Fasting and Autophagy is actually necessary for health! Fasting Boosts Neuronal Autophagy

Get your facts right...fasting and autophagy is actually 

necessary for health!

Fasting Boosts Neuronal Autophagy



I’ve cited this study before, but I’ll do it again because 

it’s central to the theme of today’s post: “short-




term fasting induces profound neuronal autophagy.” 

Autophagy, or “self-eating,” is the process by 



which cells recycle waste material, downregulate 

wasteful processes, and repair themselves. Brain 



health is highly dependent on neuronal autophagy. In 

fact, a recent paper shows that deletion of an 


“essential autophagy gene” in the hypothalamic 

neurons of fetal mice resulted in metabolic 


derangement (more body fat, poor glucose tolerance) 

and impaired neuronal development. Another 


study shows that disruption of neuronal autophagy 

induces neurodegeneration. Simply put, without the 


process of autophagy, brains neither develop properly 

nor function the way they should.
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