Cellular Cleansing

Cleansing. We have all heard of it. Nutrional companies prize themselves with over priced products promising to clear toxins out of your body, when in reality, it just leaves you with stomach cramps and on the toilet. Truth is our bodies are designed to flush toxins out of our bodies on their own through the liver in kidneys. So what's the deal? Why should we care about cleansing if our bodies do it themselves? Well, in the modern-day world we are constantly eating, breathing, and applying chemicals to our skin making it nearly impossible for our organs to keep up the detox process. The type of cleansing I am talking about is cellular cleansing, the only type that is beneficial. One of the best clean-up methods the body has is called autophagy. 

"Autophagy is a normal physiological process in the body that deals with destruction of cells in the body. It maintains homeostasis or normal functioning by protein degradation and turnover of the destroyed cell organelles for new cell formation. " 

Auto, meaning self, and phagy, meaning eating. That’s right, self-eating. It's not as terrible as it sounds I promise. Autopaghy is activated naturally over night when you are naturally repairing. Sometimes this overnight process isn't enough to keep up with the toxins. One of the best thing you can do to speed up autopaghy is to extend your overnight fast into the next day. Approximately 16 hours. By extending your fast your body doesn’t have any incoming calories and starts searching and breaking down damaged cells for energy. An example of a 16 hour intermittent fast is stop eating at 6pm, and have your first meal at 10am the next day. 

Fasting induced autopaghy has a list of benefits but has recently been found to be considered the fountain of youth. By replacing old, damaged cells with new cells you appear younger, with less sags, wrinkles, and deep lines. If you can see the physical changes, imagine what its doing to your organs. Cleansing and replacing poor functions cells, with high preforming new cells can you make not only look younger but feel younger. 

To find more information on fasting, refer to Dr. Jason Fung's "The complete guide to fasting"