Tag: cancer
Hyperlipidemia (induced by ketogenic diet) drives tumor growth, even in the absence of obesity
For years, mainstream medicine and popular diet gurus have promoted the ketogenic diet as a “cancer-fighting” strategy. The…
Metabolic (OXPHOS) speed/rate, not ATP levels, determines health (and keeps cancer in check)
Mainstream “mitochondrial medicine” is almost exclusively obsessed with ATP levels. The assumption is that mitochondria are important only…
Niacinamide reverses aerobic glycolysis (Warburg Effect)
The Warburg effect — the conversion of glucose to lactate even in the presence of oxygen —…
Starving cancer of glucose is a BAD idea
For years, mainstream oncology has been pushing the idea of “starving cancer” by depriving tumors of glucose….
A high GSSG/GSH ratio (oxidized state) is required for proper protein folding; the opposite favors disease (cancer)
Glutathione is almost always discussed in mainstream medicine as a pure “antioxidant” — with the implicit assumption…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…