Glucose and Cancer Metabolism

There's an amazing paper that Matthew Vanderheiden wrote in 2009 in Science with Luke Cantley and Craig Thompson. This was done by putting glutathione transcranially, which obviously is not going to happen to humans. But anyways, they could prevent like over 50% of the damage because they were able to sequester the reactive oxygen species that started to cause all the damage. So I think that if you allow that glucose to be used for the pentose phosphate pathway within a certain timeframe, it was something within a couple of hours. Then independent of the, you know, allowing your neurons to get this easier source of energy. And then you can use them in glucose because they need

Transcript

Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!

Get the app