Dry Fasting

Articles on dry fasting.

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Your Peptide Allergy Might Actually Be Benzyl Alcohol

Benzyl alcohol was just named the 2026 Allergen of the Year. It is also the preservative in the bacteriostatic water you mix your peptides with, and the solvent in most injectable testosterone and steroids, so you inject a dose of it every time. Here is why a 'peptide allergy' is so often really a benzyl alcohol reaction, and the dry-fasting experiment I am running to try to reset it.

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Dry Fasting, Autophagy, and Regeneration: The Real Mechanism

Dry fasting is not just water fasting with the water taken away. Removing water flips on a second, deeper autophagy pathway through hyperosmotic stress, one that water fasting cannot reach. Here is the mechanism, the immune and viral numbers behind it, the stem-cell regeneration that follows, and the honest safety picture.