I teach medical students that autophagy -- the body's cellular "recycling system" -- is one of the most powerful anti-aging mechanisms we have. Until now, we had no direct human proof that fasting triggers it.
That just changed.
Cedars-Sinai researchers ran the first human trial measuring autophagic flux during a 5-day fasting-mimicking diet. Results:
- Measurable increase in cellular recycling (autophagy f... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41372565/
