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on a global level uh we are actually
having a different type of problem that
needs a solution as well and this is
actually published from last year F by
funded by The Gates Foundation and the
journal Lancet um talking about uh from
the global burden of disease study 11
million deaths attributable to dietary
risk factors specifically the low intake
of fruits and vegetables uh nuts legumes
and whole grains and so we are looking
at a problem that's right in front of us
that actually where the solutions may
also appear in front of us as well how
do we actually reconcile this problem
with Innovation and how do we find new
Solutions what I'm going to share with
you now is how biotechnology Life
Sciences pharmaceutical development is
giving us a new appreciation of how
foods can be used for health and to
fight
disease and the way that I'm going to
introduce this to you is by describing
the drug development uh progress has
been made over the last 30 some years
I've run a nonprofit organization called
the androgenesis foundation we have been
involved with the development successful
development of 34 FDA approved drugs and
devices against this backdrop of the
last 25 years more than 800 new drugs
approved so the interesting thing to ask
is what knowledge human knowledge
scientific knowledge have we gleaned
over this period of time that allowed
drugs to be approved I want to share
with you something you already know
which is that genomic medicine or
knowledge about the human genome has led
to gene therapy but this has been a long
course of about 30 years remarkably in
13 years we went from not knowing about
the human genome to actually sequencing
it so what do you think we've actually
learned in this span of time we learned
many things we don't understand
everything yet but we actually are able
to get the information among things that
we've learned is the human kinome and
these are the enzymes that our cells use
to produce proteins and we pretty much
know everything in the body that
actually represents the kinome think
about it as an evolutionary tree of
sorts of chemical reactions in the body
we've also deciphered inside cells many
of the cell Pathways from the outside of
the cell seen on the top all the way
down to the nucleus which is sort of the
command center and each of these uh
colored shapes
represents a potentially druggable
Target meaning that if you were in
charge of a biotech company you're
trying to do a startup and you had some
University brain power behind you you
might actually choose one of these in
order to be able to develop a new drug
and indeed of those 800 drugs that have
been developed most of them actually
Target one or more combinations of these
Pathways so what's interesting is that
these drugable targets that tell us
something about how our body responds to
drug drug treatments also respond these
Pathways also respond to the foods that
we also eat and we know that foods can
actually act on these Pathways because
of our knowledge of the
biotechnology um uh drug development uh
system and in fact we've also been able
to dive into foods to look for some of
the chemical structures that are Mother
Nature has laced into our food supply
and we call these bioactives broadly
speaking this is just a partial list
many of these chemicals actually give
Foods their color or their flavor and
most of them are designed to be Health
defenses for the plant that from which
they're derived so they either allow
reproductive uh defense so that they can
they attract bees for pollination or
they actually may become natural
insecticides to prevent uh insects from
eating them uh over the course of summer
for example so again plant defenses when
humans begin to eat the plant defenses
they suddenly start to interact with our
own uh body's uh systems and I just
wanted to show with you uh share with
you one of the uh experiments that I've
done uh comparing foods and drugs this
is actually in the top black line an
assay system that we use to study
whether or not a drug or chemotherapy
drug or another pharmaceutical might
inhibit bad blood vessels that are are
growing in our body these bad blood
vessels could be feeding cancer for
example so as you can imagine the
shorter the bar the more powerful the
effect on the cells to prevent cancers
from growing in this case blood vessels
I'll show you in a second so this is
actually a a gold standard essay
developed for the pharmaceutical world
that I was involved with and when I was
doing this experiment I realized that
you can you could FedEx overnight a
chemical a drug and find what its effect
is within a few days but you could call
a pizza in uh to the same lab in 15
minutes and you wouldn't be able to
study it so we then set up across
breaking down the food system and then
when you actually begin breaking down
the system and testing food components
in the same system as drugs you can see
this is Pharma versus Farm head-to-head
in the same drug development assay and
remarkably many of the same elements
that actually uh are in plants have
similar or even better potencies than we
see in drugs and so again if you if I
were to disguise the names of the foods
here and put the a chemical name
pharmaceutical name uh you might be
impressed at some of the activity the
potency of some of these agents but it's
really not just about the food that
we're learning about it's it's really
when it comes to Food and Health it's
really about how our body responds to
the in the the substances we put inside
the body remember those Pathways I
showed you that's where the secret is
let's talk a little bit about stem cells
and the food that we eat you know quite
honestly I am still so confused about
stem cells I've read tons of articles
about them but at the end of the day I'm
still wrapping my head around how they
work how do they work and why do we need
to keep them in mind when we're eating
well listen stem cells are um they are
really complicated but I'm going to give
you and your viewers a really simple way
of thinking about them we're all made
from stum cells okay so when sperm meets
egg in the womb in the uterus and starts
to grow and form our little baby bodies
um everything is made of a stem cell and
when every baby is born you know every
baby that's born looks exactly the same
more or less right it's like a Hershey
Kiss PP being punched out right all
these little babies in a nursery you
know um all made the same way of stem
cells because our stem cells that made
those little bodies all knew exactly how
to form the little baby heart the little
baby um liver the little baby lungs the
little baby cheeks okay and we're all
made out of stem cells from the very
beginning now most of our our cells
we're forming wind up becoming organs
but our body reserves the right to keep
a few stem cells around in order to
regenerate ourselves and re um restore
replenish ourselves when we need it so
where do those stem cells live mostly
inside our bone marrow so if you look at
a chicken you ever break a bone um it's
got a little Hollow Middle and it's
actually filled with stuff okay that
stuff our cells um that include a lot of
stem cells it's the Beehive where most
of our stem cells actually live as we
grow up into being adults as we get
older those stem cells there fewer stem
cells if you get diseases like diabetes
you got fewer those stem cells and
that's why aging people and people who
have diabetes for example um uh wind up
having a harder time healing and and and
their organs tend to be a little more
vulnerable fewer stem cells sticking
around these stem cells actually come
out of the bone marrow like bees coming
out of a hive and they circulate in
bloodstream just to fix things they're
like our fixers and they come out you
get some damage you know what we don't
even know it but the dam but the stem
cell is fixing it from the inside out
now um how do we know that we regenerate
well it's simple when our hair falls out
it grows back it's regenerating you know
um the um uh skin sloughs off you know
you think about um dandruff as Skin
coming off just replenishes itself stem
cells are replenishing those our gut
turns itself over every 24 36 hours and
and some amazing organs we're now
realizing regenerate our lungs can
regenerate you snip off a piece of your
lung Grows Right Back liver okay um you
know why people can actually drink so
much alcohol is because it's
continuously regenerating and in fact
you can remove twoth thirds of your
liver you can knock out two-thirds of
your liver or you can just cut it right
out okay and oneir will grow the rest of
it back like a salamander regrowing its
tail or its limb it's really amazing now
we can't grow back our arm obviously but
we can actually grow back other organs
and so that's the power of stem cells
now when you read about stem cells often
times you hear in the media about you
know some Corner Clinic taking stem
cells and injecting it into your um you
know your knee or your joints or your
tennis elbow to fix it you know I'm I'm
working in that area I'm biotech not
ready for prime time yet it's really
complicated we don't have an FDA
approved stem cell therapy in that sense
of
regeneration um but we do do it for
Cancer Treatments like we can do stem
cell transplants which can be really
important and we of course we do blood
transfusions all the time which includes
giving back uh stem cells so so that's
basically the 101 on on stum cells but
here's the part where food actually
comes into it it turns out that some
foods and I I thought this was so cool
you know when I got into the research
some foods actually
stimulate stem cells to come out of your
bone marrow to help improve healing now
what are some of those Foods well
nobody's going to um protest when I tell
you that one of the most powerful foods
that stimulates regeneration in your
stem cells is dark
chocolate dark chocolate cacao cacao
flavanol now you know chocolate is a
confection it's made in a candy factory
a chocolate factory but if you and it's
got sugar and all kinds of other stuff
so again depends on what you put in it
but dark chocolate is mostly cacao cacao
comes out of an orange
Bean let it's a seed pod bright orange
and then later on it turns brown when it
matures it's got all these little seeds
in it it's cacao nibs okay that's the
real deal and when you have dark
chocolate it's really really rich with
cacao it's got fiber in it which is good
for our microbiome it's got these
polyphenols in it and really good dark
chocolate you don't have to have it as a
candy bar chocolate bar you can also
even mix it into um like hot chocolate
for example you can make a cacao drink
and that's how the traditional Incas and
peruvians actually had their cacao like
the ancient societies that understood
the power of cacao had it as kind of
like as a beverage like was like like
the coffee the chocolate ritual you hear
about right um so turns out Studies have
been done in people even in their 60s
who have heart disease and they need
more regeneration they need more stem
cells check this out I've got a free
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on the link and enjoy what do you do you
actually measure take a blood blood out
measure their stem cells then you give
them dark chocolate in the form of hot
chocolate have them drink it twice a day
just eight FL ounces you know that's
that's not very much that's a little bit
more than this um Down the Hatch
polyphenols in the body and for 30 days
okay um then they measure their stem
cells again on an individual basis and
guess what the dark chocolate doubles
the number of stem cells coming out of
bone marrow into your circulation for
regeneration so now what about so cells
are interesting but it doesn't make a
difference in terms of your body
function turns out they actually
measured blood flow using a test called
flow mediate dilation and flow mediate
dilation is where you have to do a blood
pressure cuff and you blow up the blood
pressure cuff it squeezes the
circulation so your arm feels a little
numb now you use an ult ound probe to
take a look at your blood flow and then
you release the cuff turns out the
people who had the dark chocolate had
double the responsiveness um uh the
healthy responsiveness of their blood
flow as well so improve blood flow
double the number of stem cells coming
out of dark chocolet you know who who
doesn't think that's a good thing right
so a number of foods can actually do
that as well um and it's just really
cool this is a new area of research of
foods that actually stimulate
regeneration so
cool Dr Lee could you please talk about
the link between our DNA and the food
that we eat I believe it is teir
time okay so um our DNA protects itself
um we talked about you know DNA that can
be inherited from our parents you know
why you have the color eyes you have or
the color hair you have for example um
those are beneficial things those are
good things good attributes and also
inheriting cancer genes are is really
dangerous right like we don't want that
but it turns out that on a day-to-day
level um our DNA is um being subjected
to all these harms you go to the beach
um we know ultraviolet light damages our
DNA and causes skin cancer so you don't
want to burn you don't want to go to a
tanning salon but you know what what
about when you're just walking in the
Sun what about when you're stuck in
traffic and it's you know and it's like
a an hour traffic line and you're
sitting there and it's a bright Sunday
day and sun is comeing through your
windshield you get your windshield done
you get your arm out the window how come
we don't get skin cancer and and and by
the way just on a typical day um our DNA
in our body makes 10,000 mistakes that
can turn into mutations when they're
dividing every single day so the
question is how come we don't become
mutants like the X-Men you know how come
we don't develop cancers all the time
turns out our DNA is hardwired to fix
itself so if you have some damage it
would just repair it it's like you know
our handyman our DNA is it own hand man
to fix itself um and so foods can
actually help that so antioxidants which
you know everybody thinks oh it's so
great again we've heard it so often
about antioxidants we've lost touch of
what it actually means antioxidants are
like heat seeking missiles that take out
incoming missiles um uh that can damage
our DNA it takes out these oxida free
radicals why are Fe radical bad because
it damages our DNA so we want to
basically like fire the Missile Command
actually knock out out all those
incoming missiles and that's what
antioxidants do so we know that foods
that contain a lot of vitamin C which is
a great antioxidant can actually
neutralize um uh uh uh incoming DNA
damage protect our DNA and in fact um
some really cool foods that can do this
what my favorite story I like to talk
about is kiwi so you know that brown
kind of fuzzy fruit that it's kind of
rough on the outside you slice it down
the middle you open it up bright green
little black seeds a star burst on the
inside amazing not too sweet but kind of
Juicy you can cut it up for breakfast
you can cook with it you bake with it
amazing fruit packed with vitamin C also
other polyphenols that protect our DNA
um eating one uh kiwi actually can
protect our DNA from damage by about 60%
eating three kiwis will rebuild our DNA
fix the potholes by about 60% as well so
again that's an example of something
really simple that we can actually do
that has antioxid and DNA protecting
benefits now what about teir the teir
are the protective caps on the end of
our DNA it's in our chromosome our
genetic material and it's like the the
plastic tips of at the end of a shoelace
now you know that plastic cap helps us
not only um tie our shoelaces but it
protects it from damage so that if you
actually damage or lose that plastic cap
what happens your shoelace starts
unravel and now man you got to rethread
that that shoelace it's it's a it's a
real pain and that and it starts to
unravel and and your your whole lace
becomes frazzled and that's when that
actually happens to our DNA we are in
trouble so that plastic tip that cap of
our DNA is called the tiir and as we age
and as our cells age that teir cap burns
down like the F like a fuse like a
candle it's I call it a life fuse the
shorter it gets the sooner that cell is
getting older and aging and becoming
damaged so we want to actually slow down
that burn and in fact we want to
increase the length of that uh we want
to keep it longer if we can right so
reverse cellular aging not just a slogan
we've been able to study this using real
science um and the science of the tiir
by the way won a Nobel Prize that you
know the the researcher um Elizabeth
Blackburn um in California won a Nobel
Prize for her work setting the tiir so
there's a lot of foods that can actually
influence our teir one of them is coffee
turns out that drinking like black
coffee slows down not only slows down
the burn of the tiir so it protects the
cap it actually lengthens the cap it
reverses cellular aging so that's kind
of a crazy thing right like you think
about you know coffee I mean everybody
kind of just swigs down their Morning
Joe um don't doesn't really think much
about it but really coffee which again
is a traditional beverage you know
ritual ceremonies around coffee beans
picked and roasted um you know we we
think about about it like driving to
going to the drive-thru to get it but
you know traditional societies really
understood there was something special
about these beans and that's what
science is doing we're coming back to
ReDiscover what the benefits are and one
of the things that coffee can do it
slows down the burn and increases the
life fuse um uh that called the tiir
look our gut is filled with healthy
bacteria I'll tell you when I went to
medical school we the the young doctors
to be were taught that bacteria is bad
and I would say that you know in society
as we're growing up you know our our our
moms and dad told us bacteria is bad and
we have antibiotics to kill the bad
bacteria well there are bad bacteria for
sure but I will tell you most of the
bacteria in our body in fact is good
bacteria so it's just the opposite like
it's mostly good guys a few bad guys as
opposed to they're all bad guys now
these good guy bacteria they live in our
gut um in fact you know we've got if you
compare the number of bacteria to human
cells it's almost one to one so you know
if you were to take a biopsy and count
the number of cells uh in the biopsy and
then multiply it to your whole body how
many human cells do you think you'd have
about 40 trillion human cells that's a
lot of cells okay um if then if you were
to actually count the bacteria in how
many bacteria we have we've got 39
trillion so almost one to one now how
much is 39 trillion I can tell you 39
trillion is more stars than you can see
in the night sky die okay that is huge
and I can tell you that um those
bacteria mostly do good things for us
when and when we eat food we're feeding
our human selves okay and we our
digestive system absorbs a lot of those
good phytonutrients and polyphenols the
things we've been talking about and then
everything that our human bodies don't
digest goes down to our bacteria and we
feed our bacteria it's like feeding your
dog to leftovers kind of thing all right
now
the bacteria the healthy bacteria if you
feed them uh good stuff they're really
happy they they flourish uh and how do
they how do they what do they do for us
when they flourish well they produce
something called short chain fatty acids
scaas don't need to worry about the
special names for them except that all
these things they produce lower
inflammation help us streamline our
metabolism help our blood sugars be
better help us lose weight um uh uh
impact our skin health impact our hair
growth and our healthy bacteria by the
way really cool they send signals to our
brain to release social hormones so this
is the gut brain axis in fact our
bacteria pretty much text messages our
brain and tells our brain to release
these hormones so our gut bacteria is
incredibly important it's almost like an
organ system all by itself so gut is
connected to to lowering
inflammation inflammation is important
in psoriasis we see it on the skin and
and we do know that by the way I I've
done research on gut bacteria and on um
healing of your skin if you make a cut
on your skin if your gut bacteria is
healthy it'll help you heal up much
better all right
so that's something I'm telling you all
the good stuff that you can do for your
gut B now what happens if you do
something bad for your gut bacteria um
if you feed your gut bacteria things it
doesn't like you're going to kill some
of it um and by killing it you're
changing the neighborhood the ecosystem
uh think about the ecosystem like the
Great Barrier Reef you know if you start
killing it's beautiful great bar you've
had the privilege of actually you
swimming there once if you actually you
start killing off the fish in the sea an
enemies and the coral you bleach it you
change that entire ecosystem becomes a
very unhealthy ecosystem n does it look
bad but it can't do what it's supposed
to do for the planet and that's the same
thing that happens in our gut bacteria
when we feed it bad things so what are
some bad things extra sugar added sugar
you overload it your gut bacteria really
doesn't like that um artificial
sweeteners okay also not good the
synthetic ones like Stevia is okay but
syn artificial sweeteners mess up your
gut bacteria doesn't really like Ultra
processed foods a lot of those chemicals
that you can't pronounce on the side of
a box of ultra processed food or a can
your gut you know again our bodies don't
absorb them but they go right down to
the gut bacteria and you screw up your
gut bacteria the payback is actually
your inflammation goes up your
metabolism goes Haywire you gain weight
you don't feel good mentally and
socially right because you've undone all
those good things that bacteria do so
gut bacteria is really important what's
how do I simplify gut how do we treat
our gut bacteria really well like okay
everybody wants to know so so what do I
do here's the simplest thing uh eat
foods with dietary fiber there's a lot
of foods with diet fiber because that
fiber we don't absorb in our own body we
just pass it down and again this is one
of the things that I was taught in
medical school tell your patients to eat
a lot of fiber because that fiber is
going to tickle the colon and then
you'll be more regular and you'll poop
all the time okay as opposed to being
constipated way more than that that's
like not even I don't think that's even
regarded as true anymore what happens is
that dietary fiber feeds our gut
bacteria our gut bacteria Thrive and
they produce all these anti-inflammatory
compounds so what are some foods um that
that are good for dietary fiber well
great news
legumes uh white beans Navy beans black
beans um edamame soybeans all grapefruit
leafy greens lettuce kale broccoli great
sources of fiber fruits apples got about
4.4 grams and an average Apple pair
about five grams of dietary fat uh of
dietary fiber uh in a average size pair
uh tree nuts great fiber you're just
you're you're snacking snack on tree
nuts almonds macadamias pecans walnuts
great sources of healthy fats
plant-based omega-3 fatty acids which is
good for your psoriasis and dietary
fiber which is good for your gut
microbiome which then takes down
inflammation so you know again the gut
is connected to the rest of our body
including our skin and the foods that we
eat can have a big
now I just want to close by showing you
something about the microbiome our
healthy gut bacteria and our immune
system because we've got 37 trillion
bacteria in our body uh just about as
many bacteria as human cells and these
bacteria are actually incredibly
important because they live in our
intestines um and we know that 70% of
our immune system actually resides in
our intestines in fact if you were to
actually um uh
uh slice the intestines um in through
the middle it' be like cutting through a
garden hose um you would actually see
the bacteria is inside the hose in the
lining and then the the um immune system
is filled like a layer of jelly within
the lining of the hose itself and just
like a college student that's living
with roommates in a dorm that has very
thin walls the bacteria can pound on the
intestines and signal and communicate
with the immune cells like college
roommates can through the cell walls so
this is the close interrelationship
between our gut bacteria and our immune
system and in fact this has been studied
in the context of covid um this was a
study from uh China where they looked at
healthy people and tried to find out
what type of markers were present in
their blood that would protect them
against Co getting covid-19 and it
turned out that there was one marker
called interferon gamma which is an one
of our body's natural uh immune virus
fighting cyto kind so it's a good kind
that helps fight virus and then they
actually took a look at which of um uh
which gut bacteria in people correlated
with that good beneficial antivirus
cytoid and they found various bacteria
that was that seemed to be correlate
with our body's ability to produce that
cyto which lowered the risk of getting
covid then they went back to take a look
at which foods were eaten by these
people that actually had the unique
bacterial signature that correlated with
that important virus fighting cyto so
you can kind of see the chain reaction
between what we eat and our gut bacteria
and our gut bacteria and our immune
system and our immune system with the
ability to defend against the virus this
is really a daisy chain uh a domino
effect of how our food is connected to
our health in a in a pretty profound way
so this is an early days of research
because we're still learning a lot about
um uh this disease state but what was
amazing is they found a number of foods
that were beneficial and I just want to
show you two of them that were found to
actually be beneficial so it turned out
that green and black tea but especially
green tea contains a natural chemical
called
egcg it's a cakin you've probably heard
of it if you are an afficianado of tea
one of the healthful polyphenols but in
that study it was correlated with
lactobacillus in the gut a particular
species that was then correlated with
interfer and Gamma this is the body's
natural virus killer you know so it's
our defense system and intake of green
tea correlated with that microbiome
which correlated with the virus killer
another uh VI correlation was found with
um a dietary fiber and polyunsaturated
fatty acids healthy fats which are
present in nuts for example pecans which
are one of my favorites so easy to eat
and roast and cook with and and and the
polysaturated fatty acids was correlated
with another healthy gut bacteria called
ruminococcus this ruminococcus was then
correlated with a body's ability to
produce interferon gamma the virus
killer again so I've written about more
than 200 Foods in E to beat disease and
if you want to follow me and learn about
more foods that I'm continuously I'm
analyzing and Publishing and and
spreading the word on you know you can
come F follow me on social media but I
what I really wanted to be able to do is
to talk about transformation because the
transformation is really
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
placed 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 of ideas or 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 uh what can the food do uh alone and
in combinations how do they synergize
and combine with each other so that 1
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 personal ized
and very precise nutrition tailored to
an individual at a particular time in
their lives um 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
uh for their patients with diabetes and
heart disease and other conditions uh to
try to help them improve their overall
lives and they take literally uh 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 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 your 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 foods whether it's drying
whether it's powder rizing a number of
different ways um right now Ultra
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 a 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 so I'll just close with this
quote by um an astronaut named Ronald
Garen uh who said awe and wonder are the
secret ingredients to creating a better
future and I think that out of the
pandemic we are actually beginning to
shine a new light on the secret
ingredients of creating the future of
food as medicine there is a uh uh potato
most people don't think there's that
many nutrients and potatoes but a purple
potato was once that was once considered
ink and gold you know like it it was
because it came out of um Latin America
beautiful potato you cut them in half
they're kind of dark and Bluey and M you
know Dusky colored on the outside when
you open them up and show them man
they're like this beautiful dark they
look like blueberries and then if you
refrigerate them in in cold you actually
change the the the the dye suddenly
turns bright purple so you want to see
an amazing explosion of color take a
purple potato cut it in half um and put
it in a refrigerator and it'll just
light up for you um uh turns out that
that dark purple comes from a natural Dy
called
anthocyanin by the way same Dy it's in a
blueberry as a matter of fact but that
purple potatoes been shown whether you
bake them where whether you make them
into chips whether you eat them raw um
no matter what you do to whether you
mash them they target cancer stem cells
which is amazing so um colon cancer stem
cells is where they've been studied are
little tiny baby stem cells that make
cancers come back that's the one kind of
like the one nightmare for cancer
patients is like once you got it treated
if it comes back cancer stem cells do
that now we're finding foods that can
actually build up your good healthy
system your immune system but at the
same time uh as a fringe benefit it can
actually kill cancer stem cells as well
so again another way of just our looking
at our body's Health defenses I you know
when I set out to write my bookie to be
disease and long before I started to to
create the course around it I thought
about an analogy that I could tell
people why plant-based foods are are
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video um uh because they take care of
our body
uh in the way that you would if you were
the uh trying to make sure a a medieval
Fortress was being taken care of so you
know um everyone's seen the picture of
the Disney Castle um uh and if you've
gone to some of these beautiful castles
there's a few castles in the United
States ton of them in Europe um but
they're fortresses they protected the
the people that lived inside them and
that's how our body is designed our our
Body Fortress and just like a fortress
there's lots of different ways that um
uh people who built these medieval
castles designed the fort there's the
moat there's the drawbridge there's the
little slits in the wall that people can
fire arrows at the enemies um there's
the sloping walls you know so you
couldn't climb up very easily you slide
back down the wall and then there's even
these like tricky things that most
people don't know about in the castle um
uh you know you go visit a castle you
buy the ticket to go visit the castle in
Europe right like you don't realize when
you're walking in the main gate look up
sometime look straight above your head
in the ceiling will be a hole and that
hole was part of the defense and people
used to drop uh rocks or boiling oil and
Invaders coming in that's how our body
is designed we've got tons of these
defenses all over our body our immune
system our angiogenesis our stem cells
our microbiome our DNA is ability to
protect itself we are just a Body
Fortress we're made with human cells
we're also packed with bacteria so we're
the hob you know that's our ecosystem
and how we and how we make decisions of
what we eat um mostly plant-based foods
go back to the traditional cultures um
those recipes you know they were
designed um not only to taste good but
to actually be good uh for us um you
know that's why I just think that this
whole idea of plant-based nutrition food
and health is really about bringing us
back to Our Roots bringing us back to
what we enjoy doing which is eating um
uh taking us and putting us more in
touch with our bodies and that's you
know what I think is really awesome
about your program is really being able
to help people understand uh this is who
we are since we live in a world that's
changed to understand that this is
another reason 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 which is the thing that you don't
want to begin with so I think there's
you know a lot of insight that research
is giving us um uh about how to act how
important diet and lifestyle actually
are all right so a fun quick question if
uh you could only eat five foods for the
rest of your life what would they be
what are your top five anti-inflammatory
immune supporting Health supporting
Foods I'm gonna give you five because
people always ask me you know what you
know Dr Lee what do you what do you like
to eat and and what I tell people it's
it's less about what I eat but how I eat
and the patterns of food because I I
actually really enjoy food like I don't
I don't like picking out um but I I love
the idea that food has culture and
history and I love the taste of of food
so I love food I wouldn't say I love
eating um but uh uh and because I'm a
researcher I happen to know there's in
my book I wrote about more than 200
foods that can boost your body's Health
defenses including make your blood
vessels healthier your stem cells your
gut microbiome healthier antioxidants
anti- anti-inflammation and boost your
immunity as well um and these are things
that I talk about in my free master
class that I give every other month but
I will tell you that if I were to just
if I were to be stuck on a desert island
and I I could and I only had five foods
what that I packed what would they
probably be um well thinking about what
I like in thinking about what I would
eat uh and what's good for me uh I would
say green tea would be one of those
things I because I really enjoy green
tea by the way side footnote matcha
which is the whole Leaf of green te
powdered up has been found by
researchers to kill breast cancer stem
cells quite amazing um those are the
baby cells that help that help the
cancer keep coming back um but does so
much other as well so anti-inflammatory
good for psoriasis and lowers stress as
well so that's number one number two
dark chocolate so um most people don't
realize this but dark chocolate is made
with cacao lot High cacao 80% or more
uh the caca part is a plant-based food
so although there's plenty of stuff you
can put into a candy bar to make it less
than healthy the higher the cacao
content the healthier it ISS you dark
chocolate anti-inflammatory um helps to
calm the blood vessels also just
generally emotionally calming as well it
actually improves depression um so
that's the second one that I would uh
actually eat um I happen to love um if I
could if I could uh be on a desert
island I want to have a food you know I
would love to have a juicy Peach a ripe
summer Peach one of my favorites um and
yeah okay it's pretty sweet but I don't
worry about the sugar because you know a
fruit has fructose it does have natural
sugars in it but more importantly it's
got all these other things the fiber the
skin of the fruit it's got orsolic acid
all these other delicious things so I
consider a peach a beautiful ripe Peach
to be of those treats that I love to eat
fourth
blueberries I love blueberries uh
blueberries do a lot of things the dark
blue of blueberries actually is a
natural dye called
anthocyanin anthocyanins lower
inflammation good for psorasis and raise
your immunity which is good to protect
you against all kinds of infections um
and cancer as well and so I I I love
blueberries and by the way the frozen
blueberries have the same amount of the
good stuff those polyphenols as fresh
blueberries so you know if you want to
make a get frozen blueberries and put
them into your smoothie that's just as
good as picking them off the bush um
fresh so you know like don't worry about
like what the source of those are the
weeds if you want to get into that and
then you know probably the final thing
that I really enjoy I like snacking on
nuts you know I like tree nuts um I
would say I like um cashews I like to
snack on Macadamia is I like to snack on
but I I really like all kinds of
different types of nuts it's a great way
uh to um take the edge off of your
hunger between a meal it's just to get a
a couple of handfuls or a handful of
nuts and just a snack on those let me
tell you how powerful nuts are uh there
was a study of almost 800 people with
colon cancer stage three colon cancer
that's colon cancer that's spread in
your body okay it's really serious and
um they were getting treated by their
oncologists and the research study found
that those people with stage three colon
cancer ate two fistfuls of nuts a
week seven days okay had a 57% reduction
in
mortality so it's not a swap for cancer
treatment but just eating those nuts
feeding your microbiome getting those
healthy plant-based Omega-3s uh lowered
inflammation jacked up your immune
system uh controls blood vessels the
feeding tumors I mean you know you can't
argue against the power of something
like that plus I love the taste of all
those Foods so those would be my five
not food is medicine is food and
medicine all about activating our body
self defenses the future there's this
this is going to take us into really
distant um uh locations that we can't
even predict yet the flavor roam is
actually looking at what are the
substances that mother nature is imbued
into foods and how they relate
biologically and so when we think about
all these amazing things that I showed
you earlier that people might be
enthusiastic about U because it really
is today's Innovations I hope I've shown
you a little bit about what is possible
in the future by really taking really
the best of what we've got got that
we've done already in biopharmaceuticals
and applying that same kind of thinking
and I'll just close with this quote by
Andre GID who uh won the Nobel Prize he
said man can't discover new oceans
unless he's got courage to lose sight of
the shore and I think that's where we
are with food and medicine this is about
losing sight of the shore that we always
talked about just go vegan you know eat
sustainably like yeah we need to do all
those things look at how much further we
have to go anybody who wants to learn
more about um the details of what I've
shown you and get the lists of the foods
that can activate androgenesis stem
cells microbiome DNA protection and
Immunity um I wrote this book uh e Tob
disease um feel free to connect with me
and uh I I hope this is something that
will impact decisions you make this
evening thank
you thank you for that CH of force two
quick questions I don't think I ever had
broccoli till I was 20 as my mom is here
thanks Mom I never really uh ate was
good with my veggies all those sort of
green powders that combine some of these
things concentrated broccoli can that
help me question number one as opposed
to the natural way we all want to cheat
don't we well look I mean I think that
it's completely legitimate to try to
take uh uh versions of Whole Foods and
try to create simplified uh ways to
actually get as much goodness as you can
but really as what we've heard at this
at exponential medicine is that we are
just scratching the surface of being
able to monitor how well we're doing and
we can have an objective measure that
can show that the green stuff will do
just as well as a a serving of steamed
broccoli then we'll actually be able to
compare those things in the meantime I
would encourage you to eat the whole
food e Your Greens last question real
quick when you and I went to medical
school barely any uh nutrition how do we
encourage clinicians Beyond nutritionist
to start prescribing food for both
prevention and therapy right well look
medically indicated meals is actually
already starting and I showed you the
insurance companies our payers and
uh are and uh uh self-insured employers
are now beginning to actually reward
people for making better choices doctors
are really at the back of the bus on
this and I think one of the things that
we all need to do is to encourage the
young people coming through the ranks
and and also the administrators who are
actually looking at curriculum and the
board test uh designers to be able to
put more information about nutrition so
we're not only thinking about medicines
we're actually thinking about food hi
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