Autophagy Quotes

“There are many health benefits of olive oil, and it is well known for its anti-inflammatory effects. Inside olive oil is a polyphenol known as oleuropein which induces autophagy and also takes care of cognitive impairment.”
― 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

“One or two tablespoons of coconut oil per day is a good idea. Coconut oil has medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) which boost the ketone production effect of coconut oil.”
― 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

“According to research, both regular and decaffeinated coffee help trigger autophagy (Pietrocola, 2014). Coffee contains a compound known as polyphenols, which also protects the brain because it fosters 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

“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

“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

“There are malignant diseases with which constant fasting is not the best approach to take care of them.”
― 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

“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

“Other cases in which you need more autophagy are excessive body fat, high blood sugar levels, excessive inflammation, metabolic syndrome,”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The duration it takes for autophagy to set in is a factor of your body nutrients, as well as the presence of some nutrients in your body like glucose, ketones, and amino acids. If you have conditioned your body not to consume excess fats and protein daily, getting into autophagy will be more comfortable and faster, compared to someone that will have to burn a lot of these calories initially.”
― 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 ketogenic diet is the most scientific diet that has been proven to actively promote autophagy and weight loss.”
― 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

“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

“Three days fast is the minimum time you need to experience significant 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

“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

“Extended Fasting This is the best type of fasting you should aim for if autophagy is your goal. The human body is well equipped to survive going without food for days, even up to a week or two. This is, however, best done under the supervision of a health practitioner. It should be noted that extended fasting could have negative effects on your health, hence it should be moderated.”
― 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

“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

“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

“The risk of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimers can be significantly decreased through autophagy. Neurodegenerative diseases work on the basis of the accumulation of old and toxic neurons that pile up in particular areas of the brain and spread in surrounding areas. Autophagy replaces useless neuron parts and regenerates new ones, keeping these kinds of diseases in check.”
― 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

“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

“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