Peter Attia· MD
The truth is, Chemotherapy, as you know better than I, is really targeting metabolism. You're blocking DNA synthesis or other steps in metabolism as a way of killing cancer cells.
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The truth is, Chemotherapy, as you know better than I, is really targeting metabolism. You're blocking DNA synthesis or other steps in metabolism as a way of killing cancer cells.
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if you look at the history of cancer therapy right you know the first great rational triumph in treating cancer was anti-folates and sydney farber and you know his name memorialized on the dana-farber cancer center right and so this is really the origins of how cancer was rationally treated by targeting metabolism