Electrolyte ratios in our Fasting Salts supplement reflect the recommendations of leading experts on fasting, as well as best practices developed by online fasting communities.

The commonly recommended daily quantities for extended fasting fall within the following ranges:

Sodium: 5000-7000mg
Potassium: 1000-3500mg
Magnesium: 300-500mg

We wanted to design a product without any fillers, bulkers or other junk. The only way to do that was to use Sodium as a base. We also had to stay well within the safe upper limits for supplementation.

We came up with the following formulation:

Sodium: 5135mg
Potassium: 2500mg
Magnesium: 300mg

These quantities fit all the recommendations regarding electrolyte supplementation for fasting, as well as safety regulations – plus enables us to achieve our aim of a filler-free powder.

Our fasting electrolytes are completely free from flavourings and additives. The only ingredients are pure electrolyte salts.

And that’s exactly what it tastes like – just like any other salt dissolved in water!

We recommend starting with 1 scoop of powder per 500ml of water. If that’s too salty for you, increase the amount of water – that will not affect the efficacy of the powder.

If you find the taste too unpleasant, try our Fasting Salts capsules.

Our Fasting Salts are available as either pure powder or capsules.

Fasting Salts Powder format provides the best value for money and the purest possible form of electrolytes - literally just the big three fasting electrolytes (sodium, potassium, magnesium) and nothing else. However, it does taste salty which not everyone can tolerate.

Fasting Salts Capsules (Original or Advanced) are slightly more expensive that the powder. They are also free from any bulkers or fillers that may interfere with your autophagy, but they include small amounts of calcium carbonate and magnesium stearate (both of these are also mineral salts) - acting as flow agents to enable encapsulation, plus of course the HMPC capsule. This format is more convenient to take and you don't have to worry about the salty taste.

Both products do their job of supporting healthy electrolyte balance throughout your fast, without affecting your autophagy or breaking your fast. The key difference is which format you personally find more convenient and suitable for your lifestyle.

Why don’t you use pink Himalayan salt in your fasting supplements?

We considered using pink Himalayan salt and decided against it for three reasons:

1. The average levels of potassium and magnesium in pink salt are not high enough to support long-term extended fasts
2. There is a great deal of variance in mineral levels between samples – up to 40x times
3. There is a possibility of small traces of naturally-occurring heavy metals that may be harmful in large concentrations

Please check out this article on our blog for more information and studies: Why we don’t use pink Himalayan salt in our fasting supplements

4 scoops is the maximum daily dosage for this fasting supplement.

You may need all four, or you may only need one of two.

We are all different and there are other factors at play. For example, the duration of your fast, how much electrolytes you got stored in your body, whether your drinking water contains electrolytes and so forth.

If you are fasting for the first time, start with 1-2 scoops per day. If you still get the symptoms of electrolyte deficiency, take another one. Listen to your body and find the level that’s right for you individually.

Use our Fasting Electrolytes Dosage calculator to figure out the dosage that's optimal for you individually

There should be a 5ml scoop included within each pouch. Sometimes it might get lost in the powder. Please fish around in the pouch and you should find it.

In the unlikely event that your scoop is missing, you can use a standard teaspoon instead.

One 5ml scoop of the powder = One level teaspoon.

Nutritional Reference Values (NRVs) – and Daily Values (DVs) in the USA – were developed based on a “standard” Western diet. They are extremely generic even for that purpose, implying that “one size fits all” nutritionally which is never the case.

When applied to alternative ways of eating like Keto and fasting, these guidelines are completely off.

For example, many vitamins and minerals are used for digesting and metabolising macronutrients – not required when you fast.

It’s a legal requirement to include NRV information on supplement labels. But they are not really meaningful when applied to fasting or Keto.