In her latest study, Rachel Perry, PhD, of Yale School of Medicine, reveals one of the clearest mechanisms to date behind a question patients often ask: Why
Stupid question before even reading the article: doesn’t exercise control blood sugar levels, which in turn reduces the surplus fuel supply of any cancer cell trying to grow?
The answer, they found, is that working muscles effectively outcompete tumors for the glucose supply. Because muscle contraction increases glucose uptake, exercise shifts metabolism, causing tumors to receive less of the fuel they need to grow.
Nice one, you actually almost guessed what the study shows. I read the abstract and in general for melonomas and breast cancer in mice doing voluntary wheel running muscle glucose consumption went up and tumor consumption down. Tumor growth rate also slowed for the mice that ran.
Stupid question before even reading the article: doesn’t exercise control blood sugar levels, which in turn reduces the surplus fuel supply of any cancer cell trying to grow?
Nailed it. Down to the use of the word “fuel”.
Nice one, you actually almost guessed what the study shows. I read the abstract and in general for melonomas and breast cancer in mice doing voluntary wheel running muscle glucose consumption went up and tumor consumption down. Tumor growth rate also slowed for the mice that ran.