High-Fat Diet Starves Cancer

Dr. Otto Warburg won the Novel Prize Physiology or Medicine in 1931 for his discovery that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells. How does the metabolic inflexibility of cancer cells differ from healthy cells? Energy can be produced by a cell in two ways: aerobically in the mitochondria, or anaerobically, in the cytoplasm, which generates lactic acid and is a toxic byproduct. In the presence of oxygen, cancer cells overproduce lactic acid known as The Warburg Effect.

The prime cause of cancer was the reversion of energy production from aerobic energy generation to a more …read more