Should you Avoid MultiVitamins When Fasting?

[SQAAD]

I am on a 14 day fast now (Day 6 at the moment) and seeing great results overall. I've watched this video and this doctor is saying that you should avoid medicines and supplements while fasting . He didn't elaborate on the supplements explaining enough though. All he said is that they might cause complications to some people.

Now my question is this: Is it ok to take a multivitamin while am i on my fast? If No please explain me the logic behind. Just so you know , i took some fish oil with 2 tabs of vitamins (While fasting)  yesterday and i felt kinda 'werid'. After few hours my heart was kinda racing to 104 beats per minute. Now it is stabilized. Anyways now i am not taking any supplements because of this 'weird' experience yesterday. I don't know if the supplements caused this or maybe it was the overall stress of the fast.

All i am drinking now besides water is some coffee(sometimes with lil bit of sugar) and some salt.

Edited March 20, 2021 by SQAAD

[Leo Gura]

You should not because:

A) The whole point of a fast is to rest your digestive system as much as possible.

B) Vitamins taken on an empty stomach can lead to some nasty nausea.

You can survive just fine a few weeks without vitamins.

[SQAAD]

@Leo Gura

5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

 

You can survival just fine a few weeks without vitamins.

Thank you! That was my Biggest Concern. That i may be causing too much damage without enough vitamins in my system.... On the other hand i am telling myself its just 2 weeks. 

What surprised me about fasting is The detoxification Part which is very very real. My breath used to smell   like never before while fasting and now it doesn't smell  the same way at all. Probably because i got rid of many toxins in my body.

Edited March 20, 2021 by SQAAD

[aurum]

6 minutes ago, SQAAD said:

After few hours my heart was kinda racing to 104 beats per minute. Now it is stabilized.

I doubt it's because of the multivitamins.

I've had the same thing happen to me when I've done extensive fasting. Supposedly, your blood pressure is low on a fast and so your heart has to work a lot harder.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/fasting-how-does-it-affect-your-heart-and-blood-pressure/

Do some googling and you'll find other people who have had the same thing.

[SQAAD]

@aurum Thank you!

[flowboy]

Vitamins are food, they have to be digested. So it breaks your fast.

You should also not drink coffee.

 

[The0Self]

No vitamins; minerals. No nothing. Especially fish oil. Unless it's significantly more than a week or 2, but in that case you'd have bigger problems -- protein will be a necessity; collagen and muscle tissue will break down (even worse for your health than you'd expect). And the multi didn't cause the heart rate issue. Fish oil does that if taken on empty stomach -- by more than one mechanism, no less... one of them being: converts to prostaglandins and decreases progesterone and thyroid activity, causing your CNS and adrenals to make up for it by increasing brain norepinephrine and adrenal epinephrine release, which is why I'd take a guess you were also likely experiencing cold hands during this episode you describe.

Only reason to supplement a fast is if it's for fat loss, in which case pure fasting would be a terrible idea when compared with a PSMF -- protein-sparing modified-fast, in which you consume nothing other than virtually-purely protein-containing foods such as egg whites, chicken breast, whey protein, etc... to get <1000 calories a day composed almost entirely of protein (100-250g).

Edited March 20, 2021 by The0Self