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I never thought as a physician I would
actually see the cure to cancer, the end
of cancer. The moment that a single
blood vessel touches a tiny microscopic
tumor, it will grow 16,000 times in size
in just 2 weeks. We pull our hair out
trying to figure out like what's going
on? How do we make people do better?
Well, it turns out that a 1 cm breast
cancer already has 1 billion cancer
cells that have already multiplied. that
microscopic cancer multiplied a billion
times. That's the smallest one you can
feel. The groups of responders, people
who did well versus people who didn't do
well for
imunotherapy except for one thing. That
one thing was one bacteria, acromancia,
mucin. Well, it turns out that there are
certain foods you can eat that grow
acromancia. What are those foods?
And what they found is that women who
had excess body fat over the period of
13 years had a three-fold increase in
the risk of developing breast cancer. So
with this kind of knowledge, what do we
what can we do with cancer? Not just
breast cancers, but in general. Number
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one. I never thought as a physician I
would actually see the cure to cancer,
the end of cancer. But actually, I have
tell you, I have now seen where the end
of cancer is coming from. I've seen how
the war is going to finish. because I've
had well over a dozen patients and there
are hundreds of people like this that
are starting to form that can go from
stage four cancer that's game over
cancer to stage zero. We can do this.
And it not for everybody yet, but we're
beginning to see where the light at the
end of the tunnel is. And it involves
your immune system. And some of the
remarkable scientific breakthroughs are
teaching us that our body heals itself
against diseases as serious as cancer in
ways that the pharmaceutical industry
can't by itself do, but it really relies
on the body. So when you talk about food
as medicine or medicine as medicine,
none of them are as powerful as what the
body is hardwired to do by itself
in a 100 people who are receiving
imunotherapy for uh different types of
cancer that if you looked at the
difference between people who responded
lived did well versus people who didn't
respond didn't do well died. All right.
And that's the frustration with the
types of treatments my mom had. Um, you
know, some people do well, some people
don't do well. We pull our hair out
trying to figure out like what's going
on? How do we make people do better?
Well, it turns out that when you compare
everything, gender, age, coorbidities,
uh, uh, all the other genetic factors.
The research that was presented showed
that there was no differences between
the groups of responders, people who did
well versus people who didn't do well
for
imunotherapy except for one
thing. That one thing was one
bacteria. The responders had one
bacteria called acromancia mucinaphil.
So most bacteria have a genus and
species first name, last name. First
name is acromancia, last name is
mucinophilia. Okay. It likes to grow in
mucus. Mucinophilia. Where is there a
lot of mucus? In the colon. Where's the
colon? That's the on this model the blue
area. So acromancia grows right here in
the seeum which is the pouch uh in the
colon right at the beginning before you
take the up elevator to the top of of
the colon. That's where it grows. If you
if the people had that
acromancia, they would respond to
imunotherapy. So what what the
researcher did they she took out the
acromancia and brought it to her lab of
the responders from humans and and gave
it to mice who were not responding to
imunotherapy. Boom. She'd re she'd
resurrect the immune response to kill
the cancer. So this is one of the first
bacteria and there there may be many
many that we haven't yet discovered. All
right. So like my whole career has all
been about discovery. There may be more
bacteria but we discovered at least one
the presence of which seems to be
absolutely vital if you are a patient
receiving imunotherapy
uh the type of imunotherapy called
checkpoint inhibitors uh if you want to
uh uh tip the odds in your own favor of
being a responder. Now how do you get
acromancia? Well at the time uh there
was no acromancia probiotics. Now you
can actually find acromancia probiotics,
but but at the time this was coming out,
you you had to grow your own acromancia.
DIY acromancia. All right. So, how do
you grow it? Well, it turns out that
there are certain foods you can eat that
grow acia. What are those foods?
Pomegranate. Pomegranate juice.
Pomegranate seeds will grow acromancia.
Cranberries. Uh cranberry juice. Dried
cranberries will grow acromancia.
Conquered grape juice or conquered
grapes will grow acromancia. Chili
peppers. will actually grow acromancia.
Chinese black vinegar. You ever go to
dim sum and have soup dumplings? Oh
yeah. The black vinegar sauce that they
use for for as a condiment to the soup
dumplings. Chinese black vinegar. That
will prompt your body to grow acromancy
as well. Every day, every 24 hours,
there are 10,000 mistakes that are made
in your body that your body doesn't
catch that keep on that propagate in the
document of our body as it goes on. 10
10,000. Each of those is a microscopic
cancer. A microscopic cancer is just
that. It's microscopic. It's too small
to be seen with the naked eye, but it's
abnormal. And that thing could turn turn
into a big tumor that could eventually
kill you. So why don't we die from
cancer all the time? Now this is
actually something that I see as a
physician. I have a patient diagnosed
with cancer. They always ask me, Dr.
Lee, why me? Why did I get breast
cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer,
brain tumor? A very very uh natural
question and I do my best to try to
provide an empathic answer to that
question. But as a researcher, I have a
more interesting question. Given the
number of mutations that occur in our
body every single day, why don't we get
cancer more often? Why don't we all get
cancer as kids? You know, cancer can
happen in children, but not as often as
we have mutations. And it turns out this
was the great unlock for me in terms of
health. The reason that we don't become
more sick from all kinds of diseases,
including cancer, is because our body is
hardwired with its own health defense
systems. So that we've got these
swashbuckling defenses that are firing
on all cylinders. All day long from the
from the moment we're born until our
very last breath, these systems that are
inside our body defend our health,
including the microscopic cancers, spots
them, takes them out. kind of like a
police cruiser patrolling a quiet
neighborhood, sees a drug dealer on the
corner, pops them in the back of the
police vehicle, and takes them away,
cleaning up the neighborhood. That's how
our body naturally cleans up these
microscopic cancers. And so when you
talk about cancer as a scary disease,
you're thinking about the person whose
body has failed to detect and eliminate
the microscopic cancers and it's become
large enough to actually become a
threat. Now here's a question for you.
So we tell women to actually do a self
breast exam when they're taking a
shower. You know, look for lumps or
bumps and you know, if you find one, you
know, certainly go to your doctor
immediately for an exam.
The smallest cancer that you could feel
with a trained person can feel with
their with their hands in the breast is
one centimeter in diameter. A 1 cm
breast cancer already has 1 billion
cancer cells that have already
multiplied. That microscopic cancer
multiplied a billion times. That's the
smallest one you can feel. Now immune
systems not taking them out. All right?
So, you need a better immune system if
you I want a shot at this and not just
chemo or hormonal therapy. And that's
where some of these incredible advances
are taking place. But there's another
one. In order to feed a billion cancer
cells, you need blood vessels to feed
them. So, the cancers as they get
bigger, they hijack our own circulation
to feed themselves. Okay? It's kind of
like terrorists kicking in the cockpit
door to take over the controls of the
plane. They want to actually get your
blood vessels to feed themselves. Now
normally the body knows how to control
those blood vessels. It's called
angioenesis. Angio blood blood vessels
genesis how the body grows and controls
them. That's my area of research. So
naturally our body knows how to prevent
blood vessels from feeding cancers and
yet knows how to uh direct blood vessels
to feed healthy tissues. So guess what?
A one centimeter tumor with 1 billion
cancer cells is fed by 100 million blood
vessels courarssing into the tumor to
feed them. And we've studied this in the
laboratory. The moment that a single
blood vessel touches a tumor, tiny
microscopic tumor, it will grow 16,000
times in size in just two weeks. So with
this kind of knowledge, what do we what
can we do with cancers? Not just breast
cancers, but in general. Number one, we
know that if you boost your immune
system with foods, with exercise, diet,
lifestyle, you're going to actually make
your immune defenses a lot stronger to
patrol your body to wipe out those
microscopic cancers. That's why healthy
diet lifestyle lowers the risk of
cancer. That's why eating the right
foods that boost your immunity can
substantially lower your risk of cancer
as well. We also know that you can eat
foods that support, prompt up, fortify
your body's natural ability to control
blood vessels. Keep those blood vessels
where they're supposed to be and get rid
of those blood vessels where you don't
want them to be, which is kicking in the
cockpit to take over your circulation to
feed cancers. So, if you eat foods like
that are anti-androgenic foods that like
are unstable, you've got um coffee and
tea, both of those contain natural
substances that cut off the blood supply
and starve cancers. That's a good thing.
So, that's why we know our what we do
with our diet can actually help to lower
the risk of cancer as well. a study uh
done uh by Cornell in New York um
looking at Swedish women who were normal
body size or skinny. So you've heard of
skinny fat. This is what they were
studying. And they looked at these women
uh to see they did DEXA scans as you
described um to see how much body fat
they had. And then they followed them
over 13 years and they actually found
that women who did not have extra body
fat had, you know, normal risk of breast
cancer. But women who had skinny fat,
remember all the women in the study, and
so 3,000 women actually were normal body
size, not I mean they weren't
supermodels, but they were they were
just normalsized women. Some of them
were slimmer than others, but none of
them were obese, none of them were
overweight. U just normal size. Um and
they but they knew at the b baseline
what the DEXA scan showed. And what they
found is that women who had excess body
fat over the period of 13 years had a
three-fold increase in the risk of
developing breast cancer and it's linked
to higher met inflammatory markers in
their bloodstream which makes total
sense. The leaking body cream, the
leaking inflammation, you know, in a
skinny tube, all right, or normalized
tube, normal suitcase. Look, the
suitcase can't expand bigger. It's it's
got a finite size. Um, but it's leaking
out and and this is because cancer
thrives in an inflammatory environment.
If you have inflammation without even a
microscopic cancer like we talked about,
but a small tumor, putting inflammation
in the environment of a cancer is like
pouring gasoline on the embers of a
fire. You ever go camping, you have a
campfire, it's almost out at the very
end. Now, if you pour some gasoline, it
boom, whoosh, you're going to have to
create a bonfire all over again. That's
how dangerous inflammation is. So that's
why excess visceral fat, inflammatory
fat is so dangerous and linked to
cancer. And by the way, not just breast
cancer. It turns out that excess
visceral fat has been linked to 14 other
cancers. Increased risk of 14 other
cancers. Everything from colon, ovarian,
lung, breast, prostate. Uh it it's the
it's a it's a growing list of cancers
that seem to be at put you would be at
higher risk if you had high levels of
visceral fat. And it makes total sense
given the inflammation. Look at all
these organs packed in. You got your
liver, you got your stomach, you got
your your colon and your small
intestines. That's packed into the tube.
All right. It is it's it's kind of like
uh packing for vacation. You know, some
people are really really skilled at
packing. they can actually uh fold their
socks and their underwear and their
pants and it's like, "Oh my, you're a
genius. You're you're packing genius."
Right now, visceral fat grows between
those folded shirts and pants and it and
it fills all that space in there. When
you have too much of it, not only does
it fill up that the suitcase of your
body, the tube of your body, but it
starts to push on organs, which is not
healthy because it's all packing inside
the between the spaces, the potential
spaces in there. And then when they grow
when it grows beyond its own blood
supply, the visceral fat um starts to
starve. It becomes hypoxic, meaning it's
not getting enough oxygen bigger than
the amount of blood vessels that are
growing in there. And now you've got the
center of the fat starved of oxygen. Uh
the inflammatory cells start moving in.
And now you've got this fat that's
outgrown its own blood supply that's now
becoming very inflammatory. And because
it's packed all throughout your the tube
of your body into the suitcase of your
body, it's leaking out that inflammation
everywhere. So, think about it like if
you have a neatly packed suitcase and
you're like, I'm, you know, I'm going to
put um I'm going to put some uh uh
lotion and cream, canisters of lotion
and cream. I'm going to pack it
everywhere in in between spaces. Okay,
look uh uh Stephen, pack a few, but but
let's stop right there. And you're No,
I'm going to pack like 20 or 30 of them.
and you keep on stuffing it. Even though
the suitcase it's a hard suitcase and
you can you can put a lot in there. Now
you're starting to press on the the
clothing, you're going to scrunch up
your pants and here in the body you're
scrunching up your organs. Now why don't
we make those one of those tubes uh uh
of of cream. Let's break one of them
open. Now it's leaking. All right. And
that's what's happening when your fat is
so inflame so inflamed it starts to
leak. Inflammation. Now imagine that
that cream uh starts to leak out into
the interstites of your suitcase. Now
you've got a suitcase. Looks skinny on
the outside. Looks like it just looks
like a suitcase. It's like could be a
carry-on. But now all the organs, all
the clothes you packed so neatly are
squeezed and scrunched off. And now the
lotion is leaking everywhere. That is
the analogy of excess body fat in a
small container spreading out
compressing the organs and leaking out.
And that's why it's dangerous. We did
research at the Androgenesis Foundation,
the nonprofit I I looked at to look at
um different types of teas, different
types of green tea, Japanese tea,
Chinese jasmine tea, uh English tea. And
we were always assuming, again, this is
the power of food as medicine research.
We were always assuming that the green
tea is going to be the best. I'd always
heard that Japanese green tea is going
to be like the ultra best. And what we
found was that English tea, specifically
Earl Grey tea, actually was the most
potent when it actually supported your
blood vessels, your body's defense
system for andioenesis to keep your
circulation healthy. Wow, what a
surprise that is. And this spoke to me
about the fact that we can't make
assumptions. We need to look at facts.
We need to look at data. And so I'm a
big fan of Earl Gray.
Now, what could what what might make
Earl Gray give Earl Grey it a
superpower? Well, this is where knowing
a little bit about what you're eating is
actually useful because Earl Grey is a
fermented it's is a black tea. It's got
bergamint in it and bergamut is a kind
of a citrus. So, maybe it's combining
those uh ingredients that actually
provides the superpower. But I do see
matcha on this uh uh tray. I want to
tell you about matcha because it is a
matcha is truly a superenriched
polyphenol enriched tea. A lot of people
don't realize it. There's no tea bag in
it, so don't worry. So, a lot of people
think about matcha uh as just another
green tea, but it's not another green
tea. It is made with green tea leaves,
the same kind of green tea leaves, but
uh the as you would find in any green
tea. However, it's what's the
composition of matcha? Matcha is green
tea that is before it's ready for
harvest is grown under a shade that
changes its chemical structure, natural
chemical structure a little bit. So,
it's got a lot of potency to it. And
what happens with matcha is they take
the tea
leaf, they take out the stem of the
green of the of the green tea leaf and
they ground up the actual leaf into a
powder. Now, what's in that green tea
leaf? You've got not just some of the
polyphenols that might steep out in the
cup, whether you're using a tea bag or
or loose leaf tea, you are getting all
the polyphenols suspended in that. So
now you get 100% polyphenol, okay, in
matcha. So go ahead. You're go ahead, do
it. That one's good. All right. Okay.
For matcha and because you're getting
the tea leaf ground to it, you're also
getting your dietary fiber. The dietary
fiber is good for your gut health, your
microbiome, good for uh your metabolism,
good for lowering inflammation. And the
polyphenols found in green tea have also
been matcha matcha tea have also been
found in the lab to kill breast cancer
stem cells. What's a breast cancer stem
cell? What's a stem cell? Cancer stem
cell. Well, look, stem cells are these
renewable cells. All right? And um
cancers contain stem cells that help the
cancers come back, right? If you got
cancer, you get it treated. One the one
thing you don't want it to do is to come
back. So um and by the way, other foods
can also do kill cancerous stem cells.
Purple potatoes
uh that you might have seen in the
market. They're um kind of purpley
looking on the outside. Slice it open,
dark purple on the inside. All right.
Turns out that those purple potatoes
have something called anthocyanins.
Purple potatoes have been studied in a
lab, okay, at Penn State University and
been shown to kill colon cancer stem
cells, which contribute to the colon
cancer coming back. So, androgenesis is
how our body grows and maintains our
circulation. A lot of people don't know
this, but our circulation is one of our
body's health defense systems, and it's
so extensive that in a typical adult,
there are 60,000 miles worth of blood
vessels packed inside our body. These
are the highways and byways that deliver
blood to every organ and tissue. But
that means that they also deliver the
air we breathe, the oxygen that we're
breathing in and the nutrients that
we're eating. So we eat good things,
they're going into our bloodstream, and
our blood vessels, our androgenesis
systems develing to every cell in the
body. Now you eat something bad
similarly or you breathe something in
bad similarly those blood vessels are
delivering something negative. Now
inside the blood vessels um is a lining.
It's called a the lining is like a clear
like a plastic wrap inside the blood
vessel called the endothelial
layer. That's like a layer of ice like
on an ice skating rig to ensure that
everything in the blood vessels are
flowing smoothly without getting caught
on the walls. So when you have
cardiovascular disease, too much uh uh
too much salt to hypertension, when you
have diabetes where you're actually
wearing down the lining of the blood
vessels, endothelial layers being
damaged. It's like um damaging the
lining of your androgenesis defense
system has really deadly consequences
because it's like scraping up the ice on
an ice skating rink. You know, uh if you
actually have a lot of ice skaters on a
rink, after a while it's unskatable,
right? You can't get on it. And what
will happen in your bloodstream is then
elements in your blood get caught along
the walls and they build up and that's
actually how blood vessels narrow up. So
that's one of the areas of of of so
androgenesis actually is intended to
deliver oxygen and nutrients to the
tissues that need it for to maintain
your health. But because it's so
critical, it's also very very carefully
controlled so you don't have blood
vessels growing where they should not be
growing. like in your joints, in your
eyes, or of course to cancers. You don't
definitely don't want to be feeding
cancers by delivering oxygen nutrients
to them. If you took a tumor and
sequenced all the genes, you find every
mutation, every typographical error that
we talked about earlier that's in that
cancer. Those are the smoking guns of
the cancer. Now, what if I took a piece
of a little normal blood, normal cells,
and sequence that too? All right. Now
people are be hearing me talk who are
oncologists or scientists would say I
don't know what you're talking about.
That's double the waste of effort
because now you're going to sequence the
human genome twice in a single patient.
What are you going to do with all that
information? Ah this is where technology
sits in artificial intelligence machine
learning. Let's now have a computer
compare normal cells with tumor cells
back and forth and back and forth and
back and forth. subtract out all the
mutations that are found in normal cells
leaving only the smoking gun mutations
in the cancer. Couple hundred are going
to be left. Those are the smoking guns.
Those are the doers that led to this
cancer. Now imagine, and I'm going to
give you an analogy here. Do you
remember that Tom Cruz movie uh Minority
Report? Yeah. So you remember like he
was wearing these gloves and you have a
glass pane and you can actually move the
uh things around on the glass with your
fingertips, right? So now imagine you
can take these human uh the the the
cancer mutations on the bottom of this
glass screen and you can just randomly
with your fingers pick out 20 random
mutations and move them up on the
screen. All right, now you've just
picked out the mutations and now you can
connect the mutations together. I call
it a pearl necklace. Imagine every
mutation is a pearl and you connect them
together with the string that connects a
pearl necklace. Now, now you get what
I'm saying? Like now we've taken the
tumor, find out the doers, the the the
the uh the smoking guns. Now we've
strung them together. Okay, this is the
most wanted sign that you would actually
place out for the criminal. And now
imagine you hit
print technology and now you have a
protein printer that prints out those
smoking guns as a protein as a protein
full of your own individual cancer of
that particular person. Now you take
that protein and you inject it under the
skin and you're challenging your own
immune system. You're vaccinating
yourself with the with your own cancer
and you're c causing your own immune
system to say aha this is a bad guy.
we're going to develop antibodies to go
find our immune system. We're going to
get ratcheted up to go find that cancer.
Well, this is happening right now in
clinical trials. I have a a colleague
named Saskia Biscup that is actually
developing peptide vaccine treatments
against cancer. And if you want to see
some amazing results um there was a
paper we published in nature uh
communications about a year ago that
showed in more than a 100 people with
glyobblasto that is a game over brain
cancer nobody lives more than a couple
of years with this all right that with
this treatment we've been able to
actually show that some patients with
their own immune system woken up can
actually keep them alive and cancer-free
brain cancer. Like that is no win-win
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