My Autophagy Blog

 If I'd known about fasting 10 years earlier, I could have saved Marlene from dementia. She died in February. I can take the loneliness. it's just me now. What gets me, is how much I miss her. Me and her were really close. 54 years of closeness. I woke up from a dream right now. I dreamed I was visiting someone in the hospital,a family member. I was going to sleep next to them to keep them company while they got better. For some reason, in my dream, I got up, I think, to say hi to a woman in the bed next to me. I happened to walk around her and there she was.  Its difficult to express how pure Marlene was. Wow, I said do you remember me? Her dementia had me thinking she may be without memory of me. But no, there she was smiling at me. That beautiful face. And she said, you're my husband Pierre. That's when I realized, again, how much I loved this woman and how much in love with me she was. The last 2 years, before she left me, she had dementia and disintegrated disks an...

 So It's really important for me to communicate how an extended fast fixes you. To do that I'm creating an interactive animation that really is truly interactive.  It has be able to be understood at a glance, that is, the part you are viewing in several different ways. One, by clicking on the Youtube button or selecting an object and that should describe what many doctors have found out about that attribute or the current view. You should be able to click on any object within the animation and it should give you a way to get to the information on that object. The program itself is a 3d program. That's the only way I can see it actually doing what I envision it should do.  I should endeavor to keep it simple. There are, though, no way to simplify some of the concepts. That's why, the user needs to be able to drill down deeper into any animation entity. The flow from start to finish should explain what is taking place without the need to drill down. The animation won'...

 I am convinced that visualizing 3d is the way we'll learn how things work in the future.  I fell in love with 3d programming when I created a 3d controlling program in the power plant at Fairview Developmental Center in Costa Mesa, California.  I did it before the large game programs took over as the premier way of creating scenes in 3d. I did it using OpenGL, a 3d engine that was bare bones, with a language, C++, that doesn't work well on the internet because of its power being limited to local machines.  It can do too much damage. Now we're creating methods to use C++ over the internet but I still find it too cumbersome to present 3d. Game engines running in similar languages need huge downloads.  Anyway, even before using OpenGl,  the language of 3d, I was messing around with Microsoft's early ventures into 3d around 1995. I've been programming since early 1982 or so. Not sure of the exact year.  Here is a view of the work in 3d at Fairview. It sho...

 My website isnt communicatimg the need for a fast in a way that is interesting enough so Im taking the next step. Im progressing to interactive 3d visual information. Not just a video or a group of images. My website isnt attractive enough to draw you in to the world of fasting so I needed more. So im jumping to the next stage. Simple Interactive 3d visualizations that can be controlled by the user. When i started building the animation on what happens to your body when you fast, I imagined how I would show everything that happens at once, a kind of a womb to tomb view of a fast.  That doesn't work.  If you're not familiar with the concepts and  terms of an internal view of what happens in a human cell when you fast, it can be confusing. There's just too many new concepts to take in at once. My next phase will be to simplify each section and  break it down into small digestible pieces with a way to navigate the pieces.  Each section should have a name and ...

 I really believe the world of medical research is close to figuring out how to live 2 or 3 century lifetimes . Because of this and  because I need to be clear about what happens to my body when I fast, I endeavor to create a visual animated view of what happens when I fast. Also, the world needs to see how important it is to understand the effects of water fasts on the human body. In doing so, I created, in my mind, a 3 tiered view of the effects of water fasting. Currently,  I'm basically done with the 1st tier and the 2nd tier is close to completion.  It is currently just a simple 3d animation. The first tier is what happens in the bloodstream. It is a description of the interplay of glucose, ketones, AMPK and Mtor and how they signal the cell's DNA to produce Lysosome Mrna. The 2nd tier describes how the cell creates Lysosomes.  The third tier describes what the Lysosomes eat. It is, like anything I make, a work in progress. Since it is based in 3d,  it...