Positron emission tomography
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Positron emission tomography has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Huberman Lab. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Jared RutterAmerican biochemist, professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator specializing in mitochondria and metabolism
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
Podcasts
- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
Episodes
How Mitochondria Control Your Metabolism | Dr. Jared RutterHuberman 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.