Sentences with phrase «survive on glucose»

Cancer cells can only survive on glucose, hence why low - glycemic diets are often recommended.

So cancer's primarily — primary fuel if you look at Otto — Otto Warburg or Otto Van Warburg, a German scientist in the 30s and 40s who got 2 Nobel prizes discovering this physiology around cancer cell metabolism and he found that cancer cells primarily survive on glucose and if you can starve the cancer cells of that metabolic fuel — remember it burns dirty — if we can use ketones, we can essentially starve that type of cell.

The brain survives on glucose so in the middle of the night when blood glucose levels drop, the brain thinks it's starving and wakes up the adrenal glands.

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«We found that colorectal cancer cells survived under the condition of glucose depletion, and their resistance to such conditions depended on genomic alterations rather than on KRAS mutation alone.

He began with a single bacterium — Escherichia coli — and used its offspring to found 12 separate colonies of bacteria that he nurtured on a meager diet of glucose, which creates a strong incentive for the evolution of new ways to survive.

This information will be needed to gauge the degree of energy stress on surviving tumor cells, as blood glucose levels are predictive of therapeutic efficacy.

While most other cells in the body can survive at least temporarily on alternate sources of energy, the CNS must have glucose, of which carbohydrates are the primary source.

Cancer cells can not survive on ketosis, with no glucose.