Autoag

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, Autoag has been mentioned in one podcast episode on HUBERMAN LAB (Jun 2025). The body's built-in cleanup system, essential for anti-aging and energy regulation, stimulated by gut bacteria.

Autophagy is the natural, conserved degradation of a biological cell that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components through a lysosome-dependent regulated mechanism. It allows the orderly degradation and recycling of cellular components. Although initially characterized as a primordial degradation pathway induced to protect against starvation, it has become increasingly clear that autophagy also plays a major role in the homeostasis of non-starved cells. Defects in autophagy have been link