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there is a new type of medicine that's
not chemo that if you they're called
anti-angiogenesis so they cut off the
blood supply feeding the big cancers by
the time so here's a research experiment
that was done a couple of decades ago in
a lab that I worked in if you grew tiny
little cancer cells and up to the size
of the tip of a ballpoint pen that's
about three millimeters in diameter and
you kind of floated them in uh a broth
and didn't allow them to touch blood
vessels they would just stay there at
that size almost indefinitely okay and
in our body that's the size that the
immune system would Wing by and take out
the moment you allow blood vessels to
grow into that microscopic mass that
tumor will grow
16,000 times in two weeks it'll explode
this is like a trigger get pulled in
order to have cancers grow up and for
that reason biotech companies started to
develop
anti-angiogenic drugs to treat cancer by
cutting off the blood supply so there
are about a dozen antiangiogenic drugs
that have changed the game for treating
kidney cancer and liver cancer and lung
cancer and even brain cancer all right
so we know that we can actually do this
uh with drugs the question is can we do
it with food not so much when cancer is
out of the barn horses out of the barn
what about prevention what are foods
that can prevent cancer
well it turns out that two apples a day
actually can lower the rate of of lung
cancer wow and colon cancer why because
there are natural substances in apples
like quatin that's one of the natural
chemicals that actually are naturally
anti-angiogenic green tea actually has
been lower lower risk of coloral cancer
okay uh particularly in women and and
what's in in a cup of green tea are
these polyphenols EG CG and when you
drink it it gets in your bloodstream why
because the blood vessels are carrying
it and now your blood vessel is loaded
with this cancer starving stuff these
little tumors don't have a chance wow
yeah okay is it the same as eating two
apples a day and and uh you know eating
these specific Foods as it would be just
putting all those ingredients in a
supplement and taking the supplement
would would that work just as well to
have like the supplement that is just
the the killer of all cancer and
diseases you know of all these different
nutrients well look I I'm a researcher
and so and I've been involved with drug
development and so if it were that easy
it would have been done a while ago but
I can tell you that the whole what I
tell people is that the whole food is
always going to be a little bit better
for the following reason number one uh
for a supplement you reduce it to a
couple of different elements you know
that that you try to pack into a capsule
the whole food man it's got
hundreds of not thousands of natural
goodies and chemicals including like an
Apple's got the skin it's got ursolic
acid it's got fiber which feature got
microbiome it's got cortin which cuts
out the blood supply so you're getting
all that in there um compared to just
one thing you try to pack into a little
capsule that said supplements are useful
and I'm I'm involved with you know
designing and developing supplements as
well what we want to do supplements uh
term means topping
off right so you're supplementing you're
not replacing and this is what you know
like what you were just asking Lewis is
so important like can we just not bother
eating and just have a supplement no man
like you should be eating because you
enjoy food it's good for us it brings
people together it tells us something
about our Traditions our culture our
family our community everybody's from
someplace there's everybody's got
something that they love to eat and and
of that list there's some good stuff in
it and so we should really lean forward
so that's the other thing that's a
little bit different from me that
compared to a lot of other doctors that
tell people what not to eat I try to
tell people what you should add to your
life not that what you should take away
plenty people can tell you what to take
away I'm telling you what to add and and
we should add foods that activate your
health defenses and supplements can be
useful to top things off got it I've
been told uh many times s that
inflammation is the is a also a big I
guess warning sign for diseases and
Cancers and the more inflammation the
more your body is less capable of
Defending itself and its immune system
is weaker is what I've been told um what
would you say the best ways to reduce
inflammation in the body quickly is it
through food is it through medicine is
it through fasting is it through you
know less you know more sleep is it
through better environment what would
you say is the so
you know a lot of people I think um when
they hear about inflammation they think
about it as a bad guy and what I want to
tell you is that inflammation is normal
and it's just part of our immune system
so when you actually have a bacteria or
virus invading your body uh let's say
you get get a cold your immune system uh
sets up a little bit of inflammation in
your nose okay which is why we have a
stuffy nose a runny nose and then it
takes it tackles
The Invader right then and there and
then hopefully that's all that's all
matters and by the way another sure son
of inflammation is if you um cut
yourself uh in a kitchen and you see
that little cut will pretty quickly
swell up turn red and swell up
inflammation that's your immune system
trying to tackle all the bacteria that
might be trying to get into your skin
inflammation is good but it goes up to
protect you and then it comes right down
I think about I call it like a like the
volume switch in a car radio right you
get in a car you want to hear some tunes
got to turn it on but what the problem
with inflammation is when it doesn't go
back down it keeps on going more more
more it's chronic and it keeps on going
up and that's like getting in your car
and having somebody a passenger turn up
that volume and keep cranking that
volume and you're like hey man turn that
thing down right doesn't go down and you
just can't go on right and that's what
happens inside your body so what's what
are some of the different ways to
actually deal with that well well the
first thing to do is think about
lifestyle because we can actually give
anti-inflammatories I could tell you to
go out to take some moin Tylenol
whatever that'll take down your
inflammation but actually there are ways
of actually doing if you actually just
um if you stopped and just calmed
yourself and took some Brea did some
breaths and start to meditate your
inflam your body's inflammation will
start to calm down okay if you actually
got a good night's
sleep your body will start to the
inflammation will uh start to calm down
it's it's kind of like you know
everything is going crazy just let
everything let the thing settle a little
bit so that's your inflammation settling
down now there are foods that have a lot
of anti-inflammatory properties that can
be very helpful so for example
cranberries um have a lot of
anti-inflammatory polyphenols um
chocolate even also has
anti-inflammatory properties vitamin C
is pretty
anti-inflammatory strawberries guava red
bell peppers all really good really good
um and uh uh and you know I think that
the other thing to think about is uh
lots of fruits and veget lots of fruits
in particular have
anti-inflammatory uh properties so the
key about inflammation is that you don't
want to get rid of it altoe okay okay
like if you if you got pumped up on
steroids it would shut down your
inflammation you might get infected
because you don't have any inflammation
you want your body to get its set point
you want to get back to balance so I
think that you know there's lifestyle
there's uh diet uh foods you can choose
there's sleep all these things can
actually help to calm inflammation it's
not a single on andof switch I'm curious
what would you say are the the most
harmful foods then if you said here are
three foods that we should be
eliminating what would be those most
harmful foods that cause the spike and
inflammation consistently and causes a
lot of these other diseases and
cancerous uh cells to occur right well
I'll tell you three foods that actually
harm the body's Health defenses and
including the immune system by
ratcheting it up inflammation and then
lowering the defensive properties but
also harm to your DNA also harm your
microbiome also blunt and stun your stem
cells and also wreck your body's ability
to control his blood supply so it's a
lot worse than
simply causing triggering inflammation
and by the way that's the whole point
right like we try to take the Silver
Bullet approach to everything let's
match this with's match that what I'm
telling you is that the body is a system
yes so either you introduce something
good to it and you'll probably light up
a lot of good systems and if you put
something bad to it you'll probably
trash a lot of it right okay so uh what
are some three foods that actually we
know
can Trash your body's Health defenses
one is soda so sugar sweetened beverages
like soda all right so you know the
favorite ones it's tough right because
wish I wish I could go back to my
younger self and say put down the Dr PE
eight cans of Dr Pepper a day you know
when you're like eight years old man
well and I'm telling you like this is
one thing that um I always try to coach
people on if you really really love
sodas okay try to come off it you know
just by going down one can a day because
most people drink multiple cans go down
one can a day and get to as low as you
can because the added sugar actually
overloads your body your body's ability
to be able to handle the sugar and then
it makes you inflamed just by the nature
of the sugar eventually I cut out I cut
out soda years ago I mean maybe I have
it once in a couple months or something
for like a treat but yeah it used to be
almost an addiction probably for how
much I drank it growing up as a kid in
the summer you're just drinking it
non-stop like water um but then when I
learned about nutrition more when I was
playing sports and realizing this is
making me tired it's not quenching my
thirst that's when I said okay I need
more of a Competitive Edge and kind of
got it cut it out of my life so not only
not only does it does soda actually the
sugar and soda cause inflammation it
really wrecks your microbiome your gut
bacteria as well your gut bacteria just
can't tolerate that much sugar okay um
and then guess what and then you know
you say well wait a minute
that's why we have
diet soda right turns out that those
artificial sweeteners and soda screw
your microbiome your gut bacteria even
more o more than regular canos more more
than a regular can come on so if it's
says zero sugar and it's a soda or a pop
you're saying that could be more harmful
than just for your for your gut
microbiome gotcha got right because
because a zero sugar is actually to
prevent you know um glucose spikes in
your body but in point of fact it
actually wrecks your gut microbiome and
remember what I told you that gut
microbiome communicates your brain
communicates your immune system
communicates your healing systems that
is not a system you want to screw with
and so that's why you know I try to tell
people um you really got to watch out
for those uh artificial sweeteners uh
they are they they they do some bad
things so that's one thing so what are
the what are the best before we go to
the next thing what are the best
sweeteners we should be looking for when
we're adding something into food or we
see it on the packaging well natural
sugars um in fruits and vegetables
people go well I don't want any sugar
then but what about in a peach there's
nothing better than a summer Peach to me
and that natural sugar is okay because
when you eat the peach you're not just
getting the sugar you're also getting
all these other bioactives and the fiber
and everything else hundreds the
hundreds of thousands of of natural
chemicals that are good for you from
Mother Nature's kind of Pharmacy with an
F okay so that's different than just you
know having sugar in a glass corn syrup
right High fru juice corn syrup not not
good for you um maple syrup a good way
to sweeten okay honey is also a good way
way to uh sweeten as well monk fruit is
actually a really really sweet uh
tasting uh gourd that's a shell um that
is also a decent sweetener Stevia
actually pretty powerful sweetener um
I've been doing some research on I
haven't been able to find anything wrong
with it but but for people that are
looking at Stevia be very careful pick
up that package and look at the side of
the box and what you and read what's on
there because a lot of things that are
called Stevia actually have a lot of
other things added to it okay so you
want to get the P ofu I always told if
it's in a box look at what's inside it
before you buy it