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Goji berries also can actually reprogram
stem cells and Goji berries you know
it's amazing it's one of it's one of
those Continuum like you know you hear
these days you hear a lot about these
medicinal um foods that have been used
in Asia for years like Corps mushrooms
which I saw in the marketplace the other
day it's really cool um but Goji berries
are something uh very common as an
herbal medicine and I think that one of
the things that we need to remember is
that when we're borrowing and exploring
uh
fascinating food substances that have
been used traditionally for thousands of
years as medicine in other cultures we
should be just a little cautious that
this doesn't mean that we can just be
playing around with the substance but
Goji berries you know which I you know I
love to put Goji berries and tea um if
you if you mix it Goji berries with tea
put a date you know a dried date in
there uh put some uh crysanthemum flour
in there you kind of create this really
nice herbal tea tea you can put um oong
tea or black tea you know so you can you
can you can actually find ways to um
extract some of these natural substances
GOI berries have um bioactives like uh
lutein and zanthin which is good for
your vision um but some of these
substances also reprogram your fat stem
cells as well amazing amazing in Chinese
medicine is one of the definitely top
five things but traditionally it's not
like we we might might do today which is
snacking on Goji berries it's using teas
and and you know being able to infuse
different things together um you know
for years I would take you know maybe
I'm doing a Corps tea right or Rishi and
doing a decoction or you know kind of
boiling it down adding some Goji berries
in there also they add like a nice
flavor note too yeah oh yeah as well and
Goji berries are so interesting because
they're one of the few plant Foods in
general but in particular in the berry
family
that's essentially a complete protein
you know you're going to find all the
amino acids there it's like that is so
incredibly rare not to mention all those
other micronutrients you just mentioned
and that's what I'm saying is that
instead of just buying a big bag a sack
of it and snacking it all day long
there's great wisdom in looking back at
how traditionally they actually use it
whether they cooked it in a soup you
know I mean you can you can put it in a
beverage you can put in a tea you can
also cook it in a soup and it also lends
this really sophisticated interesting
flavor um to Chicken Soup For example or
vegetable soup so the best the best
thing about ingredients these days uh
Sean is that you know I write in my new
book about 150 ingredients that are
shown with human research studies along
with their doses of foods that can
activate your metabolism burn down
harmful body fat and generally activate
your health defenses as well for people
who don't who may encounter a a food
that I talk about that they're not
really sure what to do with the
wonderful thing today is that you can go
onto the internet you can search that
food on Google put recipe okay and put
video click on the video and you're
going to have the search results you'll
have somebody passionate who's
experienced teach you how to actually
cook with it and you'll have multiple
choices of multiple videos to see
there's no more secrets on how to yet
you use these things but try try to go
with sort of like like learn something
about how it was done for hundreds of
years yeah yeah yeah I love this this is
a way we can consciously choose our bias
okay because a lot of our biases
obviously are unconscious but I'm
encouraging people and as are you to
create a cognitive bias on what have
humans been doing the longest right what
have our ancestors been doing to get us
to this place where we are such an
evolved species and the most complex
amazing brains and all these things
because what we're doing today you know
with according to the bmj about 60% of
the average American's diet is ultr
processed foods now children it's even
higher than that and we're making our
brain cells literally out of this
garbage you know so getting a bias to
where number one what have our ancestors
done the longest but the other thing is
how did they use these Foods as well so
I love that let's talk about another one
of these five defense systems that you
covered in the book and again pick up
the book like ASAP because he breaks
down and ties in these five defense
system systems in metabolism like none
other uh another one of these is the DNA
protection system why is this important
in the context of metabolism all right
remember I told you that when you have
start growing excess body fat one of the
things that really is harmful in
addition to inflammation is that that
that expanding harmful mass and and I
want to explain where that harmful mass
is most harmful is inside your body
cavities it's not under your arms under
your chin it's not the muffin top all
right not in your thigh and your butt
all right it's actually packed inside
your body so you could be you could look
kind of skinny or you could have a large
body but but equally the visceral fat
which is viscer mean gut the gut fat is
the really billowing harmful
inflammatory damaging f
it's correlated with terrible diseases
terrible chronic diseases so what
happens is as that grows and gets bigger
and bigger think of it like a baseball
glove wrapped around your organs just
choking your organs getting more
inflammatory right remember that
gasoline pulling around your feet when
you overfill the tank now you're talking
about inflammatory fat wrapped around
your organs you don't want that to be
going on all right so the thing that
happens is that all these that billowing
fat produces a lot of free radicals all
right and that is an O prooxidative
stress on your organs and and they're
like completely surrounded choked off uh
by by this expanding fat so the good
news is our DNA which is present in
every single cell in our body in every
organ actually is capable of countering
that damage to an extent all right and
this is why we at the ultimately what we
need to do is control extra body fat to
protect ourselves but we have have our
own Three Musketeers with their with
their rapers uh and their and their um
swords kind of Defending against and
that's like natural
antioxidative protection DNA repair
mechanisms all right to try to fix DNA
that's actually broken by the way we
know that uh excess obesity excess body
fat High BMI all linked to the
development of cancer right we know that
cancer is caused by DNA mutations this
is the connection all right and we know
that our body tries to protect our as
much as possible it's a health defense
but at some point it gets overwhelmed
right like your your your Defenders
actually are so surrounded by
overwhelming forces and that's actually
when you tip over into the state of
complete um uh from Health to chronic
disease this is why we all have an
opportunity at any given point in our
life to be able to combat that extra fat
um which by the way way back to the
metabolism there's a lot of
misunderstanding about metabolism
because we often are told or even think
about that we're born with either a slow
metabolism or a fast metabolism and
that's our fate but in fact it's not
quite so it's and and that our slow met
a slow metabolism Dooms us to actually
struggle with weight our whole lives but
in fact it's that extra body fat slows
down our metabolism it's completely the
other way around so by fighting extra
body fat allowing your body to do what
it wants to do while you're not eating
and by eating foods that will naturally
burn down that extra Fuel and Shrink
those extra fat cells what we're doing
is unleashing our natural our own in
operating system the metabolism wants to
actually be active in our body and
that's a good thing because it puts the
power in our hands yeah it's amazing how
often in in particular in your new book
but just in general in our reality how
obesity Andor excessive fat gain is
connected to cancer and how the
solutions or dramatically reducing the
risk of all of these things all tied
together and they're all found in a
variety of foods and lifestyle practices
now in the book this is a direct quote
from this particular section you said
that excess body fat creates free
radicals inside your body and increases
the risk for cancer-causing mutations
unquote and you also share some of the
foods that can have help to boost DNA
repair and protect us against excessive
fat gain and excessive potential with
cancer yeah I mean so many of the foods
that are associated with high
antioxidative properties right these are
phytochemicals these are um flavanols
polyphenols all actually are able to
assist us I mean we talked about some of
them already green tea actually
wonderful antioxidant um properties but
it's really think about it less as the
what you see on the label of somebody
trying to sell you uh some you know uh
healthy specifically healthy tea um but
think about it is really just sort of
boosting your natural health defenses
helping your DNA protect itself um
Tomatoes watermelon uh those are they've
got lopine they also are wonderful you
know like you know how like lopine is so
powerful that if you actually have a cup
of tomato juice or have a two slices of
watermelon before you go out to the
beach like a couple of hours before so
have lunch make sure you have a some
tomato juice or watermelon couple slices
of watermelon average slices of
watermelon before you go out to the
beach it'll actually protect your body
from ultraviolet radiation damage from
the Sun that you're going to get on the
beach by 60% just by having the lopine
in your system and so this is actually
how we can make some of these
subtle and delicious uh tasty choices
that actually will help us as we
navigate through our lives and so it's
it's no secret I think that um you know
in in the Mediterranean many times you
have a tomato salad at lunchtime before
people go back out under the into the
Sun or or to the beach if you just think
about today when you know rates of skin
cancer have just gone up exponentially
in recent decades it's just like
something that was rare
uh you know earlier on in our the
history of our species documented
history and you think about what were
people doing because sunscreen is even a
newer invention what were people doing
how were people surviving such a you
know a vicious thing you know
interacting with the sun is through our
diet you know because a lot of that
protection is from the inside out yeah
well exactly because sunscreen is just a
thin layer in the top that you got to
reapply and once you get in the water or
once you sweat it off this type of
protection antioxidant protection DNA
protection from the inside out takes
advantage of your 40 trillion cells uses
food to power it up even more uh to be
more vigorous on your behalf and it
protects you from the inside out that's
the way to go yeah another one of these
foods that you mentioned is kiwis oh in
this context all right uh look um kiwis
you can find almost anywhere these days
um uh they're a fruit from uh uh
southeast Asia uh fuzzy on the outside
by the way this most people don't think
they can eat the skin of kiwi but in
fact you can put the skin into a blender
and you get a ton of the natural dietary
fiber from the skin it's really packed
but the flesh which is either green or
golden um uh is sort of mildly sweet the
the golden kiwi is a little bit sweeter
um but the but I like the green ones got
these little dark seeds wonderful source
of uh anti oxidant activity uh in
kiwi um it's got a ton of vitamin C it's
got it's packed with dietary fiber and
you know one kiwi a day uh will actually
protect your DNA Again by about 60% all
right and if you had to eat three kiwis
for breakfast for example pretty easy to
do if you peel you know if you cut up
the kiwi and put it in chunks you could
be eating that as a breakfast as I have
um basically that starts to build back
damaged d
so one kind of is like a missile Shield
prevents the damage from coming in by
about 60% that's just one kiwi a day
simple but then you add three any DNA
that did get damaged it will start to
repair it it sends out the road crew to
fill up the potholes amazing
amazing now in this context when we're
talking about the DNA protection system
you also get into this conversation
about methylation in the book as well
let's talk about that all right so the
interest interesting thing about DNA is
that it's much more than a genetic code
a genetic code is kind of like software
program it's just like it's a it's an
algorithm and it just kind of runs our
DNA doesn't change but what we can do is
we can actually unlock and uncover
certain parts of our DNA that we want to
actually operate on the other hand we
can also cover up some areas that we
don't want to that we don't want to
operate in our DNA that's the way our
DNA is really controlled after we're
born so people like well you can't
change my genetics true however at least
not yet however what we can do is we can
actually cover up parts of your DNA that
are maybe not doing the things that we
want them to do and we can uncloak them
when we when there's parts that we want
them to actually do their thing so um
methylation is covering it up and it's
it's it's kind of a it is part of what
we call epigenetics so you know a lot of
people are talking about epigenetics now
let me just explain that let me just
sort of get people to see epigenetics is
as simple as saying that you know you're
you're going to cover up certain parts
of the crossword P puzzle or you're
going to or you're going to remove the
the the uh covering from certain parts
of the crossroad puzzle so you can see
either see more or see less that's
basically epigenetics and it turns out
the foods we eat can actually help us do
that so there are lots of epigenetic
changes you know from all these Health
defense foods that we can actually eat
that what we want to do with body fat
like
methylation actually blocks the process
to make extra body fat so when we
actually methylate we're covering up
some of those crossword puzzle things
all right you don't know if it's going
to be six letters going uh horizontally
or three letters going down you cover
that up and your fat has a harder time
growing it's so fast again it's all
built in it's all built in um this
another quote from the book in this
section uh quote a study by scientist at
the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology compared the DNA of 60 lean
and 60 obese women who were between the
age of 23 and 31 years old they found
there were 10 specific sites in the DNA
that were more methylated helpfully
blocked in people who were lean compared
to those who were obese unquote
fascinating absolutely and so that shows
you and this is kind of where we are
with this research it means that there
are certain spots that are
vulnerabilities that some people carry
around that might predispose them to
gain extra weight and so if you block
those vulnerable spots uh think about
finger in the Dyke all right just block
those all right then you can you
actually might be able to tip the
balance more in favor favor of a more
healthy body type body composition