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Dmitry, I need your help, I’m trying understand something and to explain it simply and coherently. You shared an article a while back on Telegram: ‘CD38 Inhibits Prostate Cancer Metabolism and Proliferation by Reducing Cellular NAD+Pools’. At first glance to a relatively uninformed person, this study might appear to be saying that because cancer cells utilize NAD+ to proliferate, then that should raise alarm bells about the whole idea of increasing NAD+ as a therapy for cancer. But, I know that is wrong, having read and tried to understand the extensive research that you’ve shared, and my imperfect understanding is that cancer cells can only utilize NAD+ when it is produced by the salvage pathway of NAD+ production, whereas NAD+ produced by the the nicotinic acid pathway (Preiss-Handler pathway) is only utilized by healthy and non-cancer cells and not used by cancer cells. I’m asking you if my understanding is correct and also if what I described is always the case for all cancers and I’m also hoping you can explain a little bit of the why and how of why and how that works, the research studies leave me feeling lost in the weeds and unable to form a simple streamlined explanation. Thank you very much
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Here is the study by the way: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6214722/
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I’m wondering how this study fits in also, it states: “Supplementing CD38-expressing cells with nicotinic acid substantially increased cellular NAADP levels.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29632067/
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I just saw this… let me go over it … one min
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no rush at all, at your convenience, I’ll be gathering information over the course of the next several days
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