The mythological creature Ouroboros manifests itself not only in cellular autophagy but in every other area of your life as well. In order to evolve as a person, you have to bite your own tail – to devour yourself – and leave behind the previous version of yourself. From the energy of this process, you shall be reborn without even knowing it. These pathways are constantly in action inside your body. It’s the silent path of living and growing, which you can only seek to optimize with your daily practice.
The goal of the book wasn’t to give you a blueprint to living over 100 or to become immortal. It might even be that you’ll die prematurely because of some unknown reason. You can never know what happens in the future. However, what you can do is prepare yourself in advance by honing your body and mind.
Our own individual desires and ideas about the world lack the greater perspective of millions of years of evolution. When we do zoom outward and try to comprehend all the inner workings of our body as well as the larger scheme of things, we’re forced to realize how little we still are.
I got asked once: „Do I believe in an afterlife?“
Contemplating about an afterlife and supernatural entities forces you to think about death. That’s the biggest reasons people think about these possible scenarios in the first place – there must be something more – that I can’t just die one day and that’s it – that I’m going to disappear and vanish away into nothingness. Well, if that’s true then you don’t really have nothing to worry about it because if there is indeed nothing after death then you won’t be there to experience it either – you’ll just be dead.
What I do believe in is epigenetics – that what you do right now to yourself will have an effect on the future generations and your offspring. Even if you die, your genes will continue to live. That’s how evolution has been working so far and that’s how it will carry on for at least the foreseeable future.
How your great great grandparents treated their epigenome has affected the genetic makeup of your grandparents which influenced your parents’ genes all the way up to your own blueprint.
I think that this is also the closest way of proving the existence of some Psychosomatic Karma or causality. Your personality and your perspective of the world is very much determined by your genes and heritage. If you have some predisposition to some disease, then you’ll behave differently and if your family has certain values or beliefs such as religious practices, being a hard worker, or creativity, then you’re more likely to adopt those same traits yourself. It’s the genetic transmission of certain characteristics that go through their own process of natural selection.
What you as a person have to ask yourself is are these the genes the ones I want to keep carrying further? Maybe I need to adopt a new set of beliefs and values instead of following the old dogmas and doctrines of what my parents taught me, of what their parents taught them, of what their grandparents learned from their grandparents and so on...
You have to also ask, what kind of a genome do I want to leave for future generations because a lot of these issues can be alleviated to a certain extent. If you follow good habits and live a healthy lifestyle, then you’re improving your epigenetic makeup and in so doing promoting the health and vitality of your children and their children and so on.
It really is something to think about extremely carefully. Bad lifestyle habits like smoking, alcohol, junk food, not sleeping enough, being stressed out all the time, environmental toxins, and afflictive thought patterns are all changing your physiology on an epigenetic level and it’s going to re-manifest itself in the future. Your children are more predisposed to exhibit those same traits whether they be related to diet, beliefs, cellular functioning, and emotional processing.
Instead of selfishly thinking about how to make sure you’ll have a painless afterlife with no suffering, you should worry about how to not cause additional suffering for those people who are left behind. Don’t leave a heritage of disease and sickness when it could’ve been avoided by eating better, exercising a little bit more, sleeping better, sticking to the circadian rhythm, and spaying more attention to the little things.
When doing Metabolic Autophagy, you’re never stagnant and motionless. Instead, you’re always moving between the anabolic and catabolic cycles of life on a daily basis. This knowledge is invaluable in terms of giving you actual information about where you’re steering your body. You don’t want to leave yourself surprised or ignorant of how to control your own metabolic processes. In so doing you’ll also be able to combat entropy more effectively and promote your longevity.
On this note, I’m going to end the book. May your fasts be autophagic and refeeds anabolic. Whichever side of the coin gets flipped more often will have to depend upon your own individual choices and goals.
Don’t know where to start with intermittent fasting and optimizing autophagy for your goals? Afraid of making mistakes or jeopardizing your health in the long run?
As a final cliffhanger, you can check out the Metabolic Autophagy Diet Program. It includes a 4-week step by step walkthrough of what foods to eat in what amounts at what time and how to train as well.
There’s a two 4-week meal plans for both low calorie and high calorie intakes and it includes exact ingredients, amounts, and macros of the foods to eat. If you’re interested, then head over to https://siimland.com/metabolic-autophagy-diet-program/ and check it out.
If you want to learn more about the methods of such Metabolic Autophagy, then make sure you check out my blog at http://www.siimland.com/blog/ and reach out to me on social media. I’m Siim Land on all the platforms.
Extras
Glycemic Index
It measures how quickly foods breakdown into sugar in your bloodstream. High glycemic foods turn into blood sugar very quickly.
The GI tells you how fast foods spike your blood sugar. But the GI won’t tell you how much carbohydrate per serving you’re getting. That’s where the Glycemic Load is a great help. It measures the amount of carbohydrate in each service of food. Foods with a glycemic load under 10 are good choices—these foods should be your first choice for carbs. Foods that fall between 10 and 20 on the glycemic load scale have a moderate effect on your blood sugar. Foods with a glycemic load above 20 will cause blood sugar and insulin spikes
Food
Glycemic Index (Glucose=100)
Glycemic load per serving
Bakery and Bread
Bagel
72
25
Baguette
95
15
Barley bread
34
7
Hamburger bun
61
9
White wheat flour bread
71
10
Whole wheat bread
71
9
Whole grain bread
51
7
Pita bread
68
10
Corn tortilla
52
12
Beverages
Coca-Cola
63
16
Fanta
68
23
Apple juice, unsweetened
44
33
Gatorade
78
12
Orange juice, unsweetened
55
12
Tomato juice, canned
38
4
Breakfast cereal
All-bran
55
12
Coco puffs
77
20
Cornflakes
93
23
Cream of wheat
66
17
Grapenuts
75
16
Muesli
66
16
Oatmeal
55
13
Grains
Sweet corn on the cub
60
20
Couscous
65
9
Quinoa
53
13
White rice
73
Brown rice
68
16
Bulgur
48
12
Cookies and crackers
Wafers
77
14
Rice cakes
82
17
Dairy
Ice cream
57
6
Milk, full fat
41
5
Milk, skim
32
4
Reduced fat yogurt
33
11
Fruit
Apple
39
6
Banana, ripe
62
16
Dates, dried
42
18
Grapefruit
25
6
Grapes
59
11
Orange
40
4
Pear
38
4
Raisins
64
28
Beans and nuts
Baked beans
40
6
Blackeye peas
33
10
Black beans
30
7
Chickpeas
10
3
Chickpeas, canned in brine
38
9
Navy beans
31
9
Kidney beans
29
7
Lentils
29
5
Soybeans
15
1
Cashews, salted
27
3
Peanuts
7
0
PASTA and NOODLES
Fettucini
32
15
Macaroni
47
23
Macaroni and Cheese
64
32
Spaghetti
46
22
SNACK FOODS
Corn chips
42
11
Fruit Roll-Ups
99
24
M & M’s
33
6
Microwave popcorn
55
6
Potato chips
51
12
Pretzels
83
16
Snickers Bar
51
18
VEGETABLES
Green peas
51
4
Carrots
35
2
Parsnips
52
4
Baked russet potato
111
33
Boiled white potato
82
21
Instant mashed potato
87
33
Sweet potato
70
21
Yam
54
17
Tomato
38
2
Broccoli
0
0
Cabbage
0
0
Celery
0
0
Spinach
0
0
Mushrooms
0
0
MISCELLANEOUS
Hummus
6
20
Chicken nuggets
46
Pizza
80
0
Honey
61
22
Insulin Index
The insulin index (II) is different than the glycemic index (GI). The GI shows the relationship between how glucose (sugar, carbs) raise insulin. The II shows how “other” foods raise insulin.
Food
Insulin Index
Butter
2%
Olives/Olive oil
3%
Coconut oil
3%
Flax oil
3%
Heavy cream
4%
Pecans
5%
Macadamia nuts
5%
Avocado
6%
Coconut meat
7%
Cream cheese
8%
Sour cream
8%
Bacon
9%
Walnut
9%
Pine nut
9%
Pepperoni
10%
Pork
11%
Peanut butter
Codfish
12%
Duck
12%
Peanuts
13%
Pumpkin
14%
Almonds
14%
Cheddar cheese
15%
Sunflower seeds
15%
Chia seeds
15%
Egg yolk
15%
Blue cheese
16%
Pistachios
19%
Coleslaw
20%
Swiss cheese
21%
Whole egg
21%
Turkey
23%
All-bran
24%
Chicken
24%
Low fat cream cheese
25%
Pasta
29%
Fish
33%
Whole milk
40%
Low fat Swiss
43%
Berries
47%
Beef
51%
Popcorn
54%
Egg whites
55%
Scallops
59%
Potato chips
61%
Brown rice
62%
Apple
75%
Low-fat yogurt
76%
Fat-free pretzel
81%
Banana
84%
Crackers
87%
Whole wheat bread
96%
White bread
100%
Baked beans
100%
Sweetened yogurt
115%
Potatoes
121%
Jelly beans
160%
About the Author
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