An Exploratory Clinical Study on Autophagy During Fasting

Autophagy is considered one of the key molecular mechanisms for the broad preventive and therapeutic effects of periodic fasting. While it is generally known that fasting induces autophagy, there are no human studies that focus on the size and temporal kinetics of autophagy and its association with fasting specific signaling pathways. The kinetics of autophagy in patients with chronic diseases will now be compared with the kinetics of autophagy in healthy subjects, who both fast according to the same scheme; and further changes in metabolic and inflammatory parameters will be investigated.