.

Maybe I missed it, but how did you feel after the fast? I've done a few 30 hour fasts and usually feel pretty crappy during but then more energetic the next day. Did you notice any change in the the following days/weeks afterwards?

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

I did! I couldn't believe how good I felt in the days following. Sleeping better, improved mood, more energy. Overall great!

I need to fast again. I used to do it often 25 years ago and i got lazy and undiscipined. But it used to make me feel fantastic, better results than anything else.

With my condition, I have to eat every few hours, otherwise I would get very dizzy with heart palpitations. I don't know if other people with CFS also have the same experience as I do with food, it's really frustrating.

@andrewstrakele6815

2 ай бұрын

Fasting is a physical Stress on the Body. As such, you need to Pace your way into it GRADUALLY as you recover from CFS, just like physical exercise. Following a Low Carb, Whole Foods Ketogenic Diet will allow you to more easily adapt to Fasting by reducing your Body’s dependence on Carbohydrates, utilizing your Fat Store and accessing energy from ketones. Good Luck and Good Health!

@andrewstrakele6815

2 ай бұрын

BTW - If you find you are experiencing heart palpitations, I recommend you perform the “Physiological Sigh” breathing technique to calm yourself and slow your heart rate. Breathe in slowly through your nose for a normal breath, then before exhaling, breath in more through your nose using your diaphragm. After the 2nd inhalation, release the air through your mouth in a Sigh. Then repeat. Keep it up for 5 minutes. There are actually videos on KZread that will guide you through a session, telling you when to inhale and exhale. You can also focus on your Breathing as you perform calming Meditation.

@user-rp9jg3kw1d

2 ай бұрын

@@andrewstrakele6815 Thank you 😊

What's your take on the new article circling around the internet "8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death"

@forisma

2 ай бұрын

My guess is: link simply means correlation, not causation. Correlation in this case is really easy if you look which folks do intermittent fasting. Mostly people with health issues in the first place. (Pre-existing condition which was already there) Also, often they are people who are doing unhealthy keto with lots of animal fat, which is bad for heart health. When done properly, intermittent fasting is great. You need to ask this question to an actual scientist, not a youtuber to get a proper answer :)

@Asuma492

2 ай бұрын

@forisma ask this question to a scientist? This article was written by a Chinese doctor. I'm only asking on here because it's interesting to see what the community has to say about these claims. Some of us follow certain channels as an alternative for information regarding health. I don't personally trust the American health care system so I have to do my own research on certain topics. Just because I ask a question on a public forum it doesn't mean I'm going to take the information given is facts but I'm also not going to blindly follow a possible bogus article posted by the AHA.

@Melted_Butter

2 ай бұрын

Trouble is it’s not even an “article” yet. It’s an abstract which means it hasn’t been peer reviewed. It could be correct and fasting 16 hours isn’t good for long term health but it’s too hard to tell without all the information. There’s only two time points 8 years apart. What was the diet like in between these times? Big assumption they did the diet for 8 years solid. Who was the underlying sample? It seems that the diet (and only eating

@andrewstrakele6815

2 ай бұрын

I think it was critical that such information be released now that the GLP-1 weight loss drugs are available. Fasting with use of the GLP-1 drugs or not provides a significant threat to the profitability of the Snack Food industry. I anticipate more information about the “dangers” of Fasting are forthcoming. My personal take: People have used Fasting for decades to reverse the damage of the Chronic Diseases of Metabolic Syndrome (of which Cardiovascular Disease is only one). If Fasting were Bad for your Health, our Paleo ancestors would’ve died off long ago and Homo Sapiens would be just another failed experiment on the trash heap of Evolution. 🙀 I believe it is our DEVIATION from regular Fasting and a Low Carb Ketogenic Diet that is responsible for the accelerating epidemics of Hypertension, Liver Disease, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, Strokes, Cancer, Kidney Disease, Alzheimer’s, and others that we observe today.

Did you continue to take any supplements during the fast?

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

Just electrolytes :)

Wow. When did you start eating back meat and your reasoning? Have you done a video on this?

How much water each day ? any electrolytes ?

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

A good couple of liters of water daily and also daily electrolytes :)

how much water per day did you drink ?

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

2-3 litres

Please don’t do this if you have a history of ED’s/ disordered eating. This can be very dangerous. Also would not recommend fasting this long without medical supervision if you’re chronically ill. I had to fast for 72hrs for a medical test and this required me to be admitted as I was hypoglycaemic the majority of the test.

Do you use electrolytes. They are important when fasting 😊.

@seaweedeater3104

2 ай бұрын

She filmed herself taking electrolytes and talked about it. You must have not watched it fully

@Chris-kr7gg

2 ай бұрын

@@seaweedeater3104 Of course I didn't, I go through segments and and I also sped up the video on average of 1.5. I'm well versed with fasting and it's abilities to induce forms of healing etc. If you read through some of my other comments on the channel you will see! I was was more interested to get the final analysis of Raelan and her partner's results. To digress I presume you like eating seaweed, it can be a good source of iodine, I tried nori s few times. But I'll keep to supplements. It's hard to find clean seaweed these days with a variant of toxins, etc.

@seaweedeater3104

2 ай бұрын

@@Chris-kr7gg okay, whatever. Just giving you the answer to the question you asked.

@Chris-kr7gg

2 ай бұрын

@@seaweedeater3104 No need to be RUDE! Enjoy your S***! Toxic SEAWEED!

In winter 2022 I tried to do 24h fast 2 times a week and it had been really detrimental to me. I had long covid and while fasting, for some people, it reduce immune functions. What happens when immune functions are reduced? Being more sick... Yeah... Also, with cfs or LC, it's a time to be gentle with the body, not so harsh on it. Furthermore, the body think that you're in an emergency situation, food starving, which put it even more in sympathetic mode. It's a big big no for me!

The best i could do is 2 days. I cant seem to make it past that :( They say it gets easier on the 3rd day - so I'll try again when my CFS gets better. In the meantime, I'm okay with OMAD. You're doing carnivore diet? NICE :)

@seaweedeater3104

2 ай бұрын

Can you tell me what OMAD is, please?

I did a 5 day dry fast in the past (and water fasts at different times). The effect of dry fasting was prominent (improved symptoms) but very temporary. I think, fasting without a parasite cleanse doesn't work. I'm now trying to figure out how I can do such a cleanse, considering ME/CFS intolerances.

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

Wow, 5 days without water?! That sounds intense! I admire your commitment to following through on things!

@forisma

2 ай бұрын

@@RaelanAgle thank you, I did it for the first time in a Ukranian dry fast center in Carpathian mountains. I wouldn't even think of learning to do it on my own :)) Unfortunately, the effect lasted only a week or so. When I started eating again, I was back to where I was before fasting pretty fast. Fasting is incredibly difficult too when you have some type of orthostatic intolerance (it's most people with me/cfs) but the results don't last. I'd say, intermittent fasting in combination with healthy keto is a better strategy than a longer fast for people with ME. But it can certainly be used as a strategy for healing when you need some quick results and the body allows for it.

@Chris-kr7gg

2 ай бұрын

That can be very DANGEROUS to fast for 5 days with no water.

@forisma

2 ай бұрын

@@Chris-kr7gg it's less dangerous than you think, but at least the first time you do need guidance.

@Chris-kr7gg

2 ай бұрын

@@forisma It's not! I study fasting! It would vary and depend on a multitude of things in relation to your bodies hydration needs. 5 days is definitely something that can be accomplished and may have benefits. Anymore prolonged then that I would skeptical as the brain and body especially the brain needs water to function. Prolonged dehydration over substantial periods can cause brain shrinkage and cognitive issues.

Your dog is so adorable.

Btw Ayurveda explains body and differences between them. Don't know how accurate it is but it certainly explains why some people might do better with fasting and some not that much. Clearly differences between your husband's composition and yours. I think the western approach of protocols that should be applied to all (say multiple day fast to achieve X), is not optimal.

that guy looks sooo familiar! whats his youtube channel??

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

Which guy? My husband? If so - no youtube channel 😊

I've tried various fasts and keto since 3 yrs of now severe me/cfs. Crashed me into PEM every time. Zero benefit for me.

This doesn’t work if you have a very laborious job.

@RaelanAgle

2 ай бұрын

I would imagine that it would not. Fair point 😊

whoops! after the 36 hours you will feel great....no food also means no lotions or oils on your skin as your lymph system absorbs it and then puts your liver to work instead of rest.

Never trust a fart while fasting, don't ask me how I know😂😂!

If you have low blood pressure and/or orthostatic hypotension this is probably not for you ...this is why i cant fast ..i have lots of muslim friends fasting now for Ramadan.

Raelan you were at a disadvantage as you have to train with fasting.