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#30 - Thomas Seyfried, Ph.D.: Controversial discussion—cancer as a mitochondrial metabolic disease?
The Peter Attia Drive
Cancer Cells Can't Burn Key Tones
The keytones provide the normal cells with a fuel as an alternative to glucos, that the tumor cells can't use. Most of the most aggressive cancer cells can't burn keytones because thy're mitocondura defective. If you take ken cancor cells and grow them in a dish without glucos and glutomiand just key tones, they die. But normal cells don't. The normal cells can survive on the key tones without the glucos andglutomi. So this is the keytones are not to kill cancer cells. It's a selective it selects for enhancing the vitality of the normal cell, while putting the cancer cell at a competitive disadvantage.
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