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530: Metabolic Therapy: The Perfect Treatment for Starving Cancer | Dr. Thomas Seyfried

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The Role of Oxygen in Cancer

Cancer is a mitochondrial metabolic disease. Cancer cells are taking in oxygen just as readily as normal cells. They have oxygen consumption that's not linked to efficient energy production. We interrogated the cancer cells from different types of cancers and just said, okay, what can you guys grow on? And we took everything away from the tumor cells,. Put them in nothing and just salt water, the salt solution called phosphate buffered saline Solution (DMEM) But they don't live very long in this DMEM which is kind of a cocktail of some amino acids. The cancer cells are all dead in DMEM but then they croak. Now we know something to live back; we add sugars and amino

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