<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 8:58 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This is an hour long lecture by Dr. Thomas Seyfried PhD. who is a <br>
something of a maverick in cancer research. But he is an engaging and <br>
compelling speaker with loads of data, so his lecture goes by fast. In <br>
1931, Otto Warburg discovered cancer cells can only be fueled by <br>
glucose metabolism and are unable to derive energy from the electron <br>
transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation. So almost a century <br>
later, why is the war against cancer still not incorporating his <br>
Nobel-level research into cancer treatments? He is absolutely right <br>
about the dogmatism of cancer being a genetic disease. It got hammered <br>
into me at when I was doing biomedical research at UCLA. Seyfried <br>
makes a compelling case that cancer is instead a metabolic disease of <br>
mitochondria. His approach uses the Warburg effect as an Achilles's <br>
heel to kill cancer with diet. Very practical stuff. Rafal would <br>
appreciate this so I hope he is lurking.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Our company did a lot of research on mitochondrial-targeted cancer treatments and some of our leads are very promising. The company is now focused on human trials for a treatment for fatty liver disease but once the trials are finished we will try to advance the mitochondrial cancer drugs as well.</div><div><br></div><div>This said, cancer *is* a genetic disease. The suppression of mitochondrial activity in cancer cells is caused by some commonly mutated oncogenes, it is not the primary cause of cancer but rather a part of the progression of cancerogenesis that rather reliably occurs because it shuts down apoptosis and thus protects cancer cells from this self-destruct mechanism.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div></div>