Have You Ever Taken A Moment To Ponder The Discretionary Brilliance Of Autophagy?

The human body has this incredibly useful skill that happens every day, but is supercharged during water-only fasting. Therapeutic fasting practitioners have know about this discretionary power for centuries, but we have only recently (1963) given it a name. Autophagy or the power of the body to repair itself and to purge itself of disease has three forms: Macro-autophagy, Micro-autophagy, and Chaperone-mediated-autophagy. A Nobel prize was awarded in 2016 for figuring out how the mechanisms for this miraculous process work.

Long story made short. Autophagy has discretion on what to breakdown and use for energy when we fast. Incredibly it always starts by burning the trash a.k.a. superfluous tissues before it starts eating too much protein or begins to devour organs and important stuff. These superfluous tissues include fat, tumors, dead cells, old cells, cysts, just stuff your body doesn’t need to survive. Our brain does need some glucose that it gets by breaking down protein and converting it to glycogen in a process called gluconeogenesis, but only what it needs. The ratio has been physiologically proven to be 97% fat loss to 3% lean muscle mass. Now that is a trade I’ll make all day long! The very last thing the body breaks down is the brain and nervous system and the heart muscle. The actual pecking order of this breakdown is available in the reference information listed below.

However, using fasting to engage autophagy to lose weight is a rather trivial function of autophagy. Healing wounds and purging sickness and disease is the gold standard for this miraculous power that each of us was born with. A genetic imprint handed down from generation to generation that manages the regeneration of our bodies without our having to think about it. To tap into this miraculous power and give it Cart Blanc to make our bodies right is to do nothing. Give our daily routines a rest. Autophagy needs water and rest to do its work and that’s it! This beautiful, wonderful, hard working process needs only water and rest! How about that for being completely opposite of man’s wisdom! Since birth we have been force fed and made to believe we need to take something, eat something, do something (and paying all the way) to achieve our health goals. I don’t know about you, but it just seems there is a higher power at work here that designed this wonderful capability into the bodies of every life form on the planet. And then gave us the ability to pass it on perfectly to the next generation. And the best benefit of all, which is REALLY opposite of man’s wisdom, it’s free of cost. People will do anything to get back their health and here we have this gift that requires nothing except to take in water when thirsty and rest to accomplish what others work so hard and spend so much for. “Knowledge is power to the person who has it.” There, now you certainly have something to ponder when you fast.

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy
The Complete Guide To Fasting:
https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/The%20Complete%20Guide%20to%20Fasting_%20-%20Jason%20Fung.pdf?token=AWyJG7JlA6aYUiuZmz3ZHz-JZcZyaEc3bhWkJDFjvUWkWUGyeiJ8yUifCxS0LufintBzkdZZgcooSMOK1lbpZHj6L2EkNO9ygSO8rzjRnJPI0nYbsKRzKEaym1_uK4WsStnEyxP8SVi2nHyAjW-QqMsPyPtx2k95Db_Z87eraTxbDA
Fasting and Sunbathing:
http://loveandtruth.net/shelton-fasting.html