In this video you’ll discover how you can get the benefits from Autophagy without fasting.
Autophagy offers profound positive benefits to our overall health. Many people are aware
that you can actually go and get into Autophagy by intermittent fasting or a multiple day
water fast but what most people are unaware of is that you can actually do it without
fasting. That is what I want to teach you in this video so still around until the end.
Before we get started I'm Dr. Zyrowski and welcome to the channel. If you are new to
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bell and I'm going to help you excel your health and your life. Let’s go ahead and
talk about this topic about Autophagy because as i’ve mentioned Autophagy is incredibly
profound how positively it can impact your health throughout your entire life time. Now
the benefits of Autophagy. Let’s talk about them briefly here. Let's talk about a few
major points. First it is going to protect your DNA. The reason it is going to protect
your DNA is because it is going to help clean up a lot of those bad cells. Autophagy goes
in and takes out those broken down bad cells. Clean them up and turn them into good new
quality, healthy cells. It is going to help protect our DNA. Our DNA helps protect us
from our poor lifestyle, our bad habits. It is also not only the things that we can control
but also the things that we can’t control. A Lot of chemicals in our environment these
days are very damaging to our DNA. It is also going to help fight against diseases. Let’s
think about this diabetes, cardiovascular, cancer. I mean all these different diseases
that people are facing today Autophagy can help fight against them and that's very very
powerful. Then also improves neurological function. Same thing: a lot of people's brains
aren’t working well. I can’t tell you how many people call us up in the clinic and
say we have a problem with brain fog. I can’t focus. I can’t function. Then of course
neurological conditions are on the rise right now. A Lot of people suffer in that way. Then
just good old longevity. I mean if we just want to live well. If we want to not only
have good quantity of years in our life span but also high quality years then Autophagy
is a great tool in order to make that happen. Let’s talk now about inducing Autophagy
because this is important. Now a lot of people like I said when you mention Autophagy they
think you have to do fasting in order to make it happen but what most people don’t understand
is there is a mechanism behind that that is kick starting that whole thing. So it’s
not like it's fasting itself that is doing it. It is the mechanism, the biochemical function
that is occurring behind the scenes that activates Autophagy when fasting. So let’s talk about
that for just a moment. So it's a cellular stress response that starts to occur. As I
mention all the time fasting is a cellular response. Though it is a stressor on the body
it is a healthy stressor. So this cellular stress response from fasting that it does
is activates Autophagy through this pathway but it's the same path that can be activated
in many other ways that doesn’t include fasting. So what it does it suppresses mTOR.
mTOR is basically this function that is stimulated when someone is trying to build muscle. A
Lot of people who are trying to build muscle will actually want to stimulate mTOR. mTOR
shouldn’t be stimulated long term or quite often simply because what happens if it is;
is associated with a lot of disease. So in this whole process not only do we want to
suppress mTOR but we want to increase Adenosine Monophosphate Activated Protein Kinase Pathways.
Now of course this mTOR and AMP-K is all so confusing and I don’t want you to get caught
up in that. So basically like I said when you think of mTOR think of muscle growth but
also think of bad if stimulated all the time. AMP we want to increase that because of longevity,
decreased disease and a lot of healthy things in our body including Autophagy. So what does
this? Beyond fasting what is going to do this? What is going to make this happen? Let’s
go ahead and discuss that. There are many things; first of all coffee is one of them.
How does coffee do this? Caffeine suppresses that mTOR, activates that AMP-K Pathway but
not only because caffeine but there are polyphenols in coffee that make this happen too. Exercise
is another great way to make this happen. This is another reason why I love people doing
high intensity interval training while fasted because it offers this great benefit. It does
what we have talked about here. So exercising is going to activate this. Also Ketosis, Ketosis
getting into the state of ketosis by following the ketogenic diet is another great way to
activate these great pathways and shut down that mTOR. Now this is something that's interesting
too because I get this question all the time “Dr. Zyrowski you said it takes 16 hours
to get yourself into Autophagy when fasting and someone else said it takes 3 days.”
Here is where this confusion comes in because there is not a standard number that is going
to be a hard number across the board for everybody. It’s going to change based on your lifestyle.
So you can activate Autophagy much faster in your body if you are doing some of these
things i’m talking about and let's say you are combining it with fasting. So it's very
important to understand that concept. One of the things I’ll do is have a coffee when
I am fasting of course not a Starbucks Latte but just a regular good organic black coffee.
I’ll exercise while fasting so what happens to me is I am activated by Autophagy so much
faster. I am following a healthy diet but of course you don’t have to be fasting to
do this. Coffee, exercise, ketosis, hot and cold therapy. An example of cold therapy would
be taking a cold shower for about 10-15 minutes. An example of hot therapy would be using an
infrared sauna. It increases that cellular stress and activates that Autophagy. Hyperbaric
Oxygen therapy is something that is also powerful for doing so. My nephew is actually doing
this because he was having seizures all the time and he was getting to the point where
he was having multiple seizures a day. So what his doctor did was have him do Hyperbaric
Oxygen Therapy. He was doing it about once per day for about a month and it was incredible
on the profound impact it had on boosting Autophagy especially in the nervous system
in order to help repair and decrease inflammation. Now that is something that’s important to
understand you can increase Autophagy in different ways and different places in the body. Hyperbaric
Oxygen Therapy is very good for increasing Autophagy and repairing the nervous system.
After he had this Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy one of the things that happened is that he
started having a drastic decrease in seizures and by the time he was done with it he wasn’t
having them anymore. So if you combine something like this with the ketogenic diet it is very
very powerful for someone having seizures but very powerful for activating Autophagy
as well. Quality sleep is really important for activating Autophagy especially in the
brain. It sweeps up those bad broken down cells and goes to create new ones. Very powerful
for someone who is trying to improve their focus, their brain health. Sleep is just one
of those absolute must critical pillars of health that you must make sure you are aware
of working on in order to have good health. Now let’s talk about some particular foods
that you can use in order to boost Autophagy. Dark chocolate is one and also green tea.
It has a compound in it called ECGC. Which has been researched proven to boost Autophagy
in the body. So those are both great. Of course we're not talking about a Hershey’s chocolate
loaded with uber sugar. We're talking about a good healthy chocolate that is going to
offer you good benefits. A good organic chocolate, okay. Turmeric is also great. You hear me
talking about this all the time because of the benefits Curcumin has to offer. The anti-inflammatory
benefits now you know that it has some benefits of boosting Autophagy. Blueberries, grapes
and red wine. These are all great at doing so because they have a compound called resveratrol.
Which is associated with decreasing inflammation and anti-aging. Lots of good stuff going on
there. Ginger as well because of this compound in it. Rosemary, oregano and sage have Carnosic
acid in it. This is very powerful. I know some people who actually take this and grind
it up, put it in some water and drink it while fasting in order to boost Autophagy while
fasting. Of course these are the more hardcore people who are doing these little things but
its certainly something you could do. Now the next thing here is red raspberries, grapes,
red onion. These have a compound in them called Quercetin which has been proven to boost Autophagy.
So if you want to learn more about Autophagy what you can do is check out a video on the
benefits it has to offer. Where I break down the benefits much further in this video right
here. Now the thing that is important to understand here is when we talk about Autophagy. You
don’t have to be fasting to get into this state. You can use things like we mentioned
here and also use these foods like I mentioned here and as a result of following this healthy
lifestyle and doing the right thing. You will constantly put yourself in and out of Autophagy
throughout the entire day and you will have the great benefits that it has over. Give
this video a thumbs out and check out this video over here on how fasting helps Autophagy.