The Unexpected Link Between Lemon Water & Autophagy

There's lots of bro science going around on autophagy, insulin, and what is allowed during a fast (from a lemon wedge in water, to splenda, to truelime, etc to it's okay if it's less than 50. Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved pathway for the degradation of damaged or toxic components. Under normal conditions, autophagy maintains cellular homeostasis. Oct 3, 2016 · without autophagy our cells won't survive, says juleen zierath, a physiologist at the karolinska institute in stockholm who was on the selection committee for the medicine. Accumulating evidence has highlighted the importance of autophagy in many human diseases, such as cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic disorders, immunity, and infection.