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A closer look at adiponectin
Whether insulin or leptin or adiponectin or PPAR gamma or NF KB or a bajillion cytokines are the proximate mediators of obesity or atherosclerosis is hardly the point, is it? Kurt G. Harris MD Although biochemistry can be marvelously exiting we must not lose sight of the bigger picture. It is increasingly unlikely that any…
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Cancer as a metabolic disease
Is cancer a metabolic disease? In principle, there are few chronic diseases more easily preventable than cancer. Seyfried and Shelton 2010 A new and important article in Nutrition and Metabolism makes a case for cancer as predominately a metabolic disease. Research has shown that one of the key features of cancers is an impaired or…