Repairing damaged DNA and clearing away damaged cells through autophagy may lower inflammation.

“So, you know, which of course that kind of made me think, wow, that that's really interesting, I never thought about it like that. But if you think about, you know, that the timing of these repair mechanisms and fasting and how, you're repairing damaged, DNA repair mechanisms and also these autophagy, clearing away damaged cells, damaged cells secrete inflammatory mediators. So if you're clearing away the cells that are damaged and secreting more, you know, inflammatory molecules, then possibly that would, you know, the lower the inflammation.”