Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
I still can't believe it, but I lived in Siberia with no food for a whole week. In this video, I want to explore the effects of medical fasting, get doctor's opinion on the indications, contraindications, benefits and dangers of such treatment, and to see how my 185 hour fast will affect myself.
In this experiment I step into the unknown — both physically and mentally. I became interested in the idea after reading a book on fasting by the Soviet author Sergei Filonov. Filonov describes fasting as a powerful natural mechanism of self-healing. According to him, when the body is deprived of food, it switches from external to internal nutrition, meaning it begins to break down and use damaged and pathological tissues as an energy source, while old immune cells are replaced by newer, stronger ones. In Filonov’s model, fasting is a controlled biological stress that pushes the organism into its deepest repair mode, so I decided to give it a try.
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Time codes :
00:00 I'm going to a fasting center in Siberia!
01:12 Day one in the sanatorium and meeting other people!
05:14 Liver cleansing day
06:09 Why I came here?
08:08 Our doctor about fasting, dangers, benefits
10:47 Cold plunge day
11:53 One week of fasting: how are we feeling?
13:59 Hello, borsht!
I still can't believe it, but I lived in Siberia with no food for a whole week. In this video, I want to explore the effects of medical fasting, get doctor's opinion on the indications, contraindications, benefits and dangers of such treatment, and to see how my 185 hour fast will affect myself.
In this experiment I step into the unknown — both physically and mentally. I became interested in the idea after reading a book on fasting by the Soviet author Sergei Filonov. Filonov describes fasting as a powerful natural mechanism of self-healing. According to him, when the body is deprived of food, it switches from external to internal nutrition, meaning it begins to break down and use damaged and pathological tissues as an energy source, while old immune cells are replaced by newer, stronger ones. In Filonov’s model, fasting is a controlled biological stress that pushes the organism into its deepest repair mode, so I decided to give it a try.
🔸What can you find on my channel?
👉🏻life in different republics and regions of Russia
👉🏻discovering ethnic groups of Russia
👉🏻Russian culture explained! (facts that you won't find on google) youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeQTCVW4juG8wDADr0OqmPLnv1mfnoYkr
👉🏻off-the-beaten-path places and raw adventures in Russia, ex-Soviet countries & elsewhere
📍 More videos:
youtu.be/BpZHXmrfjLg - Life in Russia's COLDEST CITY - Yakutsk | Yakut habits, heatwave(-35 C°)
youtu.be/CeruGwpa6bA - Inside Siberia's Secret Mountain Range that Russia Kept Off Maps
youtu.be/A-RCnv5jhTY - Solo Across Siberia's Most Dangerous Frozen Lake : Baikal
___
📌https://elibakunova.su/ - more about my projects & partnerships
✉️ travel.elina07@gmail.com - email for partnerships
🤍 patreon.com/elifromrussia - you can find more content, get early access to my videos and support my channel through Patreon
📸instagram.com/elibakunova?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= - more content about Russia, traveling, and my daily life
___
Time codes :
00:00 I'm going to a fasting center in Siberia!
01:12 Day one in the sanatorium and meeting other people!
05:14 Liver cleansing day
06:09 Why I came here?
08:08 Our doctor about fasting, dangers, benefits
10:47 Cold plunge day
11:53 One week of fasting: how are we feeling?
13:59 Hello, borsht!
