Tag: cancer

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Niacinamide and/or methionine depletion is therapeutic for brain cancer (glioblastoma)

I just did a post on how depletion of cysteine (a reductant and glutathione precursor) is therapeutic…

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Phase II human study with vitamin B3 for brain cancer (glioblastoma)

This type of cancer is one of the deadliest and even with treatment the prognosis is very…

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Chronic stress can cause/drive liver cancer (HCC) by affecting tryptophan metabolism

Little by little, we are seeing new studies call (timidly) for a “paradigm shift” (read: euphemism for…

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Vitamin K deficiency or antagonism (e.g. warfarin) can cause/promote liver cancer (HCC)

It is rate that we get medicine to admit that a “primitive” vitamin deficiency can directly cause…

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Alcohol is a reductant and as such it raises (not lowers) GSH and the GSH/GSSG ratio

One of the established emergency room protocols for alcohol poisoning is the intravenous administration of GSH, often…

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Serotonin (5-HT) may drive brain/liver/pancreatic and many other cancers, at the genomic level

Hardly the “happiness hormone”, right? I am posting this just as a placeholder since the article is…

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Wasting syndrome (cachexia) driven by low metabolism/NAD+; can be blocked/reversed

One of those articles that fully corroborates Ray’s views that metabolism is central not only to “function”,…

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Magnesium has anti-cancer effects by increasing vitamin D synthesis (in the gut)

A very interesting study, which may shed some light on the known anti-cancer properties of magnesium, which…

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The benefits of sunlight outweigh the risks of skin cancer

Several years ago I did a post on a study showing that, when it comes to overall…

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Glutathione (GSH) drives cancer metastasis by promoting cell survival under hypoxia

In many of the podcasts I have done over the years, as well as many of my…