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.

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.

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.