On: Why cancer cells waste so much energy

[aszantu]

I've been thinking and came to the conclusion that cancer might be a way of the body to get rid of excess sugar and maybe other toxins. Many cancers seem to respond well when ppl go keto for example

[shishy → aszantu]

That’s.... backwards. Excess sugars and toxins promote environments that are favorable for cancer promotion (eg by weakening immune system by down regulating certain cells within the tumor microenvironment or activating metabolic pathways that should be inhibited and so on).

[majkinetor → aszantu]

Seems a bit extreme don't you think ? Getting rid of the sugar by getting rid of the host, sounds like those AI fatalistic movies where curing misery involves killing all humans.

[hoka-one-one → aszantu]

Can we have one health thread where no one shills their fad eating disorder diet? Just one?

[crubier → aszantu]

In this thread: Web engineers turned Cancer specialists.

[shishy → crubier]

Well I used to do Cancer research at the NCI before going back to software! :)