#174: Angela Poff, PhD: Cancer as a Metabolic Disease

Cancer is classically relegated to a “disease of the immune system,” but new research suggests that “metabolic imbalances are upstream of many imbalances characteristic of cancer.”
A researcher in the field, Angela Poff, PhD, discusses more.
She explains how common metabolic imbalances favor cancer cell growth. 
Read the show notes: http://highintensityhealth.com/174
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uKsoKtkvChA?list=PL0ovt_TbvVmYvrI…
Here are a few points we discuss in more depth:
- Widespread mitochondrial dysfunction in cancer - How lactate increases the invasive capacity of the tumor and the ability to metastasize - The role of oxygen and hypoxia in cancer cell growth