Aging is a culmination of factors spanning from your cells to your environment. A number of interconnected processes determine how quickly your body is able to repair and recover from damage.
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Cells degrade and recycle damaged parts of themselves through a process called autophagy. When this “self-devouring” goes awry, it may promote cancer and neurodegenerative disease.
Autophagy may be Nobel-winning research, but so far there’s no evidence that boosting how your cells recycle nutrients makes you live longer or lose weight.
Ohsumi, autophagy pioneer.
Can you imagine being so desperate for food that you would eat yourself to survive? Most people can’t but our cells do exactly this. When cells are deprived of energy and nutrients from their external…
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Post-Doctoral Researcher, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Director of Cancer Research. CANCER THEME, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Professor of molecular neurogenetics, University of Cambridge
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Head, Lysosomal Health in Ageing research group, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Postdoctoral researcher, Lysosomal Health in Ageing research group, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego
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Postdoctoral Scholar of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, University of California, San Diego
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Assistant Professor in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
