What Is Autophagy? Imagine if every night, while you slept, a team of cleaners came through your home—sorting, recycling, and hauling away the junk that’s built up during the day. Inside your body, something remarkably similar happens at the cellular level. This process is called autophagy, from the Greek auto (“self”) and phagein (“to eat”)—literally, “self-eating.” While it may sound […]
Have you noticed how much effort it takes these days to stay healthy? When I was a little kid diabetes was a rare almost unheard of disease. We all knew about heart attacks, but nobody my parents or their parents knew had had one. Cancer was not even a word that was in the […]
Spring has sprung. My daffodils have come and gone already. Green stuff is popping up everywhere. If you were a hunter-gatherer, you would be eating those green things. Throughout most of human history, this time of year meant near starvation. The only things to eat were the new young shoots and any game you might […]