Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

And it's like a balancing.

There's like these proteins inside your body that promote death.

And there's these other ones that like stop death.

And it's really just a balance.

So like when the balance goes into promoting death, the cell dies.

If you've got that anti-death, so they're called anti-apoptotic proteins, if they're higher, like even if they're like supposed to die, as long as that signal is saying, no, don't die, they won't die, even though they're all kinds of messed up, right?

And so cancer cells are, that's kind of,

Why chemotherapy, radiation, these things that are very, they're damaging, right?

It's a major stress on all cells.

It's a death signal.

It's why it does effectively kill cancer cells is because they already have so much of that pro-death signal there.

There's just a little bit of the anti-hepatotic signal, and they're just waiting to raise above it.

And so that's what those things do, chemo and so on.

So unfortunately, they also kill normal cells as well because it's a very strong death signal.

When it comes to the circulating tumor cells, they're ready to die.

And I know I went on a tangent.

I'm sorry.

I studied cancer in my graduate school.

They have these mechanosensors on their cell surface.

And so they're very sensitive to mechanical forces and movement.