Tag: lactate

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Lactate drives cancer resistance to chemotherapy, reducing lactate is therapeutic

Over the last 5-6 years, a number of high profile articles (many of them, including the new…

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Lactate damages mitochondria and can cause (pulmonary) fibrosis

In the first half of the 20th century lactate had a largely negative reputation in medical circles…

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Reduced availability/oxidation of glucose sufficient to cause heart failure (HF)

Yet another “mysterious” idiopathic condition turns out to be nothing but metabolic dysregulation in disguise. Also, unlike…

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Even briefly elevated lactate is a “master” cause of chronic diseases

The title of the post actually does not do justice to how strongly the study authors word…

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Lactate is a key driver of diabetes/obesity, by promoting inflammation

A great study, demonstrating that in diabetes (just as in cancer) the so-called Warburg Effect (aerobic glycolysis)…

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Reduced pyruvate and/or increased lactate drive heart failure

I just did a post on the role of reduced glucose metabolism, lower pyruvate/NAM/NAD and elevated lactate…

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Niacinamide may treat ALS by improving energetic state

Another study sent to me by the Austrian collaborator. Once again, the energetic origin of “incurable” diseases…

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Giving COVID-19 patients pure oxygen (O2) may be brain-toxic

The current coronavirus epidemic is bringing a number of pervasive but concealed issue to the forefront. One…

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Lactate is an oncometabolite (promotes cancer), no genes/mutations needed

It has now been more than 5 years since a seminal post/discussion on Reddit raised the question…

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Acidosis (Warburg Effect) drives cancer through increased fat oxidation (Randle Cycle)

The evidence continues to pile on that naming the (in)famous observation made by Otto Warburg in regards…