Autophagy 101: Why Fasting Is Doing More Than You Think

When Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in 2016 for discovering autophagy's mechanisms, the scientific world took notice. Autophagy is your cells' recycling system: a tightly regulated process that breaks down damaged proteins, dysfunctional mitochondria, and cellular debris. It is one of the most potent endogenous defences against cancer, neurodegeneration, and infection.