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Cancer loves sugar. They generally disable the mitochondria and burn glucose in a much less efficient anaerobic process. Areas with malnutrition and lower lif
by chasil 4y ago
Cancer loves sugar.
They generally disable the mitochondria and burn glucose in a much less efficient anaerobic process.
Areas with malnutrition and lower life expectancy would not grow them very well.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoIs there data that supports this? (I don't even know where to look for a query of that sort)
- chasil 4y agoThe change in a cancer cell's glucose processing is known as the Warburg Effect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect_(oncology) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect_(oncology) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2849637/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2849637/
- jjtheblunt 4y agoThanks. Is there any study that areas of malnutrition have lower cancers? I imagine it's hard sorting out causality, with sugar in wealthy western style diets, and perhaps different environmental stressors (pollution?) elsewhere?