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#30 - Thomas Seyfried, Ph.D.: Controversial discussion—cancer as a mitochondrial metabolic disease?

The Peter Attia Drive

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How Do You Quantify the Amount of Lactate Produced in a Cell Culture?

All cancer cells have a defect in respiration. How that defect came about can vary from one, from one type of cancer to another. So not every cancer cell will have the exact same defect in respiring in the mido chondria. Some will ave very few mito chondria, ok? So they don't have quantitatively enough organels to do s respiration. But what seems to be there seems to be functional, partially functional. Other cells, as i said, are loaded with mito conjure, but when you look at them, they're morphologically abnormal. In biology, we know that structure dictates function. If the structure of the organel

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