Alan Aragon
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 27 Mar
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Yeah.
And so that gives us a hint that
Fasting is great until it isn't because you've achieved what you needed to achieve.
And so then it just kind of becomes a tool.
It's always just a tool to help people control calories in.
One of the beautiful things about fasting and whether it's time-restricted eating or whether it's some sort of variant of alternate day fasting or twice a week fasting is that it works in research regardless of whether people are meticulously tracking things or not.
And so that can be a boon for individuals who don't necessarily like to micromanage their stuff.
But for people who are trying to maximize retention of lean mass while they're pushing the envelope of fitness, it can definitely be a double-edged sword once you're already lean.
We don't know what the optimal level of autophagy is that would actually confer health benefits.
We don't know what that threshold is.
And there's different ways that people try to measure autophagy.
It's very hard to correlate certain levels of autophagy with certain
certain degrees of disease prevention.
We're not there yet.
I don't think, I think big picture wise, I think that autophagy is an algorithm running in the background that is more of a bystander type of thing than a driver.
Similar to insulin and glucagon.
So the insulin and glucagon axis is,
works when you feed versus when you're fasting.
So glucagon levels go up.
What's glucagon?
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