How Fermentation Gives Us Beer, Wine, Cheese—and Cancer
Article by: Bret Stetka
A group of lab scientists in the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the cost of oxygen-based metabolism is very expensive even though it is the best source of energy production. There is a ton of evidence that claim that the fermentation that occurs within the mitochondria is causing the rapid growth rate of tumor cells, or cancer cells. We can suppress the growth of these tumor cells when they are transplanted with normal cells; however, the downside is that there is a high possibility that the tumor cells will completely infect all the regular cells and they will all become tumor cells. Cancer cells originated when oxygen was added to the atmosphere along with the addition of fermentation. We might be able to slow down the rapid growth rate of these cancer cells by altering metabolism, which interferes with fermentation in the mitochondria. This idea of treatment will target cancer cells because cancer cells rely more on respiration as a source of energy than normal cells do. What separates this new idea of treatment and the traditional style of treatment is that the regular cancer treatment is to interfere with the cell signalling pathways but now the idea is to slow down the rate of fermentation.
Fermentation in cancer cells relate to cells because we recently learned about fermentation in the food we eat, the transfer of energy from food that we get and the fermentation in our very own body which is changing the amount of energy the defective mitochondria cells obtain will definitely give a helping hand to what we are learning.
This article is cutting edge because it is giving other scientists and the general public a new idea that could possibly cure cancer. As we know, most cancer in our modern day is only treatable, this new idea gives hope to all fighters that the money invested in cancer will soon have results.
In this article, i learned that tumor cells rapidly grow through fermentation, I previously thought that tumor cells attacked normal cells to infect them and the reason to that is through fermentation and fermentation in our cells are continuous so slowing the rate down is a possible idea of curing cancer.
I picked this article because I wanted to get more in depth with fermentation since my group and I have fermented pizza dough which, was an interesting project for me. I wanted to learn more about what else fermentation does to our body and to find that it is in our cells fermenting almost 24/7 is mind blowing.
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