3 days. No food. Less than 10 minutes of screen time per day.
A protocol that resets both your nervous system and your relationship with your phone.
72 hours without food forces your body into a deep repair state. Autophagy accelerates. Insulin sensitivity improves. Your brain clears metabolic waste it normally can't.
When you stop receiving constant dopamine hits from your phone, your baseline for stimulation resets. After 3 days, simple things — a walk, a meal, a conversation — feel vivid again.
Most wellness programs focus on one thing. Restart targets both — your biology and your behavior. Together they're more powerful than either alone. Fasting makes you less attached to screens. Screens make fasting easier.
Adaptation
Deep Rest
Reboot
Restart is a structured protocol — not a spa treatment. You will feel uncomfortable. That's the mechanism.
Prolonged fasting (48-72 hours) triggers autophagy — cellular cleanup of damaged proteins and organelles. Fasting-mimicking diets achieve this at scale with measurable reductions in inflammatory markers.
Dopamine baseline is a wave pool, not a fixed level. High peaks (social media, junk food, gambling) deplete your capacity for sustained motivation. Reducing peaks raises your floor. 3 days of behavioral withdrawal measurably increases baseline dopamine tone.
The original dopamine fasting protocol (CBT-based) was designed for behavioral regulation — not reducing a neurotransmitter. It's effective when it combines structured deprivation with intentional replacement activities.
Screen exposure suppresses melatonin production and disrupts the brain's natural cleaning cycle (glymphatic system). Reducing screen time to near-zero during a fast accelerates the brain's overnight repair processes by an estimated 30-40%.
Restart does not claim to
We built Restart because we watched smart, capable people get slowly destroyed by the combination of constant notifications and non-stop eating. Not dramatically. Gradually. The kind where you don't notice until you can't focus anymore. There are fasting programs. There are digital detox apps. Nobody was treating both as one protocol. Restart is the combination. Three days, once a quarter, where you give your body and brain the space they need to come back stronger. Most people never do it because there's no structure. No accountability. No clear instructions. We're building that structure.
"The last thing you need is another app. What you need is three days where nothing is demanding your attention. Where you remember what it's like to be in your own head."