Re: Narrow Pulse Pressure on a Dry Fast

Hi, hghbuzz! Nice to be talking with someone who is roughly a peer in these things. I found your chart of your own 4-day dry fast to be immensely helpful and interesting. It would seem that you started out with a wide margin and yet it got narrower by the end of your fast, the fourth day. On the fourth day, it did get to around the same percentage of the systolic as mine does, though sometimes I get as low as about 20% If I remember correctly, I think at one point you got that narrow and then "recovered" naturally - somewhat the way one's heart rate can get high on a water fast and then "correct itself" by itself if one waits - and that happens to me as well.<br><br>You didn't note how _much_ you urinated, but it sounds as though you passed more than the 6-8 oz I tend to on days 2 and 3, and later than that I still don't eke out more than 12 oz. I was told by a doctor who knew nothing about dry fasting that as long as you are passing 16 oz a day or more, you are safely not dehydrated, but I have been using my judgement to continue to fast through these days when I don't even void half that, since otherwise I have been feeling very much still "alive", better than I do when I ingest anything. But, for whatever reason, my pioneer-spirit courage is not extending to my feeling psychologically comfortable with fasting through a narrow pulse pressure reading, especially one that persists for, say, four hours or more.<br><br> I can't give you links to such scare-information, but all you have to do is do a websearch for "narrow pulkse pressure"! Or "what does a narrow pulse pressure mean?" Or "narrow pulse pressure" "dehydration" - if you do that, you'll get the hits about narrow pulse pressure and shock, heart failure, etc.