Peter Hardwood - Autophagy: Discover How Fasting Heals Your Body, Fills It With Energy, And Clears Your Mind

Autophagy

Discover How Fasting Heals Your Body, Fills It With Energy, And Clears Your Mind

By Peter Hardwood

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Introduction

H ave you ever wondered why humans today are affected by so many diseases? Have you wondered about the causes of these diseases? Today, the majority of diseases are caused by the food we eat, and this is mostly because of the high-carb intake we are exposed to.

Centuries ago, humans were not getting sick because of the food they were consuming; they were getting sick due to various other causes, but the low quality of food was not amongst those causes. If the medicine was not evolved back then, at least they had proper food, rich in nutritional value. Nowadays, were experiencing the exact opposite of that situation. The medicine is more evolved than ever, but the food we are consuming has very low quality and little to nothing nutritional value. What happened in the meantime? Something called the Industrial Revolution, which permitted food processing at a huge scale. For the sake of profit, the food has lower quality and also lower price than organic food, and guess what? It even causes addiction. It somehow makes you buy the same food, over and over again because you need more of it to cover your basic macronutrients needs.

Unfortunately, the food of today is focused more on caloric value than nutritional value, and the worst part is that we are too exposed to it. Finding organic food in urban areas is quite a difficult task, as pesticides are used on fruits, chemical fertilizers are used on vegetables and other legumes, and animals are being fed concentrated food before being slaughtered. This is how a chicken grows so fast, but this affects also other animals. All of these factors influence the quality of our food and may lead to several diseases, especially related to high blood sugar levels. Diabetes was not a very common disease a few centuries ago, but now its amongst the most spread diseases worldwide. Heart, kidney, or liver diseases are very common, but also neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers or Parkinsons disease are becoming more and more popular. How we can reverse all of these and put a stop to it? Is medication a solution? Medication is not designed to cure, but instead, it was designed to make the disease a bit more pleasant by masking the symptoms. In a positive scenario, it can only stimulate the body to overcome the disease. The body heals itself, so why use a medicine, especially when it comes to common conditions and diseases like high blood sugar and insulin, heart, kidney, and liver diseases.

Autophagy is the answer to all these problems, and in this book, you can learn how you can activate it and what benefits it has. In this book, you will discover different methods on how to induce or activate autophagy. Although some of them may sound discouraging, you can find in here important tips on how to practice these methods, how to maximize their effects and of course, the benefits of each method. You can discover important information about Intermittent Fasting, Ketosis, HIIT, and Protein Fast. The cure for all of the diseases mentioned above is within your grasp, and the best part is that you dont have to pay serious cash for medicine. After reading this book, you will think again before buying medicine for such diseases and therefore save a lot of money. Autophagy is not holistic or voodoo medicine, it is something real, something that won the Nobel prize a few years ago, so its a practice that you should take it very seriously. There are plenty of reasons why you should consider getting your body into autophagy mode, and you can find all of them if you read the chapters of this book. There is only one more thing left to say. Enjoy your reading!

Part One - Autophagy

History of Autophagy

T he term Autophagy can trace its origins in the Greek words phagy (which happens to mean eat) and auto (which obviously means self). However, this doesnt mean that it was studied in Ancient Greece. Putting them together, we can conclude that autophagy is basically self-eating, but a more detailed definition can be seen in the sub-chapter below. The first studies related to this field were done in the late 1950s, but only after the 1990s, the progress was more significant. This concept is a conserved cellular pathway that controls protein and organelle degradation, and has essential roles in survival, development, and homeostasis. Autophagy is also integral to human health and is involved in physiology, development, lifespan, and a wide range of diseases, including cancer, neurodegeneration, and microbial infection. [i]