What Jared Rutter has said about Positron emission tomography

1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 7, 2026

Jared Rutter, American biochemist, professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator specializing in mitochondria and metabolism, has been quoted on Positron emission tomography once in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on September 7, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Rutter explains that FDG-PET detects cancer because tumors take up large amounts of glucose.
“So the reason we do FDG-PET is to see the cells where in the body is taking up a lot of glucose and tumors take up a lot of glucose”
Huberman Lab: How Mitochondria Control Your Metabolism | Dr. Jared Rutter (Sep 7, 2026) · Listen from 38:50

Episodes

How Mitochondria Control Your Metabolism | Dr. Jared Rutter
Huberman Lab · Sep 7, 2026 · 2 h 4 min
Biochemist Jared Rutter explains to Andrew Huberman how mitochondria allocate cellular resources between energy and growth, shaping aging, heart failure, and cancer.

Jared Rutter on other topics

Cancer · 5 quotes
Cellular metabolism · 5 quotes
Mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC1/MPC2) · 3 quotes
Mitochondria · 3 quotes
Lactate · 2 quotes
Reactive oxygen species · 1 quote
Warburg effect · 1 quote
Heart failure · 1 quote