Cancer metabolism is complicated, and to start we need to question the assumption that cancer cells only eat sugar to survive. It's an assumption based the Warburg Effect, which basically says that cancer cells are hypoxic, and metabolizing sugars to survive, producing lactic acid.
The... Causality in this isn't so straightforward. Why are they hypoxic? Because they're using the oxygen faster than they are getting oxygen. Glucose can be metabolized without oxygen, producing lactic acid. Fat and glucose are usually metabolized with oxygen, but only glucose can be metabolized without it. More accurately, the Warburg Effect is that cancer cells are metabolizing faster than their oxygen supply allows.
How can artificial sugars play a role? Mitochondria don't metabolize them correctly, and it messes things up causing them make reactive oxygen species (free radicals) which increase the risk of cancers.
That's the ELI5 version. Don't get me started on the blood sugar crap.
Take us on a bit of a journey of what you think is important to know, why and what we should modify in our diet to improve our lives.
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