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Autophagy is the body’s natural "self-eating" mechanism that disassembles damaged or dysfunctional cellular components to repurpose them for energy and repair. This essential housekeeping process identifies waste like misfolded proteins or worn-out mitochondria and encloses them in a double-membrane vesicle known as an autophagosome. Once this vesicle fuses with a lysosome, acidic enzymes digest the contents into raw building blocks like amino acids that the cell can use to rebuild itself. The h