Member-only story
What Is The Snake Diet and Is It Healthy?
What is the Snake Diet and is it Healthy?
Many individuals who desire fast weight loss may be tempted to take on the Snake Diet.
This fad diet encourages lengthy fasting interrupted by a single meal. It also promises immediate and drastic results.
This article delves into all you need to know about the Snake Diet, including how safe and effective it is.
What is the Snake Diet?
The Snake Diet pushes itself as a lifestyle that promotes prolonged fasting rather than a restrictive diet. It argues that historically, people have survived periods of severe food shortage so the human body can keep up with a single meal a few times a week.
This diet was invented by Cole Robinson, who had no medical qualifications but touted himself as a fasting coach. It entails an initial 48-hour fast (or extended for as long as possible) supplemented with Snake juice, an electrolyte beverage. What follows is a feeding window of 1–2 hours before starting the next fast.
Robinson claims that when you achieve your goal weight, you can alternate the fasts, living on one meal every 24–48 hours. However, none of these claims has any scientific backing.
How to Follow the Snake Diet
On the surface, the Snake Diet may be similar to intermittent fasting. But it’s extreme because it resets the standard meal pattern (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) as supplementary food.
Robison lacks consistency with the diet rules on his website as he continuously revises them on his YouTube channel. What’s more, the diet depends heavily on Snake Juice, which you can only purchase on his website or make at home. The ingredients are:
- 2 liters (8 cups) of water
- 1/2 tsp. (2 g) of food-grade Epsom salts
- 1 tsp. (5 g) of salt-free potassium chloride
- 1/2 tsp (2 g) of Himalayan pink salt
There’s no specific dosage guidelines for the homemade version. However, you’re restricted to three powdered electrolyte mix packers daily for the commercial product.
