
Best of Series - What You Need to Know About Melatonin
Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health
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The Role of Melatonin in Cancer
Melatonin has some very intriguing benefits and I read your spectacular article on this. We didn't address the biology of this second kind of going to rapidly to the number one leading cause of death in the United States and worldwide which would be cancer. One of the things they do is they prevent pyruvate from entering the nuclei excuse me the mitochondria and that reduces ATP production but as a consequence of doing that they accelerate something called glycolysis. So there are many things that if you can reduce the Warburg type metabolism you may be able to limit the growth of cancer cells and perhaps also the metastasis.
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