A study in mice and human tissue, published in Nature , shows that cancer cells can break it down and use it as fuelparticularly the cysteine it containspromoting tumour growth and survival
The ferroptosis pathways within nerve cells include iron homeostasis regulation, cystine/glutamate (Glu) reverse transporter (system xc ), glutathione (GSH)/glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4), and lipid peroxidation
Boros BD, Greathouse KM, Gentry EG, Curtis KA, Birchall EL, Gearing M, et al
Moustafa AA, Chakravarthy S, Phillips JR, Gupta A, Keri S, Polner B, Frank MJ, Jahanshahi M (2016) Motor symptoms in Parkinsons disease: a unified framework
Other ingredients, like glutathione, may not be so familiar
Open 6 , e2339337 (2023)