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302: The Shocking Root Cause of Cancer and How to Starve It Naturally | Thomas Seyfried, PhD

The Genius Life

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The Warburg Effect and Cancer

The Warburg effect is the continued use of fermentation with lactic acid production in the presence of oxygen. Glucose is a facilitator of tumor growth if you were to have cancer. Cancer cells have defects in that organelle leading to a fermentation. When the fermentation replaces the use of oxygen, the cell loses its growth control and grows dysregulated.

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