Cancer hijacks the microbiome to glut itself on glucose

[Northerner]

Cancer needs energy to drive its out-of-control growth. It gets energy in the form of glucose, in fact consuming so much glucose that one method for imaging cancer simply looks for areas of extreme glucose consumption -- where there is consumption, there is cancer. But how does cancer get this glucose? A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Cancer Cell shows that leukemia undercuts the ability of normal cells to consume glucose, thus leaving more glucose available to feed its own growth.

"Leukemia cells create a diabetic-like condition that reduces glucose going to normal cells, and as a consequence, there is more glucose available for the leukemia cells. Literally, they are stealing glucose from normal cells to drive growth of the tumor," says Craig Jordan, PhD, investigator at University of Colorado Cancer Center, division chief of the Division of Hematology and the Nancy Carroll Allen Professor of Hematology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180928131255.htm

 

[mikeyB]

Then how come Amigo can control Type 2 on diet alone?

I don’t think this can be a huge effect.

 

[Amigo]

Then how come Amigo can control Type 2 on diet alone?

I don’t think this can be a huge effect.

Clearly I’m a medical enigma or this is a rather simplistic explanation of much more complex processes. According to this research I should be an underweight, fatigued out of control diabetic. I’m none of those things.

I shall consult the scientific gurus on my own site for views on this.

 

[mikeyB]

Mind you, this theory was established from mouse investigations. At the end it does say they have some evidence of it happening in humans, but that is as far as it goes.