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.
And cancer cells tend to have more insulin receptor than the tissue from which they emerged. So in the process of tumors growing out, evolving, they turn up the expression of the insulin receptor, and that allows them to respond to insulin better.
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So as I kept seeing more and more data on this over the last 15 years or so, I became convinced that the act of being insulin resistant or the state of being insulin resistant in humans sets them up to accelerate tumor growth.
And so we've known for a long time that if you have high levels of insulin, you can make almost any cancer cell grow better than just pure fetal calcium, which already has some insulin, and it's variable from batch to batch.