How can we obtain balanced full nutrition by just eating simple foods like bread and eggs?
There is something neglected in the common energy and nutrition balance equation for weight management.
The common understanding on energy and nutrition balance is that, it is the difference between energy/nutrition intake and energy/nutrition expenditure:
Energy/nutrition balance = energy/nutrition input – energy/nutrition output
When the intake exceeds the expenditure, there is a positive balance, which results in weight gain. When the intake is below the expenditure, there is a negative balance and weight loss results.
But most people on weight management know by experience that this equation doesn't work.
As a fundamental cellular homeostasis management program, Autophagy deals with harmful or surplus cellular contents such as protein aggregates, dysfunctional/long-lived organelles, intracellular pathogens, and storage nutrients (glycogen and lipid droplets) and recycles them as source of energy/nutrition:
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So should we revise the energy/nutrition balance equation as:
Energy/nutrition balance = energy/nutrition input + recycled energy/nutrition from autophagy – energy/nutrition output?
Super nutrition - You mean Food Suppliment like Vitamines / Minerals / anti-oxidants .
The most eminent feature of autophagy is that, it captures any microbiome that touch our epithelial cells in our GIT, kill them, degrade them and turn them into essential amino acids. In this way, autophagy turns all potential pathogens (the microbiome in our GIT, especially in colon) into probiotics, and provides us with balanced nutrition and good health, even if we only eat very simple foods and eat them in very small amounts.
Super nutrition - You mean Food Suppliment like Vitamines / Minerals / anti-oxidants .
Energy/nutrition homeostasis is much more complicated and involves the interaction of multiple hormones and the effects on metabolism, the effects of stress and other endogenous factors on the microbiome and nutrient extraction, thermogenesis, mitochondrial energy metabolism efficiency etc etc. Would be a very complicated equation!
People with long experience in balanced diets like the Greeks will tell you to prefer fruits and vegetables with fish and no meat. Starchy foods like bread and potatoes are not included, but you can have some once in a while.
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