Intermittent Fasting Triggers Autophagy After 16 Hours — Your Body's Built-In Recycling System
Intermittent Fasting Triggers Autophagy After 16 Hours — Your Body's Built-In Recycling System
Your cells are filthy. Right now, as you read this, they're accumulating damaged proteins, broken mitochondria, and cellular junk that gums up the machinery. Your body has an elegant solution — a self-cleaning program called autophagy that breaks down the garbage and recycles it into raw materials. The problem? In most people, it barely runs because they never stop eating long enough to turn it on.