Taking supplemental dietary antioxidants while having cancer is dangerous because it blunts the pro-death ROS signaling pathway necessary for cancer cell death. — Whalespan
Taking supplemental dietary antioxidants while having cancer is dangerous because it blunts the pro-death ROS signaling pathway necessary for cancer cell death.
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“It's also why taking supplemental dietary antioxidants when you have cancer is very dangerous because you're blunting that whole signaling pathway, right? You're basically blunting all the reactive oxygen species that are usually signaling for your cells that are primed to die, for the cancer cells to die, and you're sequestering it.”
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