#31 - Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D.: metabolism, mitochondria, and metformin in health and disease
The Peter Attia Drive
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The Cancer Cell Is Not Optimizing for Energetics
Ten years ago, a paper in science said that the cancer cell is not optimizing for energetics. It's doing that to get the through put of building blocks for cells. So people sometimes assume, oh, ye, all that glycolisis and it's for biomas and building blocks. Oh, the mitacondrias as a negligible contribution, is just sort of backgroundi. And we did a simple genetic experiment, said, let's just test this. We gave the mouse, made it have lung carsonoma, lung cance right? The biggest cancer n the most prevalent cancer in the world,. obviously, due to smoking.
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