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“These findings suggest that drinking coffee earlier in the day offers more health benefits than drinking it over the course of the day. Coffee induces autophagy–a critical process that helps reduce the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases.”

“This research was done by Prof. Valter Longo at USC. I recently interviewed Valter and he talked in great detail about prolonged fasting and how it affects the clearance of damaged cells through autophagy, boosts stem cell production to replace the damaged cells and more.”

“Senescent cells are cells that have essentially run out of telomeres, and are no longer behaving how they're supposed to. Fasting is also known to have the effect of helping to clean up these cells (a process called autophagy).”

“This means that it is likely that excess refined sugar may also inhibit Foxo3 in humans but future experiments need to illuminate this. Foxo3 is a master regulator of hundreds of genes that are involved in stress resistance, autophagy, and stem cell production.”

“Many of the polyphenols found in coffee have been found to have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities. They have also been shown to activate DNA repair and autophagy, the clearing away of damaged components inside of cells.”

“Greater coffee consumption was associated with a reduced risk of cardiac arrhythmias, a result that contradicts earlier evidence. Learn how coffee consumption may induce autophagy to improve other aspects of health in this clip featuring Dr. Guido Kroemer.”

“High fat dairy products include full fat milk, full fat yogurt, and cheese. Cheese, in particular, contains spermidine, a compound that serves as a calorie restriction mimetic, capable of inducing autophagy even in the setting of sufficient nutrient intake.”

“However, the activation of autophagy in overloaded muscle was greater in mice that consumed a high-protein breakfast compared to a high-protein dinner, potentially contributing to a higher rate of hypertrophy.”

“Autophagy dismantles worn or damaged components and delivers them to the lysosome, a small acidic compartment that digests waste. Both routes rely on moving materials inside the cell using tiny carriers that deliver their cargo to specific locations.”

“Mitophagy is a type of autophagy, an intracellular program involved in the disassembly and recycling of unnecessary or dysfunctional cellular components, that selectively targets mitochondria.”