date:Jul 18, 2013
e beginning to learn is that insulin can cause adverse effects in various tissues, and a particular concern is cancer, says Dr. Lewis Cantley, head of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) at Harvard University, as quoted during an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes.
If you happen to have a tumor that has insulin receptors on it, then it will get stimulated to take up the glucose that's in the bloodstream, he adds. So rather than going to the fat or to the muscle, the glucose now goes in