Learning about autophagy and its health benefits is important, but you may also be wondering if it is really possible to induce that state.
As Daniel Klionsky, a researcher at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, explains it in this playful art and science
video about autophagy, «the cell carries out a dance of spring cleaning 365 days a year.»
We've
known about autophagy for a long time, but have more recently been leaning more about how awakening this process can majorly affect your biological aging process, reduce your risk for disease, boost your vitality and energy, invigorate your skin, and even help you lose weight.
As we begin to
think about autophagy in general, and the specific mechanisms of mitophagy, the genius of the human body's innate natural survival adaptations reveal themselves in quite remarkable ways.