Tag: redox

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Vitamin C (IV route) doubles survival time in advanced pancreatic cancer patients

Linus Pauling is probably smiling while he is looking down upon us from above. High-dose vitamin C…

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Pro-oxidant therapy (w/ vitamin K) may treat cancer

The study is very new so I can’t get access to its full contents yet, but I…

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Vitamin K is crucial for lung function and may prevent/treat COPD

Vitamin K is one of the least-studied vitamins, though that has been changing lately, largely due to…

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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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Fatty acid oxidation – linking all illness (especially cancer) with stress and diet (fasting / low-carb)

The study below is one perhaps the most comprehensive review published to date, challenging the medical dogma…

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Cancer relies on fat as fuel due to high reductive stress

One of the few studies out there that not only links cancer with impaired OXPHOS, but demonstrates…

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“Reductive” stress harms cells, mitochondria protect by increasing metabolism

Finally a study that provide me with some “ammo” during my arguments with people I know who…

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Niacinamide + pyruvate may treat glaucoma (human study)

Some excellent results from a human clinical trial. Namely, a combination of 3g niacinamide and 3g (calcium)…

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Low, not high, metabolism creates oxidative stress

A hugely popular tenet of the “rate of living” theory is that the higher the metabolic rate…

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Alcohol causes liver (and other organ) damage by lowering NAD/NADH ratio

A neat little study, which demonstrates once again the crucial role of energy and optimal redox status…