Dr. Vonda Wright

And unfortunately, we see this in shift workers because that's what's happening.

They're having circadian shift.

because i think people think they've heard this term autophagy autophagy is the term take it stacy so this is the thing with autophagy you get that with exercise so the idea of autophagy is recycling the some of the parts of cells that have broken down or somehow become dysfunctional so your body's really good at cleaning that out we see with exercise it invokes that autophagy with fasting it invokes that too but not the severe fasting like three-day fast that kind of stuff

When we're looking at the telomere changes that people say with fasting, you get that with exercise.

So telomere is points that we look on the DNA to see how you're aging.

So we want longer telomere length because that means you are more stress resilient.

You get that with exercise because exercise is a big stress.

It creates a change within like we were talking about before exercise.

adaptive stress, epigenetic changes, which improves all of those markers that people are so adamant fasting does.

For women, no.

For men, I'm gonna say no as well, because when we're looking at the fueling mechanics of exercise, muscle is a very metabolically active tissue.

If your body is trying to fuel itself, it's going to break down the very first thing that's creating energetic need, which is muscle.

We see in women, women- So you're gonna lose muscle.

You're gonna break it down and use the amino acids as fuel.

You can tap into blood glucose and some fat, but when you aren't bringing blood glucose up through eating first, it's really hard for your body to understand that this is what you want it to do.

So it's like, okay, I need to conserve fat.

I don't want to go through all the glucose that I have because I need it for brain health.

So I'm going to start feeding more amino acids in to fuel what I'm doing.

Mm-hmm.

For women, we already use more amino acid than men.