AWeber - FOHAC Miracle of Autophagy #399

Published: Sun, 03/26/17

Fair Oaks Health News

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Mar 26, 2017

Miracle of Autophagy

Hi ,

When I first got the idea to move to my present location, everyone who looked at the spot thought I was crazy. The building was in such bad condition that most folks thought I should just demolish the existing building and start over. I didn’t have the funds to do anything quite that ambitious, but with a lot of imagination and even more hard work, we rejuvenated the old building and turned it into a very nice office space.

The very first step in this process was to tear out almost everything in the old building. The floors were bad, the electrical was bad, the doors were bad, the plumbing was bad, the roof was bad, but the wall structure was usable. I spent many weekends tearing out all the old stuff preparing for the contractors to put in a couple walls and rebuild/replace all the unusable parts of the building. Before you refurbish anything you have to remove the old, bad stuff.

In the cells of our body, this process is called autophagy. The word literally means self-consumption. Inside every cell there are little bubbles of digestive enzymes called lysosomes that are for digesting worn out other parts of the cell. Whether these lysosomes activate and do their job is controlled by the balance between the two hormones insulin and its opposite glucagon. When we eat, insulin is released and glucagon is shut off. When we don’t eat and have no food floating around in our bloodstream, insulin drops and glucagon is released. Glucagon tells the liver to convert our stored sugar in the liver to feed our body.

Glucagon has another function in which we are most interested. When the level of sugar in our liver gets used up, the liver starts making ketones out of our fat that replace the sugar for energy to most of our cells. Glucagon no longer has any stored sugars to mobilize, so instead it triggers autophagy. It tells all the cells in the body to start breaking down old dysfunctional cell parts, so the body can reprocess the amino acid building blocks. Most of these are then used by the liver to make more sugar for the few cell types that can’t use ketones for energy.

The body is very smart. When there is no food available, it starts to tear down old parts and either burns them for energy or reuses the building blocks to build new cell parts. When we have no food for more than two days, the brain also starts pumping out growth hormones to kick the body into high gear to produce new cell parts and to conserve the protein structures, like muscles, in the body.This is the rejuvenation principle at work in the body.

Many of the diseases of aging, like cancer and Alzheimer’s, are the consequence of a buildup of too much junk protein in our cells. In our modern world of food abundance, how often do we go more than two days without any food? The natural clean-out and build-new-parts process never happens any more. It has been hypothesized that the epidemic of autoimmune diseases right now may be due to the buildup of old dysfunctional immune cells in our body. We are not attending to the

need to “take out the trash” and clear the decks, so we can rejuvenate our bodies.

There have been a lot of scientific studies on lab animals demonstrating that periodic fasting increases both health and lifespan. Throughout history fasting has been the therapeutic intervention of choice for most any disease up until our modern medicine creation. Cultures, where fasting for social or religious reasons are the norm, do show increased life spans and improved health.

Our culture has lost connection to this most ancient method of super stimulating the clean-out and repair of our bodies. The Fountain of Youth exists right here in our own body, but we never turn it on.

Now for the good news; complete abstinence from food is not required to turn on all this healing. We can trigger autophagy simply by eliminating carbohydrates and

certain amino acids from our diet, while decreasing our caloric load to less than 600 calories per day. What does that look like: lots of low-carb vegetables and a bit of healthy fat each day – no sugars, carbs, or protein foods. Low carb veggies are only about 20-30 calories per cup, so 9 to 10 cups of these veggies a day provides a nice filling trio of meals. At the same time it allows you to slip ever so easily into autophagy to begin the overhaul of your body. Typically we like to keep the autophagy phase in the body to only 5 to 14 days, so we can regularly engage the rebuilding phase of the rejuvenation process.

After a few days of clean-out, the body releases a huge supply of stem cells that travel to any weak areas of the body and build fresh new functional cells. This begins almost immediately after you start re-feeding the body by increasing your caloric load back to normal levels - specifically when you increase your protein load or your carbohydrate load. This process is controlled by something called mTOR. This rebuilding process is something we want to cycle in and out of, as too much of it increases inflammation and the buildup of junk proteins.

In simple terms, for maximum health and rejuvenation we want to cycle back and forth between cleaning out and rebuilding the body. This is accomplished through cycling between fasting and feasting. When we fast we clean out and when we feast we rebuild. If all we do is feast, we get clogged up and degenerated; we get old and have the diseases of degenerative old age. These diseases are not the natural outcome of aging, they are the consequence of never taking the time to “take out the trash” and clean the cells of all their debris.

The miracle of autophagy is available to every person. You don’t need any special medications or hospital stays. In fact autophagy is the most powerful way to avoid medications and hospital stays. All we need is a change of lifestyle mindset. Constant abundance is not good for either the body or the soul.

Take care,

David

Ellen update:

Ellen has boldly taken on the challenge of getting her body into the autophagy phase metabolically to help clean out the damaged tissue in her brain from her stroke. Here she is having a dinner of asparagus from our garden and red peppers.

Ketogenic diet and fasting radically improves cancer treatment

Although not used or supported in this country, ketogenic diets and fasting are used in many other countries producing vastly better results with patient outcomes - generally doubling or tripling lifespan and survival. This excellent article will tell you all about it.

Cancer Treatment

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Whole-body vibration may be as effective as regular exercise

A study done on rats suggests that using a whole body vibration machine may be just as good as working out for building muscle mass and bone strength. This makes exercise easily available even for elderly that can't get out and about. It is much safer and easier to do.

WBV

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Daily consumption of tea may protect the elderly from cognitive decline

A nice cup of hot tea daily has been found to reduce the possibility of cognitive decline by 50% in average people and by 86% in those likely to develop Alzheimer's. Any type of real tea will work - black, green, oolong. There are many beneficial phytochemicals in tea that are thought to be the reason for the protection.

Tea

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Finding the new location is very easy. Coming from highway 50 up Sunrise Blvd, you turn left and go up a block. We are on the right hand side - the building just past the Subway Sandwich shop. If you are coming down Sunrise from the Mall area then just turn right on Fair Oaks Blvd and up a block on the right.

If you are coming from the Roseville area you could come down Sunrise Blvd, but that is a long trek. It is probably shorter time wise to come down Auburn Blvd - San Juan Ave like you have been for the Sunset office, but instead of turning left at Sunset, keep going straight 3 more lights to Fair Oaks Blvd and turn left. Go down 2 lights to New York Ave, go through the intersection, and immediately turn into the turn lane once the center divider ends. We are on the left.

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow available at Fair Oaks Health.

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