5 articles on Protocol Explainers.
If doctors have run out of ideas and told you to just live with your chronic illness, you were not imagining it. Here is why the system stops here, what it is actually missing, and the different map that starts with what you can measure yourself.
Refeeding syndrome is the serious electrolyte and metabolic complication that can occur when food is reintroduced after extended fasting. For most extended dry fasters, the refeed window is the most dangerous part of the fast, not the fast itself. This article covers what refeeding syndrome is, who is at risk, and how the Scorch Protocol's refeed protocol prevents it.
The Scorch Protocol is not one-size-fits-all. The right entry point depends on your specific clinical profile: basal body temperature, illness duration, symptom severity, and which other conditions are layered on top. This decision tree walks through the protocol entry options and the signals that point to each.
The single most common sequencing question in the Scorch Protocol is whether to start with dry fasting (the standard sequence) or T3 therapy first (the modified sequence for severely depleted patients). The answer depends almost entirely on a single variable: basal body temperature. This article covers the threshold and the reasoning.
Long-term carnivore and zero-carb dieting is a common contributing factor in chronic illness onset and a substantial obstacle to recovery. The metabolic transition back to high-carb intake is uncomfortable, frequently produces frightening liver pain that scares patients into reversing the transition, and is what the Scorch Protocol's rebuild phase requires. This article covers the transition.