Dr.
Mindy here and on this video, I'm going
to answer the million dollar question.
How long do you need to
fast to stimulate Autophagy?
Now, if you see my other videos at
Autophagy, I'm going deeper into
the timing of fasting on this video.
So stay with me here.
I want you to get the nuances because
it's important for cellular healing and
those of you that are new to my channel.
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let's go into timing.
This gets asked so much.
So I want to give you
three major points here.
I want to talk about the hours and I want
to talk about when Autophagy peaks, I
want to talk about the different organs
in our body that are easily stimulated
by Autophagy and why you might want
to go to some of these longer hours.
And then I want to answer the question of.
Autophagy versus mTOR.
What are we, how often do
we want to be an Autophagy?
When do we want to look at M tour?
And if you don't know about mTOR
I'll explain that as well.
Okay.
First point I've already mentioned
this at 17 hours Autophagy starts
and the research shows that it will
continue till 72 hours of fasting.
That's what the research we have right
now is showing that it's somewhere
between 17 to 72 hours, you're getting
this Autophagy effect from fasting.
Now, there are many people believe that
it really fully kicks in at 24 hours.
So if you are really experienced with
fasting, you know, you're fat adapted,
then you may do really well this week
and all weeks with more 24 hour fast.
There is belief that it
will peak at 48 hours.
The research on this 48 hour peak
of Autophagy, I can't find the
research, but I find a lot of
experts out there talking about it.
And what I do know from watching so many of
you go through the fasting experience, the
longer you fast, the more your body heals.
So it would make sense to me.
That 48 hours would be an
incredible peak for Autophagy.
Now what happens at 72 hours?
I want you to think about this for a moment.
So in this fasted state 17 hours, it
starts to kick in the body's like, okay,
I'm going to repair myself at 24 hours.
You get intestinal STEM cells.
We've talked about that in here.
So the STEM cells are repairing and
Autophagy is ramping up in the other cells.
So 48 hours, again, we're hitting this
high point for Autophagy, your body's
in this massive self prepare phase.
And then somewhere on that third day
of water fasting, your body's going
to switch over and it's going to start
to make STEM cells and STEM cells are
cells that can go and heal as well.
So between 48 hours and 72 hours.
We've got this maximum healing effect.
You've got autophagy at its peak
and you've got the body starting
to ramp up and systemic STEM cells.
So those of you that really are
looking for that deeper healing.
I love this idea of somewhere
between 48 and 72 hours being
that magic moment for, for repair.
So that's how I feel about the timing.
Second, the concept I want to talk about
with the timing is remember that every
single cell in your body is programmed
for healing and they all have this
Autophagy effect, but the talk would, you
will be stimulated at different rates.
My two favorite cells in the body.
Well, I'm going to say three that I
really focus on when I do Autophagy
fasting or the neurons in my brain
and on the outside of my ovaries.
As a menopausal woman, I really want to
make sure that every little bit of sex
hormone production, that I'm getting,
that I'm getting the best version of that.
And you're the cells on the outside
of your ovaries are programmed.
They are primed for autophagy . So
the more Autophagy fasting you do,
the more you are repairing those
cells, men, same thing on your testes.
The cells in the testes have a
tremendous amount of hardware in
there to be able to trigger Autophagy.
And I don't know if you're familiar with
the news right now, but there's a lot of
mainstream news coming out saying that our
testosterone is low in both men and women.
And it's because of toxicity.
Well, gosh, if we do more.
Autophagy fasting.
We start to stimulate these cells on the
outside of the ovaries and the testes, and
we can improve testosterone production.
So I'm a fan of using it for hormonal repair,
both men and women, especially testosterone.
The other thing I want you to realize is
your brain is the most important organ
I like Autophagy for stimulating neurons,
especially those of you losing your memory.
Anybody who's got Alzheimer's or dementia.
And the last place that I like to think
about Autophagy fasting for is the liver
hardest working organ in your body.
And the liver really needs you to be
cleaning it up and repairing it because
we live in this toxic world and the
liver is trying to make you ketones.
The liver is making cholesterol.
So the liver is helping you
regulate your blood sugar.
So those of you that are struggling to get
into ketosis, more Autophagy fasting so that
we can repair, we can stimulate a Autophagy
in the liver, the ovaries and the brain.
So I want to bring to your attention
that each organ has different
capabilities of Autophagy, and we can use
Autophagy fasting to heal these organs.
Okay.
Third thing, what do we do Autophagy
versus just like night and day.
They can't both occur at the same time.
Autophagy and mTOR can't
happen at the same time.
Autophagy is self-repair mTOR is growth.
So when we want to build
muscle, we focus on mTOR.
You get more mTOR stimulation inside
the cells by eating more protein and
not fasting autophagy self-repair.
So we want to make sure that
you're cleaning those cells up.
You're burning fat.
So I like autophagy if you want to
get lean muscle, you want to bring
your weight down, do more Autophagy.
You want to build muscle you're training for
an endurance race or a, or a big competition.
Those of you that are athletes, then
you're going to want to do more mTor.
I think you should spend about
80% of your time and an Autophagy,
regardless of what you're trying to do.
And 20% in mTOR.
So there is a balance between going in
and out of these two things and women,
those of you joining me for the may reset,
I will be teaching you these concepts
and timing them around your hormones.
So join us for that.
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I'll make sure you get a link to it, but
that's the fasting timing of Autophagy.
It's nuanced.
It's not as easy as me just saying, do 17
hours think about what your body needs.
Think about how much you want to be an
Autophagy, how much you want to be an
mTOR and then plan your fast around that.
As always, I hope that helps.