Types of Fasting

Intermittent Fasting:
Usually refers to not fasting more than 24 hours, there are different types:
23/1: Fasting 23 hours, eating one hour
20/4: Fasting 20 hours, eating during 4 hours
16/8: Fasting 16 hours, eating during 8 hours

These can go on for however long you'd like.

Fruit Fasting:
Consuming fruit only diet for 16 hours or more. It can be done with one fruit as well, such as an Apple Fast, which is more beneficial.

Juice Fasting:
Using a blender and putting fruits to produce juices for fasting. These fasts can go up to easily 20+ days without too much downsides. Usually recommended before one decides to go on a full water fast

Water Fasting:
Only consuming water for 16 hours or more. For beginners should only be 16-24 hours, you can gradually build up to 21 days or more. Going for longer than 3 days is risky and one has to monitor his/her own health and break the fast if they do not feel well. Many well known people like Ghandi have fasted up to 21 days.

Dry Fasting:
This is the strongest and most effective of all the types of fasting. But this is also the most dangerous type of fasting. This type of fasting should be done with extreme caution and should not be done if you have not done multiple full water fasts before.

Dry fasting is said to be 3 times more effective than a pure water fast. There are two types, hard and soft. Hard dry fasting is no water in contact at all, that includes taking showers or washing your hands. Soft dry fasting is no water swallowed, but showering and washing hands is allowed. Most of the diseases of our body has to deal with inflammation. Dry fasting eliminates inflammation the same way a swamp gets rid of mosquitoes and other insects when it dries up. Microbes are annihilated immediately. The shortage of water is a cleansing drought that is disastrous to the body’s enemies. It is pernicious for pathological bacteria.