The Most Important Benefit of Autophagy: Will Surprise You

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let’s talk about the most important benefit of autophagy and this is gonna surprise you now if you’re not familiar with the autophagy is a condition where your body is recycling damaged or old and not needed proteins in the body I’m not talking just about hair and muscle I’m talking about those little enzyme protein machines that do the work of the body those are the things that make body tissue and they’re at the cellular level when those are damaged autophagy is a system to clean those out of the body and recycle them okay so autophagy decreases the risk of chronic disease at autophagy will help recycle protein as a survival mechanism for example one of the triggers for autophagy is fasting so that would be kind of a similar thing to starvation so the body kicks in this mechanism to help become more efficient so as to survive longer so it’ll take the protein it doesn’t need recycle it into new tissue and even use it as fuel also the autophagy can help reduce pathogens in the body and it protects the neurons as a survival mechanism the heart cells and it gets rid of what’s called advanced glycation end-products which basically means like sticky proteins that clog things up as well as plaquing in the brain so it cleans up all this damaged protein in the cells that’s what autophagy is but the most important function of autophagy is anti-cancer so let me explain this now the difference between a normal cell and a cancer cell has to do with this one thing and that has to do with this in a normal cell you have respiration in the mitochondria what does that mean well fuel is converted through a machine to make energy currency of the bodies called ATP so you fuel like glucose that uses oxygen to then be burned and that’s the energy currency of the body so in a normal cell you have something called mitochondrial respiration the mitochondria is the energy Factory and respiration has to do with breathing or oxygen okay so a normal cell needs oxygen to generate fuel now in a cancer cell there’s damage to this respiratory mechanism so this motor with a carburetor that uses oxygen is broken okay there’s irreversible damage so what happens when you damage that system as a survival mechanism this cell starts to activate an ancient pathway that is able to ferment glucose which basically is a way of breaking it down differently without the use of oxygen now whether there’s oxygen or not that has nothing to do with it glucose fermentation doesn’t necessarily need oxygen to make its energy so that is the difference between a cancer cell and a normal cell normal cells use oxygen in the respiratory center this is a fancy name for it right here and cancer cells basically ferment glucose without oxygen one of the ways that they test for cancer is through a PET scan and a PET scan they are measuring extreme glucose consumption cancer cells are extremely hungry for glucose they hog glucose more than normal cells and sometimes you will starve than normal cells now just by knowing that simple fact right there why would anyone want to consume a lot of glucose or sugar if they have cancer now the other question asked is why is there damage in this part of the mitochondria well my theory is that it has something to do with the DNA that gets damaged because what’s unique about the mitochondria is that the mitochondria has its own DNA hey it’s called mitochondria DNA versus the DNA in the nucleus of the cell which is highly protective the DNA and the mitochondria are much more prone to mutation or alteration because they’re not as protected now the mitochondria can use the DNA from the nucleus of the cell but it also has its own DNA and I think that’s really why it becomes damaged because it’s simply not protected you cannot get cancer in your body unless there’s damage to this respiratory part of the mitochondria what does all this mean it means that autophagy has the ability to clean up this damage in you mitochondria because these are protein machines these are enzymes the protein damage in the mitochondria that causes the cells to shift can be cleaned up by autophagy so that makes this benefit anti-cancer the most important benefit of autophagy now there are two videos you need to watch now you need to know all the things that can stimulate autophagy one being intermittent fasting but there’s another video that I will put on the screen and also down below that is on cancer in my interview with Professor Thomas Seyfried you have to check that out