Recent Content by Benjamin Richardson

Are you also supplementing potassium and magnesium? One of my 'mods' for further cycles of FMD, following my first, is to supplement with salt, potassium and magnesium with the hope that this will reduce the headache symptoms I experienced on my first cycle. I also slept *longer* than my...

If you ask me to, I will go and dig out the papers I have seen which back this up, but initially I mention the *risks* of water-fasting as described by the FMD researchers as part of their rationale as including hypoglycemia, hypotension, gall stones and muscle wastage. The biggest *risk*...

Most of Day 3 was absolutely horrible for me in my first FMD cycle. I felt lethargic, had a headache and brain fog, was hungry and daydreamed about food. However I felt enormously better on Days 4 and 5. I also observed that my post-awakening blood glucose was lower and ketones higher on the AM...

Wow, I had no idea there was such a rich interest and discussion group for Fasting Mimicking Diet here in the UK. I do not have diabetes nor am I pre-diabetic but I am very interested in both understanding my blood glucose reaction to foods eaten, improving my insulin sensitivity and longevity...