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five foods that can actually help fight
cancer. And the first food we're going
to actually talk about is something that
might be a little controversial, but
it's actually supported by science. And
that is that some dairy products, and
I'm going to talk about two of them,
might have the possibility to help fight
cancer and help burn body fat all at the
same time. We all have DNA in our body,
and when your DNA is damaged, it's
called a mutation. What is mutation? So,
you look for cancer. So protecting your
DNA with an antioxidant property of
curcumin found in is actually another
benefit. The gingerol if also directly
room the health of the lining of the
blood vessels the endothelial. They also
directly help vascular health. You have
better blood flow. Better blood flow
better heart function. Better blood flow
better brain function. What about
prevention? What are foods that can
prevent cancer? Well, it turns out that
two apps a day actually can lower the
rate of lung cancer and
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today we're going to talk about the
amazing benefits of ginger and turmeric
for longevity and overall health. I love
these two foods, ginger and turmeric.
And you can find them in the fresh
produce section of a grocery store or a
Asian market. You'll definitely find
them. Uh or you can go to the middle
aisle of the grocery store and find them
ground up and dried as spices. Uh and so
don't be afraid to actually wander into
the middle aisle and go to the spice
section to find ginger and turmeric. So
let's talk a little bit about ginger and
turmeric uh individually. First of all,
turmeric actually comes from uh uh
Southeast Asia. It is a tiny little
root, kind of a nub, kind of cigar
shape, but tiny, smaller, and uh it's
got a little skin on it. And if you peel
off the skin, or if you break it in
half, you'll see that it's bright orange
on the inside. Now, this is a an edible
root that can be used for cooking and
stewing. Uh you often see this in
Southeast Asian cuisine. Uh you can also
find it in Indian uh cuisine as well. Uh
and uh turmeric's actually been used for
traditional healing, Ayurvedic healing,
uh traditional uh medicines for
thousands of years. Uh I like to think
about it as a colorful uh spice that you
can actually use for cooking as well.
And what's in turmeric is something
called kurcumin. Now, kurcumin is a
bioactive that does a lot of really
powerful things. Kurcumin lowers
inflammation in your body. It's sort of
the OG, one of the original
anti-inflammatory subst substances. All
right, that's what kurcumin does. Um,
anti-inflammatory. Kurcumin also can cut
off the blood supply feeding cancer. So,
it's anti- angioenic. This is something
that I did work on years ago. uh and to
help discover that activity. Uh kurcumin
also is antioxidant.
So it actually protects your DNA. Look,
we all have DNA in our body. It's our
genetic instructions. They make
proteins. You don't want them to be
damaged because when your da DNA is
damaged, it's called a mutation. What is
mutation? So you look for cancer. So
protecting your DNA with an antioxidant
property of curcumin found in turmeric
is actually another benefit. The other
thing that um uh turmeric actually does
is it slows down cellular aging. Now,
this is different than actually
reversing aging. Like you don't turn
into a baby when you have it, but it
actually get your cells chilled out a
little bit so you're not as uh your
cells are not speeding up uh and going
towards a more aged uh state. All right?
So it slows down cellular aging and in
fact it can actually help to slow down
the burning down of your tieumirs. These
are actually the kind of like the fuses
at the end of your DNA uh that burn down
as we age. It slows that whole process
down. So that's turmeric. All right. Now
what about ginger? Another root um
really amazing root uh I love ginger uh
that you can actually find uh in the
fresh market of the grocery store. You
can find it dried in the spice market.
If you go to an Asian grocery store,
you'll actually see beautiful big chunks
of ginger. Uh they're sort of like a
like almost like a cactus, a big
centerpiece with lots of little arms
sticking out. Uh and ginger is something
that's used in Asian cooking of all
sorts. Um, if you've actually been to
the sushi bar, you know that ginger is
sliced really thin and given as a pile
uh next to your sushi. Uh, absolutely
delicious. Ginger also is used to flavor
uh stir fries in Chinese cooking.
Ginger's used in Thai food, Vietnamese
food, used in soups. just a beautiful uh
um really um delicate but potent type of
flavor. Now what's uh in ginger? Ginger
has a bioactive called gingerol.
Now gingerol has been studied. It's
anti-inflammatory.
It is antioxidant.
It also cuts off the blood supply uh to
tumors. This is something I worked on uh
as well. And gingerol also uh can
actually improve metabolism and help to
lower lipids uh as well. And I want to
give you a little pro tip on ginger
because uh when I used to buy ginger uh
I used to take it back, you stick it on
a cutting board and you got to take a
knife, hopefully a small knife, and just
kind of like scrape off and trim off
that that thin skin layer. It took a
while. All right. and the skin uh was uh
you know, you don't want to cut too
deeply into the ginger. But uh I
actually found a tip that I'm sharing
with you now. If you want to really peel
ginger like a pro, here's what you do.
Take a tablespoon, just one out of your
spoon drawer, your silverware drawer.
All right? And what you do is you hold
the spoon in one hand with the curved
side facing the ginger. And you hold
that ginger and you just scrape it with
the spoon. Scrape, shape, scrape,
scrape, scrape. Your spoon will take off
that skin just at the skin level. And
before just takes a like a few seconds,
you've actually skinned the entire
ginger without wasting it. Super easy
and it's a great pro tip for using
ginger. All right, now let's talk about
the benefit of turmeric and ginger
together when it comes to uh longevity
and overall health. One of the things
that uh this combination of of turmeric
and ginger uh that I think would be
really good for is joint health. Now
obviously as we get older, our joints
suffer from wear and tear, you get
inflammation, you get pain,
osteoarthritis, and it turns out that
ginger and turmeric when you combine
their anti-inflammatory uh properties
together can actually be a balm for
inflammation in your body. And where
what better tissue uh uh to actually aim
at is to actually lower inflammation in
your joints. Sure, you can take a a
pill, a non-steroidal uh but actually
taking turmeric and ginger adding it to
your food is a wonderful way to get some
of this uh uh all their bioactives in to
be able to help that vulnerability of
aging which is really joint pain and
joint compromise. Okay. The uh the other
thing that I think that turmeric and
ginger are great for, think about it,
brain health. Now, when we actually are
aging, one of the things that we really
want to avoid is dulling of the brain,
cognitive uh deficits. You know, where's
my keys now? I can't remember. What did
you just say? Um what's my name? You
want to avoid that. So, it turns out
that it's thought that inflammation
plays a role. Uh brain inflammation
plays a role. So both turmeric and
ginger have these wonderful properties
that can actually be anti-inflammatory
in nature. The other thing uh that
occurs we think is that oxidative stress
in the brain um is damages neurons the
nerves in your brain. And so the
antioxidant properties of both ginger
and turmeric um are uh really really uh
great uh to be able to help as part of
an overall lifestyle uh uh plan to be
able to uh calm down uh your uh uh
inflammation uh and oxidative stress uh
in your brain as we age. So for better
cognitive health. All right. The other
thing uh that was is turmeric and ginger
good for is cardiovascular health. All
right. Now again inflammation uh in your
within your blood vessels your arteries
that's a setup for atherosclerosis
uh which is building up of crap on the
lining. Okay this is sort of lipids and
other inflammatory proteins um that
forms a crust on inside your blood
vessels. When you hear about somebody
having a heart attack with blockages,
that's really because the uh the crust
is actually formed. The gunk has formed
inside your blood vessel because of
damaged blood vessels to that inner
lining, the endothelial lining of your
blood vessels. So, uh anything that's
anti-inflammatory
uh actually can help counter uh those
effects of that that can c that can
cause cardiovascular disease. That's the
accumulation of of gunk material lipids
uh that caused by inflammation that can
actually cause blockages narrowing and
blockages whether it's in the heart uh
which sets you up for a heart attack in
the brain set you up for vascular
dementia as well as stroke uh in your
neck the corateed arteries and in your
legs that can cause peripheral arterial
disease. Now, this is actually a silent
kind of heart disease except it's not in
your heart, it's in your legs and uh
your your the gunk accumulates to the
point where you actually can't even walk
100 ft before. Hey, just a quick note. I
wanted to share another great resource
with you. Look, I love eating
seasonally. When foods are in season,
they taste fresher, their flavors are
better, and they have, more importantly,
more bioactives that help your body
activate your health defenses. So,
they're better for you as well. and I
put together a special guide that shows
you some of these foods called three
disease fighting foods for the spring.
Trust me, these are the foods that
you're going to want to put in your cart
the next time you're in the grocery
store or when you're at the farmers
market. Get my guide for you right now
for free in the caption below. Now,
let's get back to the video. Well, it
your blood vessels are very narrow, so
the muscles of your leg aren't getting
enough oxygen, so you seize up and
cramp. And this is actually when this
actually happens, you could be walking
down the parking lot just a 100 feet.
Now you got to stop and rest. All right?
You need to your muscles need to
completely stop their work so they can
achieve uh load up again, get rid of the
lactic acid and get more oxygen. Or
walking in a shopping center or shopping
mall, you know, you just walk a few
stores length and now you cramp up. That
is actually peripheral arterial disease.
So ginger and turmeric with their
anti-inflammatory effects help to
protect blood vessels. But the gingerol
of ginger and the curcumin uh of
turmeric also directly
groom the health of the lining of the
blood vessels, the endothelial uh cells,
that inner lining. Okay? And so they
also directly help uh uh vascular
health, the health of your blood
vessels. you get better blood flow.
Better blood flow, better heart
function. Better blood flow, better
brain function. And by the way, this
also applies to your legs, uh it applies
to all your organs. It applies also to
erectile uh function as well. You want
good blood flow in every part of your
body. So when it comes to uh brain
health, cardiovascular health, when it
comes to joint health, uh turmeric and
ginger uh are uh really really useful
foods to be used as part of the tool in
the toolbox, the food as medicine. But
every bit as importantly, uh I want to
let you know that ginger and turmeric
are great foods to cook with, whether
they're dried form or whe they're fresh
form. And look, if you don't know how to
use uh these ingredients, it's so
simple. Uh, type in ginger and turmeric,
go on to Google, uh, hit search uh,
recipe, hit search, uh, punch up video
and watch somebody teach you uh, some of
the recipes that they love to make to
create a tasty uh, dish uh, you created
using uh, the healthy ingredients of
turmeric and ginger. Five foods that can
actually help fight cancer. And the
first food we're going to actually talk
about is green tea. Now, green tea
contains kakans that have been shown to
lower the risk of colon cancer, stomach
cancer, esophageal cancer, cancers of
the gut actually because you're sipping
the green tea and it's flowing down and
touching your entire GI tract. Now,
what's in green tea? Something called
katakans, specifically eg.
All right, Edward George, Charlie
George. And this is actually something
that I've studied. Um, I'm a researcher.
Uh, I have actually studied food as
medicine in the lab, specifically green
tea. And I can tell you that this is a
natural chemical found in tea leaves,
um, that when you brew a cup of tea, the
EGCG comes out into the liquid. So
whether you actually have tea bags, you
have loose tea uh, leaves uh, or you
have some powdered tea, which is another
form of getting it. and whether it is uh
green tea, whether it's matcha, you're
all getting this kakin into your system.
So what does EGCG do in the body? Well,
something quite amazing. Uh drinking tea
has been shown by cancer researchers to
lower inflammation, which is of course
uh one of the drivers for cancer. Green
tea also boosts the immune system. Now,
we all have cancers growing inside our
body. It's a natural part of being
alive. Uh when our cells divide, uh they
make mistakes. And each of those tiny
little mistakes is a microscopic cancer.
But our immune system wings by, finds
that microscopic cancer, and takes it
out like a sniper. And so, good strong
immunity is actually cancer fighting.
And green tea actually does that as
well. But the thing that I think is most
remarkable is that the kakans found in
green tea cut off the blood supply to
tumors. Now all tumors are harmless
until they actually get a blood supply.
And this is a process called tumor
angiogenesis.
Now our normal cells, our normal tissues
have androgenesis. We need them in order
to be able to heal our wounds. But
tumors hijack this process, okay? And
they actually feed themselves to get
oxygen and nutrients. And when a cancer
actually does that, that is actually
what allows tumors to actually grow
wildly. In fact, studies in the lab have
shown that without a blood supply,
tumors can't grow beyond about 2
millimeters in diameter, that's the size
of the tip of a ballpoint pen. But the
moment blood vessels can actually grow
up and touch that tumor and feed it,
that tumor can grow 16,000
times in just two weeks time. All right?
So androgenesis which is normal for
healing good for our body when tumors
hijack it the the oxygen and nutrients
allow the cancer to explode in growth.
So tea containing the kakans cuts off
the blood supply prevents tumor
androgenesis and that is one of the most
powerful and important ways that green
tea can actually be beneficial. Now I
like to drink green tea um every day. In
fact, I have a cup of it right here.
Walk the walk and um I find it really
relaxing. Uh I drink green tea uh all
throughout the day, especially in the
evening. Uh but green tea actually is
something that uh is goes back tens of
thousands of years. If you look at Asia,
uh tea bushes, tea plants naturally grew
there. uh and they are handpicked. They
are dried under the sun. They are
lightly roasted over a fire and then the
process takes off in order to be able to
um uh convert them into different types
of tea. You mix them with jasmine
flowers for jasmine tea. You grind it
into a powder to make matcha. Um you
roast it deeper and um in order to be
able to create black teas, which are
also beneficial for your health, by the
way, not just green, but black is also
good. Somewhere in between is ulong tea.
It's kind of a medium tea. And then you
can ferment tea. It's called puer.
Beautiful tea. But let's start with
let's stick with green tea for a second.
Green tea has these anti-cancer
benefits. So one of the questions is how
much how do you actually make the green
tea? Uh and how much should you drink?
Well, listen. I like using loose leaf
tea. You can actually brew it in a pot
with hot water. Don't ever drink um a
tea with boiling water you've just put
in there. That actually this that
scalding liquid has been shown to
increase the risk of cancer because
you're injuring the esophagus. So do not
do that. Let the tea cool down and
actually it takes that time of cooling
down to also steep out the kakans.
That's a little uh tip for you. And if
you're using a tea bag, you want to dunk
the tea bag. All right? uh in order to
be able to shake out those kakans into
the liquid. When it actually is uh uh uh
cool enough to be able to sip
comfortably, then sip it two to three
cups of tea a day actually has been
shown to be beneficial for many
different um types of conditions. But
the most important thing that I like is
that it tastes great and it's actually
relaxing. Okay, next food we're going to
talk about is brassasica. Brassica is a
type of vegetable. It's a classic group
of vegetables and contains broccoli,
cauliflower, bok choy. Uh it's a green
vegetable that you can sauté. Uh common
in many different types of cultures. Uh
you find it in Mediterranean, you find
it in Asia. And what's actually in these
brassica vegetables are sulforophanes.
These are another natural chemical. And
these sulforophanes, what do they do?
They boost the immune system, right?
Good strong immune system knocks out
microscopic cancers. Uh also lowers
inflammation. Inflammation is like the
gasoline on a fire, making the cancer
grow hotter and faster. When you
actually uh calm inflammation, you're
putting out the fire. All right? Uh and
actually that is very helpful when you
want to fight cancer. The other thing uh
that uh uh the the brassica does it
actually contains the sulforophanes that
actually are anti-andioenic. They starve
the cancer by cutting off the blood
supply. And this has also been shown um
with uh uh broccoli for example. Now
here's something really interesting.
This is a pro tip. The grown-up broccoli
is not just the treetops. That's what we
used to always eat when I was eating
when I was a kid. Your mom always told
you eat those tree tops. Okay. And the
tree tops do have the sulforophins, but
it turns out that the stock, the log
stem of a broccoli. Broccoli is actually
mostly a stem. It's like a tall tree
with some tree tops on it. The tree tops
have the sulforophane, but the stock has
twice as much of the good stuff. So, if
you're actually cooking broccoli, um,
cook this, cook the tree tops, uh, the
fuettes is what they call them, but also
save that stem. stem. If you slice it on
a diagonal and sauté it, absolutely
delicious. You'll find it in a lot of
Asian dishes that way. If you don't want
to sauté it, you can actually just put
it into a food processor and make a
broccoli soup. You want to add a little
oregano in there. It really makes a
broccoli oregano soup. Is actually
absolutely delicious. I actually
included that broccoli oregano soup
recipe uh in my book, Eat to Beat
Disease, uh if you're actually
interested uh in it. Okay, so broccoli
cancer fighting. The next food we're
going to talk about is papaya. Now, most
people don't think about papaya uh as a
cancer fighting food, but this is
actually sort of an oblong football
sized and kind of ovalshaped uh fruit,
tropical. Uh when you cut it open when
it's ripe, it's actually bright orange
inside with little black seeds. You
scoop out the seeds and the flesh when
it's ripe is absolutely delicious. You
can just eat it up with a spoon, slice
it up, put it onto a plate, and just
have it for breakfast, have it um after
dinner for a dessert. Absolutely
delicious. Now, papaya has been shown to
actually lower the risk of lung cancer.
Now, why is that? Well, that red color
papaya contains carotenoids, something
called betacryptosanthin
and beta carotene. And these uh actually
are also anti-inflammatory.
And you guessed it by now, you get the
drift. It's actually anti-angiogenic
as well. All right, so we went through
tea, we went through broccoli, brassica,
and now we're on to papaya.
Um, I love to have papaya for breakfast.
It's a great way uh to get some fruit.
It's not very sweet, which is an
advantage if you need to watch the
amount of sugar you eat. And speaking of
sugar, uh sugar and fruit is perfectly
fine for most people. All right. Don't
eat too much of it. Eat a reasonable
amount of it. And the whole fruit is
always going to be easier on your
metabolism because it has less sugar in
it than having the juice. So, I always
recommend having papaya fruit as opposed
to papaya juice if you're going to
actually uh enjoy papaya. All right? And
and most places actually have papaya.
You don't have to go to the tropics,
although wonderful to be there. Uh and
if you go to uh tropical countries, do
look for papaya, but you can actually
find it at the grocery store. By the
way, um frozen papaya chunks are also
really good as well. The frozen uh uh
chunks, they actually trap all those
bioactives. So, um perfectly fine,
cancer starving, anti-inflammatory. All
right, next food we're going to talk
about are purple potatoes. If you
haven't seen a purple potato, it is a
beautiful uh potato. regular potatoes
kind of brown, dirty looking. Purple
potato, you could tell even from the
outside. Uh there's something
interesting because it's purplish on the
outside, but when you cut it in half and
hold it open, man, that is a beautiful
purple color. And the purple comes from
a natural dye called anthocyanin.
Anthocyanins are bioactives. And these
bioactives, you guessed it, lower
inflammation. They cut off the blood
supply to tumors. anti-angioenic
against tumors, cuts off the blood
supply feeding cancers. And there's one
additional thing that I think is
absolutely brilliant about purple
potatoes and the research have been done
on them in a lab is that purple potatoes
actually have been shown to kill cancer
stem cells. Now, cancers are just an
abnormal mass of cells, but when they
keep on coming back, they need their own
stem cells to regenerate themselves. You
know, when a cancer patient actually um
has their tumor uh removed by surgery,
treated by chemo or radiation and you're
done, right, for five years, but
sometimes they come back. Well, the
reason those cancer cells come back is
because of their stem cells. That cancer
figures out how to resurrect itself. Uh
and so, purple potatoes actually been
shown to kill uh colon cancer stem
cells. What an amazing thing. plus a
beautiful food uh to boot. Now, by the
way, if you actually cook purple
potatoes, steam them, sauté them, bake
them, do it however you'd like. You can
make a purple potato soup. Uh I have a
recipe for purple potato in my first
book. Absolutely beautiful. uh if you
want to actually make it even uh even
better for your gut microbiome. All
right, because there's fiber and potato
um you actually put it in the fridge,
turns into resistant starch, easier to
digest uh and also helps uh your gut
microbiome become uh healthier. So,
purple potatoes, check them out.
>> Hey, just a quick note. I wanted to
share another great resource with you.
Look, I love eating seasonally. When
foods are in season, they taste fresher,
their flavors are better, and they have,
more importantly, more bioactives that
help your body activate your health
defenses, so they're better for you as
well. And I put together a special guide
that shows you some of these foods
called three disease fighting foods for
the spring. Trust me, these are the
foods that you're going to want to put
in your cart the next time you're in the
grocery store or when you're at the
farmers market. get my guide for you
right now for free in the caption below.
Now, let's get back to the video.
>> All right, let's talk about uh next
food. We're going to talk about
pomegranates.
Speaking about purplish, reddish um uh
foods, the pomegranate, also a tropical
fruit, although you can find them uh in
most grocery stores. Now, they are kind
of like a big apple with a thick skin
and a little bit of a crown at the very
top. They're heavy. And you know why
they're heavy? Because they're filled
with seeds that around every seed uh is
a little little bit of liquid. And
that's pomegranate juice. Now, this uh
these seeds uh and pomegranate juice are
packed with bioactives. These are
naturally occurring chemicals that give
foods their biological punch. Okay, this
is what you eat to beat disease. Um is
is are these foods with these bioactives
and in pomegranate they're called
elagitanins.
Now elagitanins also help to give uh the
the bite the kind of acidity um and also
contribute to the color of the
pomegranate. Um, you want to be careful
when you actually um and work with
pomegranate because that dye around the
seeds will stain your clothes if you're
not careful. All right. Um, but
absolutely delicious. You know, by the
way, each seed looks to like a little
ruby, beautiful red color. You ever see
pomegranate in salad? Uh, I had a Syrian
salad the other day called fetouch and
it had little pomegranate seeds in it.
And when you're eating the salad, you
bite into it. These little ruby fruity
rubies and an explosion of sweet uh
flavor and juice. Absolutely delicious.
Okay. So, what do eligans do? Well, they
do a couple of things. Uh pomegranate
elagitan have been shown to cut off the
blood supply to tumors. All right.
Starve cancer. Anti-androgenic. In fact,
clinical studies have even been done in
men with prostate cancer showing that
pomegranate juice can actually slow down
the rise of PSA.
You don't know PSA is a blood marker
that goes up when you have prostate
cancer. And for men who are actually
having their PSA go up up up up up um
having pomegranate juice pretty much um
kept them at a uh cruising altitude so
they wouldn't actually uh keep rising.
Pretty amazing, right? So what do we
think actually is going on? Well, it
turns out eligotanins are
anti-androgenic. they cut off the blood
supply to cancer and in the case of
prostate cancer would make the prostate
um cancer harder make it harder for them
to actually grow uh and become more
aggressive. Hence we think this is
actually why the PSA actually is able to
be leveled off. Um now the other thing
that pomegranate juice does which is
really amazing is that the elagitanins
um which you eat goes trickles down your
gut goes down to your lower gut, your
colon and it stimulates your colon to
produce natural mucus, right? We think
about mucus normally in the in the upper
throat, back of the mouth, right? If you
want to actually have spit, right? But
mucus is all throughout our GI tract,
all through our intestines, and in the
colon. When your colon secretes mucus,
mucin, um, it helps a natural healthy
gut bacteria called acromancia
mucinophila.
Some people say mucinophilia. Wrong.
Acromancia mucinaphila.
This is one of your best friends in of
gut bacteria because acrobansia
when it comes to cancer talks to your
immune system makes your immune system a
lot beefier and stronger in the battle
against cancer. So here's pomegranate
with pomegranate juice with a lagutan
that actually lower inflammation. They
starve cancer by cutting off the blood
supply. They help um nurture your gut
microbiome including an organism
acromancia mucinaphila that actually
talks to your immune system and helps
your immune system pounce and get rid of
cancer. All right, five foods that
actually um help fight cancer. Let's go
through them. Green tea, brassica, these
like broccoli, uh papaya, purple
potatoes, and pomegranate.
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