Why Intermittent Fasting Isn’t Enough | Real Autophagy Explained

Research on the fasting mimicking diet, including ProLon, consistently highlights significant increases in autophagy and stem cell regeneration. Can you break down what autophagy is and how does the fasting mimicking diet specifically promote it?

First, let's talk about what autophagy is. It is the ability for our cells to clean themselves out from the inside, ability to go in and take stock of what's, what's there and see what's broken, what's not working, and then remove those things. Break them down, get rid of them. In order to really trigger autophagy, we actually need not only to fast, but fast for at least 3 days. Usually it's about this 72-hour mark where we really start seeing this significant activation, where that stuck switch starts to move. And so this is really important, and I like to remind people that not all fasting is made equal. If you want to get that deep cellular cleanup, this autophagy that we're talking about, doing everyday intermittent fasting is not going to really get you there in any significant capacity.