Matt Vander Heiden
Co-author of a very influential paper in 2009 proposing that the Warburg effect in cancer cells optimizes for cellular building blocks rather than energy.
Videos Mentioning Matt Vander Heiden

#31 – Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D.: metabolism, mitochondria, and metformin in health and disease
Peter Attia MD
Co-authored a paper with Craig Thompson and Luke Cantley proposing that glycolysis in cancer cells is for biomass production, not just energetics.

#66 – Vamsi Mootha, MD: Aging, T2D, cancer, dementia, Parkinson’s—do all roads lead to mitochondria?
Peter Attia MD
Author of a paper proposing that the Warburg effect in cancer cells is driven by a desire for higher substrate throughput for growth, rather than a defect in oxidative phosphorylation.

286‒Journal club with Andrew Huberman: light exposure on mental health & an immunotherapy for cancer
Peter Attia MD
Co-author of a very influential paper in 2009 proposing that the Warburg effect in cancer cells optimizes for cellular building blocks rather than energy.

216 - Metabolomics, NAD+, and cancer metabolism | Josh Rabinowitz, M.D., Ph.D.
Peter Attia MD
Head of the Koch Institute at MIT, whose lab has done work on how higher saturated fat ketogenic diets can be tumor suppressive in some contexts.

Journal Club with Dr. Peter Attia | Effects of Light & Dark on Mental Health & Treatments for Cancer
Andrew Huberman
Authored an influential paper in 2009 proposing that cancer cells use the Warburg effect to optimize for cellular building blocks, not just energy.