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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 phage 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 a

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 autophagy 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 autophagy. Now the type of exercise is

very very important as well. The amount of autophagy you're going to get is going to be related to

the intensity and the amount of volume of exercise that you do so a real small little workout isn't

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