The amino acid, asparagine, is thought to be “digested” by cancer cells to help metastasize or spread throughout the body. The study of all the recent headlines used mice, who were in-bred to lack immunity, and then injected with cancer cells. 2 The mice were fed a chow with either no, low or high amounts of asparagine. Spread of cancer to the lung was increased in mice on high-asparagine diet. Injecting an enzyme that blocked asparagine...
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