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Valter Longo, PhD | Fasting for Metabolic Health & Longevity | The Metabolic Link Ep.6

The Metabolic Link

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The Effect of Vitamin C on Cancer Cells

Vitamin C can have a pro oxidant effect on cancer cells but it's very limited. Vitamin C causes the activation of something called H one in the cancer cells in different type of cancer cells. With the fasting mimicking diet, you take the H one down you take the ferritin down now the free iron becomes available again. And they can do tremendous damage. So yeah so I think that that's a very interesting possibility to use such a simple I mean this I think KRS V ref the category that is sensitive, it could represent maybe about a third of all cancers right That's that's remarkable if it just thinks about the possibility that such a simple intervention could replace chemo

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