I know this is 10 years old. However it is a topic that is new to me. I welcome any thoughts from others.
Otto Warburg discovered that cancer cells display a unique metabolic phenotype of lactate fermentation in the presence of oxygen. This phenotype, known as the Warburg effect, enables tumor visualization using fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) scans owing to the elevated rate of glucose consumption in most cancers.
Metabolic therapies can exploit this phenotype, offering novel therapeutic directions aside from the classically targeted cytotoxic and gene-based therapies. The Warburg effect exposes a fundamental weakness of cancer cells, reliance on excess glucose for survival and maximal proliferation.
Fasting, calorie restriction (CR) and the carbohydrate-restricted ketogenic diet have been successfully used to limit glucose availability and slow cancer progression in a variety of animal models and human studies.1–9 These dietary manipulations produce a physiological metabolic shift to an unfavorable environment for glucose-dependent cancer cells.
Previously, the anticancer effects of these dietary manipulations have largely been attributed to decreased circulating blood glucose, which limits energy substrates for cancer cells. New evidence suggests, however, that the physiological state of ketosis and elevated circulating ketones also have anticancer effects.
Conclusions and Summary
Covid-19 infection has an impact on blood sugar levels and altered glycemic control, switching a few individuals into diabetic and a significant number of individuals into the pre-diabetic state, who are non-diabetic individuals before Covid-19 infection.
The study participants comprised mostly middle age group males and females (mostly in 40–60 years, with 60% of them being females).
Most of the study subjects were healthy, and 58% of them have normal HbA1c levels. 32% of them are border line diabetic.
The prevalence of diabetes post Covid-19 infection is 10%.
The majority of participants have normal random blood sugar levels (around 92%), and very less individuals have abnormal random blood sugar levels (2% of the subjects).
There is no significant association between hypertension and raised blood sugar levels post Covid-19 infection.
For a few years I’ve heard that cancer cells feed on sugar. Sounds like this is similar.
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Can you buy 1,3-butanediol (BD) or a ketone ester (KE) for personal use?