This sounds incredibly dangerous
I know it's both a cliché and something that westerners often have forgotten how to do, but you can actually listen to your body and know minute by minute if you're in danger or not. For dry fasting, you are told that if you start getting persistent high heart rate you should stop.
Now what you should find intriguing is why would anyone put themselves through this? Well, it has immense and unique health benefits, that's why. It's been studied, although less than water fasting for obvious reasons. Even water fasters think we're crazy, so I understand.
> you can actually listen to your body and know minute by minute if you're in danger or not
Friend, this is all hocus pocus bogus from a crackpot doctor. Other sources even say dry fasting is rarely done today (because it's hocus pocus), even if it was once popular in the Soviet Union.
You will also notice how this crackpot doctor charges $2,200 for a supervised 2 day dry fast - not 10!
Please don't go 10 days without liquid intake - especially when you are without medial supervision for crying out loud. You cannot monitor yourself properly under these extreme conditions. Even if you survive 10 days without any liquid intake, you may (and probably will) cause irreversible damage to your body and organs.
I don't care about the doctor at all, I only wanted to link to the retreat to people are doing it and paying for it.
I'm not advocating anybody do it either, and since it's so difficult, even though it's less than it appears, I don't see anyone jumping in blindly into this.
Humans are almost uniquely adapted to starvation. Dry fasting is simply a boosted form of water fasting, which is almost mainstream. There's no particular danger to a person in reasonable health. I am so I could do it by myself.
While the placebo effect can be a powerful mental illusion, it will not prevent damage to your organs (or death) during this 10 day dry fast. Please don't ever do this.
[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/the-power-...
> Russian physicians have successfully treated many illnesses and diseases outside
> the standardized support of allopathic medicines, as well as more common
> ailments including, but not limited to, mental disorders, bronchial asthma,
> rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, obesity and diabetes.
I guess the Gulag does cure everything...
(though to be fair, the part of the diseases mentioned that are due to metabolic disease - read: obesity - can be treated early in their course by just losing weight - diabetes and hypertension due to obesity will go away once you drop the weight. Just, you know, drink water if you're fasting. Or join the Darwin Awards, whatever).
Fasting is an ancient practice, perhaps the most ancient medical practice.