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There's a tea that I write about called
tea. And it turns out research have been
done to show that tea triggers your
excess fat burning decreases your stem
cells from making more fat. A little
milk or a little cream, dairy. I like it
that way. Turns out that's not the best
way to drink coffee. So, I actually have
it straight now. And the reason is this.
Extravirgin olive oil is a great example
of where the benefits of a food don't
increase the more you have it. So, more
isn't always more. So, researchers gave
the subject a kiwi extract every day for
one week. What they found is that the
kiwi extract eaters had improved bowel
movements, better regularity, and less
overall abdominal pain. They also had
experienced less bloating, and they were
less gassy as well. Harsh things that
you do to your body, smoking cigarettes,
being a couch potato, being exposed to
damaging oxidative stress, those things
all shorten our T. They burn the fuse
faster, but foods can slow it down and
some foods can reverse it and lengthen
the tie. It's one of those top three
foods.
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>> Dark chocolate.
>> Oh, you're speaking my language now.
Okay. So, dark.
>> Can you eat Can you eat too much dark
chocolate? That's the question. You
know, I I have never seen anything about
an overdose of cacao, but I will tell
you that cacao has been shown to
actually double the number of stem cells
flowing in your bloodstream just by
having two cups of hot chocolate made
with 80% high flavonol. Dark chocolate.
>> Come on.
>> Yeah. It's been done in people 60 year
olds with heart disease.
>> So, wait, what happens when you when you
drink or you you eat this dark
chocolate? What happens?
>> Yeah, the polyphenols in this dark
chocolate that we we know what they are.
They're called proanthocyanid. So, I'm a
scientist. So, my job is to actually
know what are what the inside chemicals
actually are. These are natural
chemicals. All right? Most people don't
need to know that, but you drink it. It
tastes good. That's all you need to
know. But but I'll tell you these these
natural chemicals found in cacao
actually trigger a reaction in your body
so that they call out the stem cells. So
it is literally like bees flying out of
a hive can double the number of stem
cells. And what's the what's the
practical impact? Well, there was a
study done uh at UCSF in San Francisco
that looked at 60 year old men with
heart disease. So these are people whose
blood vessels were already not doing so
well and their blood flow wasn't going
so well either and their blood vessels
were kind of sick. That's kind of the
definition of heart disease.
>> By having the stem cells coming out,
they were able to actually double the
resiliency, the function of their blood
vessels. So they they got better
rebound, the better agility. um their
their blood vessels are in better shape
because their stem cells are
regenerating their circulation.
>> Wow.
>> So this is human studies, right? Like
most most of the time you hear about
scientists talking about rats or mice or
cells. I'm talking about human studies
and that's kind of where we are with
food is medicine. It's not the kind of
like the guesswork like we can do
serious research to get down to exactly
what's actually happening at the human
level. So, matcha tea actually is quite
amazing. Actually done a study to show
that that that matcha tea extracts can
kill breast cancer stem cells.
>> Wow.
>> I'm I'm always amazed by that because
look, as somebody who's been involved
with biotech development, um, and cancer
treatment development, finding something
that could kill stem cells, cancer stem
cells, like breast cancer stem cells,
which is what makes cancers come back,
is a holy grail. We don't have a drug
for it, but here matcha tea actually
been shown in the lab to actually be
able to do that to me is actually really
jaw-dropping. Then going down into even
more fermented tea because
traditionally, again, you know, this
idea that in our wellness community, we
wind up having all these mantras um must
drink green tea and oxidized fermented
tea is no good. Turns out that's not
true. The science is showing that oolong
tea, which is slightly fermented, also
good for your metabolism. You can lose
your waist, you can shrink your waist
size, your waist circumference, lose
body fat. And then even perhaps more
surprising, if you take the extreme of
fermented smoky dark teas, there's a tea
that I write about called puer t p u
apost e r h. One of your favorites,
right? One of mine as well.
>> Uh this is comes from a village of Pur
that um back thousands of years actually
traded tea on the silk road. So they
smoked the tea, they fermented it so it
would actually survive the tea journey.
And it turns out research had been done
to show that pure tea lightss up your
brown fat, burns up, you know, triggers
your fat, excess fat burning by burning
the cells, decreases your stem cells
from making more fat and whites uh fats,
visceral fat as well. Quite remarkable
that this fermented tea that's
supposedly, you know, fermented, it's
not can't be good, doesn't have any of
the polyphenols left. Wrong. And on top
of that, they've actually discovered
just a few years ago that there is this
this tradition thousand-y old tradition
of making puer tea. There's even a
bacteria, a probiotic that actually is
that the bacteria is grown in the way
that's fermented. In fact, they call it
purillus
uh like a basillus that actually grows
in pure tea. So, this is actually a a
probiotic tea, which to me is
remarkable. And not only does it improve
gut health, it's good for your
metabolism as well. So it fires up your
brown fat. So again, you know, tea is
the second part of the holy trinity. All
right, all you coffee lovers out there,
you can join me enjoying a cup of Joe.
And I'm going to tell you why coffee
slows down cellular aging. If you want
to actually be in the moment and not
speed up your aging, it turns out that
coffee can actually do that. There is a
bioactive in coffee beans called
chlorogenic acid. And this has been
studied in human subjects drinking
coffee. One to three cups a day has been
of drinking coffee has been shown to
slow down the burn rate of your uh
tieumirs. These are the caps at the end
of your DNA that burn down like a fuse
that reflect how fast you're actually
aging. It's kind of the clock that gets
the timer that gets started from the
time you're born. And the older you are,
the fuse starts to shrink. Drinking
coffee slows that process down. And all
you got to do to get that effect is to
drink anywhere from one to three cups of
coffee a day. I easily meet that uh
level myself. Okay. Second reason that
you actually want to drink coffee is
that uh coffee actually protects stem
cells in your body. Now, our stem cells
live in our bone marrow and they come
out into our bloodstream to repair us
from the inside out. Happens all the
time. But as we get older, our stem
cells are a little bit less vigorous
than when we're younger. And uh and a
lot of things can affect this, including
oxidative stress from the environment
and just simply aging. And so one of the
things that coffee does is it protects
acts as a shield to our stem cells so
they can actually keep on working as
robustly and vibrantly as possible
regenerating us from the inside out.
Third reason to have coffee every day is
that coffee improves our metabolism.
Coffee contains something called
chlorogenic acid. And chlorogenic acid
uh activates our metabolism. And the way
it does it is by stimulating the
production of brown fat. And we've got
different kinds of fat in our body.
There's white fat that's wiggly and
jiggly and brown fat that's wafer thin.
And one of the things that brown fat can
do is uh get turned on uh like a space
heater. Uh and when it turns on like a
space heater, it's a process called
thermogenesis. And coffee turns on
thermogenesis. And you know why
thermogenesis in brown fat is useful?
Because the brown fat will uh uh be
triggered and it'll burn down the
harmful white fat, the visceral fat. So
good fat fights bad fat and coffee
actually makes that happen. So you
actually get more energy uh and it
increases your metabolism. The other
thing it does, it actually um helps you
lose body fat. And you can actually lose
weight uh that way. And studies have
been done to show that drinking up to
four cups of coffee a day can actually
help you lose body fat. In fact, up to
about eight pounds of body fat uh over
about 6 months or so. Not a huge amount
by itself, but every little bit counts,
especially when it's actually burning
away your harmful white fat. Now another
thing that uh coffee does is it's
anti-inflammatory.
So chlorogenic acid in coffee is very
anti-inflammatory. We know that
inflammation is a root cause for a lot
of the diseases of aging. And so coffee
enjoy your cup of Joe actually helps you
enjoy the rest of your days longer and
better because it actually chills out uh
inflammation as well. And then finally,
coffee improves gut health. It turns out
that uh when you drink coffee, the
coffee uh chemicals actually get down
into your gut and it protects our gut
microbiome. It shifts the gut microbiome
into a healthier state. So, you've got
better neighborhoods of gut bacteria and
as you know, better gut health is better
overall health because our gut bacteria
lower inflammation. And the way it does
that is by releasing a metabolite called
shortchain fatty acids or scaffas
that actually lower inflammation. And
guess what? Drinking coffee helps your
gut bacteria make more short chain fatty
acids, more scaffa. So these are all
really great reasons why you would
actually want to drink uh uh coffee
every single day. And now I'm going to
give you some pro tips. Pro tip number
one is you want to get organic coffee if
you want to get the most out of the
chlorogenic acid. And the reason is this
coffee like other plants uh actually
produce bioactives like chlorogenic acid
in response to insects that are in its
natural environment. Right? So what do
bugs in a natural environment do? They
nibble on the leaves and the stems and
the coffee plant makes chlorogenic acid
as a response. It's kind of a wound
healing response. It's trying to heal
itself when those insects are nibbling
on it. Now, what do you think happens
when you actually spray pesticides on
the coffee bush, the bugs aren't
nibbling as much, so it makes less
chlorogenic acid. So, if you get
organic, no pesticides, more natural
bugs nibbling away at it, it's going to
produce more of this healing substance,
chlorogenic acid. Good for the coffee
plant, even better for us when we
actually drink it. So um so get organic
coffee when you're whenever you can.
Fair trade of course. Now the other tip
about coffee is that although for years
I enjoyed my coffee with a little milk
or a little cream dairy. Okay, I like it
that way. Turns out that's not the best
way to drink coffee. So I actually have
it straight now. And the reason is this.
The chlorogenic acid in coffee floats
around in tiny little molecules in the
the coffee. But when you put dairy in
it, dairies made of dairy fat and those
little fat uh particles form soap
bubbles that trap the chlorogenic acid.
All right? So now you drink the coffee
that you had some cream or or milk in it
and guess what? The chlorogenic acid is
trapped in the soap bubble and it just
trickles down your gut and you get rid
of it. Poop it out on the other end and
you don't actually absorb all of it. So,
if you want to get the most out of the
chlorogenic acid, you'll absorb some if
you have dairy, but not all. But if you
want to get the most out of it, just
have your coffee straight. Or if you
want to cut the coffee taste a little
bit, you can actually use a nut milk,
almond milk, uh soy milk. All of those
will actually uh work just fine. Uh they
don't actually form those little soap
bubbles that we're talking about. Okay.
Now, the last little tip I'll tell you
about coffee uh is something that
surprised me because when I was in
medical school and I drank tons of
coffee just to stay awake. All right.
One of the things that we always were
taught or I thought it was true was that
coffee, if you drink a lot of coffee, it
causes it's a diuretic and it causes you
to go to the bathroom and you can
actually get um urinate. You can
actually get dehydrated if you drink a
lot of coffee. Well, guess what?
Clinical studies have been done uh and
it showed that if you drink moderate
amounts of coffee, you know, three to
four cups of coffee a day, it doesn't
actually cause you to be any more
dehydrated than if you just drank water.
All right, so coffee does not dehydrate
you. Coffee uh actually does all these
great things. So, let's recap. Coffee
slows down cellular aging. Coffee
stimulates your stem cells. Coffee
improves your metabolism by burning down
harmful body fat and you actually lose
some weight along the way. And coffee is
anti-inflammatory
and coffee improves gut health. All
right, all these benefits from coffee,
one of my favorite beverages. I drink it
in the morning as a pickme up. All
right, I do think that caffeine uh is
really good. And if you're sensitive to
caffeine, you can try to get
decaffeinated coffee. All right, that
would be fine. It still has chlorogenic
acid, but just know that the
decaffeination process removes a lot of
the um caffeine, not all, a lot, but it
also removes some of the other
bioactives as well. But some people are
sensitive and it's just fine. If you
want to actually have that taste of
coffee and get some of the benefits,
decaf will actually work as well. Just
not as good as the full test coffee,
which is my beverage of choice. Olive
oil is a delicious, healthy oil despite
what you may have heard from some
people. And it not only tastes great,
but it is actually good for heart
health. It's got research proven
benefits for your health. And the reason
that olive oil is good for your health
is because it has polyphenols. And two
of them that have been best studied are
called hydroxyol
and oolioanthol.
Don't bother trying to spell them. Just
know that they've actually been figured
out. And researchers like me are
actually um working on understanding how
they work. And here's what we do know.
Both hydroxyarol and oolocanthol are
anti-inflammatory
and they also help your circulation.
They actually protect your endothelial
cells, a lining of your circulation. And
this allows you to lower your risk of
cardiovascular disease. And the other
thing is that hydroxyrosol, one of these
bioactives and extra-virgin olive oil,
actually activates brown fat, which can
improve your metabolism and burn down
harmful inflammatory visceral fat. So
anti-inflammatory, improves your
circulation, lowers your risk of heart
disease, turns down brown fat, burns
away harmful fat, and improves your
metabolism. So what's oolocanthol? Well,
olioanthol is a bioactive in extravirgin
olive oil that gives the oil its peppery
taste in the back of your throat. Right?
That's part of really really good fresh
extravirgin olive oil. Now, both
hydroxyol and oolioanthol are good for
the lining of the blood vessels as I
told you the endothelium.
And there are 32 studies in total
clinical studies that involve 841,000
people that show that consuming
extravirgin olive oil is associated with
a lower risk of heart disease and
stroke. All right. So this is the
clinical proof uh of concept. Now this
is all thought to be due to these
polyphenols that improve endothelial
layers in your blood vessels as well as
your blood flow. So what are olives? All
right. Um these bioactors are found in
olives. Olives are one of the most
important fruits in the Mediterranean
diet. If you've ever never seen an olive
tree, it actually grows in aid uh hot
weather. It's got kind of a dusty
looking uh trunk, very some olive trees
are hundreds of years old. And the
olives that actually form start off at
as green and then they ripen uh over the
course of the summer. Now, how olive
oils are made is that olives when
they're ripe are shaken off the tree.
they're collected uh and when they're
collected they then are uh crushed and
spun. And so there's a big drum that
will spin these crushed olives. And of
course, olives contain water in this
meat and it contains oil. So as you spin
it, all the liquid comes off the side.
It gets collected uh in a container and
the oil floats to the top, right? Oil is
lighter than water. That's the good
stuff. And the water actually settles
down to the bottom. Now, the oil
actually for extra virgin first press
olive oil will actually have little bits
of the um olive meat and that's why it's
green. That's why when you get extra
virgin olive oil, it looks green. If you
hold it up, put it into a glass and hold
it up to the light, it looks green.
You're actually looking at the green
color with the little bits of the olives
uh in it. And so, first press means that
uh you just press it out uh spin it off
and collect it and you and you don't
filter it. That's what first press
extravirgin olive oils and those
polyphenols are found in those little
floating bits that give uh extra virgin
olive oil its taste as well as its
color. Now a second benefit of
extravirgin olive oil comes from the
fact that it contains healthy fats. Now
the main fat is called oleic acid. Okay.
And oleic acid has potent
anti-inflammatory properties all by
itself. So the bioactives in uh the
polyphenols are good, but the o oleic
acid, the healthy fat is also
anti-inflammatory. All right. And there
was a study, clinical study done in
Japan looking at 3,000 men and women.
And this was published in a journal of
epidemiology that showed that the
consumption of oleic acid correlated
with the reduction in the inflammatory
marker called C reactive protein in the
blood after taking oleic acid. Now,
extravirgin olive oil also has a little
bit of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty
acids. And you know, omega-3s are are
healthy as well. Now, a third benefit of
extravirgin olive oil is that you don't
need to consume a lot to get its
benefits. And this is where the three
tablespoons per day come in. Now, three
tablespoons, if you were to actually
measure it out, look like a lot if
you're actually going to take it
straight. But actually, if you think
about it, extravirgin olive oil using
salad dressing, uh, in a dish that
actually is sauteed, a little bit of
extra olive oil, uh, dipping it into a
piece of healthy sourdough bread, uh,
with for the oil for the taste, before
long, you'll actually easily consume
over the course of a day. Three
tablespoons. So, I think that three
tablespoons are easy to consume in the
course of the day, normal eating,
Mediterranean diet. I would not do shots
um of of extra-virgin olive oil. After
all, it's a fat and uh it's better to
actually spread it out in the context of
food. Also, you can actually enjoy it uh
more. And always be careful. This is a
fat. You don't want to over consume that
uh as well. Now, extravirgin olive oil
is a great example of where the benefits
of a food don't increase the more you
have it. So, more isn't always more.
Moderation when it comes to food as
medicine is almost always the winning
formula, but especially when it comes to
fat, including extravirgin olive oil. By
the way, remember I told you you spin
the the crushed olives in a drum and the
fluid is collected, oil floats to the
top, and the water's below. Well, guess
what? Some of those polyphenols are
actually found in the olive water.
Hydroxyol olucanthol is found in olive
water. And so if you're actually eating
the whole olive, make sure that you're
actually enjoying the knowledge that
when you actually eat the meat and you
get the juice of the olive, that's also
good for you. Um, as well, extravirgin
olive oil. Something else you need to
know is it's great for cooking. Is
another way to actually get it into your
system because most food preparation
requires a little bit of oil in order to
be able to cook. And cooking with extra
olive, virgin olive oil actually gets
some of the polyphenols into your food.
So, you get more bang for your buck if
you're cooking a healthy food and you
cook it in extra-virgin olive oil. The
oil makes it even healthier. Now, there
are some myths uh with with extravirgin
olive oil. One of them is that you
shouldn't cook in high heat because it's
got a low smoke point. Look, um you
probably shouldn't be cooking too often
with super high heat and you never want
oil that's actually smoking hot. But
actually the smoke point of extravirgin
olive oil is about 325 degrees to 375
degrees depending on the quality of the
oil. And guess what? That overlaps with
other oils that are used for frying like
corn oil and canola oil. And extravirgin
olive oil is much healthier than those.
So what I would tell you is that don't
be afraid to cook with extra virgin
olive oil although you can actually have
it plain because the uh smoke point is
actually much higher than people
actually think. Last thing I'm going to
tell you is um how do you get the most
potent extravirgin olive oils? Which
ones have the most polyphenols? Well, it
turns out there are three olives that
contain the highest levels of
polyphenols measured in extravirgin
olive oil. And they come from uh Spain,
Greece, and Italy. So if you're looking
for olive oils that actually contain the
highest amount of polyphenols, look for
Spanish olive oil, Piku olives. You look
for Greek olive oils called Coronki
olives. Both picolo and coronia pretty
common olives. So it's easy to find
these. And in Italy, if you want to look
for an Italian olive oil that's very
high in polyphenols, look for morrayolo
uh olives used to make the olive oil. So
the best way to do this, what I do when
I go shopping for olive oil is I pick up
the oil and I actually try to look for
is there anything that says it's
monoarietal, meaning only one type of
olive, one variety of olive is used.
Monovidal, right? I look for Pul from
Spain, Coronki from Greece, and much
less common to find is actually Morayo
from Italy, from Umbria as well. Okay,
but you can shop for all of these online
and you can just order the modern
varietals. Remember, Piku, Coronki, and
Moriolo.
Okay, now the last thing you need to be
a little bit careful about is is um
getting fooled by fake olive oils.
There's a whole industry of pirated and
fake uh olive oils out there. always
look uh on the label carefully to see um
if it actually gives you enough
information. Some olive oils that are
really genuine, they even stamp the
harvest date of the olives and those are
the ones that you know are actually
genuine. The ones that actually are
don't specify the varietals and don't
specify the dates. You know, look them
up online to see if there's any reports
that they might be fake. You definitely
don't want to get the fake kind. And
finally, when you uh bring home your
olive oil, uh keep it in a cool, dark
place. Bright light, sunlight actually
degrades the polyphenols, degrades the
olive oil and makes it go bad faster.
So, dark bottle, dark place, cool
environment. That's the best way to
actually store your olive oil. Chocolate
is a confection. It's candy. Chocolate
is actually made um with cacao. Cacao is
a plant-based food which contains
polyphenols. The more cacao you have in
the chocolate, the darker the chocolate,
right? It's 70% cacao, 80% cacao, even
100% cacao. That's when you actually
have a lot of the polyphenols from the
cacao plant, plant-based. One of the
things that we look for uh is for
healthy chocolate is the percent higher
levels of cacao. The more the better. I
always say 80% or higher is exactly what
you want. Okay. Now, what does uh dark
chocolate do for you? It does a lot of
things. One of the most important things
uh the polyphenols do is it recruits
your stem cells. All right, that's
right. We all have uh stem cells in our
body. They were left over when we were
growing in our mom's belly in the womb
and they formed our organs. All right?
Uh so when we were actually born, there
were extra stem cells left over about 70
million. All right? Right? And they all
got packed away, stored away uh in our
bone marrow. So our bone marrow is the
little uh uh spongy stuff in the middle
of our bone. If you ever took a chicken
bone and broke it in half, you would
actually see that brown stuff in the
middle. That's bone marrow. That's
packed with stem cells. So, uh, eating
chocolate, the chocolate bioactives
called pro-anthocyanidins
actually calls out those stem cells, uh,
into our bloodstream. It signals to
them. So, they come flying out of our
bone marrow like bees coming out of a
hive and they circulate around our
blood. And you know what they do? They
look for areas that need to be fixed,
like potholes in a road. They're looking
for where they need to patch. And not
just uh in your uh uh in your blood
vessels, although that's a very
important place for um dark chocolate to
have its activity. The proanthocyanids,
stem cells actually fix your blood
vessels, but also other organs as well,
right? The stem cells are going
everywhere. Your brain, your heart, your
liver, your lungs, everywhere. So, uh
dark chocolate is actually a way of
stimulating these stem cells to come on
out in order to be able to do their
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ratty ragged blood vessels, not good
blood flow. And they actually can do a
test called flow mediated dilation. This
is basically where you see how resilient
uh the blood vessels are. Good, normal,
healthy blood vessels, very resilient.
All right? and ones that are uh sick uh
with cardiovascular disease, not so
resilient. So, how do you study this?
You basically blow up a blood pressure
cuff like just like in a doctor's office
um and they put an ultrasound and when
the blood pressure cuff is completely
squeezed, you're actually cutting off
the blood flow. All right? You count one
Mississippi, two Mississippi, three
Mississippi, and so on and so forth. All
right? There's no blood flow going
through. Then you release it suddenly
and blood jets right through the blood
pressure cuff. And now you take the
ultrasound to measure how quickly the
blood vessels uh adapt and rebound uh
after the blockage. All right? So you
have no flow. All of a sudden a ton of
flow. Okay. A tsunami of blood comes
out. How good is your blood vessel in
actually receiving it? How resilient it
is is it? This is called flow mediated
dilation FMD. All right? Because the
blood vessels have to dilate when more
blood flow comes through. And it turns
out that uh studies have looked at um
people who have had dark chocolate
actually cacao beverage and they found
that having the cacao beverage actually
helps the blood vessels become more
resilient because the stem cell have
actually come out and fixed and repaired
and regenerated the areas of the blood
vessels in order to keep them as healthy
and as resilient as possible. All right.
So, this is basically taking about two
cups of of hot cocoa, dark chocolate,
for a month, 30 days. And some people
were able to double the number of stem
cells that come out of their uh blood
vessels.
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