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From Garth Limburg on FB

🎆 1931: Otto Warburg wins the Nobel Prize for his work on how cells use oxygen.
But he became better known for another observation that was simpler and stranger:
Tumors ferment sugar.
They consume glucose aggressively. They process it inefficiently. And they keep doing it even when plenty of oxygen is available—something normal cells generally do not need to do.
If tumors depend that heavily on glucose, the obvious question is:
What happens if you take away most of the glucose and make the patient run mainly on ketones instead?
Healthy cells have that ability.
Warburg spent much of the rest of his life arguing that abnormal fermentation was at the center of cancer. He died in 1970 without seeing the large clinical trial that could have tested the idea.
Then chemotherapy arrived.
Chemotherapy had something diet did not: a drug molecule that could be patented.
You cannot patent an empty plate.
So investment flowed toward treatments where the investment could be...