Autophagy (pronounced as aw-TAW-pha-gee), literally means eating oneself. When Yoshinori Ohsumi discovered the mechanism of autophagy in baker’s yeast and received a Nobel Prize in 2016, it started a wave of studies and research on autophagy in animals and ultimately human health(1). Autophagy allows cells to recycle their intracellular contents to “rejuvenate” or simply self cleanse. It is decluttering in the cellular level, getting rid of old, nonessential organelles to ma