Chris Masterjohn: The Best Ways To Optimize Your Diet & Nutrition | Episode 16
The Joe Cohen Show
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Is B12 a Cancer Preventative Drug?
Most cancers require niacin for growth in some form. Some cancers will preferentially feed off nicotinamide riboside versus nicotinic acid because they have different pathways of synthesizing or accumulating niacin that are activated. But niacin is genome protective. So if you try to restrict niacin on the basis that you have a family history of cancer when you don't have cancer, you're probably going to wind up with cancer as a result of it. This is very similar with protein intake. Like protein intake will fuel cancer growth when you have it. It's essential at the doses that will promote cancer progression and actually are cancer preventative. The problem is
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