- [Delauer] What's going on jigsaw land?
It's time to to talk about recycling.
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
But in this case, it's something that's automatically
happening inside your body, and it's happening
every single day.
But sometimes more than others.
And it all depends, on what you're eating
or what you're not eating.
So let's get down to the science.
'Cause when we're talking about fasting
there is so much nonsense out there right now.
As fasting gains popularity, we're seeing
a lot more just random people, starting
to become self proclaimed experts in the world.
And I've been talking about fating for years,
so this is definitely an area that's not
really Greek to me.
No pun intended because what I'm about to talk about,
is something called autophagy.
And autophagy comes from Greek, ultimately meaning,
self eating.
So what I wanna talk about in this video,
is how fasting and the process of autophagy,
help cells actually consume their own waste
and utilize it, for a very powerful source of energy.
But I'm not just talking about fasting in this video.
I wanna do a deep dive, in how the cells actually work
and how autophagy is actually measured.
So first off, let me give you a very general breakdown
of autophagy, before I get into sort of
the cellular make up.
Autophagy is simply this,
cells are functioning with the survival of the fittest.
Much like humanity, a cell is going to consume weak
portions of the body.
It's going to consume weak parts of itself,
to ultimately make it stronger.
I want you to think of it just literally,
like survival of the fittest.
Those that are strong will consume those that are weak.
And it's a natural selection, it's a natural process
to make the world stronger and make the world
more efficient.
Well, as our bodies are adapting and evolving even
more and more, our cells are becoming capable of
consuming waste, or consuming functional materials
that don't really have a function anymore,
to ultimately better themselves.
Its kind of a selfish thing, but it actually makes a lot
of sense as we get down to it.
So let's talk about what is going on in the body.
You see, your cells naturally degrade things that aren't
gonna be used anymore anyway.
This isn't autophagy, this is a natural degradation.
You see, we have these things inside of the cell,
called a lysosome.
and a lysosome contains lots of different enzymes,
that ultimately break down all kinds of different
things into waste.
I want you to think of the lysosome as sort of the
colon of the cell.
It's functional, it's important, but we're not
ultimately reabsorbing a lot of energy from the colon.
You see, the colon continues to break things down and
it passes things through as waste in our human body.
Well, the lysosome is sort of the same way.
Continues to break things down, sometimes gives a little
bit of energy, but for the most part, it's just breaking
down and further degrading proteins and other things that
aren't used anymore, like organelles.
But what ends up happening with autophagy,
is slightly different.
You see, autophagy is actually happening because
we have an increase in what are called,
autophagosomes.
Autophagosomes, are vesicles that travel throughout our cell
that scavenge and eat these potions of the cell and
proteins that are totally useless.
This way it catches them before they ever end up
in the lysosome.
If they end up in the lysosome, they end up just being
ultimately utilized and excreted in a different way.
But if these autophagosomes increase, then it allows the
cell to be able to use them for energy.
So these autophagosomes are basically like soldiers,
that run throughout the cell trying to find proteins that
are starting to get weak.
And it laser targets them, and it says,
"You're starting to get weak."
"I'm gonna take you and I'm gonna eat you right now."
So this happens naturally, but there are some instances
where autophagy increases.
Where we have more of those soldiers and more of those
autophagosomes running around the cell.
The more those autophagosomes that are running around
the cell, the more of the cellular recycling
that we have going on.
Now I want you to envision this, when we're young,
our cells are vibrant.
Our cells are working efficiently
and we're multiplying cells like crazy.
But as we start to get older, our cells aren't multiplying
quite as much.
Until we eventually die, and we're eventually not
multiplying cells anymore.
So what happens is because we're starting to lose cells,
we do need to make sure that our cells become a lot
more efficient.
So, although autophagy doesn't create more cells and it
doesn't stop us from losing cells, it does make the stronger
cells, even stronger.
So as the weaker cells continue to die, the stronger cells
begin to increase in autophagy and get stronger.
And it's up to us, with our diet and with our exercise,
to ultimately do the right things, to increase that
autophagy so that those cells can be stronger and
we can live longer and feel more youthful.
That's why people that fast a lot end up looking a lot
younger than they actually are.
Simply because the cells that are operating in their body,
even at an older age, have gone through a lot of autophagy
processes, to ultimately create very vibrant, strong,
efficient cells that operate very cleanly.
So in this case, let's look at a study.
The study that is really, really interesting when it
starts to break down autophagy and fasting.
So this study took a look, at measuring autophagosomes.
Remember, the vesicles that go around throughout a cell,
eating the wasted particles or the slowly starting
to degrade particles, okay?
Now, it's really easy to measure autophagy.
Because your level of autophagy simply increases when your
level of autophagosomes are up.
So it's actually very easy to measure.
You just measure the level of autophagosomes.
Well, what this study found, was that after just 24 hours
of fasting, autophagosomes increased by 300% in the cells.
300% and then after another 24 hours,
they increased another 30%.
So, 300 to 330% increase in the cellular recycling that's
happening in your body.
Simply by not consuming food for a short period of time.
This goes to show that we can really get our bodies
to get into this recycling mode.
And we can get them to actually increase the level
of autophagosomes, that go around consume proteins
and wasted particles.
Now, I want you to think about this for a second.
If we have an up regulation of autophagy that's
occurring in the brain, we have a high level of neuro
protection that's occurring.
What does that mean?
That means that these autophagy is causing the cells in
our brain, to become more powerful.
Therefore, protecting us from Alzheimer's, protecting us
from dementia, and potentially even protecting us from
a lot of different cancers.
If we have down regulation of autophagy, meaning we
have less autophagosomes going on in the brain cells.
We end up having an influx of disease, and influx of
neurodegenerative diseases.
Again, we're talking about things like depression,
we're even talking about Alzheimer's and dementia again.
All these things are now being linked with the cell's
ability to recycle.
And we can simply fix this, if we just listen to our bodies
and restrict our calories from time to time.
The more calories that we're constantly putting in,
the more our bodies have to clean up, and the more
autophagosomes we would ultimately need,
to counteract that.
I'm not saying that you completely starve yourself
or you go on a seven day fast all the time.
But if you implement little periods of fasting now and then,
you can have a huge effect.
Now let's talk about fat loss in autophagy, because this is
where it's really cool.
If we have an up regulation of autophagosomes in the liver,
we actually increase what's called lipolysis.
Lipolysis is the utilization of fats and fat burning.
Lipolysis is just a fancy way of saying burning fat.
So we basically are encouraging the liver to get
more efficient at burning fat.
Simpy because we have an up regulation of autophagy,
and the cells are getting rid of the waste.
It's like getting rid of all the garbage in the trunk of
your car, so your car can go faster.
It's pretty darn awesome.
Now if we have a down regulation in the liver,
we end up accumulating toxins within the body.
We end up no having as much glutathione,
which ultimately allows us to detox.
And we end up slowing down the fat burning effect.
So again, it's not to say that you need to
fast every single day.
But autophagy is this unique process
and there are a multitude of other ways that we can
increase autophagy and I'll talk about them in some
other videos.
But in this case, I wanted to give you the basic
cellular breakdown.
And to surmise, it's simple.
We don't want everything to go into the lysosome
of the cell.
We want these autophagosomes to travel around the cell
as much as possible and we want as many of them as possible
so that we can ultimately clean up the waste, and have the
cell operate cleanly.
Some of the other ways that you can make sure that
autophagy is occurring in a good way in your body,
is making sure that your vitamins and minerals
are in balance.
And one of the first things that goes out of balance
in our human bodies, especially in the western diet,
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that you can be the best you.
I'll see you soon.
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