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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 Effects of Glucose on Cancer

Cancer is just a symptom of damaged respiration. Glucose doesn't cause cancer per se, although when it's chronically elevated, it can lead to the damage that will ultimately cause cancer. Some have said that just living longer, if we push human lifespan long enough, we're all inevitably going to develop cancer. Is there any truth to that? Well, I don't know. We have an intrinsic set point in our bodies that allow us to live a certain number of years on the planet. Every species of animal has a lifespan. That lifespan seems to be dictated by some intrinsic property of the mitochondria. Cancer is accelerated entropy. So what you have now is disordered cells

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