Corinne Rao is a board-certified internal medicine physician and founder of Legacy Physicians, specializing in functional medicine approaches to weight loss, hormonal health, stress, chronic disease management, and metabolic health optimization
Furthermore, this study revealed that a ketogenic diet supplemented with 25% 8-carbon MCTs, combined with a daily dose of the chemotherapeutic drug cyclophosphamide [40 mg/kg for mice with SH-SY5Y xenografts and 13 mg/kg for mice with SK-N-BE(2) xenografts], administered for at least 36 days, was more effective than a diet supplemented with LCTs in sensitizing neuroblastomas to low-dose chemotherapy
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J., et al., Antioxidant and prooxidant activities of alpha-lipoic acid and dihydrolipoic acid
Heavy metal stress triggers certain signaling molecules ROS and phytohormones that turn on specific transcription factors, and adding phosphate groups to proteins through mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) is an important way to control the expression of antioxidant enzymes