Fasting and autophagy — what is it about?

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3 min readNov 27, 2019

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⚠️ Today we’ll talk about what is fasting, autophagy is and what it is for. To begin with, more and more people are interested in their health and practice fasting and ketosis to improve their quality of life, for example, twitter CEO James Dorsey, famous actor Hugh Jackman and the former UFC welterweight champion George St-Pierre.🥋 Also our enginners team has practised intermittent fasting and has noticed that it incrased their memory and cognitive abilities. 🧠📈

Intermittent fasting is a powerful nutritional tool 🔧 that allows you to burn fat more efficiently and be much healthier. During fasting, inflammatory processes are decreased, your cells start the process of self-regeneration (autophagy), growth hormone is produced, due to which fat burning is incredibly increased, as well as testosterone in men and cell rejuvenation. 💥💥

The most important thing is that intemitted fasting as a tool allows you to get rid of the symptoms of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), stabilizes your performance. ⚡️⚡️

Autophagy or autophagocytosis in fancy science language translates from the Ancient Greek word autóphagos which means self-digestion or ‘eating of self’.

Autophagy is a metabolic process during which cells disassemble and remove their dysfunctional components. You’re basically recycling cellular debris and taking out the trash. 🦠

On the 3rd of October, 2016, a Japanese researcher Yoshinori Ohsumi was rewarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries of the mechanisms for autophagy.” His research is done in simple organisms like baker’s yeast but the autophagy-related pathways have been found to be similar to autophagy in mammals as well.

🔥 Initially, it was thought that autophagy was a hormonal response to starvation but recent research has shown autophagy to have many other roles in biology and the easiest way to promote autophagy is to fast and consume no calories for a several time. 🔥

There are many benefits to autophagy:

📉 Reduction in inflammation
🤒 Improved immune system
🧬 Prevention of genotoxic stress
👨‍🦳 Anti-Aging and longevity boosting effects
📛 Suppression of cancerous and tumor cells
👾 Elimination of infectious pathogens and toxins
🐭 Inability to cause autophagy makes rats fatter, less active, have higher cholesterol and impaired brain function
⚔️ Compromised autophagy pathways will lower the body’s ability to eliminate and heal the organism from inflammation, accumulation of toxins, and parasitic infections.

Thank you for reading. Follow the next posts to learn more 🧠 Platinum Q DAO Engineering wishes you have a good day!

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