Autophagy: What You Should Know #shorts #podcast #longevity #health #biohacking

get replaced less frequently because the body does have its own inbuilt kind of oven cleaning system and can normally clean out the damaged mitochondria or the misfolded proteins in the cell. But as we get older, we do that less and less. And scientists have now discovered that that is because this process of autophagy, where self-eating in Greek, which is cellular renewal and repair that happens less frequently. I'm sure lots of your listeners know about the benefits of fasting and sauna and cold water plunge. All of those things will trigger autophagy as well, but you can do the same with some of the molecules in foods. So I mentioned earlier that spermidine is produced by you, me, our children, our pets. Every plant— that houseplant behind you is making spermidine as well. And it's just that the