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I want to talk about autophagy and what will trigger autophagy more.

Exercise or fasting. For those of you that are not familiar with autophagy,

autophagy comes from the word auto, which means self, and phagy, which means eat. So, autophagy

is not a thing. It's a condition. And this condition is the recycling of old, worn-out cell parts,

proteins. And it's a condition that's very good for us because it's all about

anti-aging. And when we age, we have a deficiency of autophagy. So it's very important to know how to

trigger this condition. And also, autophagy is very deficient in chronic disease states. Okay, so what triggers autophagy? Well, it's the suppression of glucose

with the increase of ketones. And this is why fasting is probably the most potent thing to trigger

autophagy. But exercise can also trigger autophagy. Why?

Because it forces the body to use of glucose.

And it also increases insulin sensitivity.

Because when you exercise, you're actually lowering insulin.

When insulin becomes too high, it knocks you out of autophagy.

And so if you were to exercise, for example, and induce a nice spike in

autophagy, which can then last from hours to even days, it really all depends on how long you go

until you eat something. And this is why it's very beneficial to exercise while you're fasting,

because now you can get this compounding effect. And so this is why I have

to explain the concept and give you additional data because the atophagy that's created from exercise

really depends on the next time you eat. Now you might have a nice little acute spike, but it might only

last for an hour. As compared to fasting for 48 hours, you are getting

a massive amount of atophagy. Now, the type of exercise is very, very important as well.

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