Dr. Michael Greger
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But let's not lose sight of the real core tenets.
So you can imagine some smoker was like, oh, look at this fancy supplement I'm going to take.
I'm like, no, no, no.
Let's back up.
It's not going to minimize the smoking.
Right, right.
So that's important to emphasize.
In fact, the conclusion of the book, I'm like, all right, let's step back.
Let's put this all in context again.
It's really the core, basic tenets.
And then, yeah, there's all sorts of cool new science out there that you can tweak around the edges, but I don't want people to get lost, really.
Right.
It is the ultimate in unsustainable diet.
Right.
Meaning guaranteed to kill you if you do it long enough.
You can't say that about any diet.
So there's all sorts of interesting intermittent fasting regimens.
So one thing that fasting does is it...
boost something called autophagy, which is kind of this house cleaning process within the cells.
Killing the zombie cells, right?