A group of participants went through this groundbreaking protocol for activating your body’s autophagy, or cellular housecleaning mechanism. All 35 achieved results within 15 days.
[embed]https://www.bitchute.com/video/YOhUuwFuPsE5/[/embed]STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- Autophagy refers to a “self-eating” process in which your body digests damaged cells. It’s a cleaning out process that encourages the proliferation of new, healthy cells
- The cyclicality of nutrition is an important component for health. Cells are either building or detoxing, and each phase has its own requirements
- Cyclical ketosis and intermittent fasting suppress inflammation in your body and activate autophagy, a natural process that cleanses and detoxifies the cell and recycles the parts of the organelles that are no longer needed
- To activate autophagy, eat fats first and carbohydrates last, whether you’re intermittently fasting or not. Also include more autophagy-activating foods, such as citrus bergamot tea, green tea and turmeric
- Cyclical exercise — doing 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training or resistance training every other day — also helps turn autophagy on and off
“The inflammatory process just ravaged my body,” she says. “My skin would bleed, it would pus. My parents were so conscious, they would even be aware of the kinds of material I would wear because our skin needs to breathe — it’s our largest organ — and the foods that I ate. I was born on a biodynamic farm and yet this autoimmune disorder and so many [other health problems] that I developed over time controlled my life.
From Natural to Conventional and Back
Following that spring dance rejection, Whittel decided to try the conventional route for a change. For a time, she used steroids to control her eczema, but the side effects prompted her to return to her all-natural roots. In her early 20s, she was able to eliminate about 95% of her eczema using a combination of Chinese herbs, acupuncture and fasting to detox.“I had poisoned my body through these herbs that had been so therapeutic,” she says. “That was the other defining moment for me. I decided I needed to know, from that moment forward, exactly where things came from. So, I started the process of always going to the source … Ultimately, I built a company called Reserveage, where we aimed to find where things come from.
Fish Oil’s Dirty Little Secret
Whittel worked with Jeff Bland, Ph.D., on a trip to Alaska to investigate the manufacturing of cod liver oil. “For me personally, fish oil is an important part of my health. Because of my autoimmune disorders, I grew up drinking a little shot every morning of cod liver oil … But when I built my company, Reserveage, I never could find a source other than krill, that I was comfortable bringing out into the market,” she says. What’s the problem with most fish oil? Whittel explains:“What happens is the fish are caught in large nets. Even if you think the fish oil is coming from Norway or Europe, it’s caught in Central and South America in these large nets. The fish are then brought onto and thrown into the bottom of the boat … [where] they go completely rancid.
Finding Pure Cod Liver Oil
Bland told her he'd partnered with David Little, an engineer and fisherman who owns six large fishing boats in Alaska. Little built and implemented a flash freeze process on his boats. As soon as the cod are caught, they’re flash frozen.The fish are sold to the Japanese, but they weren’t doing anything with the livers and guts of the fish, which is where the fish oils are extracted. So, Bland and Little partnered up to extract the fish oils from the fish guts, while the rest of the fish gets shipped off to Japan.
The beauty of this process is that it preserves the specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) in the oil — many of which are powerful anti-inflammatory components — along with the vitamin A and D. “I was able to literally take the oil right out of the processing equipment and drink it, right there in the factory,” Whittel says. “It smells fresh, and it [tastes] good.
That’s why I, for the first time in my career, felt confident enough to bring a cod liver oil into the market … There’s nothing like it, from a cod liver perspective, out there.”
The Importance of Cyclical Autophagy
Like me, Whittel also reached the conclusion that it is important to cycle many lifestyle choices to improve your health. For her, it began with the intuitive understanding that cells are either building or detoxing, and each phase has its own requirements. Fasting, meaning abstaining from food altogether, turned out to be a crucial component that ultimately allowed her to control the inflammation in her body, and she’s been doing cyclical fasting for nearly 25 years.“… David Sinclair at Harvard … was sharing with me a lot of the insights around how we can reduce the impact of these accelerated agers. When you look at all the ways that we age — the effects of the DNA impact, the inflammation, the telomere shortening, all of these things — autophagy and the way that autophagy slows down as we age due to these accelerated agers, is at the foundation of the way we age.
How to Activate Autophagy
So just how do you go about activating your body’s autophagy mechanism? Here’s a summary of four of the 11 strategies detailed in her book:- Intermittent fasting coupled with protein cycling (IFPC) — Intermittent fasting every other day (16 hours of not eating, which is the time needed to activate autophagy, and eight hours of scheduled eating). On days when you’re not doing the intermittent fasting, eat the regular amount of protein you would normally consume, and on your intermittent fasting day, cut protein to about 5% of your calories for the day.
“So, for somebody like me who would normally eat about 45 to 50 grams of protein … [on low protein days] I'll take about 5% of my overall caloric intake, which is about 25 grams of protein,” Whittel explains.
- Timing of nutrients — Eat fats first and carbohydrates last, whether you’re intermittently fasting or not.
“On a low [protein] day, when you’ve done an intermittent fast, your first meal will be about fat, and fat first. Then at the end of the day, you'll have carbohydrates, and we talk about the quality carbohydrates that we need for health.