If you need 7-day , 14-day or 21-day water fast in New Zealand, please contact me.
I have been specially trained to be able to treat your particular pressure points in an amazing way to reduce the hunger and danger of water-fast.
Low cost accommodation is available for clients who would like to stay with me during water-fast.
Please listen to this doctor to understand how water-fast reset your system powerfully.
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Some Interesting Comments From Clients
We go on vacations from work to relax, recharge, and to gain new perspectives on our life; why not take regular breaks from food?
Bi Gu Fasting is a powerful form of healing that has been practiced for thousands of years in China. It is a great way for eliminating toxins, healing diseases, losing weight and developing potential functions and wisdom. Bi Gu Fasting is an ancient life-preservation method ,not simply starving yourself! It is different from the general practice of fasting. Bi Gu employs life preservation methods and special prayers to enhance one's capacity of opening to the invisible energies, which is nourishing and infinite. Bi Gu is gentle, safe and inspiring. With the assistance of powerful treatments on some pressure points , regular food can be safely replaced by water and invisible energies for 7-14 days.
When food is
no longer entering the body, the body turns to fat and sugar reserves for
energy, which brings forth natural healing and rapid weight-loss.
Bigu Fasting gives the digestive tract time to completely rest and heal itself.
Instead of digesting food, more energy goes towards the metabolism,
detoxification and immune system. The body's searching for energy sources leads
to clean-up and natural healing. Abnormal growths within the body, harmful
bacteria, weakened protein and the like, do not have the full support of the
body's supplies and therefore are more susceptible to autolysis. The body rids
itself of the toxins that have built up in our organs, tissues , blood and
blood vessels throughout the years. The body heals itself, repairs all the
damaged organs and cells during bigu fasting. It is just like turning off
and cleaning a complex and valuable machine so that it will function better and
longer.
Bigu fast is
a multidimensional experience. Physiologically, refraining from eating
minimizes the work done by the digestive organs, including the stomach,
intestines, pancreas, gallbladder, and liver. Most important here is that our
liver, our body’s large production and metabolic
factory, can spend more time during fasting cleaning up and creating its many
new substances for our use. Breakdown of stored or circulating fats and
chemicals is the basic process of detoxification. The blood and lymph also have
the opportunity to be cleaned of toxins as all the eliminative functions are
enhanced with fasting. Each cell has the opportunity to catch up on its work;
with fewer new demands, it can repair itself and dump its waste for the garbage
pickup. Most Bigu students also experience a new vibrancy of their skin and
clarity of mind and body.
We can look at Bigu fasting as "taking one or two weeks off work" to
handle the other aspects of life, for which there is often little time. During
Bigu, we can take time to rest and nurture ourselves.
Resting the
gastrointestinal tract, letting the cells and tissues repair themselves, and
allowing the lymph, blood, and organs to clear out old, defective, or diseased
cells and unneeded chemicals all lead to less degeneration and sickness. As
healthy cell growth is stimulated, so is our level of vitality, immune function
and disease resistance, and our potential for greater longevity.
Benefits of Bigu Fasting: Purification ; Rejuvenation; Quick weight-loss ; Rest
for digestive organs ; Reduction of allergies ; Drug detoxification; A speedy
recovery from chronic diseases; Normalize blood sugar level; Lower blood
pressure and fat ;Reduction of the size and effect of tumors; Overcoming
addictions; Better resistance to disease; Diet changes; More energy; Better
sleep; Clearer skin ; Antiaging effects ;More relaxation; More mental clarity; Creativity;Clearer
thinking ;Nice change of habits; Spiritual awareness.
If you are
one of these 7 Kinds of People, you should consider Bi Gu:
1. have high
blood pressure, high cholesterol and early stage diabetes
2.have
Hepatitis, fatty liver, kidney stones, nephritis, gall stone, sinusitis,
laryngitis, gastritis, intestinal inflammation, prostatis, arthritis,
constipation;
3.have any
of the following issues: overweight, acne, breast cyst, gynecological
inflammation, infertility, uterine fibroid, ovarian cyst, painful menses
hormonal imbalance, coarse skin and all kinds of skin diseases;
4. experience
dizziness, fatigue, poor sleep, poor appetite, poor memory, low sexual
function;
5. want to
prepare for a healthy pregnancy and strong immune for mother and child
6. want to
purify and keep body in good shape, enhance immune system, slow down aging
process and keep young;
7.want to
stay away from cancer and other serious diseases associated with aging.
Bigu Fasting professional treatments enable a person to live safely on water and invisible energies for 1 to 3 weeks. This greatly promotes the process of Autophagy within a body's cells and purifies cells naturally.
Please open these two links to learn more about autophagy:
1.
Mystery of life: Autophagy may open the door to longevity from BBC
2.
Mechanisms for autophagy: 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
"Most people’s experience tells them that going a day or two without solid food produces profound hunger and discomfort. The thought of going two or three weeks or longer without food leaves them incredulous, and certainly not eager to undertake such a trial. After supervising hundreds of fasts, many lasting 2-3 weeks, and some up to 30 or 40 days, I can report the happy news that reality is nothing like (much better than) the feared image people hold about fasting.
How can this be?
For the first 24 to 48 hours after beginning a water fast, the body burns off circulating blood sugar and sugar stored in the muscles and liver in the form of glycogen. The “real” metabolic fast does not begin until one metabolizes their blood sugar, in approximately 2 to 3 days. At that time, the body begins to burn fat tissue for fuel. When that happens, molecules called ketones enter the blood circulation. These ketones have some very interesting properties.
For the faster, the main welcome property of ketones is that they suppress hunger. By day four or five of a water fast, hunger is usually gone and is replaced by a feeling of great well-being.
Why more energy, and not less?
So much of the energy that the body uses all day goes to digesting our food including muscular contractions of the intestine, chemical energy used to synthesize stomach acid, bile, and digestive enzymes as well as the billions of immune cells in the intestinal lining that interrogate the chemical nature of the food going by in the digestive tract. When that function is no longer required on a fast, all that energy is freed up and people surprisingly – but predictably – feel very light and energetic for the first several weeks on the fast.
It may be counterintuitive, but it is true nonetheless. The commonly-held image of a long water fast is of a person lying on their bed, weak, hungry and whimpering, trying not to think about food, when actually, the reality is quite the opposite.
People at our TrueNorth Health Center who are on a water fast, frequently stop me in our courtyard to say “Doctor, I haven’t felt this good in years! I haven’t eaten for three weeks, but I feel wonderful!” It really is quite remarkable.
It is during this time that we observe a normalizing of blood pressure and blood sugar readings and a subsiding of most pains, swellings, and other signs of inflammation. (See corresponding references below.)
During a fast, the body is in “Full Energy Conservation Mode” and it does not want to spend precious chemical energy on chaotic, heat-generating, activities, such as inflammatory reactions and growing tumor tissue. During a fast, hot angry joints in rheumatoid arthritis, gout and other inflammatory joint diseases (predictably) cool down, inflamed plaques of psoriasis in the skin are becalmed, and wounds in and on the body heal extremely well. If malignant breast cells are multiplying in tissues, the fasting body generates molecules called sirtuins which put the breaks on cancer growth.
All of us, in our body cells, have remnant molecules of every restaurant meal, fast food snack, and processed food dessert we have ever eaten. There are flavorings, colorings, preservatives, dough conditioners, stabilizers, and thousands of other compounds that compose a chemical soup of modern cuisine in all the cells in our body. These substances accumulate in our tissues over time, contributing to feelings of chronic fatigue and bodily dysfunction.
A water fast has the effect of “taking your cells through the car wash” where day after day, nothing but pure water washes through each and every cell. This markedly lowers the concentrations of the foreign, disruptive molecules.
Thus, it is no wonder that people predictably emerge from a water fast feeling lighter and cleaner on the inside because they really are."
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Welcome to this inspiring blogsite.
My name is Lan. As a professional Bigu Fasting therapist, I am blessed to have
mastered the unique traditional technique to help people easily enter into Bigu fasting state, safely
Living on Divine Light Nutrition and Water for 7-14-21 days. For many years I have been
providing this unique service in different cities and countries
with full confidence. No Risks, No Medicines! It is like a cleansing surgery
without scalpel! It has had thousands of history in China and become more and more popular
with modern people who seek purity, balance and quality of life.
Bigu will prove that YOU ARE MUCH MORE Than A Physical Body. You will be safe and won't feel much sense of hunger after Bigu treatments, which involve pressing points and powerful prayers. All of these are conducted professionally in a particular state. To maintain life processes during Bigu fasting, excess fat and sugar, weak and ill proteins, waste, toxins and abnormal growths in your body will burn off automatically, which benefits you in such ways：
The unique treatments on pressure points are required for the first and last day of Bigu. Services that greatly benefit life are also available here, such as scraping massage treatment, healthcare, spiritual discussion, natural healing advice etc.
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An IT professional, who loves yoga and healthy diet, undertook 14-day Bigu Fasting Regimen recently. To his surprise, he didn't feel hungry at all during the 14 days after the treatments on the points and being specially blessed. He was still able to work and do exercises while living on water only for so many days. He checked his own blood pressure on the 10th day and felt so pleased to see it at ideal level.
Many unexpected great changes have taken place since his Bigu Fasting:
1.
He
has lost 9kgs of weight.
2.
The
wrinkles on his face and neck have reduced a lot naturally due to Bigu detoxing effect, which leads to better blood circulation.
3.
His
skin quality improves considerably and he looks much younger than before.
4.
He
is able to do highly difficult yoga postures freely now.
5. His sweat isn't smelly anymore.
Te The swell on his finger has dissapeared unexpectedly.
His nose isn't runny any more.
He has overcome the habit of compulsive eating overnight.
Frequently Asked Questions About Bigu Fasting
1.What are the differences between Bigu and Starving/Dieting?Bigu: Gastric acid secretion is stopped by powerful treatments from Bigu instructor, which well protects your body and also prevents you from feeling hungry;
The potential invisible life system is activated by treatments, which enable your body to live on more advanced energies and make the metabolism normal , or even better during Bigu;
You are able to work normally and exercise normally. The
second week of Bigu, you feel greatly refreshed and full of vitality.
After Bigu, you enjoy better circulation, feeling a lot
healthier and more fulfilled. You naturally don’t feel like too much food or
too heavy food anymore.
Starving/dieting:
Gastric acid secretion carries on, which causes strong sense
of hunger and serious damages to the body.
Your body is cut off from source of energies.
It is very likely that you feel like eating heavier meals after
starving to make up for the lack of energies.
What will happen automatically when all your regular food is
safely replaced by Divine Light Nutrition for 7 , 14 or 21 days?
The answer is:
A. You will be safe and won't feel sense of hunger after Bigu treatments,
which involve pressing points and activating a new system. The gastric acid secretion and
digestive system will be stopped during Bigu by the unique and powerful treatments;
B. This will give digestive organs time to rest and heal
itself;
C. To maintain life processes, excess fat and sugar, weak proteins, toxins and
some abnormal growths in your body will burn off automatically, which can
1. Make you naturally lose weight each day,
2. Lower blood pressure, blood sugar and fat and uric acid easily,
3. Cleanse inside body “storage” thoroughly and lead to self-healing from many
chronic diseases;
D.This clean-up will purify your energy-field , raise your energy level and put
you into deeper contact with divine universal energies for spiritual growth and
profound inner peace,
E. Make it a natural transformation for you to start a
healthier eating habit or be free from any type of addictions as a purified
body naturally feels like lighter food or drink.
F. Bigu fasting experience and knowledge can help you
survive any unexpected disaster or food crisis.
No risks! No medicines are involved at all! It is like a cleansing surgery
without scalpel!
The essence of life is Light. We human beings have the potential to live on
water and light, just as plants do. In fact, besides visible
digestive system, there is an invisible system to sustain human life. Let's think about food chain, light is absorbed by all kinds of plants while
they are growing, then it enters into animals when animals eat plants; When we
eat meat, grains or vegetables, it enters into our body to support life.
Therefore, ultimately we are nurtured by light all the time, indirectly through
food and directly through Bigu practice.
Bigu has had thousands of years' history in China. Spiritual seekers have been very keen on practising Bigu fasting to improve their
energy levels. Bigu helps modern people achieve perfect figures and wonderful health.
What a marvelous idea it is to burn off all the negative energies built up in
the body into energy to sustain life itself!
Given only 2 weeks, I will prove to you that all the benefits of Bigu fasting
are true and genuine.
Most of modern diseases are the results of excess nutrient
or pollutants in food. Once a human body enters into Bigu state and cuts
off the intake of food, it naturally shuts down its mouth, the portal for
diseases and also provides no energy for weakened, aged, ill and abnormal cells
and tissues. As a result, they are burned off automatically and naturally to
sustain life. Excess sugar and fat is burned off in the first stage, then aged,
weakened and ill proteins, lastly the waste and toxins in blood vessels and
blood throughout a body. This is how Bigu results in natural weightloss and
deep detox leading to self-healing.
Some comments on Bigu were made by a famous Chinese in a
book.
“Bigu is a kind of practice that is for improving our
quality of life and also provides many additional effects we need very much in
our life.
(1) Bigu removes cause of cancer thoroughly and
fundamentally. If one does bigu for three consecutive times, he won’t catch
cancer and will keep healthy until the end of life.
(2) Bigu eliminates all sorts of toxins from the whole body,
which results in self-healing from most diseases.
(3) Bigu helps people lose weight naturally. Many people do
whatever it takes to get slim. Weight-loss is an inevitable effect of Bigu.
(4) Bigu gives wonderful beauty results that are hard to
achieve in hospitals or beauty salons. After Bigu, skin improves considerably,
facial pimples, spots and wrinkles gradually disappear.
(5) People’s memory and concentration level improve
obviously after Bigu.
(6) Bigu sets people free from all kinds of addictions, such
as drug, cigarette, alcohol, coffee. It is a natural process with no suffering
and easily frees us from compulsion.
(7) Bigu has wonderful antiaging effect. It restores youth
to the aged and reverses the functions of body by 20 years, therefore people
feel much rejuvenated after Bigu.
Bigu is not for treating diseases, but it achieves most
effective and rapid therapeutic effects. Bigu is an advanced method to
eliminate toxins thoroughly and holisticly. ”
From :http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/inspire-me/67744102/fasting-could-help-us-cope-with-a-number-of-diseases
We usually think of
fasting as a weight loss measure, but advocates say it has therapeutic benefits
too.
Francoise Wilhelmi de
Toledo combines a passion for her subject with a precision one would expect of
a doctor and scientist with a raft of publications to her name.
"Real medicine is
lifestyle. It is how we live," she says. "Drugs, any drugs, must be
complementary to that."
As medical director of
the renowned Buchinger Wilhelmi Clinic in Germany, she is an authority on
therapeutic fasting and responsible at least in part for the current interest
in its role in the management of chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes,
high blood pressure, high cholesterol and cancer. And, of course, as a means of
weight control made popular by the diet du jour, the 5:2.
The capacity to fast derives from periods when
our ancestors ate more than they needed and built up fat reserves for winter
when access to food was reduced.
Fasting – as part of a
lifestyle – is undoubtedly a good thing, she says, but her focus is on making
it part of the armamentarium available to doctors coping with an epidemic of
lifestyle diseases in the West that threaten to cripple healthcare
systems.
She says there is
strong evidence gathered over many decades to show how it can lower blood
pressure, reduce excess fat and glucose in the blood, modulate the immune
system, increase the effect of the mood and sleep-regulating neuro-transmitter
serotonin, boost protein repair, and reduce inflammation.
Fasting has been
likened to a "reset" button that returns the human body to its –
healthy – factory settings. A study published last year in the United States,
drawing on animal and human trials, concluded that three days of fasting can
rejuvenate the immune system, triggering the production of new white blood
cells. Other studies show that fasting can enable healthy cells to endure
better the toxic impact of chemotherapy while cancer cells die more rapidly. It
is a fascinating area of research that draws on the body's evolutionary
adaptation.
"Human beings are
not programmed for abundance," de Toledo says. "Humans are programmed
for loss." The capacity to fast derives from periods when our ancestors
ate more than they needed and built up fat reserves and surplus nutrients, such
as vitamins and minerals, in summer and autumn.
In winter and spring,
when access to food was much reduced, they endured periods of fasting in which
their metabolism switched automatically from "external nutrition to
nutrition taken from fat reserves".
In the absence of
carbohydrates as a source of energy (glucose) for the cells, fatty acids, from
fat supplies, were broken down in the liver to produce molecules known as
ketone bodies which were used for fuel instead.
Of course we retain
this ability to fast and exist on a ketogenic diet but rarely use it in the
affluent West because food shortages are largely unknown. Nor is there much
incentive to invest in fasting research, despite preliminary evidence that it
may help in Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's. In Russia, there
is a vast, largely unexplored archive built up by a psychiatrist Dr Yuri
Nikolayev, who used fasting or "the hunger cure" to treat a range of
mental disorders.
This lack of interest
frustrates de Toledo.
"Take type 2
diabetes," she says. "This is a disease we know that we can cure
[through fasting]. But there is an industry that sells all these drugs and
devices. We have a type of medicine [in fasting] that is highly successful but
there is no return on investment."
It was as a
17-year-old in Geneva that de Toledo embarked on her first fast with the aid of
a book, because she "was at odds with my weight and wanted to match the
ideal of the slim beauty". She says it was a revelation, that she felt
"buoyant, sometimes euphoric" while fasting.
She says people who
turn to fasting include some seeking help for intractable health problems while
for others weight loss is the primary goal. Many, however, are seeking respite
from stress of work in the "spiritual dimension of fasting" that de
Toledo claims is one of its most beneficial side effects.
She still fasts twice
a year, during a 12-day annual retreat, and to counteract a severe seasonal
allergy to birch pollen. She says suspicion and cynicism about fasting is still
rife among doctors and nutritionists and she is determined to challenge it. "We
want to document and show that fasting is therapeutically efficient, safe and
enjoyable," she says.
The science, it would
seem, is increasingly on her side.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161003103237.htm
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet
has today decided to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to
Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.
Summary
This year's Nobel
Laureate discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying autophagy,
a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components.
The word autophagy originates
from the Greek words auto-, meaning "self," and phagein,
meaning "to eat". Thus,autophagy denotes "self
eating." This concept emerged during the 1960's, when researchers first
observed that the cell could destroy its own contents by enclosing it in
membranes, forming sack-like vesicles that were transported to a recycling
compartment, called the lysosome, for degradation.
Difficulties in studying the phenomenon meant that little was known until, in a
series of brilliant experiments in the early 1990's, Yoshinori Ohsumi used
baker's yeast to identify genes essential for autophagy. He then went on to
elucidate the underlying mechanisms for autophagy in yeast and showed that
similar sophisticated machinery is used in our cells.
Ohsumi's discoveries
led to a new paradigm in our understanding of how the cell recycles its
content. His discoveries opened the path to understanding the fundamental
importance of autophagy in many physiological processes, such as in the
adaptation to starvation or response to infection. Mutations in autophagy genes
can cause disease, and the autophagic process is involved in several conditions
including cancer and neurological disease.
Degradation -- a
central function in all living cells
In the mid 1950's
scientists observed a new specialized cellular compartment, called an organelle, containing
enzymes that digest proteins, carbohydrates and lipids. This specialized
compartment is referred to as a "lysosome" and functions as a
workstation for degradation of cellular constituents. The Belgian scientist
Christian de Duve was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974
for the discovery of the lysosome. New observations during the 1960's showed
that large amounts of cellular content, and even whole organelles, could
sometimes be found inside lysosomes. The cell therefore appeared to have a
strategy for delivering large cargo to the lysosome. Further biochemical and
microscopic analysis revealed a new type of vesicle transporting cellular cargo
to the lysosome for degradation. Christian de Duve, the scientist behind the
discovery of the lysosome, coined the term autophagy, "self-eating,"
to describe this process. The new vesicles were named autophagosomes.
During the 1970's and
1980's researchers focused on elucidating another system used to degrade proteins,
namely the "proteasome." Within this research field Aaron
Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for "the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein
degradation." The proteasome efficiently degrades proteins one-by-one, but
this mechanism did not explain how the cell got rid of larger protein complexes
and worn-out organelles. Could the process of autophagy be the answer and, if
so, what were the mechanisms?
A groundbreaking
experiment
Yoshinori Ohsumi had
been active in various research areas, but upon starting his own lab in 1988,
he focused his efforts on protein degradation in the vacuole, an
organelle that corresponds to the lysosome in human cells. Yeast cells are
relatively easy to study and consequently they are often used as a model for
human cells. They are particularly useful for the identification of genes that
are important in complex cellular pathways. But Ohsumi faced a major challenge;
yeast cells are small and their inner structures are not easily distinguished
under the microscope and thus he was uncertain whether autophagy even existed
in this organism. Ohsumi reasoned that if he could disrupt the degradation
process in the vacuole while the process of autophagy was active, then
autophagosomes should accumulate within the vacuole and become visible under
the microscope. He therefore cultured mutated yeast lacking vacuolar
degradation enzymes and simultaneously stimulated autophagy by starving the
cells. The results were striking! Within hours, the vacuoles were filled with
small vesicles that had not been degraded. The vesicles were autophagosomes and
Ohsumi's experiment proved that authophagy exists in yeast cells. But even more
importantly, he now had a method to identify and characterize key genes
involved this process. This was a major break-through and Ohsumi published the
results in 1992.
Autophagy genes are
discovered
Ohsumi now took
advantage of his engineered yeast strains in which autophagosomes accumulated
during starvation. This accumulation should not occur if genes important for
autophagy were inactivated. Ohsumi exposed the yeast cells to a chemical that
randomly introduced mutations in many genes, and then he induced autophagy. His
strategy worked! Within a year of his discovery of autophagy in yeast, Ohsumi
had identified the first genes essential for autophagy. In his subsequent
series of elegant studies, the proteins encoded by these genes were
functionally characterized. The results showed that autophagy is controlled by
a cascade of proteins and protein complexes, each regulating a distinct stage
of autophagosome initiation and formation.
Autophagy -- an
essential mechanism in our cells
After the
identification of the machinery for autophagy in yeast, a key question
remained. Was there a corresponding mechanism to control this process in other
organisms? Soon it became clear that virtually identical mechanisms operate in
our own cells. The research tools required to investigate the importance of
autophagy in humans were now available.
Thanks to Ohsumi and
others following in his footsteps, we now know that autophagy controls
important physiological functions where cellular components need to be degraded
and recycled. Autophagy can rapidly provide fuel for energy and building blocks
for renewal of cellular components, and is therefore essential for the cellular
response to starvation and other types of stress. After infection, autophagy
can eliminate invading intracellular bacteria and viruses. Autophagy
contributes to embryo development and cell differentiation. Cells also use
autophagy to eliminate damaged proteins and organelles, a quality control
mechanism that is critical for counteracting the negative consequences of
aging.
Disrupted autophagy
has been linked to Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes and other disorders
that appear in the elderly. Mutations in autophagy genes can cause genetic
disease. Disturbances in the autophagic machinery have also been linked to
cancer. Intense research is now ongoing to develop drugs that can target
autophagy in various diseases.
Autophagy has been
known for over 50 years but its fundamental importance in physiology and
medicine was only recognized after Yoshinori Ohsumi's paradigm-shifting
research in the 1990's. For his discoveries, he is awarded this year's Nobel
Prize in physiology or medicine.
Key publications
Takeshige, K., Baba,
M., Tsuboi, S., Noda, T. and Ohsumi, Y. (1992). Autophagy in yeast demonstrated
with proteinase-deficient mutants and conditions for its induction. Journal of
Cell Biology 119, 301-311
Tsukada, M. and
Ohsumi, Y. (1993). Isolation and characterization of autophagy-defective
mutants of Saccharomyces cervisiae. FEBS Letters 333, 169-174
Mizushima, N., Noda,
T., Yoshimori, T., Tanaka, Y., Ishii, T., George, M.D., Klionsky, D.J., Ohsumi,
M. and Ohsumi, Y. (1998). A protein conjugation system essential for autophagy.
Nature 395, 395-398
Ichimura, Y., Kirisako
T., Takao, T., Satomi, Y., Shimonishi, Y., Ishihara, N., Mizushima, N., Tanida,
I., Kominami, E., Ohsumi, M., Noda, T. and Ohsumi, Y. (2000). A ubiquitin-like
system mediates protein lipidation. Nature, 408, 488-492
Yoshinori Ohsumi was born 1945 in Fukuoka, Japan. He
received a Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in 1974. After spending three years
at Rockefeller University, New York, USA, he returned to the University of
Tokyo where he established his research group in 1988. He is since 2009 a
professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
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