60-minute bout of low-level intensity of aerobic exercise . . . upregulates autophagy as much as a 72-hour fast.

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— DCGreenZone1 (@DCGreenZone) August 20, 2022

 

Exercise is fast and fast-forward, particularly when it comes to autophagy.  When you look at the data in rodents and humans, and the reason you might look at the data in rodents is because if you're interested in autophagy outside of the muscle tissue, or if you look into humans exercise and fast autophagy you do a muscle biopsy, that's not too bad, but if you want to look at the liver or the brain or some other tissue, right, difficult to do in humans than it is in animals, so we kind of have to . . . 60-minute bout of low-level intensity of aerobic exercise like 50-60% VO2 max upregulates autophagy as much as a 72-hour fast.