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Re:Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules by sendfoods on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:31AM (#32789679)
I am sure fasting proponents promise way too many things, but the underlying cell cleanup mechanism [0] is very real and received the Nobel Prize in 2016 [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27912049/

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Re:Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules by google234123 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:46PM (#32795172)
The wiki page does not mention fasting.
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Re:Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules by sendfoods on Sunday September 11, 2022 @08:48AM (#32799196)
> fasting and CR [calorie restriction] are the most potent non-genetic autophagy stimulators, and lack the undesirable side effects associated with alternative interventions.

> We conclude that both fasting and CR have a role in the upregulation of autophagy, the evidence overwhelmingly suggesting that autophagy is induced in a wide variety of tissues and organs in response to food deprivation

From: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30172870/

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