JJ Virgin argues that vigorous exercise is the most reliable way to trigger autophagy and clear damaged cells, noting elite athletes rarely develop cancer. Her counterpoint to extended fasting beyond 48 hours: movement works better and fits real life.
I don't want to burn my fat stores. You know how it is, right? First day of a fast, you might burn a little. You get out past 48 hours and the body goes, shit, man, this is serious. I don't know if I want to eat my fat. Is there any furniture around here we could burn? And so it starts looking for broken protein chains and aminos and, you know, old dead cells and, and it starts burning that stuff out. And I think you and I are, I, I would argue that that type of fasting is probably the single best anti-cancer protocol that you could probably undertake at all. And it used to be imposed upon our ancestors. Every year by Mother Nature.
To me, the best autophagy of all, the most predictable, is move your body. Move your body, right? So you look at how to get rid of damaged cells. Exercise is so great. I think of cancer. I'm like going, just up your exercise dramatically. How many— like, you don't see amazing big athletes coming down with cancers.
