Is Autophagy Evidence Of Intelligent Design?

Autophagy is a bodily function within every life form on the earth to repair or replace damaged or worn out cells. From human beings to the lowest life form we all have this repair ability. This ability at its face is no big deal until you bring in injury or acute disease. Then an intrinsic supernatural intelligence emerges that puts this process into a category of nothing less than superhero. However, it needs activation, a catalyst to engage its most powerful healing powers. This intelligence is separate of our consciousness. An example of this is that if you place a 15mm cut on the arm of a brilliant person and another cut of the same length into the arm of an imbecile they will both heal at about the same rate. Therefore our intrinsic body intelligence, if you will, is separate from our conscience thought and equal to that of other people regardless of their intelligence

We have known about autophagy since the first man received the first wound, however, we didn’t give it a name until 1963. And even then we really didn’t understand its nature and function until research was started in the 1990’s which earned a Nobel prize in physiology in 2016. So this is a major discovery of how our bodies have always functioned.

The really supernatural thing about autophagy happens when a living creature is injured or becomes sick. The very important thing to take away from this post is that autophagy only goes into supernatural mode when the sick or injured life form water-only fasts. That’s right stops eating and takes in only water. The only creature that walks the earth that refuses to fast when sick or injured is man. Apparently the energy draining burden of digestion is too much for autophagy to shift into supernatural mode. Animals just instinctively stop eating. Veterinarians know this. Animals that are sick or injured can be coaxed to eat, but only with the enticement of meat or broth soaked food. Put kibble in front of them and they’ll have none of it. Humans get the same instinctive signal to stop eating, but we rarely adhere to it except for the flu. Another illness that also causes us to lose appetite is cancer, but there are many. Surgery is another appetite suppressor in most cases. I personally had a stroke and found that I had no appetite for several days thereafter. Actually I expected it. You see I had already studied the work done by Dr. Mark Mattson who is head of neurology at both John Hopkins University and the National Institutes on Aging. He found that the brain heals faster and better when the body is in a fasted state and running on ketones. Ketones are the backup energy to the body’s preferred food which is glucose. Our body can only store about two days of glucose or glycogen, the liver stored version of glucose. It is interesting to note that Otto Warburg discovered way back in 1931 that the favorite food of cancer is glucose. He won a Nobel prize for this discovery. However, cancer does not like ketones. This is probably why fasting has been used to shrink tumors for centuries.

Anyway, back to autophagy. When all creatures great and small fast autophagy decides what to break down to sustain the body. The order of what to break down first all the way to last has been known since the late 1800’s. The order of this breakdown is simple and the same for all life forms on the planet. The first thing that autophagy burns for fuel is the trash, superfluous tissues. Superfluous tissues include fat, dead cells, weak cells, old cells, tumors, cysts and anything else the body considers unnecessary. The brain needs some glucose and it gets that from muscle in the body converting it to glycogen using a process called gluconeogenesis. The amount is quite small in fact the breakdown ratio of fat to muscle is 97% to 3%. Now that is a trade that obese people will make all day long! However, once you understand the power of autophagy the use of fasting to lose weight, although safe and effective for most people, is rather trivial when comparing it to its healing superhero abilities. Autophagy when nearly all body fat is gone begins to consume muscle mass and so on until the last to be consumed is the brain and nervous system and the heart muscle. Attacking muscle masses and internal organs does not take place until you are below a BMI of 18.

So where does Intelligent Design fit into this? Every living creature can utilize the healing power of autophagy with its identical pecking order as to what is to be dissolved to sustain the life form. The chances of this happening through random natural selection for every creature great or small is too astronomical to calculate. And then to have this genetic imprint passed perfectly from generation to generation since time began destroys the plausibility of evolution in my opinion. The natural order and perfection of autophagy over the entire animal kingdom including insects, fish, birds, mammals and man screams of Intelligent Design. This gift of autophagy like so many other gifts from God like His love, grace, mercy, and salvation runs contrary to man’s wisdom. We think we need to “eat to keep up our strength” and that our health maintenance has to come at a cost. Yet here we are the only life form on the surface of the earth too stupid to fast when we are sick. Humbling isn’t it?

Autophagy defined:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy

Fat to protein consumption ratio:
The Complete Guide to Fasting 2016 by Dr. Jason Fung
The HYGIENIC SYSTEM Fasting and Sunbathing 1934 by Dr. Herbert Shelton
http://loveandtruth.net/shelton-fasting.html

Diseases that can be successfully treated using water-only fasting:
https://www.newsweek.com/type-2-diabetes-treatment-intermittent-fasting-reverses-disease-1159579
https://www.allaboutfasting.com/benefit-of-fasting.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3946160/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fasting-may-protect-against-disease-some-say-it-may-even-be-good-for-the-brain/2012/12/24/6e521ee8-3588-11e2-bb9b-288a310849ee_story.html?utm_term=.5328647c34b3

Staving Off Cognitive decline:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568163706000523

The longest zero-calorie supervised fast in history (382 consecutive days):
https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/tale-angus-barbieri-fasted-year-lost-21-stone/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast

Fasting should not be done by persons under the age of 18 or with a BMI (Body Mass Index) of less than 18. Fasting events for persons who are on prescription medications should be supervised by a Fasting Hygienist. Remember that fasting doesn’t “cure” anything, it allows the body to heal itself. To fast without educating yourself on what to expect is like starting out on a long trip with no gas in your car and no money in your pocket.

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