Autophagy: The Ultimate Reset Your Body Needs

Autophagy is where real healing happens. It’s your body’s built-in detox system, breaking down damaged cells and regenerating healthier ones. When you fast for over 24 hours, your body shifts into self-cleaning mode, eliminating faulty, pre-cancerous, and damaged cells while sparing the healthy ones.

Think of it as cellular recycling. Your body repurposes useful parts, discards waste, and fights inflammation, oxidative stress, and ageing. Autophagy helps prevent cancer, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer’s, while also boosting DNA repair and energy production.

But here’s the truth. 16-hour intermittent fasting won’t cut it. Neither will Ramadan fasting. Autophagy kicks in only after 20–24 hours, peaks at 36 hours, and fully resets immunity at 72 hours. After three days, growth hormone surges by 300%, skyrocketing collagen production by 200%.

Fasting isn’t starvation. It’s biological optimisation. Time to let your body do what it was built to do.