Autophagy
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Autophagy is an intracellular process of cell self-cleaning, a kind of “spring cleaning”. This is a detoxification that starts at the cellular level and improves the quality of life of the entire organism.
There are about 300 different theories of aging, which consider the same processes, with different emphases. The single structure that unites all theories is the cell. An ancient innate mechanism for cell self-survival, maintaining health and youth is called autophagy. For confirming the mechanism of autophagy, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2016.