Dr. Chris Rhodes explains precisely what happens during prolonged fasting — plus, experts weigh in on the downsides and who ...

That's why popular intermittent fasting methods like the 16/8 (fasting for 16 hours and having an 8-hour eating window) are often associated with inducing autophagy, as they meet the minimum hours ...

Fasting and calorie restriction both trigger autophagy by putting cells under stress. However, researchers believe that there may be other ways to induce autophagy. Exercise ...

You may think fasting is old hat, that most of us now know that it’s beneficial to routinely add little pockets of the day where we refrain from eating, but McKenzie isn’t talking about just ...

What’s true is fasting influences autophagy in non-human studies — sometimes, and in a not-well-understood way. We still don’t know much about autophagy in humans, or how to measure it ...

To date, most studies on fasting and autophagy have been performed on animals and suggest that autophagy begins after about 24 hours of fasting. More recently, ...

Is fasting safe? A chart review of adverse events during medically supervised, water-only fasting. https: ... That said, there are very few human studies on water fasting, autophagy, ...

More information: Sebastian J. Hofer et al, Spermidine is essential for fasting-mediated autophagy and longevity, Nature Cell Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41556-024-01468-x.