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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 Effects of Vitamin C on Cancer Cells

Giving a high dose of vitamin C could function as a glucose antagonist to the transporter and that could impair glucose consumption by the cancer cells. And I've always been interested in but I haven't really seen a whole lot of experimental data that really showed the glucose antagonist effect. So yeah so it does so only in the cancer cells, because they're already genetically rewired to be glycolytic which means lots of superoxide drugs or radical DNA damage.

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