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this is a really provocative study of
kiwi fruit two kiwi fruits a day times 4
days and you measure the stool in
healthy subjects from every single day
and you can see that just having uh two
kiwi fruits in the first 24 hours
changes the bacteria that you can
measure in the stool by improving the
good bacteria as quickly as the first
day and over four days you can increase
another good bacteria as well so these
changes can be really quick and harmful
foods can actually similarly change the
back makeup very quickly we don't
measure this routinely in the clinic but
in the future we
will there are other foods that actually
contain bacteria yogurt is the best
example of this but there are other
fermented foods whether it's psai kimchi
or uh a sauerkraut and these all
actually are exposed to the air healthy
bacteria grow them we eat them and over
the course of hundreds of years cultures
have realized that this is actually
something that could be beneficial to us
and now we're beginning to dive down
deeply and understand why here are some
foods that are beneficial to the
microbiome finally I want to just close
by saying the microbiome is connected to
the uh immune system which we know is
important because we be now realize that
about 70% of our immune systems actually
wrap like a jelly roll inside our
intestines and the bacteria talks to our
immune system former US President Jimmy
Carter had melanoma that spread to his
liver in his brain and he retired from
public life thinking that he was not
going to survive
he received one of the biggest
breakthroughs in medicine today which is
an immunotherapy that doesn't kill the
cancer directly but uncloaks the cancer
from that's been hiding from the immune
system to allow a 90-year-old person's
immune system to find the tumor as a
health offense and to wipe it
out now this is the type of response
that he got before treatment and after
treatment this is a CT scan of the brain
you can see uh tumor versus no tumor
and we do see this in melanoma for
example but less than 20% of the people
actually respond so this is very
frustrating the difference between life
and death response and no response it's
one of the big Mysteries today and one
of the things that's really remarkable
is we're beginning to understand that
the foods we eat may impact our immune
system through the microbiome and this
is actually a colleague of mine Lance
Zogo at in Paris at The Institute Gustav
rusi found that in 200 consecutive
patients treated with imum therapy those
patients who responded had one bacteria
that the ones who didn't respond did not
have in their stool and that's a
bacteria called acromium ecopa and you
can't eat that as a probiotic you can
only eat foods that cause your gut to
secrete the mucus that it likes to grow
in and this is now changing the way that
we think about um how cancer patients
are fed because how many cancer patients
that that you know might be getting an
an antibiotic unknowingly and wiping out
this bacteria that could make the
difference between whether they respond
or don't respond this is also beginning
to change this and this is how it works
pomegranate it's got a lannin bioactive
it causes the gut to secrete the mucus
the bacteria acromania grows it lights
up the immune system so now you have a
more fortified more active immune system
now you hang a bag of immunotherapy and
then cancer immunotherapy will then work
on and allow the activated immune cells
to go find that cancer this is over
simplified but this is what we believe
works and I it's very personal to me as
I figured this out because my mother who
was in her 80s was diagnosed with
endometrial cancer cancer the lining of
the uterus that spread and she was told
by her doctors there was no chance to
survive and at her age chemotherapy
might be worse than the disease itself
and that she should actually just go
under undergo paliative care so we
actually took the tumor did the Deep
dive found the smoking guns for immune
therapy we then altered her diet made
sure she had the ecomania and after
three treatments nine weeks we had a
complete response never had chemotherapy
she was actually able to be uh
completely saved and this is her uh
today completely well with no sign of
Cancer so again this is not a simple
case but a complicated way that we're
beginning to think things and then
finally let me just tell you broccoli
Sprouts um also boost the immune system
and this is this is a study of 29
volunteers who were getting the flu
vaccine through a nasal spray and it
found that if they gave them two cups of
uh broccoli sprout uh uh Shake uh as a
smoothie a day combined with the nose
spray they had a 22 times increase in
their immune response to the flu vaccine
compared to people who didn't have it so
what I've actually showed you is not
just food as medicine but foods and
Medicine where what's happening is that
the technology that nature lats in the
food is meeting the technology that we
have within our body so speaking of the
immune system though let's talk a little
bit about psoriasis and covid is there a
link between the
two yeah you know so I'm actually I'm
one of these people that um like
everyone else in the world when the
lockdown happened in 2020 in the spring
of 2020 I was staring out the window and
I was trying to decide what am I going
to like what's happening in the world
what am I going to do should I
just not do anything and wait for it to
pass or should I lean forward and do
something and so my first instinct was
to put on a white coat and go downtown
into the hospitals and see if I could
help bail out people in the emergency
room I'm an internal medicine doctor so
that'd be quite easy for me to do um but
then I I just stopped and I thought you
know I'm a researcher and what I do is I
tackle these impossible problems like
cancer psoriasis all these other things
to see if we can actually
pull the uh you know take the layers off
the onion to understand it better
because if we don't understand something
that's when we're against the brick wall
we don't really know what to do so I
decided to put on my research hat and
dive into Co to try to do some research
on it so lots of research has been done
on covid I first of all discovered
helped to discover that Co is a vascular
disease so affects the blood vessels
that androgenesis that actually triggers
um the kind of harmful a harmful form of
androgenesis because bu are damaged so
okay now we've s and there's a lot of
inflammation right um and there's a lot
of autoimmunity that uh Co triggers as
well that's why people get long haulers
which is another area I'm working on now
autoimmunity inflammation angiogenesis
hey we started talking about this when
we started talking about psoriasis so
not surprisingly there have been links
to psoriasis and covid so uh it's been
found that people who do have sor
which is this systemic disease inside
the body disease with
autoimmunity that's now considered a
risk factor for getting covid all right
forget about how contagious obron is but
just getting covid in general in fact
the risk of infection if you of of
getting covid if you have psoriasis is
increased by
36% okay this is from a studying the
British Journal of Dermatology uh just
from last year and if you get covid
you're risk of dying from covid is
increased by 30% all right so this is
serious stuff and that's why psoriasis
even if it's mild I I would tell anybody
who comes to me say I have psoriasis am
I at high risk for covid I would say
absolutely this is exactly the reason
why you need to protect yourself as much
as possible because you're at a higher
risk category it's you know consider it
the same way as having heart disease or
diabetes when it comes to covid
psoriasis because of that twitch immune
system you want to protect yourself okay
now that's one link so having psorasis
makes you put you at greater risk
however if you get covid CO's also been
linked to more severe psoriasis
flares if you get covid you get infected
the Corona virus gets in your body and
it triggers inflammation it triggers and
your Genesis it it it can actually
Kickstart a trigger happy immune system
so guess what happens if you've got
psoriasis that's in remission bam you've
put gasoline onto the Embers of a fire
and so having covid uh many people also
have more psoriasis flares another
reason not to actually get covid and to
protect yourself as well so look um uh
this is uh still an hot area of research
psoriasis is not the only uh chronic
condition that's linked to covid but I
do think it's important for people who
are interested in psorasis since we live
in a world that's changed to understand
that this is another reason you know get
vaccinated get boosted take care to
avoid just protect yourself you know in
the same way that you would for anything
else these are the things that we know
how to do and very importantly eat to
improve your immune system because the
stronger your immunity the more likely
you're going to resist everything a cold
a flu covid cancer you know those are
all good things to actually have good
shields on and eating the right way can
decrease and lower inflammation in your
body as well as a researcher what do you
know about sasis that you think most
people don't know or don't
realize well first uh that psoriasis is
actually a quite a common disease uh and
it's a I would say it's a condition
rather than a disease and most people
see it on their skin as these sort of
scaly itchy red patches um but here's
what I know as a researcher so first of
all I'm a internal medicine doctor but
I'm a I'm a vascular biologist a
researcher as well and psoriasis Falls
right into to sort of my wheelhouse my
area of focus and looking at because
this is actually a systemic disease
which means that or condition which
means that it actually affects the whole
body now we don't haven't pinned down
exactly what causes psoriasis but we do
know that there's an autoimmune
component which means that your own
immune system rears up above and beyond
it goes beyond it Duty uh and it
actually can uh attack uh and cause
inflammation in your skin so think about
other types of uh immune or autoimmune
uh conditions that where the immune
system rears up to cause inflammation
like lupus for example or rheumatoid
arthritis and in fact psoriasis is a
condition that is linked to all these
people with psoriasis sometimes have
arthritis as well so for for those of
your um uh uh viewers and listeners who
basically are looking at the skin what's
important to know is that actually this
is a condition that affects the whole
body we just see it on the skin so
that's the first thing number two is
that although it's autoimmune which
means the immune system is reared up uh
against your own body to some extent the
real problem is inflammation now we hear
a lot about inflammation there's a lot
of advertisements about
inflamation um I would say if you go on
the internet you know you hear about
anti-inflammatory foods that that's all
real except that I think that if you're
somebody who suffers from psoriasis you
realize that there's no simple fix for
it and that's really why researchers
like me are diving into understanding
what might be causing it so one of the
things that we realize is that in
addition to inflammation these red
plaques that are on the skin actually
and the richy are actually um driven
they're growing because are being fed by
blood vessels so psoriasis is what we
call a vascular Associated disease
vascular meaning blood vessels in in
fact there's a specific term called
angiogenesis which is what I study
angiogenesis is how the body grows blood
vessels now we need that for wound
healing you want to grow blood vessels
to heal up the wound we need that
actually for reproduction you need good
blood vessels to grow in the lining of
the uterus every month which is then
sloughed off during menstration but
that's all very controlled when it's out
of control and when there's autoimmunity
the abnormal androgenesis abnormal blood
vessels can actually grow these skin
plaques so think about it your skin is
normally flat and it's not red but when
uh there's inflammation the blood
vessels can grow can inflammation can
spark these blood vessels from growing
to grow and then when the abnormal
damage issue parts of the skin get a
blood supply they can they're suddenly
fed they sort of get like a they get
sort of like a a extra helpings of food
from this new blood vessel blood supply
and so they start to grow that's why
they're raised the inflammation makes
them itchy and so uh psoriasis is
inflammation autoimmunity and geog
Genesis which is what most people won't
know about and the treatments that we
think about for psoriasis which are on
the skin mini topical um uh many of
those treatments um uh uh are just to
try to quell the inflammation but if you
have psoriasis in a serious way your
dermatologist your doctor will sometimes
give you more serious medications like
steroids or like vitam special form of
vitamin D and then if you really need to
actually to ramp up your treatment they
give you these things called targeted
immunomodulators they can be injections
they can be pills but they're sort of uh
heat seeking missiles to go after that
inflammation here's the thing all those
treatments the steroids the vitamin D
those Target tared heat seeking imuno
modulor missiles they actually address
inflammation but all of them also
address angiogenesis they also quell
those extra blood vessels from growing
as part of how they work now the the
interesting thing is about our body is
that you know that old saying that the
you know the the the hip bones connected
to the leg bone right so it is true that
what's on the skin is connected to the
inside and what's on the inside is
connected to our gut and so there are
also really important connections
between psoriasis and the inflammation
and the autoimmunity and the
androgenesis to what's happening in our
gut and what researchers have found now
is that many people who suffer psoriasis
not all but many also have sensitivity
to gluten you don't actually have to
have all out celiac disease but just
sensitivity to gluten now we know gluten
you know gluten intolerance gluten
sensitivity is um basically when you eat
bready Foods uh wheat barley Bagels even
some regular foods like soy sauce and
some salad dressings can actually
contain gluten as well um that can
trigger inflammation in your gut and at
its far extreme you could get celiac
disease which is an autoimmune attack
against your gut well so not
surprisingly this autoimmunity of your
gut and inflammation is somehow
connected to um our skin as well as the
rest of our body and so for people who
have uh
psoriasis one thing that would be
definitely worthwhile checking is your
diet and if you can stay away from
gluten cut down on your gluten or when
you're going shopping I mean you know
these days it is pretty easy to find a
gluten-free variation so go to the
section of the store that is for people
who have gluten intolerances and find
the food that you want there that can be
really helpful most people don't realize
that there's hidden gluten in a lot of
different kinds of foods like ketchup
for example or soy sauce they don't look
like bready but they've got that stuff
in them so again uh you know a lot of
people with psoriasis sort of think
about it on the skin and they think
about it as itchiness and inflammation
but it goes much deeper than that yeah I
think that's a great first point to
bring up and to really underscore is
that even though we see psoriasis on the
outside it's actually an internal
problem so it's the internal
inflammation and imbalances that are
manifesting externally on the skin so if
we really want to treat the psoriasis
it's best to look within first I think
then instead of just stopping you know
stopping at the topical level so so many
questions you dropped so many little
bits of wisdom there my first question
for you is because you're talking about
blood vessels and and the role that they
play um in psoriasis is there any
connection between heart disease or
cardiovascular issues and
psoriasis that's a great question and
the the challenge that doctors and
researchers have having is really
figuring out how to tease apart what is
chicken what is egg what is connected
with or what is just happening at the
same time so because sasis is so common
you know uh in in the United States for
example it's about 2% of the population
that actually is affected but there
other countries where it's lower and
there's some countries where it could be
up to 10% or more people actually have
some form of psoriasis and there's
probably a lot of under diagnosed sioris
as well so the question is uh uh as we
get older uh you know we also get
cardiovascular disease and autoimmunity
can definitely affect blood vessels
which then can actually be linked to
cardiovascular disease so this is the
whole the whole chicken or the egg thing
does psoriasis cause heart disease I
don't think think so but does the thing
that the issue underlying psoriasis your
autoimmune response does that actually
have a spillover that can affect blood
vessels and therefore uh if not trigger
then maybe worsen cardiovascular disease
that's uh something that is under
research right now there's it goes even
further than that because some of the
treatments that are actually being given
for psoriasis some of them are super
powerful you know these are these
monoclonal antibodies or they they their
designer treatments the heat seeking
missiles I was talking about those
actually are so powerful that we don't
know yet fully what the long-term
consequences might be which is why you
know I think if you are uh uh suffering
tremendously start with the easy things
start with your diet start with your
lifestyle before you kind of step it up
and go straight for the drug
you know you can always modify your
lifestyle but the drugs have effects
hopefully good effects but many of them
also have side effects and those are the
ones that you sort of want to dodge
recognizing that indeed food is our
medicine but it's not about salesmanship
it's not about snake oil it's about the
real Bonafide science of understanding
how foods contain substances that when
place in our body help our body to
respond including through our immune
system in meaningful ways so where are
some of the future of food
transformation I'm going to give you a
couple of of of ideas I think where
we're going to go I think that in the
future we're going to be talking about
the functionality of foods um what can
the food do alone and in combinations
how do they synergize and combine with
each other so that one plus one is equal
to three or five um we're going to be
looking at dosing of foods if food is
medicine and medicines have doses how
much do we need to eat and how often
that is a simple question that still has
a lot of research to be done but what an
amazing thing to know exactly how many
apples a day you need to eat to keep a
doctor away um every individual is
different so personalized and very
precise nutrition tailored to an
individual at a particular time in their
lives um uh is is incredibly important
to get away from generalizations that
are out there prescription diets uh I
foresee a future in which medical
doctors Physicians will become much more
educated in the kind of material I
shared just shared with you and they may
in fact in the future be writing
prescriptions a few doctors are doing
that in the United States already for
their patients with diabetes and heart
disease and other conditions to try to
help them improve their overall lives
and they take literally the prescription
to the grocery store as a shopping list
and in some cases in in the United
States some insurance companies are
actually paying for um uh the the foods
or underwriting some of the foods that
are actually purchased um uh Fresh Foods
we know are good good a real opportunity
for Innovation is to say you know can we
process the foods in a way that can be
scaled fresh is difficult to scale but
is there a way of preserving the
goodness um we know that dried is okay
we know that um long storage of some
foods like purple potatoes can actually
enhance the polyphenols but are there
ways that we can actually develop uh
food Technologies to preserve the
benefits of food whether it's drying
whether it's powderize a number of
different ways um right now
ultr processed foods are really regarded
as villains and and perhaps for
justifiable reasons but that doesn't
mean that the future has to be that way
we could actually work together uh
someone like me taking life science with
food scientists with food Technologies
with innovators and Business Leaders and
put together a plan a roadmap to be able
to really create scalable food um uh
that actually contains the goodness of
Mother Nature and then finally I shared
with you an example of food plus
medicine
not food versus medicine I'm a doctor
who believes profoundly in the
importance of the right medicine for the
right person at the right time but food
is the missing tool in the toolbox that
might make our medicines better they
might also uh help us avoid the need for
medicines but if we did need medicine
what should we we be eating and in what
we're facing today uh with the pandemic
um as we are thinking about vaccines one
of the really big questions is could our
diet actually influence the activity the
benefits of the vaccine itself we can
get the data on it we can study it in
people we can actually try to figure out
what you can actually do using this so
I'm going to show you some foods this is
soy soybeans put into the same system
look at what happens soybean shuts down
androgenesis tumor androgenesis like
like nobody's business what's in soy we
actually have also figured that out
there's gentin it's a phytoestrogen wait
a minute aren't so isn't soy dangerous
for women with breast cancer totally an
urban legend in fact soy uh does have
plant-based estrogens that look nothing
like human estrogen and in fact the soy
estrogen blocks human estrogen it's
Mother Nature's tamoxifen so I just
showed you this this is in a lab does it
work in people right so this is a study
published in the Journal of the American
Medical Association in which they
studied soy and breast cancer in the
women who are at highest risk for breast
cancer meaning women who already had
breast cancer
did eating soy make them die more no
when the study of soy in 5,000 women who
already had breast cancer was looked at
the more soy women ate the lower their
mortality in fact almost 30% lower risk
of death the more soy they ate if they
ate the more soy and if they had surgery
and they had chemor radiation and they
were actually without evidence of cancer
the more soy they ate decreased the risk
of the cancer coming back by 30% all
right that is actually quite remarkable
in a real world population question how
much soy did you actually need to have
well the dose was actually studied about
10 gram of soy protein there's an
equivalent to the protein with the
phytoestrogen the genestin the
anti-angiogenic substance that's found
in soy there's other things that are
found in soy as well and that's 10 grams
that's the amount you would get in one
glass of soy milk a day that's the dose
for this okay for soy milk amazing okay
what about tomatoes another urban
legends don't eat tomatoes they have
lectins uh totally urban legend don't
listen to the influencers out there that
are not using science that are not not
using data look at the people who are
the serious people who have credibility
who are doing the actual research in
citing the data that's what I'm going to
show you tomatoes have something called
lycopene lopine is a coronoid you when
you eat it uh it actually gets into your
bloodstream it's actually fat soluble so
it actually accumulates in your body fat
and lopine when you put it into that
ring system guess what shuts down the
tumor blood vessels like nobody's
business all right this is actually how
you're able to do this to be able look
at so are tomatoes anti-androgenic could
they have an effect to lower the risk of
cancer and the answer is yes this is
from the health professionals follow-up
study of 46,000 men and what this
followed over over 25 years and they
find that those men who had two to three
servings of cooked Tomatoes a week had a
30% decrease in the risk of developing
prostate cancer they're having lycopene
it's anti-androgenic and when they
actually looked at the men who actually
had uh uh prostate who did develop
prostate cancer they found at at the
microscopic level that those men who ate
more servings of cooked Tomatoes had
less tumor angiogenesis less blood
vessels feeding them correl directly
with the amount of tomatoes that they
actually ate so again this is I'm
showing you real food is medicine
research the kind of data that is
actually being accumulated this is not
the stuff you see in Instagram this is
the kind of stuff that gets published in
medical journals so I always ask tell me
the best tomato I want the most potent
tomato with the highest amount of lopine
and for those of you who are interested
in this if you if you took a picture of
this slide San Marzano tomatoes from
Italy volcanic soil oh I can't get San
Marzano Tomatoes very easily in where I
live that's okay canned San Marzano
Tomatoes which you can order on Amazon
or you can order online have the same
amount of potent lycopene cherry
tomatoes are these little lycopene bombs
they're small but they're powerful
really potent full of lopine black
Tomatoes also have a lot of lopine we
see these in the markets now Tangerine
Tomatoes as well and of course tomato
paste if you buy a can or tube of double
concentrate triple concentrate tomato
paste I like to cook so I like to talk
on these terms it's good and good for
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the video and so we can actually discern
what we want to choose this is the other
aspect of food is medicine is what foods
are are useful and what types of the
food are most useful and how do we use
it in cooking right so you can imagine
how this could turn into a cooking
lecture as well all right so this is
just a list a partial list of foods that
stop harmful blood vessels I just want
to I'm not going to go through every
single one but every single one has the
kind of data that I actually just showed
you so it's really amazing how the
things that we would find in the
Mediterranean Market or the Farmers
Market here okay or in the grocery store
that we can actually make deliberate
choices not only of eating green salads
this is not about the salad bar this is
about actually um engaging in Foods in
meaningful ways that many of which have
actually been cooked cooked and prepared
with recipes for for for Generations
that are actually really delicious okay
uh what if I showed you what happens if
you actually have too many blood vessels
what if you don't have enough you want
to grow more blood vessels for your
heart that can be done too barley
actually has betao glue can like
mushrooms have as well and you can
actually uh study this the black bars
actually show that feeding barley in the
lab to animals with blockages in their
heart will grow more blood vessels to
create natural bypass so this is
actually you can study at the cellular
level you can label the markers from new
blood vessels you can count them you can
study this and this is now in clinical
studies as well looking at beta glucan
and cardiovascular health this is an
interesting one fruit peel has something
called orsolic acid orsolic acid
actually uh uh creates more nitric oxide
in your body which is really important
for vascular Health as well and in fact
this has been studied in the lab a
system where you actually cutting off
the blood flow on the leg of an animal
so there's a human condition Peripheral
arterial disease where you're actually
lacking circulation you have leg pain
eventually could lead to wounds and all
an amputation and you can see that if
you actually feed an animal or solic
acid that came from fruit peel all right
you can over the course of 3 weeks you
can actually get coax the blood vessels
to go back grow back and revascularize a
system that had no blood vessels to
begin with with so again orsolic acid is
also being studied in clinical trial in
humans by the way fruit peels no big
deal but this is actually why you U
might want to actually buy organic
because it's impossible to wipe wash
away all the pesticide that might
actually accumulate on fruit peel like
think about strawberries you'll never
wash a strawberry you can't peel a
strawberry uh as well but an apple it
Studies have shown that about 20% of the
pesticides will penetrate into the skin
of an apple about 20 % and you'll never
be able to wash that residue out all
right okay foods that grow useful
vessels this is another list that exist
I wrote a book called e to be disease um
uh I have lists and lists for of you
know I I did the heavy lifting to figure
out which foods actually can help to
grow blood vessels now what about
regeneration when I went to medical
school nobody thought that humans could
regenerate but obviously we regenerated
our hair grows back uh our skin grows
back our gut grows back and of course we
know if you cut off a tip of the liver
or a tip of the lung hey those organs
will also regenerate as well now we
actually know that stem cells play a
role these are not the things that you
go to the strip mall to get injected
into your knee uh or your shoulder these
are stem cells that were born with in
fact by the time we're born and your
doctor Snips the cord we wind up
retaining about 70 million stem cells
that get stored in our bone marrow and
our body fat um uh in our skin in other
places and they called out like bees out
of a hive to repair us throughout our
lives so our stem cells our natural stem
cells are very important to help us
regenerate now we can't grow a new arm
like a starfish but we can actually uh
support tissue and repair ourselves from
the inside out you don't see this kind
of wound healing and it could be tiny
amounts of wounds that need to be healed
like if your blood vessels are are
damaged wouldn't you want to actually
heal them back up and that's what that
body does they use stem cells to heal
everything from liver to lung to your uh
to your blood vessels and in fact we
have measured we can measure that our in
the bloodstream that our body calls out
blood vessels if you have injury on the
vertical axis are the number of stem
cells over a period of days from uh
patients the blood of patients who are
admitted to the ER following a burn they
get burned for whatever reason and they
come in you can track that their stum
cells are going up up up up up for
almost 2 weeks now repair is happening
mostly you know the other things are
happening for repair but stem cells are
contributing as well and then after
there's enough repair they kind of come
back down we don't need quite as many of
them right so this actually follows a
normal pattern for wound healing and
what's really interesting is that the
worst the injury the more stem cells are
coming out so we've actually measured
this as well okay the vertical axis the
amount of body surface that's burnt all
right and then the stem cell levels and
you can kind of see that uh at at one
time at any one time you can see the
more the burn the more stem cells are
pouring out to do this repair now
there's a huge Enterprise trying to
figure out how to use stem cells to heal
tissues from the heart in the brain
spinal cord it's really exciting stuff
not ready for prime time it's still like
like I've been involved with some of the
stuff it's very Hardo all right it may
be decades before we actually make a
drug out of a stum cell but in the
meantime what is really cool is we're
beginning to take a look at food as
medicine because we know that as we age
our stem cells kind of wne there's fewer
of them they're a little bit less active
so what can we do to pump them back up
what can we do to reactivate or have
more stem cells drawn out and foods can
actually do this the choices of foods we
e not only good for circulation stem
cells uh microbiome gut health and our
immune system but also good for our
metabolism by fighting harmful body fat
as well again these are thermogenically
food bioactives we're discovering what
the specific element in the food is and
we're beginning to see that these
elements are found in fruits and
vegetables and herbs and spices that you
can find in the grocery store this is
not about Weight Watchers this is not
about getting an injection of a uh glp1
Agonist this is about leveraging your
body and using what what we can find in
the grocery store to be able to activate
those systems you know the medical
industrial uh complex the medical
establishment was almost entirely
galvanized by
Pharmaceuticals perhaps that was the
appropriate thing in the 20th century
but now we're deep deeper in the 21st
century at a time where we realize very
starkly that biotech and Pharma can't
rescue us uh at every turn and so now
here's a whole opportunity and food
companies are responding to Consumers
that are demanding better Foods as well
and so when the consumer demands then
the industry responds I also think that
investors and innovators and policy
makers can work together to uh pave the
way um towards um uh a easier path to
create um uh foods that are better for
us uh as I said I fresh is always
something that's delightful and is never
going to go away that's a culture that's
part of our heritage uh I think as
humans is always eating and cooking and
looking at what's around us and locally
um uh the the univers the ubiquity of
many foods at all times throughout the
year is um it's an artifact of our
globalization which has many benefits
but it's caused us to lose touch with
our immediacy but we're not going to go
backwards into the Stone Age we're going
to go forward into the future and this
is why I really believe that there is um
what's what's the right word there is
lightning in the bottle you can try to
capture what mother nature and actually
has delivered in Fresh Foods and if we
could find a way to harness that and
deliver it at scale using the present
day into the future then we have an
opportunity to be able to frankly turn
junk food into health food and then to
message appropriately and get everybody
to make it second nature to um find
choices that are affordable accessible
and that also tastes great because
that's the other thing that we cannot
forget is that when it comes to food it
has to be appealing hi there if you
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