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#31 - Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D.: metabolism, mitochondria, and metformin in health and disease

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Is My Metform an Anti-Inflammatory?

Clycolisis is necessary, but so is mitachondria. That cancer cells use a robust mitocondual function. And if that function doesn't work, the t c cycle, or the respiratory chain doesn't workk in most cancers, you don't get a tumor. Now, there are these rare cancers where it has a t csychal mutation,. So they look at that rare phenomenon, exception to the rule. This is illogical. It's the exception to theruleof most cancers and i'm in that camp. Well, by the way, then these drugs, if they make it in the clinic, can really make a difference.

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