autophagy
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- noun
- /ˌɔːtəˈfɑːdʒi/
- Specialized
- Many studies indicate that autophagy is vital for cellular health and longevity by clearing harmful substances.
- autophagy proteins
- autophagy regulators
- autophagy activation
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Watch on YouTubeAnd I wrote my first book on autophagy and self eating of the cell.
- And I wrote my first book on autophagy and self eating of the cell.
- That that process autophagy sorts of clean up the mess that's built up.
- Well, it turns out fasting profoundly increases autophagy.
- Protein is the key, sort of when you eat protein, autophagy just stops.
- I have an autophagy activating complex that we just patented.
- Fasting of any kind does tend to enhance autophagy.
- Now, some people notice, and I have no doubt that if you fast for longer periods of time, the autophagy is going to increase.
- And this makes sense because one of So the global picture of autophagy is stimulated by fasting states or fasting mimicking states.
- So yeah, with with autophagy, it's great for preventing colds.
- So autophagy from fasting is a big deal.
- Maybe they heard the word autophagy or whatever, but the problem is they're not understanding that circadian rhythms run our body.
Examples
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While its function in autophagy is well established, other roles are less widely appreciated in mammalian cells.
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The process of autophagy allows cells to recycle their damaged components to maintain health.
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And I wrote my first book on autophagy and self eating of the cell.
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And both of those ramp up your rate of autophagy, which is a very, very good and healthy thing.
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Exercise can get you to autophagy faster than fasting.
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And so autophagy is required for some steps of the immuno surveillance process.
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Here we show that autophagy is essential for normal neutrophil differentiation in vivo.
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Long-lived proteins and organelles can be degraded in the autophagy-lysosomal degradation pathway.
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Cells rely on autophagy to remove unnecessary proteins and organelles during stress.
Surface Forms
Morphology
autophagy = auto + phagy
This is a technical term built from Greek combining forms meaning 'self' + 'eating'; the meaning is fairly direct in scientific contexts but not fully transparent to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
The word autophagy comes from the Greek parts auto- 'self' and -phagy 'to eat', and auto- is the same 'self' you see in automatic. So it literally means 'self-eating', which helps you remember that cells break down and recycle their own parts to stay healthy.