Upregulating Nrf2 protects cells, but in metastasized cancer, supporting cancer cell mitochondria and detoxification could be harmful. — Whalespan
Upregulating Nrf2 protects cells, but in metastasized cancer, supporting cancer cell mitochondria and detoxification could be harmful.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
◐PARTIALLYSUPPORTED
⚠
High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“we do know that up regulating nrf2 protects protects cells and when you think about it metastasized cancers what's happening there those cells are growing faster than the rest of the cells around them the rest of the rest of the body for that matter if you're an adult they're growing fast they're producing the products of respiration and oxidation their mitochondria are cranking away so if you support their mitochondria and enhance their ability to enhance their ability to detoxify things including including perhaps cancer drugs this may be a slippery slope we we just don't know enough and”