I have read that a combination of green walnut hull, wormwood and cloves, 3 together, are good for parasite cleanse. Probably in capsules which I can’t swallow, I’d need to search for a tincture

Thanks for sharing Shelley. I will take a look more at the research on this. From what I can see, more research is needed on how to trigger autophagy. So far the research seems concentrated on animal studies and hopefully soon researchers will turn their attention to this topic in humans. Studies like this one on mice https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106288/ suggest food-restriction for 24 or 48 hours to trigger autophagy. I wonder though about shorter fasting windows like 16/8. I hear from many of my Hypothyroid Mom readers who tell me that they are experiencing significant improvements in their health including weight from these shorter fasting windows and I’m hoping more research will be done on this topic. It might be that the benefits are not due to triggering autophagy but in the process of ketosis. Have you found benefits from fasting? Good to have you at Hypothyroid Mom.

Experts all agree autophagy begins after 17 hours of water fasting.