Water fast before Ketosis cycling?

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Water fast before Ketosis cycling? - Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:58 PM ( #1 )
Look at what this guy says on some website
 
"The only safe way to put your body in a state of Ketosis is to do a water fast. During the first couple of days of a water fast, your body goes into starvation mode. That is, due to the lack of fat, protein, and especially carbs coming in, you're body resorts to breaking down fats, protein, and glycogen stores (lean muscle) for fuel . The brain can't use glycogen as fuel and your body can't afford to lose muscle mass so it triggers the liver to start producing Ketones usually by the end of the second day. At this point, you go into a protein or muscle sparing mode because you're body and brain's main source of fuel is now the ketones produced by the liver. This is the safe way because by creating ketones your body preserves lean muscle mass. If done otherwise, ie. Atkin's diet or anything else, the body uses the fats and proteins and sugars that are ingested along with glycogen stores as fuel and never starts producing ketones. This means that you are constantly keeping your body in a state of starvation and losing lean muscle mass and energy at a very rapid pace, hence the rapid weight loss. Not only that, but cholestorol levels start going through the roof. I did a 7 day supervised water fast for purification reasons and ended up losing 17 lbs. I was analyzed before and afterwards and found that of my 17 lbs. lost only 3% was muscle and 5% was water. That means I lost 15.64 lbs of pure fat without any adverse effects."
 
True or not? I just found this on some forum where they were talking about ckd vs tkd.
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Re:Water fast before Ketosis cycling? - Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:19 PM ( #2 )
I disagree with it, but that's just opinion only, the guy to really ask this to is danmirage. Go over to his section and ask him, he'll give you a 100% accurate answer.
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