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Health & Fitness

Short-term fasting induces profound neuronal autophagy.

This is an older study done in mice which shows that 24 hours of fasting produces upregulation of autophagy (cellular debris removal) in the brain. 48 hours produces even more. I’m not sure how many hours of fasting that would translate to for humans. Interesting! Though I have a tough time fasting for 16 hours,…