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#114 – Eileen White, Ph.D.: Autophagy, fasting, and promising new cancer therapies
“I would like to translate what we’ve learned about the role of autophagy in cancer and that involves developing small molecules to inhibit autophagy for cancer therapy.” — Eileen White
Intermittent fasting
Metabolic switching and different forms of fasting.
Can you maintain muscle during fasting?
But in the short-term (at least up to a week for most people), I believe you can maintain muscle mass while fasting, particularly if you’re resistance training.
Ketones, fasting, and muscle loss
I read an interesting article authored by my friend Dom D’Agostino and his colleagues on the anti-catabolic effects of ketone bodies in skeletal muscle.
My experience with exogenous ketones
Theory to anecdote: I decided to find out for myself if ketones could, indeed, offer up the same amount of usable energy with less oxygen consumption.
Ketones and Carbohydrates: Can they co-exist?
Can you “carb-load” and stay in ketosis?
Ketosis – advantaged or misunderstood state? (Part II)
When I wrote part I of this post, I naively assumed this would only be a two-part series. However, so many great…
The interplay of exercise and ketosis – Part II
You’ll recall from last week’s post I did a self-experiment to see if I could learn something about the interplay…
The interplay of exercise and ketosis – Part I
I embarked on a self-experiment last weekend to see if I could better understand the interplay between the different types…
Is ketosis dangerous?
You may have heard from your doctor that ketosis is a life-threatening condition. If so, your doctor is confusing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) with nutritional ketosis,…