Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist, got the 2016 Nobel Prize for figuring out autophagy.

[MBAnderson]

Exercise, fasting, and sleep = autophagy (we are in control of 2 of the 3)

Intermittent fasting -- 16 hours is the sweet spot.

Two of the better videos I've seen.

6 min video; informative graph.

youtube.com/watch?v=MxrNxxd...(Not working as expected?)

why and how it is stimulated by fasting; cellular level video 9:30 mins

youtube.com/watch?v=gl8k2nc...(Not working as expected?)

[Farooqji]

Excellent post. thanks for sharing

[MBAnderson in reply to Farooqji]

I looked up this guy from reading your post.

[moparkie715]

Very informative, thanks for sharing

[LAJ12345]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this.

[MBAnderson]

An important point I should've mentioned above is that animal protein interferes with autophagy.

[dadcor in reply to MBAnderson]

I am really curious if it is only the "animal" protein that interferes...

[MBAnderson in reply to dadcor]

What are you thinking?

[dadcor in reply to MBAnderson]

No proofs, just concerns…, and another question, in case you apply intermittent fasting together with keto diet, you actually kill your autophagy due to the meat you intake .. but at the same time many PD sufferers feel better from this combo.. Just smth to think about..??

[LAJ12345 in reply to dadcor]

I think they feel better as they don’t have so much glucose in their system to begin with ie they don’t take the full 12 hours to get to the fat burning part of his graph. But this is effect of low carbs and higher fat, but doesn’t necessarily mean the protein is doing any good.

[dadcor in reply to LAJ12345]

Yes may be this is the case and also too much animal protein is hardly doing any good.. But in a long term prospective, if this theory is right, without autophagy many deposited intoxicating products would remain in your system … and where are we going than

[MBAnderson in reply to dadcor]

My guess is that it is, because I think otherwise he would've just said 'protein.'