New research points to how the by-product of exercise, lactate, can help you stave off disease including cancer. This benefit comes from a boost in T-cells.
The immune cells that protect us from infection and cancer seek out a wide array of fuel sources to power their function -; including some long thought to be cellular waste products.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (June 30, 2022) Van Andel Institute has recruited cancer metabolism expert Evan Lien, Ph.D. , to its growing faculty, an addition that further expands the Institute’s research into the underlying causes of cancer.
Although many cells in the body produce an amino acid called methionine, the immune cells that respond to threats like pathogens do not. The methionine that fuels specialized immune cells called [.]