Enhancing Autophagy Epoch Times, 28 May 2022
There are different strategies to detoxify spike proteins with western medicine from natural sources and Chinese herbal medicine: one is to prevent the attachment of spike protein to the ACE2 receptors (e.g. ivermectin, suramin, catechin, curcumin, Prunella vulgaris extract), the other is to neutralize the downstream toxicity by using N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), etc.
Another method is to enhance the self-repair mechanism of cells.
The human body has amazing self-cleansing and repair mechanisms. When cells age, become inflamed or produce metabolic waste, instead of resigning themselves to death, our cells will activate their self-cleansing mechanisms. One of the most important of these mechanisms is called autophage (aka. autophagy)–which literally means “devouring oneself.” This may sound like a bad thing, but in fact it is beneficial, because what is being devoured is the corrupted materials inside the cells, so this mechanism will make the cells healthier.
The autophagy mechanism was discovered by Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi, who has found that autophagy is associated with tumors, metabolic diseases, aging, and other life phenomena, and that it can play an important protective role in the human body. For these discoveries, he was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
In 2015, a study jointly published in the authoritative EMBO Journal by 32 scientists from Europe and the United States summarized four important roles of autophagy in human health:
Maintaining normal cellular metabolic mechanisms and mitochondrial function;
Mitigating DNA damage;
Degrading bad proteins;
Reducing inflammation.
Theoretically speaking, the body’s autophagy mechanism can help reduce the damage caused by vaccines and spike proteins by cleaning up spike proteins and removing altered genes and harmful viral components.
The phagocytic vesicles in cells identify the mitochondrial fragments that have been damaged by spike proteins and do not function properly after becoming fragments, as well as toxin fragments, harmful proteins, and inflammatory factors.
A phagocytic vesicle would wrap them up and form an autophagosome, which breaks down these components with catabolic enzymes and sorts out those that can be recycled, such as amino acid molecules after proteolysis. The components that cannot be recycled will be broken down into water or electrolytes, which are then excreted from the body.
Therefore, if the body can boost its autophagy mechanisms, this can neutralize or even reverse the injury caused by spike proteins to cells.
How to Enhance the Autophagic Ability of Cells
The human body is an intelligent system, and our cells have many ways to enhance their autophagic ability, one of which is through diet changes.
One way to trigger the cells’ autophagy mechanism is intermittent fasting.
In an intriguing animal experiment published in the journal Autophagy, researchers divided mice into two groups, with one being fed normally and the other fasting for one to two days. Then they observed the autophagosomes in the liver cells of these mice and discovered that
only a small amount of autophagosomes could be detected in the hepatocytes of the normally fed mice;
there was an increase in autophagosomes in the hepatocytes of mice after 24 hours of fasting;
there was a further increase in autophagosomes in the hepatocytes of mice that had fasted for 48 hours.
The researchers also performed quantitative analysis of autophagosomes, by measuring the number, area, and circumference of autophagosomes in each cell and studying the expression of autophagosomes. They discovered that the number, area, and circumference of autophagosomes in mice after 24 hours of fasting increased significantly compared with those in normally fed mice; and after 48 hours of fasting, there was a further increase.
If intermittent fasting can enhance the autophagy of hepatocytes, it can reduce the damage to the liver caused by the vaccine spike proteins.
In addition, the researchers also analyzed the data of autophagosomes in mice brain cells and discovered them similar to those of hepatocytes.
The enhancement of autophagic cells in the brain is also helpful in eliminating adverse events caused by vaccines on the nervous system, such as brain fog.
We do not need complete fasting, as intermittent fasting can have a similar effect.
In addition, fasting is not about eating less or not eating anything, but about “eating the right things.”
As mentioned in the journal Antioxidants, there are organic chemicals called polyphenols in plants that have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory properties and can have effects similar to autophagy by initiating the process of apoptosis, or programmed cell death, a natural and essential process initiated when cells are too old and need to be eliminated.
The following foods are rich in dietary polyphenols:
Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG): from tea leaves
Oleuropein: extract of olive leaves
Punicalagin: The most abundant polyphenol in pomegranate
Apigenin: commonly found in vegetables, fruits, herbs, and chamomile tea
Resveratrol: from fresh vegetables and fruits
Pterostilbene: a resveratrol derivative
Curcumin: found in curry
Therefore, it is recommended that we eat a lot of commonly seen vegetables and fruits in our daily life. In addition to replenishing our levels of vitamin C, this can also supplement many nutrients that enhance our autophagy and the ability to repair ourselves.
We have introduced three ways to relieve spike protein damage, including:
blocking the entry of spike proteins into the cells, by using ivermectin, suramin, catechin, curcumin, and Prunella vulgaris extract;
neutralizing free radicals and antioxidants to reduce the damage caused by spike proteins after they enter the cells, by using NAC (N-acetyl-L-cysteine), Vitamin C, and antioxidants;
enhancing the body’s self-repairing ability to devour toxins by itself
Furthermore, we will introduce another strategy to reduce the damage caused by spike proteins in an upcoming article.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Dr. Yuhong Dong
Dr. Yuhong Dong, medical doctor and Ph.D in infectious diseases, is the Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of a Swiss biotech company and former Senior Medical Scientific Expert for Antiviral Drug Development in Novartis Pharma in Switzerland.