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today I'm going to talk about 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 yogurt
and hard cheeses might have the
possibility to help fight cancer and
help burn body fat all at the same time
now most people would be surprised that
a scientist and a physician like me who
studies food and Medicine would even
dare to identify Dairy Foods as having
possible health benefits for diseases
like cancer and excess body fat I mean
after doesn't dairy product have excess
uh fat excess salt and it causes
inflammation well this is where the
research gets really interesting first
of all one of the things that's really
important for me as a food is medicine
researcher to do is to keep my eyes open
and my mind open for data and not to
really quickly assign uh good guy or bad
guy labels to foods and that's really I
think very Central to the way that I
approach my work and when it comes to
food the foods are complicated and we
don't understand everything that they
might do and so we have to keep our eyes
open to observe and then to Think
Through what might be the reasons for
benefits or harm right so let's take a
look at the first dairy product yogurt
yogurt is a dairy product and it's been
already proven to be beneficial for
Health and Longevity meaning that
yogurt's a probiotic food it's fermented
it's got healthy bacteria that actually
blooms during the creation of the the
yogurt and basically bacteria grow and
the good bacteria outgrow the harmful
bacteria and that's what's packaged up
and that what you actually eat now
scientists hundreds of years ago have
noticed that people who eat whole yogurt
and some of the earliest uh findings
observations were done in Bulgarian
monks that were eating uh yogurt every
single day they live to ripe old ages
and the thinking at the time was that
there must be something in the yogurt
that was actually contributing to their
uh longevity and what was that well
today we know yogurt actually contains
healthy bacteria it's a probiotic food
that when you eat it that bacteria
actually contributes to your Healthy gut
microbiome the gut microbiome is a
colony of bacteria community of bacteria
in your gut there's about 39 trillion of
those bacteria and that bacteria acts
like a a community of good neighbors why
are they good neighbors well good health
bacteria actually lower inflammation in
your body they raise immunity to help
your immune system become stronger and
by the way cancer actually is battled
invisibly in your body by a good strong
immune system so uh good healthy gut
bacteria helps your immune system battle
diseases including uh cancers
specifically microscopic cancers and
good healthy gut bacteria also improve
your metabolism they help you control
body fat excess body fat uh leads to
inflam infation inflammation is a setup
for cancer right as well as a growing a
body fat so good healthy microbiome does
that and when you actually have a well
balanced microbiome it's actually called
a u biotic State EU bio t i c u biotic
now when the microbiome is not in good
shape it's called um dis biotic or
disbiosis and that's actually when your
gut bacteria are are in a state of
disrup pair good neighborhood starts to
have bad neighbors moving in they start
to Riot there goes the neighborhood and
that's actually what happens when you
actually have um unhealthy bacteria now
the other thing about good bacteria is
you want to have high
diversity a good neighborhood has
different types of people they mix
together they're all richer for uh each
other's differences and it's the same
thing for your gut microbiome and so you
want to actually eat foods that give you
good gut diversity now this is one of
the reasons
why eating colorful flu foods that
actually contain a lot of different
polyphenols that help contribute to
their color uh their diverse colors
actually also contributes to helping to
grow different diverse species of good
healthy bacteria now if you actually
have good healthy diverse bacteria in
your gut what do they do that's
beneficial well they produce these
metabolites a metabolites just something
that comes out of the uh the organism in
this case a bacteria once they eat
something it gets metabolized they spit
it out or poops it out or comes out of
the of the of the body and these
metabolites uh for the bacteria are
called short chain fatty acids s short
chain C fatty acids fa we abbreviate
that and call them scaas and there are
three different types of short chain
fatty acids that good healthy bacteria
in your gut as you produce these are all
beneficial because they help to lower
inflammation boost immunity uh they
improve our metabolism make our body
more insulin sensitive so we're more
efficient and our with drawing down
glucose in our blood and good healthy
bacteria also protects our brain to make
us feel better uh improve our cognition
and actually put us in a better mood all
right all good things with good healthy
bacteria now these short chain fatty
acids the scaas are produced when the
bacteria are fed uh as I said
plant-based foods with dietary fiber so
the polyphenols are helpful to the to
grow a whole bunch of different types of
diversity in the gut bacteria but the
dietary fiber is sort of like their main
food that they munch on it's kind of
like dog food that you feed your pet dog
every single day um and how do you get
dietary fiber well you eat you eat foods
like avocados and broccoli and kiwi and
apples and many other foods that you can
find in the produce section of the
grocery store or the farmers markets and
you can also eat nuts like tree nuts um
like uh walnuts and pistachios and
pecans and cashews and almonds macadamia
nuts and seeds too fla seeds pine nuts
seeds are also a great source of dietary
fiber when you eat polyphenols colorful
Foods or tree nuts with dietary fiber
guess what it actually makes your gut
bacteria more diverse uh healthy
bacteria grow they produce short chain
fatty acids inflammation goes down and
when inflammation goes down it actually
uh tips your odds in favor of your
health as opposed to cancer now why is
that because cancer is a disease that
thrives in an inflammatory state so when
you got inflammation around you're
actually more likely to trigger cancer
growth now we're all forming microscopic
cancers in our body all the time and the
reason that they're not growing all the
time in a big way is because your body
has the ability to cut off the blood
supply of cancer it's called
anti-angiogenesis it's a it's hardwired
our body to be able to do this um and
then the cancers stay small and Tiny
they don't have a blood supply no oxygen
no nutrients they don't grow and then
our good healthy immune system which
relies on good healthy gut bacteria
Wings by like cops in a beat spotting a
something abnormal like a drug dealer on
a corner of a a peaceful neighborhood is
kind of like a microscopic tumor sitting
in your body in an organ someplace and
what does the cop do takes a bad guy
throws them in a Patty wagon and your
immune system to watch you destroy that
microscopic cancer so that's basically
how we stay healthy and when uh we eat
foods like yogurt a dairy product like
yogurt and we're feeding our gut
bacteria lowering inflammation boosting
immunity we are tipping the odds in
favor of our body being able to be in a
state to resist cancer uh and which is
actually um the setup for preventing
cancer as well now a couple of caveats
that actually is really important for
you to think about when you buy actually
yogurt
you don't you want to buy whole fat
yogurt don't buy lowfat yogurt all right
now you might think low Fat's going to
be better for me right Dr Lee wrong it
turns out low-fat yogurt um when you
pull the fat out of yogurt kind of
collapses it's kind of like a thick
puddly milk so manufact yogurt
manufacturers will put emulsifiers
emulsifiers are thickeners like
polysorbate um 80 uh kagin all these
other thickeners in order to restore the
mouth feel so that you taste it tastes
like yogurt tastes like whole fat yogurt
Well turns out researchers have now
found that
emulsifiers actually harm your gut
microbiome when you harm your gut
microbiome even though you're eating a
probiotic food like yogurt you're
actually harming accidentally harming
your gut microbiome in effect
inflammation Rises all right and that
actually increases your risk for all
kinds of chronic diseases including
cancer so you don't want that all right
so whole fat yogurt is a way to go now
the other thing you want to do is uh not
hurt your microbiome because you need a
strong immune system and you want to
fight cancer especially if you're
actually receiving a kind of treatment
the latest kind of treatment called
immunotherapy you want the best chances
of surviving cancer you want to get
immunotherapy immunotherapy is in some
ways the most natural way to treat
cancer because it um invites your body
your own immune system to be as powerful
as possible to go after those cancer
cells all right it's not chemo it's
imuno therapy using your body's own
immune system to to help tip the odds in
your favor so dairy products like yogurt
that help your gut microbiome actually
power up your immune system which tips
the odds in your favor against cancer
especially if you're receiving
immunotherapy for treating uh Cancer all
right so that's one of the dairy foods I
want to talk about yogurt uh another
little tip about yogurt besides getting
whole yogurt and not lowfat yogurt is
don't get pre-sweetened yogurt
you know what I'm talking about you're
talking about the yogurt that you get in
a container and you look at it it's got
this like layer of sweetness to it it's
blueberry flavored it's grape flavored
it's strawberry flavored the stuff
tastes good but I can tell you don't do
that because those sweetened layers are
basically jelly with added sugar and we
have and sometimes artificial coloring
uh and maybe artificial flavoring and
what that does is that actually um heart
your gut microbiome and adds sugar into
your body that you don't want all right
instead use um get plain whole yogurt
cut ripe seasonal fruit you want
strawberries get some ripe strawberries
during the summer you want blueberries
get fresh blueberries um when they're
ripe and by the way you can also even
use frozen because they the the
strawberries and blueberries even though
they're sweet so I'm not complaining
about the sugar part I'm talking about
the added sugar part not the natural
sugar in the fruit strawberries have
elic a cuts off the blood supply to the
tumor blueberries have anthocyanins
which give blueberry their color their
natural dark blue color that cuts off
the blood supply to tumors add your own
good stuff don't rely on the on the
factory the manufacturer to come up with
the stuff for you that actually might
tip the odds against your favor one step
forward two steps back don't do it whole
fat yogurt cut your own fruit into it
want to put a little drizzle of Honey
like the Greeks do maybe a sprinkling of
crushed nuts listen that's a really
healthy uh breakfast that can help you
tip the odds uh in your favor against
cancer the other thing that yogurt does
is by helping your good gut bacteria uh
ramp up it improves your metabolism uh
helps you uh regulate improve regulation
of your blood lipids uh and actually can
help to fight harmful body fat all right
when you remove harmful body fat
visceral fat guess what you lower
inflammation in your body so here's
something that can help tip the odds in
your favor against cancer and help you
lose weight yogurt whole yogurt is that
and if you cut up your your own fresh
ripe fruit now you're adding polyphenols
that are present in fruits in order to
be able to uh enhance the benefits of
this dairy product which is actually
yogurt all right now I'm going to talk
about another dairy product that's
probably going to surprise you even more
and that is hard cheeses what am I
talking about with hard cheeses they
tend to come from northern Europe you're
talking about ybur emmenthaler guda or
Howa that's how they pronounce it uh in
the Netherlands cheeses these are hard
cheeses um uh and research has actually
shown that modest consumption of hard
cheeses can lower the risk of both heart
disease and some forms of cancer as well
now this is a Association these are
epidemiological studies and the question
is how is it can that happen how is that
possible Jesus have saturated fat don't
they cause more inflammation etc etc
well here is where I told you you have
to look at the data if the data suggests
there's something beneficial don't just
reject it out of hand all right think
about it and this is where researchers
like me have actually dug down deep to
try to figure out a possible explanation
of this so here's the deal with hard
cheeses some hard cheeses like ybo Gudda
emal all right um they're very high in a
special type of vitamin called vitamin
K2 all right vitamin
K2 is a special vitamin that is anti-
androgenic cuts off the blood supply to
tumors all right check this out I've got
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vitamin which is found in cheeses is
beneficial another name for is mancinone
now I'm not recommending that you eat
cheese to battle cancer nor am I
actually telling you cheese is a health
food but I want to actually show you how
uh this this dairy product cheese does
have some evidence that it can be
beneficial and is associated with
lowering the risk of both heart disease
and cancer when you eat it in moderation
all right now the reason I'm telling you
this is because look many of us love
cheese uh me too all right and so rather
than feel completely guilty and you
should know that the research is showing
that there's some benefits the key
absolutely key to eating cheese is
moderation all right so if you want to
actually eat cheese and get the benefits
of cheese which by the way cheese is
also a probiotic food it's basically a
fermented dairy product it's actually
good for your your gut bacteria as well
but the vitamin K2 of hard cheeses is
beneficial all right and net net it
actually contributes when you eat cheese
and hard cheeses is a moderation it
contributes to uh what's inside your
body that can actually help to lower the
risk of cancer by fighting cancer all
right now what about vitamin K2 and body
fat right well this has been studied by
researchers in the Netherlands at MRI
University all right um now what they
did these research they enrolled 214
women who are
postmenopausal these women were between
the ages of 55 and 65 and what they did
the researchers gave them vitamin K2 the
same type of K that's found in hard
cheeses they gave him vitamin K2 to eat
every day for 3 years all right and they
compared this vitamin K2 eater group to
women who were just given a placebo now
the results after 3 years were really
surprising the women who ate vitamin K2
had a reduction in their body weight so
they lost weight they also lost body fat
and the kind of body fat they lost was
visceral fat the harmful excess visceral
fat that's found in the tube of your
body it wraps itself around your organs
and then leaks inflammation they
actually lost that as well and what they
also found in the blood of the vitamin
K2 eaters is they found higher levels
than the placebo of a hormone called
adiponectin a dipo nectin is made by fat
cells healthy fat cells and what a dipon
nectin does is it actually helps insulin
in our body the hormone that actually
helps to draw blood sugar into our cells
and to store it for energy a dipine
netin helps insulin actually work more
efficiently and when when dipine necon
levels are high insulin's more efficient
blood glucose comes down the glucose
levels in your blood come down faster
more efficiently and overall you're
metabolically healthier all right and
eating vitamin K2 can increase adipine
nein levels in the bloodstream so let's
just sum up here cheeses hard cheeses
that contain vitamin 2 like yurg guda
Howa and emth cheeses these are northern
European cheeses they have they can
benefit your metabolism and they can you
tip the odds in your favor against
cancer through vitamin K2 all right
remember vitamin K2 can cut off the
blood supply to cancer
anti-angiogenic vitamin now I love
cheese but the key thing is to eat it in
moderation all right just be very very
careful because it does contain
saturated fat it does contain a lot of
salt and those are some of these other
factors that are not so good for us all
right so eating cheese in moderation
actually has some benefits that you
should know about all right and of
course if you don't eat dairy products
and you don't eat cheese totally fine
it's an optional food uh you can steer
your way around it just fine but this
video is really about the surprising
benefits of cheese when it comes to
fighting cancer tipping the odds against
cancer and helping you fight body fat
all right hope you learned something new
I'm pretty sure you did because this is
is really real researchy type of
information that causes us to rethink
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