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today I'm going to talk about five
amazing fruits that can help activate
your own stem cells that can help you
regenerate from the inside out and
repair your body these fruits are black
raspberries blueberries strawberries
mango and
prudes ready let's go ahead and dive in
first I need to tell you what a stem
cell is all right um a stem cell is a
human cell you've got them I've got them
that actually is plur poent what that
means is that it's a cell that can turn
into any other kind of cell it's kind of
like a baby cell that has a capability
of regenerating into other tissue and
we're all made of these in fact when
your dad's sperm met your mom's egg the
ball of cells that was a future youu
were all stem cells because you didn't
have a face you didn't have a a leg you
didn't have a toenail all those things
had to be formed out of stem cells all
right and by the time we're born and our
bodies have been formed so this is nine
months of pregnancy we have extra stem
cells that are around like mother nature
is really smart we didn't run out of
stem cells before we're born we had some
extra overage okay uh some of them are
in the uh umbilical cord and and
basically got about s million 70 million
extra stem cells um and those extra stem
cells are stored in the body of the baby
and uh and we carry them all throughout
our lives and these are the cells that
help to regenerate our body when we
actually need them to be regenerated
okay um uh abolutely
critical um you got about 70 million
extra one of these uh and where do we
store them we store them in our bone
marrow that's actually the the the stuff
that's inside the hollow of our bone
they're stored in our body fat okay uh
they are actually stored in our skin and
they're stored in different organs as
well even in our heart we've actually
been able to find heart stem cells now
about until about 30 years ago we
speculated that there were stem cells
but we didn't know where they were now
it's actually a quite a mature
scientific field and I've actually
worked as a researcher uh with stem
cells both in a lab and in the clinic
and trying to develop stem cell
therapies um which is a huge undertaking
not ready for prime time yet so I'm
actually quite familiar with this field
now I will tell you that the stem cell
therapies that you see on the corner
strip ball that they inject stem cells
into your knee or your shoulders or your
joints that's actually not ready for
prime time yet um and I I say this from
experience there's still a lot more
research that needs to be done but in
the meantime our body already has our
stem cells ready to roll ready to rock
and roll to be able to help us repair
from the inside out all right um so and
we by the way we know we do regenerate
right our skin regenerates that's why
you know we're able to uh shed our skin
think about it as dandruff um we know
our hair regenerates that's why it gets
longer uh and you lose hair it'll
actually off it'll often grow back
although not always um we know that our
gut lining regenerates uh actually every
few days that are regenerates but there
are some organs that can really
regenerate in a really amazing way the
liver one of the Lar organs in your body
is really capable of regenerating from
stem cells so in fact if you were to
actually um lose two3 of your liver snip
throw it out that onethird that's left
all right can actually regrow the rest
of the liver okay just like a salamander
would regrow its leg it's pretty quite
amazing uh that that a liver can
actually regenerate that uh remarkably
tip of your lung if you to snip it off
throw out the top that lung TI for the
lung will actually regenerate so and
we're beginning to see of course we know
that nerves regenerate as well they just
regenerate about 1 millimeter a day all
right but the excitement around stem
cells is this idea that could we uh
harness the power of regeneration to be
able to help heal the heart heal the
brain heal the spinal cord um you know
to to really do the kind of repair that
um doctors would like to be able to do
using therapeutic stem cells but when
I'm talking about in this video is how
the body heals itself all right that's
the amazing thing is that we uh our stem
cells are part of our health body's
Health defense systems I teach about all
the five Health defense systems
including stem cells and regeneration in
my online course e top disease I've been
teaching this for quite a number of
years now and what everybody always is
Amazed by is our body has this own
ability to regenerate we also know you
can regenerate your blood vessels after
you have a wound that you'll you'll heal
up you know 1 to 5% of those blood
vessels actually are coming from stem
cells uh as well now when you actually
need your stem cells to help you repair
basically let's say you have in an
injury all right you cut yourself right
you cut yourself over here now you need
to repair um basically that area of
injury will send signals into your
bloodstream throughout which will travel
throughout your body and they are a an
alert signal uh kind of a signal flare
to your stem cells that are living
inside your bone marrow and then these
stem cells go oh I see there's a problem
and they come flying out of your bone
marrow like bees coming out of a hive
and they are in the bloodstream going
everywhere but they know have to look
for and then D then specifically home
into the area that needs to be repaired
and fix just that all right they just
fix the pothole there not touch anything
else all right and then they go back to
their storage areas all right um that's
the remarkable thing about the stem
cells think about a
Highway uh that normally is smooth
there's a pothole that opens up uh
somebody sets up a signal flare around
the pothole and then uh the road crews
come out to replace it they're only
going to fix that part of the uh Highway
they're not going to patch anything else
and once they're done patching it they
go away and now you've got a smooth
repaired Highway that's basically how
stem cells work it's called regeneration
um our body conducts regenerative
healing from the inside out all the time
not even see the injury you don't might
even not even know uh where your body
needs to be repaired all this is
happening silently behind the scenes
inside our body and that's why the
regenerative system that I teach in my
course is one of the body's critical
Health defense systems okay now uh one
of the most amazing things that I've
learned in my research is you know
besides the fact that biotech companies
are trying to develop stem cells um by
the way here's something really cool and
imagine this is the future scenario I I
mentioned to you stem cells um live in
fat they're stored in fat so this is and
this is actually true um there are
efforts to try to get those fat stem
cells so how do you get them get a
plastic surgeon to do lipos suion right
so so in a patient so they're actually
going in there to actually remove extra
fat because that's what they do they
know how to do lipos suction remove the
fat the fat comes out of wherever
they're getting it from the belly or
whatever and it's in a canister like in
a jar and they put an enzyme into that
jar and it separates out all the cells
they spin it around in the centrifuge
and the stem cells go to the bottom and
they stay there you pour off the rest of
the cells and you you got stem cells in
the bottom and guess what these clinical
trials are doing the plastic surgeon
hands the stem cells from fat body fat
they hand it to a
Cardiologist and the cardiologist who's
working with the same patient would take
those stem cells all right stick them
into a catheter and then inject the
patient's own stem cells that came from
the body fat into their heart into an
area that they actually need to
regenerate to be able to repair from
heart attack or to prevent a heart
attack right this is the kind of um it
seems like a kind of a crazy idea that a
plastic surgeon and a cardiologist would
to get get together in order to
collaborate on regenerative medicine but
this is the kind of effort that's
actually going on I can tell you that
there's also really promising uh work
that is very impressive showing that um
stem cells again from body fat can be
injected into spinal cord that's been
severed okay so you can do this in
quadriplegics and there's been at least
one case where um they were able to get
somebody who could not move any their
arms or legs or they were truly totally
paralyzed they were actually able to get
them to move their arms legs again and
actually with assistance even be able to
walk so the pro proof of concept is
there not yet ready for prime time to be
applied to everybody from a medical
perspective but again what's really
amazing to me is that the body does this
by itself and that there are food foods
that can be used as medicine to um
prompt your stem cells to come out and
do more than what they would normally do
so in other words Foods as medicine can
actually activate your body's
regenerative stem cell Health defense
system to be able to heal you more from
the inside out all right so let's talk
about um the foods of high food fruits
that can actually do this that's pretty
amazing so the first fruit is black
raspberries if you haven't heard of a
black raspberry basically it's a regular
raspberry except that it's a dark color
it's a special variety and that dark
color is due to the huge amount of
anthocyanin that's the bioactive it's a
natural Dy the same Dy that makes
blackberries black all right and
blueberries blue makes the um raspber
really dark it's got Elric acid elit
tanins anthocyanins and black
raspberries and researchers in Korea
have actually been studying the effects
of eating black raspberries in people
who have metabolic syndrome right so let
me just um tell you what my metabolic
syndrome is this is actually a kind of a
a situation where you have all the
makings that could lead you towards
diabetes eventually high blood pressure
high blood sugar high blood cholesterol
and a large Wati size right and the
waist size gets big because the inside
the tube of your body is fat that can
actually grow and when you're growing a
lot of extra body fat visceral fat it's
St scatches it out the tube out from the
inside out and that's why you got to you
have to let out an extra um hole in your
belt because your waist has expanded all
right so this is actually metabolic
syndrome and what these researchers did
is they drew blood uh from their
subjects at the beginning of the study
and then they gave everyone black
raspberry powder it's just basically
dried black raspberries ground up every
single day to consume for for 12 weeks
all right and another group was actually
given Placebo to be able to compare and
the results after 12 weeks show that
those people who were eating the black
raspberry powder had a 30% increase in
the number of stem cells they had in
their blood meaning that eating the
black raspberries recruited more stem
cells into their bloodstream and these
blood uh these stem cells actually go on
to uh repair organs uh and repair tissue
that might be in need damag and in need
of repair in metabolic syndrome all
right that's really amazing eating black
raspberries increased um the number of
stum cells in the blood by
30% now what about the people getting
the placebo like no black raspberries
turns out that those people had a 35%
decrease in the number of stem cells in
their bloodstream completely the other
direction so one group had 30% increase
the other group had a 35% decrease
that's a 65% difference Gap Delta
between uh the the impact of eating
black raspberries and U basically
metabolic syndrome damages your tissue
damages your blood vessels damages your
organ like your liver and so it just
shows you that you can actually augment
the number of stem cells in your
bloodstream to do what they do best
which is actually um helped to repair
you from the inside out now the other
thing that
uh uh they found is that people who are
eating black raspberry had better
resiliency of their blood vessels and
you got 60,000 miles worth of blood
vessels packed inside your body very
very important that they have the
ability uh to be resilient meaning that
when you need more flow faster flow no
problem they have the capacity to handle
it um this is actually a function of
stem cells because vessels blood vessels
get hard and less uh more rigid as we
get older so it turns out that eating
black raspberries kept the blood vessels
resilient and able to adapt to
situations um the different situations
that they're required to all right so
pretty cool um black raspber that's the
first fruit second fruit are blueberries
now blueberries as I mentioned have
anthocyanins the same dye and black
raspberries and researchers at Cornel
University looked at whether eating
blueberries would have an effect on stem
cells in your muscle that's really
important right because muscles need to
be built and so what these researchers
did is they recruited uh women who are
aged 21 to 40 all right and they gave
them 38 grams of Freez dried blueberries
what's 38 grams of freeze-dried
blueberries that's about a third of a
cup okay so think about the measuring
cup in your kitchen third of a cup is
nothing it's like anybody can eat that
they that's what these women ate every
day for six weeks all right and the
researchers collected their blood during
the six week study so before they got
anything at Time Zero at a month out uh
week four and at the end two more weeks
at week six just to see what's going on
with the stem cells in their blood with
blueberry eating and what do they find
they the researchers found that eating
blueberries just a third of a cup a day
for six weeks could improve the muscle
stem cell numbers by
40% wow 40% increase by eating just a
third of a cup of blue blueberries um in
these stem cells were much more
resilient to stress in the body okay
which is a good thing now the
researchers were actually looking uh and
these were young women by the way I was
telling you about just now 21 to 40 now
when the researchers look at the same
effect in older women um 60 to 79 okay
they did not find that the blueberries
could do the same thing so there
something about blueberries in younger
populations helpful for stem cells but
for people uh older than 60 women did
not actually have that same benefit now
the muscle stem cell which was increased
by blueberries is super important
because it can actually show you can
help contribute to muscle regeneration
in young women all right so when you do
clinical studies like this uh and you
show that they work all right and you
can measure the stem the increase in
stem cells prompted by the food uh in in
the clinic now you got to go back into
the lab to try to figure out exactly
what it's doing and what the benefits
are at the molecular and cellular level
um that's actually ongoing work right
now but blueberries actually increase
your uh stem cells if you are um younger
okay and you can get a benefit out of it
third food strawberries all right I want
a berry theme kick here right now we got
your black raspberries you got your
blueberries can't leave out the
strawberries strawberries are one of my
favorite uh Foods you know they're
places that grow
strawberries like in Europe if you go to
um certain cities in uh Europe and you
can smell strawberries or selling at the
market from a block away they are so
ripe and fragrant okay and strawberries
have a bioactive called elic acid an
elogic acid can help to restore neural
stem cells and they can actually promote
neuro regeneration neuro meaning nerves
so nerve stem cells for nerve
regeneration amazing okay now there's
research that's been done by scientists
from minsu University in Beijing and the
Shanghai University of engineering
Sciences they were looking at elic Acid
which is found in strawberries and found
that elic acid the the same stuff that
in strawberries could stimulate stem
cells to protect the brain after brain
injury in lab studies okay so brain
injury study in the lab you would use
electric Acid found in strawberries the
electric acid would stim stem cells to
protect the brain from injury now what
did they what did the how did the ELC
acid work remember I'm telling you when
you actually go into the lab you can get
down to the nitty-gritty details elatic
acid which is found in Star strawberries
work by stimulating nerve stem cells
neural stem cells to help to regenerate
the brain all right now if you want to
get more Elric acid and from the
strawberry I encourage you to buy
organic because it's been shown that
organic strawberries will have more
electric acid all right latc acids
produced by the strawberry to heal
itself um and in organic growing
conditions it's got all the little bugs
nibbling on the leaves in the stem so
it's going to get injured and it needs
to be able to heal itself whereas you
spray it with pesticides there's less
stress on the plant not as much natural
nibbling so it doesn't need to make uh
as much uh allergic acid all right so
there's so many good things that you
could do with strawberries I like to eat
strawberries Alone um if you want to
actually make a really nice flavor
combination with strawberry try taking
some fresh mint slicing it up and
serving with the strawberries those two
flavor combinations are amazing all
right and then another way that I think
can really light up a strawberry to get
you some extra health is to add aged
balsamic vinegar to it all right vinegar
contains acetic acid acetic acid um uh
improves your metabolism by preventing
fat cells getting
bigger um and strawberries are got elic
acid also good for uh metabolism and
studies eventually shown in people who
are eating strawberries you can actually
shrink the waist diameter as well so
here you have one of these like gra
berries that actually can help stimulate
neural stem cells neuro regeneration
including in the lab it works in the
brain which is quite remarkable right
like can you imagine like one day you
can actually figure out how to turn that
into a treatment but straw just eating
strawberries actually can contribute
that electric acid into your body which
is a good thing all right fourth fruit
mango all right I love mangoes I love a
really sweet mango mangoes are a great
source of dietary fiber and they
actually have a bioactive called
mangiferin all right now mangiferin
helps stem cells get be protect
themselves uh and you want stem cells to
be protected uh in order to be able to
help them do all they can do now when do
stem cells get injured or or assaulted
where you need to protect them turns out
that um if you have too much sugar in a
bloodstream now admittedly mangoes are
pretty sweet but uh if you have
hypoglycemia so this is people with
diabetes or pre-diabetes uh the super
high sugary blood content actually stuns
stem cells uh super high salt content
stems uh stuns stem cells menarin can
protect against that and the other thing
uh that that injures stem cells or stun
stem cells cigarette smoke um primary
cigarette smoke secondary smoke actually
will stun your stem cells and drinking
alcohol is really really bad for your
stem cells and so is super high uh blood
lipids or cholesterol uh in your blood
stream that also uh stems your stuns
your stem cells look I talked about a
lot of situation can stun your stem cell
cells that's why I brought up mangoes
because mangiferin protects your stem
cells all right it's kind of like a
little shield around the stem cells
because all these other forces might be
weakening them I mentioned mango also um
has good source of dietary fiber dietary
fiber good for gut health the the uh gut
microbiome 39 trillion bacteria a lot of
them in your gut lower part of the gut
the colon and um mangoes by by uh having
fiber we're feeding our healthy gut
bacteria too when we feed our healthy
gut bacteria they actually um release
substances called short chain fatty
acids that lower inflammation they boost
our immune system they help us heal all
right uh as well and this is research
I've done at MIT looking at you know the
impact of gut bacteria and gut health in
um wound healing and you can even double
the rate of wound healing uh with the
right probiotics actually uh help to uh
prompt the gut microbiome to be able to
do the right thing it's quite amazing
let's see what I can I tell you about
mangoes that I like to do with mangoes
well of course um I love to eat just
sliced ripe mango okay and you can even
cook with Green Mango take a look at
some Thai Dishes uh for with Green Mango
uh but um you can make a smoothie uh you
can make a shake out of a mango uh you
know what I would tell you is if you're
going to use use mango in a smoother
Shake be very careful because it does
have a lot of sugar and you can actually
make a pretty tall glass with a bunch of
mangoes in it um and that's a lot the
big sugar load so I I prefer to
recommend that you actually eat sliced
ripe fruit make sure it's ripe you'll
you'll it give the mango gives a little
bit um that's actually the the um uh the
best uh way to actually have it check
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and enjoy oh by the way you know if you
cooked chicken for example and if you do
eat chicken I encourage you to eat the
thigh because chicken thigh contain
contains vitamin K2 that's a bioactive
that's actually been shown to cut off
the blood supply to tumors okay also
lower the overall incidence of Heart
Card vascular disease as well but you
can actually cook chicken thighs for
example with some veggies but you can
actually add sliced mango to it as well
that's kind of a tie dish all right um
if you want to look into a further for a
recipe uh just go to uh Google type
mango and chicken and Thai uh recipe hit
search click on the video and you'll
find somebody showing you exactly how to
do it and then they'll give you the
recipe as well so I love mango it's uh
it's a really a delicious tropical fruit
um with mangiferin in it all right let's
talk about the fifth fruit and it is the
prune now you probably have seen a prune
uh you know they come in a in a can in
the middle aisle section of the grocery
store but you know what a prun is it's
just actually a dried plum Plum is a
stone fruit in the summertime you'll see
plums everywhere uh and the farmers
Market uh really uh delicate uh uh skin
uh light sweet uh flesh and a pit in the
middle all right now when you dry all
that up you take the pit out you dry it
up and shrivel it up you wind up
actually having a prune now prunes uh
actually I remember I always think about
prunes as being used as a laxative
meaning that it can help you um address
comp constipation by helping your bowel
move so you can be more regular probably
works that way got a lot of dietary
fiber in it but prunes from a health
perspective also and stem cells have
chlorogenic acid chlorogenic acid is a
bioactive that's also found in coffee
for example all right but here's what it
happens chlorogenic acid improves stem
cells in your gut all right and your gut
stem cells in your gut are rebuilding
the gut all the time when there's
chlorogenic acid in there it actually
helps your stem cells regenerate the
lining of your gut that's pretty
important because your the gut health uh
you know like when people talk about
leaky gut uh you know inflammatory bowle
disease or irritable bow we think that
some of that may be due to leaky gut and
you want your stem cells to be able to
repair any of that leak okay so
chlorogenic acid which is found in
prunes can actually do that now the
prunes the skin of prunes right which is
a Shel up Plum also contains orsolic
acid orsolic acid also helps to
regenerate our tissues by stimulating
our stem cells specifically the vascular
stem cells these are the stem cells that
build our blood vessels right so here I
told you about the prune uh it's h it
actually is good for for the gut lining
it's also good to build and rebuild and
repair our circulation it regenerates
our circulation and this has been shown
in lab studies with our solic acid where
um blood vessels are blocked the animals
are fed or solic acid it really comes
from fruit extracted from fruit um just
like you'd find in a dried perun all
right and it turns out that then you'll
actually regenerate the circulation
again even though the blood vessel is
blocked pretty amazing uh and of course
these prunes have a lot of dietary fiber
the dietary fiber feeds the gut
microbiome right and feeding the gut
microbiome the fiber makes the got
microbiome healthy and happy and they
pay us back when they're well fed okay
just like a pet do dog you're going to
feed your dog and it it pays you back
with love or our microbiome shows us
this love by producing short chain fatty
acids in and into her bloodstream which
lowers inflammation all right lower
you're lowering your risk of sort of one
of the root causes of chronic diseases
is inflammation or inflammation
associated with some of these chronic
diseases and you can actually lower them
down by um having feeding them dietary
fibro which is found in prune so in
addition to all the benefits of the
chlorogenic acid uh and the uh orsolic
acid uh that's in there now you're also
being able to get better gut health and
lower inflammation uh that's that as
well so lowering the damage improving
the repair uh that's really all what
regenerative medicine is aiming for but
regenerative uh Foods as medicine is
something that we can actually do with
these fruits so let's just recap a
little bit we talked about some of my
favorite fruits black raspberry okay we
talked about blueberries we talked about
strawberries we talked about mangoes we
talked about prunes and there's a lot of
other fruits by the way that actually
can beneficial uh impact on your uh stem
cells these are ones that I just wanted
to call out because they're easy to find
you can find them in the middle aisle of
a grocery store as well as the produce
section and dried fruits are also good
all right a little tip in terms of
buying these types of uh fruits is that
if you can get them seasoned Al from a
farmer's market um during their peak
season you're Al you're always going to
get the best quality the highest
polyphenols in there and if you get
organic that's preferable and the reason
it's preferable is that it's really hard
to wash off pesticides on the skin of a
strawberry basically impossible and plus
your organic version is going to have
more of the polyphenols more chlorogenic
acid more electric acid you know more
oryc acid so who wouldn't want to have
that uh so that's actually what's a good
thing about little tip for buying uh
these uh fruits and if you can't find
these fruits now you can find prunes you
know dried which are dried plums all
year long in the middle aisle at the
grocery store just ask somebody to help
you find them all right by the way it's
it's like a package food so please if
you're getting prunes pick up the
container and look at the ingredient
label make sure there isn't anything
they added make sure they didn't do make
added sugar make sure they didn't add
other chemical that you don't want to be
putting introducing into your body all
right so but you can find prunes anytime
but for these other fruits um if you can
get them seasonally and locally that's
the ideal you get them organically
that's ideal but let's say you can't get
them you know e based on where you live
or uh they're out of season what can you
do well guess what you can uh get them
frozen frozen fruit when it comes to
polyphenols have got all those goodness
all that polyphenol locked right in
because um when ripe fruit is picked to
be frozen it's picked off picked off in
the field all right where by Growers and
it's flash frozen right away doesn't
even have to make the journey by plane
or train or truck that your other fresh
fruit has to uh come if it's being flown
from the other side of the country which
is by the way while I'm telling you go
for a local farmers market it's not come
from very far away it's ripe off the
tree then it's at the farmers market
that's really good Frozen is just fine
frozen fruit is absolutely great you
want to actually make a um smoothie or
something out of it uh that actually is
a great way uh to be able to get um
these uh fruits whether it's blueberries
or strawberries or mango these are
really really common I highly recommend
checking them out and uh don't be afraid
to be adventurous and look up recipes
with frozen or fresh berries and mix
them together right you can actually
make a bowl for breakfast or a bowl for
dessert um uh you know many
Mediterranean and Asian countries will
just give you some fruit for dessert
especially in Asia and that actually is
the topping off your meal with something
that can activate your stem cells to
help you regenerate from the inside out
to me that's actually a winning Choice
when it comes to um having fruits that
are actually good for your uh Health all
right I hope you learned something new I
think I probably did because not a lot
of people know about stem cells and
fruits uh and uh thanks for watching I
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