I have read and heard about a wide variety of health benefits that come from intermittent fasting, not least of which is reduction in insulin production which itself stimulates fat storage, which of course, in most western people is unnecessary (cause we fat enough as is).
But the autophagy Ive never heard of. But i still geek confident it cant fight aging. Why? Cause aging happens as our cells clone themselves, to replace dying cells, the cloning process cuts and pastes the data and the result is a new cell, but in the process the ends of the DNA code are "frayed" and that continues to happen until the necessary code is damaged and so the produced cell is cancerous, broken and non-functional.
So aging cant be stopped unless we can mend the fraying.