Quote · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Leading Cancer Researcher: They’re Ignoring My Research, Cancer Patients Must Know This!
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Why Wealthy Countries Have More Cancer
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The emotional gut-punch of the episode arrives when Bartlett asks about children and babies who develop cancer — what lifestyle choices could a 3-year-old possibly have made? Seyfried's answer is careful and sober. Forever chemicals are fat-soluble and can cross the placental wall, damaging mitochondria in developing tissue. Other carcinogens can reach foetal organs during the most vulnerable window of development. The mitochondrial damage that triggers dysregulated cell growth does not require conscious choices — it can be imposed by the chemical environment the mother and foetus inhabit. Seyfried articulates the key mechanism: mitochondrial stress sends retrograde signals to the cell nucleus, which activates oncogenes, which open the floodgates for glucose and glutamine, which fuel the ancient fermentation pathways. The result is the same as in an adult who has smoked for 30 years — dysregulated cell growth — triggered instead by environmental exposure before birth.
Cancer is the number one cause of death in domestic dogs, while wolves in the wild rarely develop cancer — a parallel Seyfried uses to illustrate how modern lifestyle damages mitochondria.
