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“Getting adequate, deep, and high-quality sleep is not negotiable if you want to activate autophagy.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Thus, if you claim to be going on a 16 to 20 hour fast, the number of hours you have really spent fasting is only about 12 hours. This is way too short to trigger autophagy.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“As a result, retinal cells suffer from constant damage more compared to other organ cells in the body. Though retinal cells have their own form of protection against the elements, autophagy provides a significant boost in maintaining and regulating RPEC functions.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Autophagy is highly effective in keeping our body’s immune system in tiptop shape. It does so in two ways: by promoting inflammation in cells and by actively fighting diseases via non-selective autophagy.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Cancer is the result of particular cellular disorders, to put it in a nutshell, and autophagy actively helps in preventing these disorders by promoting cellular inflammation, regulating damage response caused to the DNA by different foreign bodies, and regulate genome instability.       Decreases”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“It is because of excessive damage that skin cells age faster. With autophagy, however, you not only replace new cells but also repair old ones so that it glows with health.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Just a few years back, there was a breakthrough in autophagy studies which bought it to mainstream attention again. These were the results of the studies of Japanese researcher Yoshinori Ohsumi (Ohsumi, 2014).”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“It is not until you stay away from food for 3 to 5 days that you get to see the benefits of autophagy. Getting into autophagy is a factor of what you do before, during, and after the fast. Besides this, there are many other ways you can activate and speed autophagy up.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“This is an alternative treatment that is proven to induce autophagy in the brain (Tian, 2016).”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Other changes that are induced due to intermittent fasting are: Increased Human Growth Hormone(HGH): When you fast, the levels of different growth hormones in your body increase drastically. They have been observed to have increased up to 5 times. This in turn accelerates fat loss and muscle gain. Decreased Levels of Insulin: Through intermittent fasting, the levels of insulin in the body decreases by a lot. On the other hand, this also increases insulin sensitivity in the body. Insulin sensitive means how responsive to insulin your cells are. The decreased levels of insulin make stored body fat more accessible for different biological processes. Better Brain Health:  Another change that occurs when you take part in intermittent fasting is that the brain hormone BDNF increases in amount. It also helps in the growth of new nerve cells. Additionally, this type of fasting can help to protect against Alzheimer’s disease.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Research has shown that sulforaphane boosts autophagy in the brain cells (Sun, 2018). This is why it is very useful in combating neurodegenerative diseases. Sulforaphane can be taken both in the form of a supplement or via broccoli sprouts.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Fasting and concentrating on zero calorie meals is the best and most effective way to activate autophagy.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Autophagy is highly useful and productive as a metabolism booster. It does this by replacing and regenerating important metabolism related cells such as mitochondria. The digestive system of our body is also improved via autophagy, contributing to good body metabolism.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“As of now, aerobics physical training is the best way to induce autophagic stimulation in your body, while high altitude training has also proven to be very effective in inducing autophagy. Exercises for inducing autophagy in the body are done best when fasting and your body cells are already stressed out due to nutritional starvation. This is why aerobics or low intensity-cardio exercises are best for promoting autophagy - they stress the cells enough to boost the process without wearing them down. Since the intensity levels of these kinds of exercises are lower, cells get enough time to replenish energy from body fat stored within them to provide the required energy to our body without getting stressed.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“This is why fasting is the easiest way for people who are overweight to shed off unwanted pounds and slim down.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Even though autophagy and fasting will promote quick recovery and take care of the inflammation, you need enough sleep, calories, healthy fats, and collagen for adequate healing.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Some of the common benefits of autophagy in different types of major diseases include the following: ● Destruction of toxic protein cells. ● Residual protein recycling in diseased cells. ● Promoting cellular regeneration. To cut a long story short, the degeneration of older cells and the creation of new cells are the main health benefits that autophagy brings to the table, along with other ones as well.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Hence, if you are already active physically, you already reap the benefits of autophagy. If you combine exercise with reduced calories, there is a high probability you will lose muscle and also have reduced performance.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“It is important to note that although macro and microautophagy are two different processes, both of them are necessary to recycle nutrients under starvation.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“The best approach to getting the best from autophagy is to induce it intermittently. You can have successive periods of fasting and feasting to enjoy autophagy. This is better than turning autophagy into a constant process.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“You need to protect your neurons against death after a brain injury. This, alongside the maintenance of cellular homeostasis, is possible with autophagy”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“As already discussed, the main use of autophagy is to degrade or break down damaged organelles in cells or unused proteins.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“The speed of getting into autophagy is a factor of many things like the metabolic state of the person, nutrient status, energy requirements, and overall health. A person who eats a regulated amount of carbs and has very low blood glucose and insulin can activate autophagy faster. On the other hand, a person taking in hundreds of grams per day will take pretty long, the same way it will take someone on a high protein diet.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“And despite the fluctuation of nutrition intake, the body can maintain its required weight through the improved metabolism induced by autophagy.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“If you have pre-diabetes or other signs of insulin resistance, frequent fasting can help trigger autophagy, which causes healing.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Autophagy is occurring in cells all the time passively at a base level to constantly make minor replacements and repairs to our body cells on a regular basis, but actively inducing it externally by nutrition is what kicks in the real benefits in the autophagy process.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“The lack of mTOR occurs when the body suffers from a lack of nutrition.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“Nutrient depletion occurs in animals right after birth because of the severing of trans-placental food supply. This is also when autophagy comes into play, which helps to mediate this nutrient depletion.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“The cellular regeneration and degeneration processes caused by autophagy make you appear more youthful than your actual age. This is particularly important for our skin, which is constantly exposed to pollution, dust particles, and other things surrounding our lives which cause wrinkles and decrease skin quality by forming layers of toxic materials on skin cells.”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy

“The terms you need to know when it comes to autophagy are: ● vesicle: fluid filled sac in the body ● cytoplasm: the material in a cell ● phagophore: precursor to a vesicle, it encloses the cytoplasm during macroautophagy ● autophagosome: what the phagophore becomes, it plays the intermediary between cytoplasm and lysosome ● lysosome: waste removal organelle ● organelle: a specialized structure inside a cell”
― Patricia Cook, Autophagy: Learn How To Activate Autophagy Safely Through Intermittent Fasting, Exercise and Diet. A Practical Guide to Detox Your Body and Boost Your Energy