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Sugar compound from deep-sea bacteria revealed to cause cancer cells to explosively self destruct through pyroptosis (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I imagine this will be similar to chemotherapy.

As in, it technically affects all your cells, it just happens to affect cancer cells a lot more. In this case, because they try to absorb extra sugars in many cases.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Cancer cells often times lose their ability to perform oxidative phosphorylation. This means they can only rely on glycolysis as a sole source of ATP... This makes them EXCESSIVELY glucose hungry.

    It's called the warburg effect. I'd have to read up on it and brush up on biochem, but that's the basic principle.

    Essentially, cancer should soak up all the harmful sugar before it hits normal cells. This makes it even safer in theory than traditional chemo like methotrexate and such

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Holy shit Thrive is so good, that I've understood most of your terms. Peak game

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Because they try to absorb extra sugars in many cases.

    I have absolutely no medical knowledge besides a first aid course. Does that mean that, by not eating any sugars, I could starve cancer cells? So like during keto (I did that years ago before the boom) I actually could have starved a lot of cancer cells?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    no because your liver makes sugars anyway. however there's a more limited, more targeted way to deplete blood of select aminoacids that some cancers can't make (asparaginase can be used this way)

    it's one of these things that sound good and doesn't work. many such cases

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yes, certain cancer therapy benefits from a zero sugar, low but high quality carb diet. You'll slow the cancer a lot, and can help prevent it from coming back like that. You'll still need something to kill it though, because your body still produces and needs sugars.

    And some are unaffected because they're part of something that can already make or requires sugars, like brain or liver cancers.

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