Cancer & Biochemistry

Enjoy Dr. Huber’s extensive video series discussing the biochemistry surrounding cancer.
The nutrients discussed below form the basis of our nutrient infusions.

  • Magnesium vs Cancer: Biochemistry of Energy Production & Cellular Defense

    Magnesium vs Cancer: Biochemistry of Energy Production & Cellular Defense

    Dr. Colleen Huber details the vital functions of magnesium across metabolic pathways in the mitochondria. She explains how this mineral powers key steps in energy production while directly competing against cancer's reliance on lactate fermentation. Viewers learn practical ways to incorporate magnesium-rich foods to support cellular health and deter cancerous processes.

  • Alpha Lipoic Acid - Key Nutrients Fueling Healthy Metabolism

    Alpha Lipoic Acid - Key Nutrients Fueling Healthy Metabolism

    Dr. Colleen Huber continues her Cancer and Biochemistry series by exploring more nutrients that support the citric acid cycle. Today’s video features Alpha Lipoic Acid. She highlights how specific foods such as fish, beans, and asparagus supply compounds that fuel healthy mitochondrial respiration and help divert metabolism away from cancer pathways. Huber emphasizes practical dietary choices to strengthen normal cellular energy production.

  • More Amino Acids Fueling the Citric Acid Cycle
    • 6/28/19

    More Amino Acids Fueling the Citric Acid Cycle

    Dr. Colleen Huber continues her Cancer and Biochemistry series by examining additional amino acids and their integration into the citric acid cycle. She explains how these nutrients support healthy mitochondrial respiration and help direct cellular metabolism away from the fermentation pathways that characterize cancer. Huber stresses the importance of sufficient protein consumption from natural food sources to provide the building blocks for normal energy production.

  • Arginine, Glutamine, Histidine & Proline in the Citric Acid Cycle
    • 6/14/19

    Arginine, Glutamine, Histidine & Proline in the Citric Acid Cycle

    Dr. Colleen Huber continues her Cancer and Biochemistry series by exploring the amino acids arginine, glutamine, histidine, and proline. She explains how these nutrients feed directly into the citric acid cycle via glutamate and alpha-ketoglutarate to power healthy mitochondrial respiration and divert metabolism from cancer pathways. Huber highlights practical food sources such as turkey, pork, beef, cheese, seeds, and nuts while stressing the importance of adequate protein intake.

  • Acetyl CoA & Amino Acids Fueling the Citric Acid Cycle
    • 5/30/19

    Acetyl CoA & Amino Acids Fueling the Citric Acid Cycle

    Dr. Colleen Huber continues her Cancer and Biochemistry series in episode 18 by explaining how the body enters the citric acid cycle from acetyl CoA. She details specific amino acids including isoleucine, leucine, lysine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, and tyrosine that break down into acetyl CoA to fuel healthy mitochondrial energy production. Huber highlights food sources for these amino acids and shows how supporting this pathway promotes normal metabolism over cancer pathways.

  • How Asparagine, Aspartate & Vitamin B6 Fight Cancer

    How Asparagine, Aspartate & Vitamin B6 Fight Cancer

    Dr. Colleen Huber continues her Cancer and Biochemistry series by examining asparagine, aspartate, and vitamin B6. She details how these nutrients drive the citric acid cycle for healthy mitochondrial function, support brain health and hormone balance, and help steer cellular metabolism away from cancer pathways. Huber highlights vitamin B6 as the critical factor enabling the body to produce these amino acids from common foods.

  • Alanine, Serine & Glycine – The Cancer Connection
    • 12/30/18

    Alanine, Serine & Glycine – The Cancer Connection

    Dr. Colleen Huber examines the amino acids alanine, serine, and glycine. She explains how they power the citric acid cycle for healthy metabolism, support protein synthesis, mental health, DNA production, and detoxification, while showing why these non-essential amino acids are actually hyper-essential because the body produces them from everyday foods.

  • Citric Acid Cycle & Amino Acids Prevent Cancer
    • 12/14/18

    Citric Acid Cycle & Amino Acids Prevent Cancer

    Dr. Colleen Huber explains the citric acid cycle, also known as the Krebs cycle, which takes place inside the mitochondria. This cycle is the normal metabolic pathway that efficiently produces energy while steering the body away from cancer metabolism. Insufficient amino acids can obstruct the cycle, causing pyruvate to be diverted into the lactic acid pathway that favors cancer.