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When I was in grade school, my teacher
told me about what regeneration was.
Said that starfish can regenerate an
arm, a salamander can regenerate a leg.
But unfortunately, people can't
regenerate, right? Well, that's not true
anymore. When we get good sleep, and
only when we get good sleep, the
lymphatic systems open up. It's like the
sewers of Paris drains the toxins from
your brain. an Alzheimer's fringe.
Indeed, you see poorer blood flow, but
it turns out
immediately relaxes your blood vessels,
lowers your blood pressure, which is a
big killer, improves blood flow in every
organ in your body, including your
brain. Question I ask is, why don't we
all get cancer more often?
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Stem cells are primitive cells that can
turn into anything you need them to be.
Turn into a brain, heart, lung, liver,
skin, hair. Um, our stem cells actually
regenerate us from the inside out. Now,
you know that one of the things that
happens as we get older is our brain
atrophies and can start to degenerate.
It shrinks. literally a scan of an older
person, the brain, the brain matter, the
mass of the brain shrinks inside the
skull.
>> It's like a like a cotton shirt that
shrank and you see this actually in a
scan.
>> And so, in order to be able to try to
keep the shrinking from happening, you
want to make sure there's good blood
flow going, which actually helps to keep
the brain growing in a healthy and
maintained in a healthy sort of way.
When you get good sleep, deep REM sleep,
dreaming sleep, what happens is that
your body regenerates itself. Your stem
cells get regen start to regenerate.
Your brain cleans itself out. By the
way, have you heard of the glimpmphatic
system in the brain?
>> I've heard it, but what does it do?
>> Okay, so there is a hidden sewer system
in our brain called the glimpmphatic
system. You've heard of lymphatic
system, but the glimpmphatic system is
they they say glimp because the cells in
our brain are called ga. Gla.
So glimpmphatic system is a sewer system
that's normally closed during the day.
And so, you know, like here we are
during the day, you know, we're doing
this podcast, we're doing other things.
You know, you prep before, you got to do
some stuff afterwards. Me, too. All
right. You know what's happening? We're
building up um toxins in our brain,
oxidative stress, all kinds of stuff is
going on in our brain. When we sleep
tonight, okay, hopefully I'm going to
get some good sleep. And hopefully you
too. Yes. All right. When we get good
sleep, and only when we get good sleep,
the lymphatic systems open up. It's like
the sewers of Paris drains the toxins
from your brain. And that's how we re
regenerate the freshness of our brain.
That's why they say get a good night's
sleep before an exam. All right? And and
if you don't, by the way, you get brain
fog. You know why you get brain fog?
Because you've kept those toxins in. We
were all composed of stem cells. And we
had so many stem cells that form who we
each individually are that we had uh an
overage. There's more than we needed. So
when we were born, all the extra stem
cells that no longer needed to be used
to form us actually got packed away.
It's kind of like, you know, extra
supplies. Yeah. And the stem cells that
we were born with get packed into our
bone marrow, packed into our skin, even
packed into our heart, into our body
fat, and they just sit there ready to
regenerate us from the inside out. So,
this is a new definition of healing that
hasn't been talked about a lot is that
our stem cells heal us from the inside
out. I'm not talking about going to the
strip mall to get your knee injected.
That's not really ready for prime time.
As somebody who's been involved with
developmental therapeutics for stem cell
therapy, not ready for prime time yet.
However, what is ready for prime time is
what we were born with. Our stem cells
continues to regenerate. How do we know
we regenerate? Our hair grows back. Our
skin grows back. Our gut grows back. By
the way, surgeons know this. If you cut
off two/irds of your liver,
>> it grows back.
>> It grows back over two years. If you cut
off the tip of your lung, the tip will
grow right back. We do
>> kind of like a salamander. When you cut
off a limb,
>> well, we can't do the limb yet, but we
can do many other organs. We just don't
do it very, very quickly. So, but that's
an internal health a health defense that
we don't feel and we don't see.
>> Okay? We don't see our stem cells, but
they're there. All right? By the way, if
you cut yourself, uh, paper cut or you
scrape your knee and you know if your
scab comes off, you see all this bright
red bubbly stuff underneath a scab.
Those are your blood vessels are
growing. They're also regenerating. Five
2 to 5% of those cells that are that are
in underneath the scab are stem cells
that are regenerating that
>> That's right. uh that wound, that tissue
right there, that's your second health
defense. And and just like the
circulation, there there are foods that
you can eat for your circulation and
your stem cells that boost it. And the
and the idea that we can eat foods that
stimulate our regeneration to me is one
of the most mind-blowing exciting things
that are out there. And one of the best
foods is actually cacao, plant-based
food, cacao. It's actually used to make
chocolate.
>> Yeah.
>> Right. So dark chocolate, obviously. So
studies have been done to show that the
flavinols in cocoa stimulate stem cells
to come out of your bone marrow like
bees in a beehive in your bloodstream
and they go out and they find wherever
it needs to be repaired. If it's in your
heart, they'll fix it. If it's in your
liver, they'll fix it. If your skin,
they'll fix it. And so we can eat foods
like high flavonol cocoa in order to be
able to actually get the stem cells to
work a little bit better. Now, how do we
know this this actually function works
in people? Well, clinical studies have
been done with high flavonol cocoa to
show that in like men who are in their
60s with heart disease, they could
actually eat just have two cups of dark
chocolate hot cocoa a day for a month
>> and they doubled the amount of stem
cells in their bloodstream and their
circulation improved measurably. And
then uh what's even more important and
impressive is that there was a study
called the Cosmos study that was
completed recently
>> that showed that uh eating high flavono
cocoa decreases the risk of
cardiovascular death.
>> Yeah.
>> Right. Over a period like a statin.
Exactly. Except except made with by by
eating the same thing that you use to
make chocolate. So we're not telling
people to go out to have chocolate which
is a confection. It's got a lot of sugar
and all kinds of other stuff in it
>> but it's the stuff underlying it. Yeah,
the core.
>> I studied Chinese green tea, Japanese
green tea and and studied um Earl Gray
and we can and so you can besides
comparing foods with drugs, you can
compare foods with foods to find out
which is the best kind. I was interested
in is Japanese sencha or Chinese green
tea, jasmine tea or is um Earl Grey?
Which one is better when you throw them
into the system? And we found actually
surprisingly that Earl Grey, the black
tea flavored with bergamut actually was
the most potent tea when you combined
all when you looked at all three side by
side. Other thing about black tea that's
really amazing, it's been studied by
researchers in Italy, is that black tea
actually can call out those stem cells
from your bone marrow uh to increase
their levels in your circulation. And
when your stem cells are circulating in
your blood, uh they come out of their
hiding spots in your their storage
containers, their the garage that the c
paint cans were stored in. They come out
like bees flying out of a hive and then
they c circulate in your body looking
for organs to repair. So wherever you
need a little bit of renewal,
regeneration, your stem cells will fix
it invisibly. And so black tea can
actually spark that repair and
regenerative process. By by restricting
calories, intermittent fasting, um our
body's defenses androgenesis help to
starve cancer. It kind of helps our body
cut off the blood supply to cancers. Um,
we know that when you actually um
intermittently fast, you call out more
stem cells, your stem cells kind of
reboot and then the fresh ones come out.
So, it's kind of like um trying to think
like changing the batteries in in a
flashlight. You get refreshment. We know
when you intermittently fast, it also
reboots your gut microbiome.
>> Yeah.
>> So, um you know, it kind of takes away
some of the bad neighbors and some fresh
neighbors, better neighbors that
reorganize the neighborhood. We also
know that intermittent fasting helps to
repair your DNA and it even slows down
cellular aging. Science tells us that if
we restrict our calories, okay, that's
called fasting. Periods that that we
don't eat. By the way, we we all fast.
When you're sleeping, you're fasting.
That's why they call the morning meal
break fast breakfast is because we're
actually breaking our evening fast. So
fasting is something we do. It doesn't
have to be extreme, but we do know that
we actually restrict our calories.
wonderful things happen to our health
defense systems. It all comes back to
our health defenses. It turns out it um
helps your body by by restricting
calories in intermittent fasting um our
body's defenses androgenesis helped to
starve cancer. It kind of helps our body
cut off the blood supply to cancers. Um
we know that when you actually um
intermittently fast, you call out more
stem cells. your stem cells kind of
reboot and then the fresh ones come out.
So, it's kind of like um trying to think
like changing the batteries in in a
flashlight. You get refreshment. We know
when you intermittently fast, it also
reboots your gut microbiome.
>> Yeah.
>> So, um you know, it kind of takes away
some of the bad neighbors and some fresh
neighbors, better neighbors that
reorganized the neighborhood. We also
know that intermittent fasting helps to
repair your DNA and it even slows down
cellular aging at the level of the caps
on the end of your DNA, the tieumirs
that burn down normally during aging.
Intermittent fasting slows that aging
process down at the cellular level. And
inflammation intermittent fasting by the
way helps us become develop more
fortified immune system because part of
the reboot at the stem cell level is to
make new immune cells. So, we've got
fresh super soldiers produced coming
right out of the oven uh for to help uh
our immune system. So, these are ways
that intermittent fasting has been shown
to help our defenses. Doesn't mean that
you have to do it all the time. It means
that this is another technique we can
use to kind of up our game uh
periodically when it comes to our
health.
>> Listen, when I was in grade school, uh
my teacher told me uh about what
regeneration was. said that starfish can
regenerate an arm. A salamander can
regenerate a leg. But unfortunately,
people can't regenerate, right? Well,
that's not true anymore. We know that
humans can regenerate. We do it slowly
and we do it from the inside out. True.
We can't grow a new arm or leg and we
don't have a tail to grow. But I will
tell you that uh we regenerate using
stem cells. That's what starfish use and
salamanders as well. And these stem
cells are tiny little regenerative cells
that can turn into whatever they need to
be turned into. That's why they're
called stem, meaning that they're just
at the stem of they haven't figured out
what they want to be yet. Maybe a liver,
maybe a tooth, maybe a hair follicle,
whatever it is they want to be. And that
stemness is really important. In fact,
we were all formed from stem cells when
we were still in our mom's womb. So when
your dad's sperm met your mom's egg,
okay, and you were just a ball of cells
forming, you didn't have a face, you
didn't have an organ, you didn't and you
didn't have any organs, no kidney, no
liver, no lips, no ear. The bottom line
is you're just stem cells. Those cells,
which were stem cells, had to figure out
what they were going to become to form
the future you. Now, you had nine months
to do that, right? right? To have all
these stem cells form, you know,
perfectly, your fingernails, your
toenails, you know, every aspect of your
body. And at 9 months, you're born. And
guess what? You your mother nature made
sure that we had more than enough stem
cells to form everything. So when you're
born, you've got some extra stem cells
um that wind up getting packed away
>> in our body after we're born and they
live in our bone marrow. So, think about
these extra stem cells. Like, you ever
paint a room like at a project?
>> Yeah.
>> Like a home project, right? So, what do
you do? You got to go to the paint store
and buy how many cans of paint you going
to buy? Well, you know, you don't want
to have too little. So, you're going to
buy maybe a an extra can or two because
man, would it suck for you to paint and
you're done with except for one little
section and now you're out, right?
>> Mother Nature did the same thing with
stem cell. We got 70 million extra stem
cells overage. So that when we're born,
that 70 million still in our body, they
just get packed away. It's kind of like
uh extra socks in a drawer. They get put
together, mashed up, folded up, put into
the drawers. Now, the stem cell drawers
in our body when we're born is our bone
marrow and our skin and our body fat.
And literally, these stem cells just get
packed away. It's like a beehive. They
just get popped away. And then later on
throughout life when we need to
regenerate when we need to repair
something you might not feel it the the
need for repair might be your heart
might be your kidney might be your lung
all right uh the signals inside your
body will call out your stem cells this
is part of our health health defenses uh
your your stem cell system will call out
the stem cells like bees coming out of a
hive and they will circulate your
bloodstream they'll find just the place
they need to actually fix repair and
regenerate and they will home in there,
fix it, and all the other stem cells
would just go back back to base.
>> Okay, it's really quite remarkable. Now,
I'm somebody who's worked, you know, I'
I've been involved with cancer research.
I've helped to develop cancer therapies.
I've also been involved with developing
stem cell therapies. It's still in
development. I'm not talking about stem
cell treatments you'd get at a strip
mall to inject in your knee or your
elbow. To me, that's not ready for prime
time. the stuff I've been involved with
are really repairing spinal cords or
trying to grow new heart tissue after a
heart attack or even grow new brain
after a stroke. I mean, you know, the
potential is huge.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh or even to regenerate your eyes, you
know, if you have a problem and you go
blind, like how amazing would that be to
regenerate your optic nerve, right? So,
we're on the cusp of being able to do
this. It's very early days, but we're
beginning to see some early progress in
clinical trials. But you know what?
Mother nature beat us to the punch. We
already do that inside our bodies. And
the foods that we eat
>> can light up our stem cells and make
more of them come out to do their job.
What are the things that can damage our
stem cells when they're trying to do
their job? They're on their way to
repair or regenerate something inside us
that we don't even feel, we don't know
about, but really important. Well,
alcohol. You lot have a lot of alcohol
in your bloodstream that stuns our stem
cells. Um, a lot of fat. If you have a
lot of cholesterol uh racing around in
your bloodstream, all right, high fat
will stun your stem cells. Slow it down.
High blood sugar, hyperglycemia.
That's a term that we use when we refer
to, you know, like a lot of people talk
about glucose spikes and glucose
crashes.
As a scientist and as a clinician, I
tend to focus on what's the um average
amount of blood sugar that's running
around. And if the average amount is
really high, the water line is high. All
right? Uh it's kind of like the the tide
zone is high. All right? That's actually
a danger because hypoglycemia, high
blood sugars stun your stem cells. Um
high salt will also do it as well. All
right? Fortunately, your body can
actually titrate the amount of sodium or
salt that's in our bloodstream. But
again, you can kind of see how this ties
to lifestyle factors, diet. Uh these
things can actually, you want to keep
your stem cells in good shape.
>> Question I ask is why don't we get
cancer? We all get cancer more often.
How come everybody doesn't get cancer?
How come more people don't get cancer
left and right? Think about it. you go
outside um and you're and and you know
that if you actually lay out in the sun
and get repeated sunburns, you're going
to high risk for melanoma, skin cancer.
But you know that's the same sunshine
that if you are stuck on the highway in
Los Angeles commuting for a few hours
every day with the sun hitting your
face, how come you don't get skin cancer
on your face? Or an airline pilot who's
actually flying above the clouds and
being exposed to ultraviolet radiation,
how come they don't get cancer more
often? Or what about the offging from
the new car? um if you work in a car
factory or the carpet or the brand new
uh uh uh clothing that you're wearing,
you know, how come we don't actually pop
up with more cancers? Well, the answer
to cancer is in fact we do develop
cancers all the time. And here's how.
And it's only because our body's
hardwired with health defenses that it
doesn't turn into a clinical problem.
So, let me kind of set it out for you
just as an example of how powerful our
health defenses are. Our body is made of
about 40 trillion human cells. It's a
lot of cells, okay? Mold, packed and
molded together into our organs and then
packed inside our our skin. All right?
In order for us to stay alive and to be
around tomorrow, uh our our our cells,
our body have to copy and paste each
itself so that we're still around
because our, you know, we lose our old
cells, we get new ones. That's why we're
still here today compared to yesterday
and why we'll still be here tomorrow.
Now, copy and pasting is a big task as
anyone knows. If you had to copy one
sentence 10 times, you'll probably get
it perfect. If I ask you to copy it um
uh a hundred times, you might make one
mistake. If I ask you to copy it 40
trillion times,
>> guarantee you there's going to be
spellchecking all over the place. Well,
our body's spellch check is our health
defense to repair errors in that copy
pasting. That's our DNA repairing
itself. Okay. But every single day,
every 24 hours, there are 10,000
mistakes made in our DNA's copy paste.
It doesn't get caught, just natural.
Okay? And those little tiny mistakes are
mutations. Those mutations are
microscopic cancers. So, in fact, in
theory, we form about 10,000 microscopic
cancers every single day as little
pimples in our body that never bother
us. We'll never see them. It's kind of
like a pimple that forms in your back.
Can't see it, can't feel it, not a big
deal. Eventually, your body will take
care of it and your skin will clear up
and you won't even know you had it. And
that's the power of our health defense.
Here are some of our health defenses.
Our body has this incredible immune
system that basically patrols our body
every every corridor in our body like a
like a like a suburban street cop on a
beat driving up and down a peaceful
neighborhood looking for problems. And
when they see that individual who looks
like a drug dealer hanging out in the
corner where they shouldn't be, they
stick them in a patty wagon and take
them away. All right? And that's
basically how our immune system cleans
up, surveys and cleans up microscopic
cancers. Oops, you missed one of those
bad guys. Guess what? Our body has
another health defense. It's it involves
blood vessels because cancers without
blood vessels have no nutrition, no
oxygen. They cannot get big. All right?
And this is the field I studied. So our
body has a natural ability to control
angioenesis, the how the body grows
blood vessels, our circulation. So if
you try to make sure any bad guys that
are sticking around can't get a blood
supply, no problem. It still stays there
stuck in place tiny until your immune
system sees it the second time they make
their rounds um to look for the bad
guys. All right. We also have the
ability to lower inflammation because we
know that inflammation is one of those
triggers that whether you have
autoimmune disease, whether you have
cardiovascular disease, whether you have
diabetes, whether you have cancer,
inflammation in our body is like pouring
gasoline onto the embers of a fire,
whatever is going on is going to flare
up 10 times, 100 times worse. So, can we
uh how do we naturally lower
inflammation? our gut microbiome, our
healthy gut bacteria actually lowers
inflammation among other things that our
gut bacteria does. And then you know
other things that are really quite
amazing is um our body can regenerate
itself uh you know and and uh we can
rebuild our own tissues from the inside
out um as another way of repairing
ourselves. So our circulation, uh, our
stem cells to regenerate, our gut, our
DNA to repair and prevent damage, and
our immune system, which can lower
inflammation and boost those street cops
that actually patrol to protect us from
invaders, okay, and infections. They are
the five core health defense systems in
our body. And the reason that we don't
get sick more often and the reason we
don't get cancer more often is that
these systems are raring to go from the
day we're born until our very last
breath. They are firing on all cylinders
to protect our health. And the great
news is that while medicines can
manipulate these health defenses a
little bit, our diet and lifestyle have
a much larger role. If you had to pick
five of your favorite foods based on the
research that you've done, the science
you've seen, what would those top fives
be?
>> I would bring coffee.
>> Okay.
>> Um because of all the polyphenols in
coffee, I'd bring tea.
>> Um I tend to drink coffee in the morning
and I have tea at night. Um and I can
I'm not caffeine sensitive, so I can
>> have the tea at night.
>> If if if you allow me, I'll actually
lump those into my beverages.
>> Okay.
>> Under one category. Um I'll bring tree
nuts. tree nuts.
>> Tree nuts, walnuts, almonds, macadamia,
pistachios. Um, I love nuts. Uh, tree
nuts. And, you know, not the pack
prepackaged kind, but I like to, you
know, kind of like toast them up myself
and seize, flavor them myself. Um, I
would bring that because of the dietary
fiber, the healthy pro, it's a good
source of protein, some healthy fats in
it as well, and can kill some cancer
stem cells while we're at it. Okay, so
tree nuts are actually good. I would
bring tomatoes because I love tomatoes.
Okay. It's a great source for hydration,
good source of lycopine, which we talked
about. Good for metabolism. I would take
berries.
>> Berries, blueberries, strawberries,
raspberries are are among my favorites.
Raspberries, you might be surprised at
this, but raspberries are poundfor-pound
or weight for weight one of the most
fiber richch foods out there. They're
light, they're hollow, packed with
fiber. um uh and they've got polyphenols
and that are useful for lowering
inflammation as well. Berries um are
actually really good. And then you know
I because I follow what I call the
Mediterranean uh style of eating. I love
to have those vegetables that are
actually used in both the Mediterranean
and Asia Mediterranean style cooking.
the bok choy, the kale, chory, escarol,
you know, all of those types of um of of
leafy greens. So, those would be the
five I would actually take with me. One
of the most important things that that I
want people to walk away with is that
there's more than 200 foods that I've
studied and I've written about in my
books, E to be disease and eat to be
your diet that, you know, I've done all
the heavy lifting to help you figure out
what foods are healthy that you could
consider adding to your diet. But if you
notice, I didn't actually give you a
formula or a set menu on what to do for
health. Because the most important thing
I I I want people to walk away with is
that my humanistic approach to this is
um you should love your food to love
your health. And if you could actually
do both at the same time, you have to
find out what are the foods that
resonate with you. What do you prefer?
What do you enjoy? So, if you could look
at 200 healthy foods, which is what what
I have in my books, and just take a
highlighter or a pencil and circle them.
Circle the ones you already love, start
and stick with those. You're already way
ahead of the game. And that builds
confidence that you're actually doing
the right things. Hey, if you like that
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