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Re:Giving T cells extra batteries supercharges them against ... by fhieufn on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @02:03PM (#41639264)
This is a surprising position.

Can you link to any?

Everything I have read on the subject says obesity, a nutritional imbalance, is one of the main contributors to cancer growth, and specifically a reduction in sugar and meat have significant positive results in combating cancer's growth.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9559313/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9775518/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/0470869976....

Re:Giving T cells extra batteries supercharges them against ... by nradov on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @04:24PM (#41640527)
There is no reliable evidence that red meat consumption increases cancer risk. You are spreading medical misinformation by incorrectly interpreting low-quality observational studies.
Re:Giving T cells extra batteries supercharges them against ... by ericmcer on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @04:59PM (#41640843)
Weird I feel like I read the opposite, that a high protein/fat diet would slow cancer because it thrives on glucose, so cutting carbs/sugar was key.

It seems counter intuitive to me that meat & sugar would both be correlated because they are almost opposites from a metabolic standpoint. One is pure fat/protein and one is just glucose.

Re:Giving T cells extra batteries supercharges them against ... by adamredwoods on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @06:53PM (#41641842)
We might know what causes some growth, but it's not homogeneous, and we certainly can't stop it with diet alone once it starts.

https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2019/10/keto-f...

>> But Mukherjee’s August 2018 paper in Nature also found that a ketogenic diet was helpful — even “synergistic” — with certain cancers and certain treatments. At least in mice.

>> “It’s probably most helpful in cancers that utilize the PIK3CA / AKT / MTOR pathway [an intracellular signaling pathway]”