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andreygrehov on March 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Aging Is a Communication Breakdown

How do you trigger autophagy?

sjcsjc on March 24, 2019 | [–]

Fasting is one way. Look in Google scholar. One example below.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4161/auto.6.6.12376

majewsky on March 24, 2019 | [–]

Fasting has been suggested (shown?) to induce autophagy after you've been doing it for several days.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. Consult a doctor or nutritionist before changing your diet.

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