Metabolic Cancer Therapies
Dichloroacetic acid or DCA – DCA disrupts cancer cell energy production. Cancer cells primarily produce energy using large amounts of sugar (glucose) and small amounts of oxygen, this is basically fermentation. DCA blocks this primary mechanism of cancer cell energy production and if a cell cannot produce energy it will die. In addition, DCA also targets cancer stem cells (CSCs) which are the primary cause of cancer metastasis.
Oxaloacetic acid – As stated above, glucose (sugar) is the primary energy source of cancer cells, however, a secondary source is amino acids, specifically glutamine. Oxaloacetic acid does to cancer cell glutamine metabolism what DCA does to cancer cell sugar metabolism. That is, oxaloacetic acid blocks cancer cell utilization of glutamine for energy production. Oxaloacetic acid is also an excellent anti-aging therapy, the benefits are:
- Increase in average and maximal lifespan
- Decrease in cancer incidence, up to 55%.
- Decrease in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases.
- Protection against Type II Diabetes Mellitus
- Reduction in cardiovascular risk, especially arthrosclerosis.
- Reduction in inflammatory/auto-immune diseases.