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Is it the meat or the sodium nitrite used to cure it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_nitrite#Cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_nitrite#Cancer
by throw_pm23 2y ago
Is it the meat or the sodium nitrite used to cure it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_nitrite#Cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_nitrite#Cancer
- adrian_b 2y agoThe research paper identifies as the cause of cancer the oxidized Fe(III) ions, which are bound to the hemoglobin from blood or to the myoglobin from red muscles. Those are the proteins with iron that give to blood the ability to transport oxygen and to red muscles the ability to store oxygen. Similar iron proteins, e.g. the so-called cytochromes, exist in all the cells of all aerobic living beings, but only in amounts many times lower than in the blood and red muscles of vertebrates. Most of the other iron ions that can be found in water, in food or in iron supplements are reduced Fe(II) ions, which are not involved in this cancer-causing process.