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A combo of fasting plus Vitamin C is effective for cancer treatment, study shows
- ummonk 5y agoThe crucial qualifier being “in mice”. Regardless it’s cool that this works in mice, but animal model results fail to generalize to humans more often than not.
- belter 5y agoCould be, but apparently we are 98% mice: "Just 2.5% of DNA turns mice into men" https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2352-just-2-5-of-dna-turns-mice-into-men/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2352-just-2-5-of-dna-...
- vnchr 5y agoWe share 60% DNA with bananas. Bananas don’t get cancer. Cancer must come from the other 40%.
- belter 5y agoYou will find that your statement is not as controversial as you probably wanted to make it:-)
- bsder 5y agoAnd, yet, the vast majority of drugs effective in mice fail in humans. That 2.5% kinda matters ... a lot.
- amznbyebyebye 5y agoThe vitamin c thing I think is common knowledge at this point thanks to the work of Linus Pauling
- kjellsbells 5y agowhenever i see a headline like this i always add the qualifier, "in mice", and, invariably, that is what the reported effect was measured in. Just like this one. Derek Lowe, explains some of the problems with mice models here https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mice-studies-and-men https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mice-studies-and-m...