Autophagy: Mind Blowing Benefits
Auto means ‘Self’ Phagy means ‘Eating’ therefore, autophagy literally means self eating which might seem to be not a very good idea ! But Autophagy is a phenomenal process which has some very profound and potent effects on our overall health.
It all starts from our ancestors. Modern life has changed dramatically in the last say 60 years or at the most 100 years. Before that for thousands of years man has survived without refrigerators, without refined sugar, without the constant availability of food everywhere. Like other animals, man had to search for food before he could eat. And it was not that food was easy to come by before the start of agriculture. Like other animals, man also had to forage for food and had to go considerable periods without eating.
But that does not mean if you do not eat you are going to die or that your energy levels will go down. How can you search and run and hunt if your energy levels are low. So to understand it further, all our previous generations lived with ‘Feasting and Fasting’ and although Feasting very well remains, the Fasting part has all but become non-existent in modern living. And that is where the real problem starts.
Fasting has some very well established and evidence based advantages. And prolonged fasting is when the process of autophagy starts. It is when the body starts to upregulate the cleanup processes. If food keeps coming in, the body has to focus on other more important processes like digestion, absorption, elimination of toxins etc. The cleanup process takes a back seat.
When the fasting period crosses 24 hours, 36, 48, 72 or even a week, is when the body enters into autophagy where the damaged proteins are recycled, ketones are produced and the damaged cells are excreted. It has such a profound effect that it has the power to completely eradicate Cancer from the body.
To understand, we must know how Cancer affects us. Cancer loves sugar and it soaks up Glucose making it unavailable to other cells. In effect therefore, the good cells start dying due to lack of energy and Cancer starts spreading at a phenomenal rate. If you will stop feeding cancer its preferred fuel (sugar) then cancer cells will start to die.
Cancer or not, make it a habit to throw in a period of prolonged fasting even 48 hours let us say every 3 months or 72 hours twice a year where you live on only water to let your body recover and renew itself. Give it a go and your body will thank you !
Vibhuti Misra
Holistic Health Specialist
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