Peter Attia· MD
high protein increases igf and therefore must be bad
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and therefore very very high levels of igf must be problematic and high protein increases igf
Dietary protein raises IGF-1, which allows cancer cells to grow/not die.
And so these mice that were given a high protein diet, the tumors grew faster. Duh. Their IGF-1 was going up.