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Has anybody ever told you how many
cancer cells are in a 1 cm tumor? It's 1
billion cancer cells are already in the
smallest tumor you can feel in the
shower. Where we were studying things to
cut off the blood supply for breast and
other cancers with drugs. And when we
threw a ract in there, boom, we hit a
home run. Everyone's heard this that soy
and soy foods are harmful for breast
cancer. In every single study looking at
soy intake and breast cancer outcomes,
eating soy led to mortality. And in
every study, eating soy led to survival.
We don't have a medicine that can treat
cancer stem cells. There's nothing.
Guess what? Mother nature already beat
us to the punch because can actually
kill breast cancer stem cells.
Very early on in my field, it was
discovered that tumors are cancers are
completely harmless. They form in our
body all the time until they are able to
recruit a private blood supply. A tumor
isn't born with a blood supply. A
mutated cell doesn't naturally have a
blood supply. It'll sit there. It'll
grow about the size of a tip of a
ballpoint pen or tip of a pencil and
then it can't get any bigger because it
doesn't send any oxygen doesn't have any
nutrients. But when cancer cells like
breast cancer cells are able to hijack
our body's own circulation, they begin
to selfishly recruit blood vessels to
grow into them. And what we found is
that if you take a tumor, isolate it
from blood supply, it'll stay there
forever. Now in our bodies
>> without grow without growing without
getting Yeah. And it can only get to two
to three millimeters in diameter. That's
the size of a tip of a pencil. That's
it. Okay. And then our immune system
wings by like cops on a beat in a
suburb. And they spot a drug dealer on
the sidewalk. All right. They don't even
have to be dealing. Oh, they're just
sitting there looking like they
shouldn't be there. What their immune
system does put that cancer cell in a
patty wagon and drives off with it and
gets rid of it. Okay? And that's how our
body naturally resists cancer. Like many
women will ask me doc why did I actually
get breast cancer and you know I would
try to give an intelligent answer to
that obviously you know being empathic
to the the situation the state of mind
that they're in
>> but you know when I walk away from
somebody who asked that question I ask
myself a different question I ask myself
why don't we get cancer more often and
the answer is because our immune system
wings by conducts surveillance and every
time it sees a little microscopic cancer
it puts it in a patty and gets rid of
it. All right? And that's one thing. The
second thing is that our body has this
powerful way
>> of trying to prevent tumors from getting
their own blood supply.
Anti-androgenesis
cuts off the blood supply to tumor. No
blood vessels, no oxygen, no nutrients,
can't grow. Then your immune system
comes by and wipes them out. All right?
Amazing, right? The other reason is that
cancer is triggered by mutations in our
DNA. Cancer is just a normal cell. the
DNA's got a mutation and now that
mutation makes the cancer cell go
haywire. It's like having a virus in
your operating system or your laptop.
You know, weird things start happening.
That's what happens when it happens on a
laptop. You got to, you know, take it to
an anti virus program or reboot it
>> and your body the thing grows into a
cancer. Unless your body's hardwired
defense system against DNA damage, it's
like a mutation fix. It's like an
anti-mutation fix. My large screen TV is
my broken. I can't watch the game this
weekend. So, you call the Geek Squad and
our body's Geek Squad comes in to fix
broken DNA and it can actually repair it
and it can also put a shield up so that
it actually prevents more damage from
occurring. Amazing. And then of course
our gut microbiome. You know, everyone's
knows about the gut microbiome now.
Healthy gut bacteria, 39 trillion of
them. It lowers inflammation. Cancer
loves to flare up with inflammation. So,
you know when you go to a barbecue in
the summertime and you're watching the
grill, whenever fat drips into the
grill, you get this big flare up, right?
And so, this is what the flare up is
inflammation. And cancer is sort of like
the ribeye cooking on top. And whenever
it flares up with inflammation, that
cancer loves to grow even more. So, the
gut microbiome, among many things that
it does, lowers inflammation. So if
you're a woman and you want to lower
your risk of breast cancer or ovarian
cancer or cervical cancer or uterine
cancer, you want to lower that
inflammation and the best way to do it
is already hardwired in your body. It's
your gut bacteria. So the health defense
system and then connected to that and we
talked about this already is your immune
system which kind of wings by conducting
surveillance. And by the way, if you
actually have a big honking cancer
that's already growing. So here's a
here's a a stat about breast cancer that
most people don't know. All right?
Cancer research will know it, but most
people don't. So we tell women to just
be vigilant and make sure like if you're
in a shower, just naturally just have do
a self exam. So you check for lumps,
check for anything that might be
abnormal because the earlier you find
it, the earlier something can be done.
Earlier that something's done, the more
likely you're going to be cured. and and
dodge problems later on. So, we feel for
lumps in our breast and the smallest
breast lump that you can really feel
with your two fingers, that's how you're
supposed to feel for them, is about one
centimeter in size in diameter. Now,
that's a small early breast cancer. So,
that's why it's so important to feel for
that. All right. Now, a lot of people
don't realize this, but do you know how
I'm going to, this is not a trick
question for you, Mindy, but have has
anybody ever told you how many cancer
cells are in a one centimeter tumor?
It's 1 billion cancer cells are already
in the smallest tumor you can feel in
the shower.
>> Okay? So, one billion cancer cells,
that's way more than the drug dealer in
the corner that the cop picks off,
right? that one that one centimeter
cancer has already recruited a blood
supply and I can tell you as a cancer
researcher working in a lab.
>> If we isolate the tumor from the blood
supply, it'll stay there forever. It
won't grow. The moment you allow a blood
vessel to touch that cancer, it will
start to feed it. It'll give it oxygen.
It's like handing it a scuba tank. All
right? Then giving it nutrients. Now
you're giving it a bag of junk food. All
right? And now that cancer will grow
16,000 times in just two weeks. 16,000
times in size. It's explosive. All
right. So, how do we get this under
control? If you can actually fortify
your body to turn the clock back, keep
the blood vessels from growing to the
cancer and strengthen your immune system
so the cops to be will wipe out more of
those bad guys, you're going to be in
much better shape than if you just don't
know what to do and just don't do
anything about it and wait for disaster
to strike. It turns out that there was a
young researcher at the time, Ted
Photzis, who had moved from Greece to
Switzerland to do research. And when
you're a young researcher in a lab, they
kind of give you the junior guy the
least interesting stuff to do and they
give you kind of the leftovers. So he
got in there and it was a hormone lab by
the way. It was a lab about hormones and
this hormone lab in Switzerland
pioneered the ability to look for
estrogen in urine in women's urine. So
we're going back to the really late
1970s, early 1980s. All right? And it
turns out they gave this young
researcher Ted Ted Fosis. They gave him
a a crate of old urine samples from
women that they didn't want to use
anymore. And they're like, "Here, this
is your project. Go figure out something
interesting to do with it." So he looked
in the urine and he found the estrogen,
right? Because these are women. And what
he found though when he was analyzing
the urine, there was this weird spike
that came out of the urine that he'd
never seen before. In fact, nobody had
actually seen it before. So in the lab
he cut the spike out. This is how you do
it. You cut the spike out and you
analyze what is a spike. That spike was
a natural compound from soy called
genestine.
And so his lab basically said, "So
what?" You know, because it didn't come
from humans. Don't forget this lab was
studying human estrogen. And so he found
this weird estrogen-l like spike out of
women. Cut it out. And they said, "Well,
it didn't come from humans. Didn't come
from the women. Where'd it come from?"
came from soy. So, and they're like,
"Well, tell us that it's useful or don't
tell us at all." All right. And so, what
he did is he actually studied the
genestine, which is a phytoestrogen, a
plant estrogen, which came from soy. All
right? And this is one of the origins to
how the whole urban legend about soy
being damaging came from phytoestrogens.
And he tested it in the systems used for
drug development ultimately to see if
you can starve cancer. And it when he
dropped the soy genine in there, boom,
it knocked out all the blood vessels
that like for example a breast cancer in
the lab would actually recruit. He was
like eureka. Wow, that's amazing. All
right. And it came from soy. And that
led to a a research publication that
changed everything including for me
because it led us to understand that
foods have natural substances that can
cut off the blood supply to cancer. And
that's led to my TED talk and lots of
other things that are going on right
now. But the origin, the first food that
was discovered was soy. Now, let me just
tell you how this urban legend came
about that soy is actually harmful for
breast cancer. So, and you know, it's
like so many other things that are out
there in the uh blogosphere, in the
social media space, and the rumor mill.
I think most urban legends on health
come from well-intentioned people who
were trying to put oneonone together.
And somebody heard that some that human
breast cancer, some human breast cancers
are uh estrogen sensitive, and they are.
And then that same person also read
somewhere that soy beans have something
called a phytoestrogen and didn't think
about the phyto part, just thought about
the estrogen part. And again,
well-intentioned saying, well, in that
case, you don't want to put any estrogen
from soy into the women. And that's
where this took off. Like this whole
idea that women shouldn't eat soy. But
unfortunately, they were wrong because
they weren't scientists and they they
didn't know the data. So this is where
by the way I think for anybody listening
having partial knowledge
>> really requires you to keep looking for
more information and not just take the
halfway mark and say I'm done. I'm the
expert. Yes.
>> Because what happened is that if you
actually as a scientist look at what a
phytoestrogen looks like let's say this
is the chemical structure and look what
the human estrogen looks like they don't
look anything alike.
>> If you had one on the left screen and
the right screen they're completely
different. The chemistry looks
completely different. And in fact,
>> yeah,
>> what was since discovered is that the
phytoestrogen from soy blocks the human
estrogen, it's mother nature's tmoxifen.
>> All right.
>> Yes.
>> It actually blocks the growth of breast
cancers. Estrogen sponsor breast cancer.
So just completely the opposite. And it
starves the cancer. So people would say
to me when I was talking about this
earlier in my career, they'd say, you
know, that's a nice theory, Dr.
But look, I'm a woman. I'm not going to
take the chance. All right.
>> Right.
>> Well, so what I say is let's look at
where the rubber meets the road in
people. Let's look at real women with
real clinical trials that had only women
in it. Right. Women with breast cancer.
And one of the most famous ones that I
talk about is it's a Shanghai women's
breast cancer study where they studied
5,000 women who were at the highest risk
for breast cancer. And you know why they
were at the highest risk? Because they
already had breast cancer, right? Yeah,
>> they're they're at super high risk. And
here's what they found. They found that
the women who ate more soy had lower
mortality.
>> Wow.
>> Okay. About
>> because it's protective.
>> Because it's protective. About 30%
lower. And those women who already had
their breast cancer removed by surgery
and well treated by chemo radiation or
hormonal therapy that didn't have any
cancer left, those women who ate the
most soy over a period of years had a
30% reduction in the chance of breast
cancer would come back.
>> All right, crazy.
>> So survival. Now then the critic goes
and it's fine. I think anybody wanting
to have an intelligent conversation, you
got to be open-minded. Ask questions. I
always tell people ask questions.
They're like, "Okay, well that's one
study even though there's 5,000 people
in it, you know, has it been repeated?"
And what I say is that actually it's a
great question because there are 14
other studies that have come out since.
And in 14 clinical trials involving
women only with breast cancer. In every
single study looking at soy intake and
breast cancer outcomes, eating soy led
to less mortality. And in every study,
eating soy led to greater survival.
Tomatoes, let's throw out the myth about
night shades and lectins. All right,
tree nuts, walnuts, pistachios, almonds,
macadamia, pine nuts, they also lower
the risk. They can also cut off the
blessed life cancer. We're also talking
about the brassica vegetable family.
Yes. So we're talking about not just
broccoli, the regular broccoli. Broccoli
we're talking about even turnips which
are part of the brasa family all have
sulforophanes that cut off the blood
supply feeding cancer berries,
>> blueberries, raspberries, strawberries.
Strawberries have something called
elactic acid cuts off the blood supply
to tumors. This is all based on actually
research I did right years ago with the
National Cancer Institute where we were
studying things to cut off the blood
supply for breast and other cancers with
drugs and when we threw a strawberry
extract in there boom like we got a
score we hit a home run and so these are
not replacements for your doctor your
oncologist and not for drug therapy or
women's health specialist but these are
things that you can do for yourself
that's part of health care you go to the
doctor sick care. All right, that's how
our system is set up. When you go home
from the doctor's office, then it
switches over to healthare. We take care
of ourselves. This is how the food
within our own toolbox for ourselves.
Green tea cuts off the blood supply to
breast cancer. And by the way, matcha,
which is the specific kind of green tea,
green tea is good for you. And green
tea. When you steep a cup of green tea,
the polyphenols, the kakans that are
naturally present in tea leaves float
out because of the hot water into the
brew and then you're sipping the brew
and you're actually getting the kakans,
the polyphenols in your body. They cut
off the blood supply, the cancer. All
right, that's very very clear.
>> Now, but you don't get all the kakans
out of the the tea leaves because well,
you're just soaking there's still some
left. You know how in a sponge, if you
just put a sponge in a bucket and fill
up the bucket that even if you empty out
all the water, the sponge is still going
to have some stuff in it, some water in
it. You got to squeeze it out, right?
So, nobody squeezes out all the katakans
from their tea leaves when you brew a
cup of tea.
>> However,
>> there is something different about
matcha. Matcha is green tea,
>> regular green tea, except about 28 days
before they harvest it, they put a shade
over it, and that actually causes more
polyphenols to be produced. So all by
itself there's more polyphenols, more
katakans and matcha just by putting a
little covering over it. Then when they
harvest it,
>> they harvest it very carefully. Then
they unlike regular tea which is just
drying the tea leaves here and then and
then selling it here. They dry the tea
leaves the whole leaf and then they
pulverize it into a fine powder. So now
you get 100% of the polyphenols in the
tea leaf in matcha
>> and you get the dietary fiber from the
leaf itself. You got the polyphenols,
you got the dietary fiber, you got
everything. There's nothing left behind
in a tea bag. Nothing left behind. It's
all there.
>> Which is why a cup of matcha is really,
really dense green. You can't see
through it. All right. Um and in fact,
you whisk it to mix it up and you sip
it. And I can tell you it's really
amazing because you get a lot more
polyphenol, a lot more cancer starving
stuff out of out of matcha than you do a
cup of green tea. The last thing about
matcha, and this was based on research
done by scientists in England, they
found that matcha can actually kill
breast cancer stem cells.
>> Oh wow.
>> Now, what's a what's a cancer stem cell?
Listen, we're all made of stem cells.
It's like when our dad's sperm met our
mom's egg, we're a little ball of cells.
Our stem cells are what allowed us to
grow a face, ears, heart, lung,
fingertips, toenails. All right? So, we
were all formed out of stem cells. But
when we were actually formed and born,
all the other stem cells got stored away
to repair and regenerate ourselves over
the course of our lives when we need to.
But when cancers form, that mutation
where you got the bad guy forming, if it
turns into a tumor, that 1 cm tumor, a
billion cancer cells, a 1 cm cancer, the
smallest one you can feel, a billion
cancer cells in it,
>> is already fed by 100 million blood
vessel cells. Let's stop those blood
vessels from forming. Let's shore up the
immune system. These are simple steps
that can actually be taken by healthy
people. And if you have cancer, now's
the time to, you know, hubba hubba and
get with it because this is not
something your oncologist is going to be
doing for you. This is something you're
going to be doing for yourself. And then
the researchers that I found that you
see what happens is that after you
completely treat breast cancer, right,
the women who are in remission, you
know, thank God I'm in remission, right?
The five year mark. Unfortunately, about
20% of people who are in remission over
five years comes back.
>> Where the heck did that come from? How
did that cancer come back? Well, it
turns out that cancers also develop stem
cells and they can renew themselves.
Now, we know this occurs in breast and
other cancers. We don't have a medicine
that can treat cancer stem cells.
There's nothing. I mean, I can tell you
as somebody who's, you know, doing
therapeutic development for cancer, we
ain't got nothing for that. Guess what?
Mother nature already beat us to the
punch because matcha,
>> of course she did,
>> can actually kill breast cancer stem
cells. Amazing, right? There are certain
bacteria in the gut and you can eat
these bacteria and the bacteria also
found in food but you can get it as a
probiotic and one of them is called
lactobacillus rutery.
Okay. Uh that lactobacillus rutery in
the gut text messages our brain and what
it does is it causes the brain to
release oxytocin.
>> Oo.
>> Now oxytocin is a social hormone. It's
it's the hormone that when the one
minute old infant is given skin time and
starts to suckle on the nipple, it
releases oxytocin is really releases the
milk let down. Oxytocin is also
important for uterine contractions when
you're when you're delivering the baby.
And also oxytocin is important for
social connection. So, when you're at
the airport or at the train station or
the bus station and you haven't seen a
relative in a long time or a good friend
and they come through the arrivals area
and you run up there and you give them a
great hug and you're really just happy
to see them, your brain is flooded with
oxytocin. Oxytocin also comes out of
your brain when you get a kiss. And and
I'm not talking about grandma's peck on
the cheek. when you get a good deep
French kiss. Oxytocin is that same
feeling that when you're seeing your
friend at the airport and the other time
that oxytocin floods out of your brain
is during orgasm. All right, so this is
actually an incredibly important social
hormone
>> that has in women a very very important
reproductive and also a connection
between mom and baby. So you know this
is an important hormone. Well, it turns
out that lactobus's rutery textes your
brain to be able to release it. So
there's been studies that have been
shown that in the lab lactobacillus
rutery when fed in the lab to animals
just through their drinking water you
know like you ever had a hamster or
gerbble and you got to put the water
bottle up with the little metal nozzle
and the animal goes up there and starts
licking it. If that's all you do is you
put the lactopus rutery powder into the
water, mix it all up, shake it all up
and let them drink it. No biggie. If
these animals were prone to develop
breast cancer, guess what? It would
reduce the size and reduce the incidence
the development of breast cancer. Breast
tumor. Wow. Amazing. Wow.
>> Right. The gut being happy and having a
new partner, the lacttopus text messages
to the brain releases social hormones
which influence your mood and it can
really be quite profound. But here also
lowering inflammation, also boosting
immunity. The the the the cops on a beat
wigging by. Maybe that's how they were
actually working. The other thing about
lactobus rutery that's really
interesting is that when you eat it in
foods, lactobasus rutery also in your
mouth
fights the bacteria that causes
cavities. Oldfashioned yogurt that it's
hard to find anymore used to have many
more organisms when it was sort of made
on a small scale. You know, small local
farms are making the yogurt and
supplying it. Once it get became a big
factory, the probiotic quality started
to go down. But lactopus rudi, it can be
found in some yogurts. I I don't know
which ones, but I'm always on a hunt.
So, if anybody knows,
>> you can look for it.
>> Yeah, let you definitely look for it.
And please, you know, DM me on social
media on Instagram or something and let
me know if you find one that has
lactopus rutery, that would be a winner.
Uh, but you can also find lactopus
rutery in sourdough bread. Here's the
thing. Ah,
>> lactobacillus rutery. Lactobacillus is
named Lac. So, Lactobacillus is a first
name. Ruter is a last name. It's
actually genus of species, but let's
call it first name and last name.
Everybody understand that? Lactobacillus
is called that because it creates lactic
acid.
Lactic acid is what makes sourdough
tangy. what we like about sourdough and
that's and so people going back hundreds
of years like in France where they
started sourdough bread
>> they actually would take a little pinch
of starter material that had lactobacus
rutery and use that into the yeast to
make the dough for sourdough bread and
then before they baked it they would
pinch it off and save it for next. So
there are hundreds of years of saved
lacupillus rutery that have been pinched
off and saved over the years. So, if
you're going to try this, by the way,
make sure that you're getting real
sourdough bread and not sourdough bread
made in a factory where they didn't want
to waste time and they just put a little
vinegar in there to make it seem like it
tasted tangy. You want the real lactic
acid from Lactobacillus. Now, that's
only one place to get it. A lot of
people might not realize that bacillus
rutery is the starter bacteria not only
for sourdough bread but also for the
real Italian parmesano reo cheese. And
by the way I'm not talking about
>> factorymade you know copy paste you know
something called par parmesan cheese you
know the stuff you shake out from a can.
No, no. We're talking about the big
blocks that you would see. Yes. In Italy
and you can find them in the US. You can
order it that way. And it's expensive.
Okay. And so you don't need a lot of it.
And you shouldn't have a lot of cheese
anyway. I mean, you know, cheese is a
probiotic food, but it also has a lot of
saturated fat and a lot of salt. So
moderation can be good for you. But many
people are surprised to find out that
lactobacillic also found in Parmesan
regard cheese. Yeah. The real Italian.
>> That's amazing. Okay. That's amazing.
>> Um, so yeah. So we and and I did some
research on Lactobacillus rutery and we
found that in the lab if you are
studying wound healing that animals that
eat ruter eye they take that it actually
speeds up the healing of the wound as
well.
>> That's crazy.
>> So in fact it doubled the rate of wound
healing.
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