Eating turns off autophagy as glucose, insulin or decreased glucagon and proteins all will turn off autophagy.
Tomatoes stop autophagy as tomatoes contain leucine which slows down the autophagy and eventually stops it.
If you want to break and stop a fast and autophagy then eating tomatoes can help stop the autophagy.
Other foods that stop an autophagy include.
Saturated Fats.
Oils.
Sugars.
Dairy.
Processed foods.
Autophagy and gut rest fasts prohibit any caloric substances from passing your lips.
Even one or two calories can be enough to stop autophagy and rouse your gut out of its fasted resting state.
This means that virtually all foods, beverages, powders, pills, and even breath mints and gum chewing are off limits.
Autophagy is a highly conserved eukaryotic cellular recycling process.
Through the degradation of cytoplasmic organelles, proteins, and macromolecules, and the recycling of the breakdown products, autophagy plays important roles in cell survival and maintenance.
Autophagy is the natural, conserved degradation of the cell that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components through a lysosome-dependent regulated mechanism.
It allows the orderly degradation and recycling of cellular components.