{"id":242038,"date":"2026-08-02T06:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/a-study-in-mice-and-human-tissue-shows-that-the-antioxidant-glutathione-feeds-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2026-08-02T06:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:58:22","slug":"a-study-in-mice-and-human-tissue-shows-that-the-antioxidant-glutathione-feeds-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/a-study-in-mice-and-human-tissue-shows-that-the-antioxidant-glutathione-feeds-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"A study in mice and human tissue shows that the antioxidant glutathione feeds cancer cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-study-in-mice-and-human-tissue-shows-that-the-antioxidant-glutathione-feeds-cancer-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glutathione is considered an antioxidant due to its ability to repair cellular damage. The body produces it naturally, but it is also sold as an antioxidant supplement. A study in mice and human tissue, published in Nature, shows that cancer cells can break it down and use it as fuel\u2014particularly the cysteine it contains\u2014promoting tumour growth and survival. \u201cDepriving tumours of extracellular glutathione or inhibiting its breakdown is potentially a viable therapeutic strategy for cancer patients,\u201d the authors state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glutathione is considered an antioxidant due to its ability to repair cellular damage. The body produces it naturally, but it is also sold as an antioxidant supplement. A study in mice and human tissue, published in Nature, shows that cancer cells can break it down and use it as fuel\u2014particularly the cysteine it contains\u2014promoting tumour [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242038","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}