Alan Aragon
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1,513 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 27 Mar
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Glucagon is a hormone that mobilizes fuel stores in the absence of food, in the absence of calories.
And autophagy is similar in that regard.
And I think that a focus on pushing autophagy
is sort of missing the forest for the trees.
Because if we were to push autophagy to its end, then we could go all the way to a phenomenon called autosis, which is runaway cell death, which happens in starvation in some cases.
And so I think that we need to focus on other things like how do we maintain a certain body fat percentage while maintaining...
a certain physical activity level while maintaining a certain dietary pattern.
I think that it's those things that are much more productive to target than seeing how far can we push autophagy before potentially going into runaway cell death.
I'm not a big fan, Stephen.
I think that the cycle that people go through, at least in the developed world, is that they go through the year, then November comes around, and then the holidays hit.
They overdo it from November through December all the way up to the end of the year, and they're like, oh boy, I have 10 to 20 pounds that I want to lose.
And then they just use these sort of fasts and these detoxes to crash off the bad decisions of the previous few months.
And then the cycle repeats annually.
So I think that it's a much healthier approach for people to secure and reinforce the right habits through the entirety of the year.
instead of jumping on the fast to get rid of the holiday binges.
this
effective way to lose weight and fat.
And that's for a few big reasons.
First of all,
If somebody goes from their typical Western dietary pattern to the ketogenic diet, then they're automatically cutting out a lot of highly processed, hyperpalatable, carb-fat combo junk foods and snacks that are just energy dense, easy to overconsume mindlessly.
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