> So "cleansing and restoring" the body's cells only happens when one isn't eating?? Gonna need a citation for that one. But the article specifies exactly what

> So "cleansing and restoring" the body's cells only happens when one isn't eating?? Gonna need a citation for that one. But the article specifies exactly what they mean: > When we eat, our body releases insulin. That disrupts the process of autophagy (from the Greek, meaning “self-devouring”), by which cells deconstruct old, damaged components in order to release energy and build new molecules. Autophagy helps to counteract the aging of cells and builds immunity. Fasts stimulate autophagy and allow the full molecular process to take place, as a team led by Frank Madeo at the University of Graz in Austria found in 2017. Now maybe insulin doesn't have anything to do with autophagy, but if if the claim that insulin stops autophagy is correct, then "lengthens the period devoted to cleansing and restoring the body’s cells" has a specific well-defined meaning.