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Lung tissue has an unusual exposure profile. It meets the outside world directly, processes roughly ten thousand litres of air […]

The eye is a strange and useful place to test a neuroprotective compound. The retina is central nervous tissue that

Parkinson’s disease is a protein-aggregation disorder, which puts it squarely in the territory where an autophagy inducer should matter. Alpha-synuclein

Alzheimer’s is where the autophagy hypothesis meets its most demanding test. The disease is defined by the accumulation of proteins

Osteoarthritis is an unusually good fit for the autophagy hypothesis, and the research community has noticed. Cartilage is avascular, so

The kidney is an unusually good test case for anything that claims to work through autophagy. It is metabolically expensive,

Muscle is an unusually good test case for autophagy-based supplements, because muscle tissue depends heavily on clearing damaged proteins and

In late 2023 a study in Nature Aging reported that spermidine restored oocyte quality and fertility in aged female mice,

If fasting already switches on autophagy, does adding a supplement that also switches on autophagy do anything extra? It is