Kuala Lampur, July 25 -- I've been reading some popular science books and I'd like to share some interesting findings, especially for all you durian lovers out there.

It appears that our beloved king of fruits contains something beneficial to our health.

Apparently durians produce this molecule called spermidine (yes, I know what that sounds like) which is important because it promotes this biological process known as autophagy.

If you Google that word you'll see that it's a process by which our bodies perform a clean-up of weak or dying cells.

Meaning "self-eating" or "self-devouring", longevity expert Peter Attia explains:

".the catabolic side of metabolism, when the cell stops producing new proteins and instead begins to break dow...