No, not this time. I have done 3 water fasts of 20 days and many shorter, but it depletes your electrolytes so you have to take salts with it, and it still reduces your nutrients.
But the biggest difference between water and dry, is that dry fasting mobilises millions of stem cells for 100s of different types of tissues including undifferentiated ones, to replace the shitty cells you just killed. So your whole body rejuvenates with younger cells, that have longer telomere lengths and less DNA methylation, so they work better and the diseased cells get to go away.
I think, that should include your uterine cells that are in the wrong places.
So for me, this was a 9 day “soft dry fast”. In this case, the body breaks down fat and other weak cells, including tumor cells and loose skin, and scars (yup, my scars I’ve had for decades are disappearing) and uses them for food. A far cell is 1/3 energy and 2/3 water, plus nutrients, so the body destroys them to get at that water, energy and nutrients.
Ergo you can’t do this if you don’t carry at least 10 to 20 lb of extra fat to use, like a camel really, for food. People who are thin with chronic disease will build up fat stores specially to do this, and “pulse” or repeat until the healing is done, also called “fractional fasting”.
In the Dr Filonov work he calls it “Healing Abstinence” and he breaks the really intense long 30 day fasts into 3 x 11 day fasts with a refeed break in between. He says people’s diets today are so depleted almost no-one can handle 30 to 60 days in one go (makes sense to me, he SAD diet is practically designed to kill you slowly). I myself would have concerns about maintaining at least a bit of the good bacteria in the microbiome. But you can split this up any way that works. The rule of fractional fasting is you stop if you feel unwell or your heartbeat gets over 120 per minute, you don’t force yourself to keep arbitrary numbers you listen to your body and work with it. Refeed with high nutrition clean food, and then start again when you’re ready.
This lady puts it quite well with a very balanced view
But me being “Mrs Edgelady in Extensis”
I tend to push the boat out and I’m currently on day 12 of my 11 day fast and just decided to keep going as I feel fine. I’m super curious to see if I can heal my damaged thyroid, and in the literature you start hitting the really deep seated chronic issues at 15 to 18 days. I like to self experiment though so I’m not advocating what I do.
I found some great Q&A with Folinov here.
And the August Dunning guy I mentioned is also a self experimenter who does a 7 day once a year and records his experiences on his yt channel, here he talks about hormetic stress and stem cells: