Did you know that in 2016 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi for his important discoveries regarding ′′ autophagia ", and that this discovery might be interesting for ASEA Associates?

Unless you studied cell biology, you may not have heard the word ′′ autophagia But this is a word many people learned from the main news when this Nobel Prize was awarded in 2016 What is autophagus?

Did you know that scientists studying cell behavior in the 60 s discovered that a cell could destroy part of its own content by transporting it to another compartment (called ′′ lysoome ′′) for demolition? This process was called autophagic or ′′ self-food Yoshinori Ohsumi's groundbreaking discovery showed that the lysosome was ′′ not a garbage dump ". It was a recycling installation ". He showed that autophagia is not only a process of dumping waste products, but a process that breaks down and recycle cellular components .

And what is recycling? ′′ The process of converting waste material into new materials and objects."

The Nobel Foundation continued to describe diseases related to disrupted, inefficient autophagic. Autophagia is the only known mechanism for mitochondrial turnover.

Did you know that everyone interested in ASEA Science should find this interesting?
Why?

Because: redox signal molecules were once misunderstood and were considered useless waste by-products of cell metabolism - just as they once thought the lysosome was a dumpster instead of a very critical ′′ recycling installation "!

Because: the mitochondria themselves (recycled during autophagia) break down something or ′′ recycle ". They break down water and salt molecules in the cells and something new emerges: a balanced supply of completely new molecules, molecules that are in AsEA, molecules that are crucial for the preservation of homeostasis and body capacity to recover!

Because: just like diseases are linked to a disrupted, inefficient process of autophagia ′′ recycling ", diseases are also linked to a disrupted, inefficient process of using the water and the salt of the cells to make redox signalling molecules!