So let's talk about the antiviral effect of autophagy.

Where is autophagy?

It means self-eat.

Your body has a certain mechanism that it can break down things and recycle them.

Autophagy is mainly known for breaking down damaged proteins in the body.

But it also can deal with, clear out, intracellular viruses, bacteria, fungus, candida, even nano-bacteria

that's hiding in the biofilms, which are a little calcium igloos, quite fascinating

that you have in your body right now this defense mechanism, this survival mechanism,

to keep these microbes outside the body.

Autophagy works with both parts of the immune system.

On one hand, you have the innate immune system, which is something you're born with, and

you have certain mechanisms like phagocytosis, where the neutrophils and the phagocytes actually

engulf viruses and other microbes and eat them.

Then you also have the natural killer cells, which kill cancer cells and viruses.

That's on the innate part.

But it also is affected on the adaptive part, which is the other part of the immune system.

That's also called the acquired immune system, where it learns from experience.

What happened in Autophagy is that it will break down a virus and it'll take a part of

that virus and present it to the T cells.

It'll be equivalent to taking a picture of some bad guy and giving it to immigration.

So if they try to cross the border, they see this guy and then they take them down.

There are certain killer's T cells that can kill viruses, but they need help to be able

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