Day 5 urine fast/Question about a series of fasts

Hello, uropathers - reporting in on Day 5 of my urine fast. It is going quite well, with no real happenings or detox or even irritation yet. However, finally last night I had quite a bit of fasting insomnia, after three nights of sound sleep (which I never have when not fasting). And it has become essential for me to get up to my feet slowly when standing. Going up and down rickety stairs has become a challenge now.

I have recently, since yesterday, become sensitive to playing music or videos and even to reading. I would rather just lie and rest when I am not doing chores.

However, the day before that I finished a book I recommend to all who are embarking on a long fast - it is called _Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting_. I really recommend it. Embarking on a long fast is like single-handing into the Pacific Ocean, and I don't know about you but my craft is as leaky and dysfunctional as Willis's were. Check it out - I think you'll be inspired, enthralled, and amused! Perfect fasting reading.

It is so much easier than water fasting.

I have a great deal of chronic degenerative infections, very virulent, and other disorders of the endocrine, respiratory, digestive, nervous systems (etc.!) resulting from this and have always thought that a long fast of several months all at once would have to be what I did.

However, I am beginning to think that because of my very low reserves especially in minerals (the infectious organisms like to eat up one's B12, calcium, magnesium, CoQ10, and so forth, leaving one with zero levels), perhaps I can compromise and do instead a series of shorter urine fasts, two to three weeks broken by a couple of days of eating - and do that for most of the rest of the year, or until there are some real signs that my immune system at least is functioning on its own - or that my digestive system can eat with less constant pain and trouble and allergy than has been the case for most of my life.

I feel a little bit unsure that such a series of, say, three 20-day fasts rather than one 90-day fast would be effectve, but hopefully it will do _something_ - and since I can't eat without a plethora of "agonal" syptoms, it seems like my only option (my only aternative to not eating at all for that whole time - I cannot even take juice or grass juice or algae or spring water or seaweed water!).

Does anyone have any theories or information about whether a series of shorter fasts carried out for several months would be "OK", would still get something "done" in the way of boosting the immune system, strengthening adrenals or thyroid, helping with food allergies and nervous system repair, and so on? It might even be more effective (that'd be nice).

This first leg of the relay is only to be at most 11 days. A boating holiday of a few days fell into my lap for next week, and I'd like to try to take advantage of it, so I will stop this first fast just before that, and hopefully be able to get into the next fast on my return, and not have started an uncontrollable eating jag by breaking the fast during the trip. Although ideally I would have hoped to make the first fast in the series rather longer, as it turns out 11 days is certainly a gentle way of getting my feet wet and perhaps (I hope) of getting a sense of what to expect both in terms of efficacy and in terms of what the experience day to day will tend to be like. (I have urine fasted before for two weeks.)

It's never happened to me with Water Fasts or juice fasts, but it seems to me when I urine fast that the benefits don't become apparent until after you break the fast! But this is only to speak of cosmetic benefits, as I have never had other kinds from the urine fasting I have done to date.

I feel better about the idea of doing the long "voyage" in easier short stages because of reading _Seaworthy_: if you get a hold of a used copy or library copy you'll see what I mean. It makes it OK in the book to stop off at an island, fly home for some repairs and such, and then fly back to one's raft to continue on into the open ocean - you don't have to do it all at once or be a failure. Refreshing idea - and quite encouraging at this point, in contrast to reading books of hardy adventure about climbing Everest or the Eiger, where you spend the whole time on the mountain and can't go home for a warm dry bed for a bit before pushing on and out again.