{"id":357,"date":"2024-07-08T06:54:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T19:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/2024\/?p=357"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:25:47","slug":"2-4-optional-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/2-4-optional-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2.4 Optional follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-5 items-center title-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/2-4-optional-follow-up\/\"><h1 class=\"text-center text-5xl text-blue-title font-semibold\">\n        2.4 Optional follow-up      <\/h1><\/a>\n\n          <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"border-t h-px border-default-border w-full\"><br><\/div><p><br><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<\/p>\n<p><br>When the elements reported by your Oligoscan are optimal, a 3+ day \u201cwater fast\u201d may provide additional benefits. This is <strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> advisable with severe mineral deficiencies.<\/p>\n\n<p>If this is your first water fast, it is generally advisable to have someone monitoring you during this time. Avoid driving vehicles, stress and excessive exertion.<\/p>\n\n<p>Fasting protocol requirements (per day):<br><br><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>No food or other supplements<\/li>\n\n<li>3L water<\/li>\n\n<li>5g (teaspoon) of sodium chloride (5g table salt contains 2.5g elemental sodium)<\/li>\n\n<li>3g NAC (mucolytic, oxidative stress)<\/li>\n\n<li>1000mg magnesium oxide (will induce diarrhoea)<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Optional add-ons:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>EGCG 500mg, 3\u00d7 per day<\/li>\n\n<li>Resveratrol 120mg, 3\u00d7 per day<\/li>\n\n<li>Hesperidin 500mg, 2\u00d7 per day<br><\/li>\n\n<li>\u201cUpper GI biofilm flush, bind and purge recipe\u201d (see: &#8220;<a class=\"wpdt-link-content\" href=\"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/2-2-3-living-without-chronic-dysbiosis\/#biofilm-breakers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_self\" data-cell-id=\"220\" data-link-url=\"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/2-2-3-living-without-chronic-dysbiosis\/#biofilm-breaker\" data-link-text=\"-- Biofilm breakers\" data-link-target=\"0\" data-link-nofollow=\"0\" data-link-noreferrer=\"0\" data-link-sponsored=\"0\" data-link-btn-status=\"0\" data-link-btn-class=\"\" data-link-content=\"wpdt-link-content\">2.2.3 &#8212; Biofilm breakers<\/a>&#8220;), the night before starting day&nbsp;1 only.<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong><em>Important safety consideration:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>To break a water fast \u201cearly\u201d, use two or more apple cider vinegar doses \u2013 without capsules \u2013 as a succinate source. This is only a requirement if EGCG has been dosed in the previous 6&nbsp;hours and ketogenesis is poor. Failure to observe this safety consideration may result in rapid cyclical blackouts and convulsions until the EGCG is fully metabolised or until someone else administers apple cider vinegar. This could easily be fatal, for example if operating a motor vehicle. <strong><em>You have been warned.<br><br><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n{&#8220;title&#8221;:&#8221;&#8221;,&#8221;nav_menu&#8221;:&#8221;73&#8243;}\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornfree.life\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}