{"id":206190,"date":"2025-02-12T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/vitamin-k-supplement-slows-prostate-cancer-in-mice"},"modified":"2025-02-12T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:03:09","slug":"vitamin-k-supplement-slows-prostate-cancer-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/vitamin-k-supplement-slows-prostate-cancer-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin K supplement slows prostate cancer in mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vitamin-k-supplement-slows-prostate-cancer-in-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is probably a repost, but cool anyways.<\/p>\n<p>CSHL Professor Lloyd Trotman and his team have discovered that menadione kills prostate cancer cells in mice by depleting a lipid known as PIP. Their findings set the stage for pilot studies in human prostate cancer patients and point to a potential treatment target for myotubular myopathy, a rare and fatal disease diagnosed in infant boys.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Prostate cancer is a quiet killer. In most men, it\u2019s treatable. However, in some cases, it resists all known therapies and turns extremely deadly. A new discovery at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) points to a potentially groundbreaking solution. CSHL Professor Lloyd Trotman\u2019s lab has found that the pro-oxidant supplement menadione slows prostate cancer progression in mice. The supplement is a precursor to vitamin K, commonly found in leafy greens. The story begins more than two decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably a repost, but cool anyways. CSHL Professor Lloyd Trotman and his team have discovered that menadione kills prostate cancer cells in mice by depleting a lipid known as PIP. Their findings set the stage for pilot studies in human prostate cancer patients and point to a potential treatment target for myotubular myopathy, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}