Question is the title ^.
Asking because I have a skin autoimmune disease, called linear morphea. I know autophagy removes some bad cells, so I’m hoping it will take some of my damaged skin cells if I do a 5 day fast every two months of the course of a few years.
Has anyone had an experience like this? Of skin improvements years into fasting?
I’ve never noticed any significant change to my acne or various other skin problems from fasting, but one time I did a 7-day fast, ate a big healthy meal, then fasted another 7 days, and afterwards was shocked to find that a surgical scar I had received about 9 months prior and was still very red & raised before my fast, had almost completely disappeared.
I wish I had before & after pictures because it was an almost unbelievable change, but I just had no idea that it was going to happen. I’m not even sure whether the healing happened during the first or second part of my fast, because I wasn’t paying attention to my scar at all until I noticed it was gone.
Autophagy has the potential to eat up all sorts of damaged/diseased cells, but we can’t control which ones it targets first (or at all). Your plan is definitely worth a shot IMO, and even if the particular issue you’re trying to address doesn’t improve, your overall health probably still will, and you may be surprised at what other benefits you find.
Autophagy aside, auto-immune diseases are commonly influenced by diet, so I suspect by occasionally fasting you’d see some improvement. Some have reported improvements and near disappearances of eczema that have been long held.