Intermittent fasting: cellular cleansing to improve health?

Scientists have reproduced the mechanism of autophagy, stimulated by intermittent fasting. This process enables the breakdown of cellular waste, which has health benefits. But the process naturally becomes less effective as the body ages. Autophagy is a possible avenue for research to "cleanse" neurons of their aggregates of harmful proteins in diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. Elucidating the mechanism of autophagy raises hopes that it might be possible to stimulate the process of autophagy and perhaps one day lead to a cure for neurodegenerative diseases.

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