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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Let's talk about the most important benefit of autophagy. And this is going to

surprise you. Now, if you're not familiar with autophagy, atopathy is a condition where your body is recycling

damaged or old and not needed proteins in the body.

We're not talking just about hair and muscle.

I'm talking about those little enzyme protein machines that do the work of the body. Those are the things that

make body tissue and they're at the cellular level. When those are damaged, otophagy is a system

to clean those out of the body and recycle them. Okay. So autophagy decreases the risk of chronic disease. Otophagy will help recycle protein

as a survival mechanism. For example, one of the triggers for autophagy is fasting. So that would be

kind of a similar thing to starvation. So the body kicks in this mechanism to help become more efficient so as to

survive longer. So it'll take the protein it doesn't need, recycle it into new tissue, and even use it as

fuel. Also, autophagy can help reduce pathogens in the body, and it protects the neurons as a survival mechanism, the heart cells, and it gets rid of what's called advanced glycated end products, which basically means like sticky proteins that clog things up, as well as placking in the brain.

So it cleans up all this damaged protein in the cells. That's what

autophagy is. But the most important function of autophagy is anti-cancer. So let me explain this.

Now, the difference between a normal cell and a cancer cell has to do with this one thing,

and that has to do with this.

In a normal cell, you have respiration in the mitochondria.

What does that mean?

Well, fuel is converted through a machine to make energy currency of the body. It's called ATP.

So you have fuel like glucose that uses oxygen to then be burned. That's the energy currency of the body.

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