Cancer prevention: what is the role of insulin?
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Loading ...It is not a secret, that obesity may be the risk factor for cancer. There are multiple explanations for this. Some people say that obesity is creating inflammation, therefore promoting cell transition into cancer cells. Some people think, that fat is taking too much of vitamin D, reducing our natural defence from cancer. Apparently we may get another clue how obesity hurts our body. For me the news was quite unexpected: Pfizer new drug was linked to lung cancer. Guess what drug it is?
I’d never ever thought, that this drug is new inhaled insulin Exubera. How it promotes cancer? At this time nobody knows. But there were studies that suggest the link between insulin and aging. Is insulin alters our immune defense? Is insulin promoting cancerogenesis? At this time no answers. May be it is not insulin itself? I thikn we need more studies about insulin and cancer as well as insulin and aging. My guess is: the more out weight is, the more insulin we produce. The more obese we are, the higher our chanses are to get cancer. Threrefore Insulin itself might be the problem.
Bottom line: want to live longer? Loose weight!
cancer, insulin, aging, health
