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How long can you go without food and water?

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The Stages of Diarrhoea

There's different stages, and there's different symptoms for the stages of starvation. At first, you can identify with these like weakness, confusion, a chronic diarrhoea. You're convulsing, right? You can have muscle spasms, irregular heart beat, hallucinations,. Then ultimately, you can die of shock, correct? Right? Well, your organs will just start shutting down, basically, one by one. And so without it, you're literally just going to start breaking down bit by bito.

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