This Is What Happens To Your Body When You Practice Fasting

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We might hear this many times and it is true; we need to treat our bodies as they are temples.

If you are into science, biology, and anything that’s related to understanding how our bodies, then you already have an idea about how amazing our bodies work. It is like each organ is a part of some black magic thing that is constantly working and never failing to impress us.

It is a necessity to take the time to take care of ourselves, eat healthy constantly, and exercise daily. However, there are still some things that need a little more than that.

Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi received the Nobel Prize in Psychology or Medicine in 2016 because he discovered the mechanisms behind autophagy, which is when our tissues work on replacing cells with new ones regularly. Each part of our body needs a specific time to do it, while there are others that never replace the cells.

Since we are extremely impressed by what Dr. Ohsumi discovered, we have made our homework and we found a few things we can do to help our bodies through this mechanism.

#1 – Short brief about autophagy

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In order to explain the discovery of Dr. Ohsumi, the Japanese cell biologist, we may need to use a few big words. But since we need everyone to understand the importance of this, we are going to explain it as simply as possible:

Our bodies are made with cells that are constantly recycling, and this process called autophagy. It is made of Greek words: Auto means self, and Phagein means eating… Yes, the word says eating oneself. It is disturbing, but it is keeping you alive and stable!

Here is the thing, our bodies break down many protein structures and eventually transform them into amino acids, which is used to create more cells. The average person doesn’t consume enough protein to create the new cells, so the body tends to use the “stored” protein in the form of bacteria and damaged cells.