Did You Know!
Your Brain Can Eat Itself to Stay Alive
Under extreme starvation, your brain triggers a survival process called autophagy — literally meaning “self-eating.”
Instead of dying immediately from lack of nutrients, brain cells begin breaking down and recycling their own damaged components for energy.
It’s a last-resort survival mechanism — and it’s one reason humans can survive longer without food than most animals.
Your brain would rather cannibalize itself than shut down.
