The Power of Cancer
German Otto Warburg, Ph.D., the 1931 Nobel laureate in medicine, first discovered that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells and this the accelerated glucose uptake for anaerobic glycolysis. The large amount of lactic acid produced by this fermentation of glucose from the cancer cells is then transported to the liver. This conversion of glucose to lactate creates a lower, more acidic PH in cancerous tissues as well as overall physical fatigue from lactic acid build-up. Therefore, larger tumors tend to exhibit a more acidic PH. In addition, experimental conditions of glucose deprivation have been demonstrated to cause cell death in many transformed cell lines.
But in our body it is very difficult to change the blood sugar levels because regulating mechanisms as homeostasis keep this level stable even after starnation for weeks. The exception to this, of course, is people with diabetes and if you apply the theory that sugar can affect your insulin levels and feed cancer, diabetics with cancer would all be dying of their cancer. In conclusion eating a lot of sugar foods doesn't nean that cancer cells have the ability to absorbe this large ammounts of sugar.
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Indeed a well-balanced diet and good nutrition give the body proper nutrients and energy required in this battle against the cancerous cells. Here are some general ideas that you can use today in your battle against cancer.
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