
Discover how your cells can literally eat themselves to keep you young. Biohacking leader Siim Land reveals the science of autophagy - ranked #1 in the Rejuvenation Olympics ahead of Bryan Johnson. What if fasting could trigger your body's hidden longevity switch?
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Imagine your body as a bustling city where billions of cells work tirelessly to keep you alive. Over time, these cells accumulate damage-like a city collecting trash and broken infrastructure. What if there was a way to trigger a massive cleanup operation throughout this cellular metropolis? This is exactly what metabolic autophagy offers-your body's natural "self-eating" mechanism that recycles damaged components and rejuvenates cells. While Silicon Valley executives and Hollywood celebrities pay thousands for cutting-edge longevity treatments, this powerful biological process is available to everyone for free. Autophagy-which earned Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi the 2016 Nobel Prize-may be the most potent anti-aging tool we possess, capable of reducing inflammation, improving immunity, preventing cellular damage, suppressing cancer cells, and eliminating pathogens. But here's the fascinating part: triggering this cellular cleanup requires periods without food-a practice our ancestors experienced naturally but that modern convenience has nearly eliminated from our lives.