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dark chocolate oh you're speaking my
language now okay so
dark can you eat can you eat too much
dark chocolate that's the question you
know I I have never seen anything about
an overdose of cacao but I will tell you
that caca has been shown to actually
double the number of stem cells flowing
in your bloodstream just by having two
cups of hot chocolate made with 80% High
flavanol chocolate dark chocolate come
on
yeah it's been done in people 60 year
olds with heart disease so wait what
happens when you when you drink or you
you eat this dark chocolate what happens
yeah the polyphenols in this dark
chocolate that we we know what they are
they're called Pro entho in so I'm a
scientist so my job is to actually know
what are what the inside chemicals
actually are these are natural chemicals
all right most people don't need to know
that but you drink it and it tastes good
that's all you need to know but but I'll
tell you these these natural chemicals
found in cacao actually trigger a
reaction in your body so that they call
out the stem cells so it is literally
like bees flying out of a hive can
double the number of stem cells and
what's the what's the Practical impact
well there was a study done uh at UCSF
in San Francisco that looked at
60-year-old men with heart disease so
these are people whose blood vessels
were already not doing so well and
they're blood flow wasn't going so well
either and their blood vessels were kind
of sick that's kind of the definition of
heart disease by having the stem cells
coming out they were able to actually
double the resiliency the function of
their blood vessels so they they got
better rebound they better agility um
their their blood vessels are in better
shape because their stem cells are
regenerating their circulation wow so
this is human studies right like most
most of the time you hear about
scientists talking about rats or mice or
cells I'm talking about human studies
and that's kind of where we are with
food is medicine it's not the kind of
like the guesswork like we can do
serious research to get down to exactly
what's actually happening at the human
level so that's the second Health
defense systems okay third one third one
is our gut microbiome now people have
been talking about gut health and
microbiome it's almost like a buzzword
these days and people are saying well we
can actually scoop your poop and we can
actually measure your microbiome and we
can tell you what you need to eat and
what you don't need to eat again I'm a
scientist so I will tell you that there
are 39 trillion bacteria in our in the
typical body that's more stars than in a
night sky all right wow so we barely
understand uh the gut bacteria but what
we do know is that this gut bacteria
actually controls our metabolism
communicates with our brain um actually
can help us heal from the inside out and
very importantly our gut bacteria
basically lives if you if you think of
your gut like a like a garden hose it's
a tube and you were to cut a garden hose
in half and you look inside it there's a
lining okay uh the bacteria is inside
the hose but inside the wall of the
garden hose that's where your immune
system 70% of our immune system lives
inside our gut so our gut bacteria 7% so
so if you're feeding your gut a lot of
bad foods it's po you're poisoning your
immune system you're preventing your gut
bacteria now I'll tell you what's
interesting about the gut bacteria your
gut bacteria talks to the immune system
right through the walls of the of your
gut immune system is in there 70% right
like a jelly roll like a like the jelly
and a jelly roll and the gut bacteria is
inside so think about like a college
student in a freshman dorm they talking
to their Roommate by pounding on the
wall right what do you want what kind of
pizza do you
want all right and they can answer you
and that's basically what our gut
bacteria says to our uh our immune
system so we got to keep that gut
healthy by the way interestingly uh and
I've done research on this um certain
gut bacteria uh can actually signal to
your brain it's a gut brain axis and
cause your brain to release social
hormones wow okay and can affect your
mood so you know when you've got a
crappy gut and you feel crummy in your
gut I guarantee you like it's not just
because you're irritated it's affecting
your brain as well that's crazy yeah we
had uh we had Dr Emer uh mayor on who
always got the gut I think it's the gut
brain connection or the gut immune
connection or something like that so
he's he's got a lot of great research on
that yeah so well the key thing though
is that food
can actually help right size your gut
health think of it like an ecosystem the
gra barer Reef so certain foods can
support the ecology the ecosystem the
gra Berry reef and certain ones actually
kill the coral all right and so our
continuously want to keep it in good
shape all the way through our lives and
by the way even conditions like autism
Al Alzheimer's and schizophrenia are all
now seemingly connected to our gut
bacteria really yeah now is there a way
if someone has those are they pretty
easy to reverse though or is that hard
we're we're well listen we're we're just
figuring this out because right now
medically we prescribe medications uh to
try to treat those things and a lot of
times those medications just blunt the
symptoms okay they cover up the symptoms
they don't get at the underlying cause
now we don't know exactly how the gut
bacteria communicates with the brain
completely yet but there's one giant
nerve called the vagus nerve it's like a
giant shoe it's about the thickness of a
shoelace and it hangs from our brain all
the way down into our gut okay goes
right near wraps on our esophagus on the
way down and our we think the gut
bacteria basically sends text messages
up to the brain through this big nerve
okay so the key though is that foods can
actually influence our gut bacteria
either good bacteria or bad bacteria so
that's important uh so that's that's a
Health defense system okay okay so the
fir anog Genesis number one stem cells
number two cells gut microbiome number
three okay the fourth one number four
our DNA now if you watch CSI DNA is just
sort of like a genetic fingerprint a
code that you can find on a crime scene
or if you're actually trying to do
ancestry look for your ancestors you
figure out how much of you is
Neanderthal right I think I was 1%
Neanderthal when I did it yes uh so the
the the key though is it's DNA is a lot
more than our genetic code it actually
protects us from the environment now
what am I what do I mean by that well
you know how if we are exposed to uh we
get sunburn ultraviolet light you damage
your DNA and what happens cancer skin
cancer right um if you inhale Lots of
fumes from a chemical plant it's going
to actually damage your DNA in your
lungs you get lung cancer right but
think about it if you are in Los Angeles
and you're driving on the I 10 or if
you're actually um uh just walking on a
beach uh uh you are actually getting
ultraviolet radiation so how come we
don't get skin cancer all the time
because our DNA is hardwired to fix
itself from damage and so the DNA is a
protective mechanism from the
environment I always tell people when
you're pumping gas if you still drive a
gas vehicle as opposed to an EV um I
always ask people do you stand upwind or
downwind what do you do are you upwind
or downwind do you know I mean up up uh
well upwind right so you're not getting
the the fumes in is that what you mean
right right right yeah well if you're
standing downwind you can smell the
fumes yes right and if you're smelling
the fumes you are poisoning the DNA in
your lung so how come we don't develop
lung cancer after Pump and Gas because
our DNA is hardwire to fix itself and so
our DNA is sort of like a self-defense
mechanism against the environment radon
from your basement okay off gasing from
the from the new car you just got or the
Uber that you're riding in you know or
the furniture that you got right so like
it this is this is this incredible
defense mechanism against our
environment and then and foods can
actually speed up the repair help fix
holes that are in our DNA and then the
other kind of piesta resistance for our
DNA's defense is that there's something
called a tiir I don't know if you've
ever had anybody in your show talk about
tiir telr yeah yes these are these are
they see if you're at the longer the
telr the the the longer you can live or
something or they can right well well
I'll tell you basically what the you
know like to to give a to remind you to
remind your listeners and viewers
basically if your DNA is like a shoelace
the telr is like the little plastic cap
at the end of the shoelace and over time
that little cap kind of wears down just
like in a shoelace and you know when
that when that cap is gone man that your
shoelace just falls apart yeah and
that's what happens to our DNA so we
need that cap that's called the tiir and
it burns down like a life fuse so you
know like Mission Impossible light the
fuse right so this thing is burning down
and when it burns down that's it your
cell's done so what you want to do is to
slow down your cellular aging and
harsh things that you do to your body
smoking cigarettes being in a couch
potato being exposed to damaging
oxidative stress actually just being
stressed out um like we are now with
this freaking pandemic um those things
all shorten our teal they they burn the
fuse faster stress but yeah but foods
can slow it down and some foods can
reverse it and lengthen the teir which
is really cool for from an aging
perspective right what are those what
are those top three foods that help
lengthen the telr green tea is one of
them coffee I got a I got a yeah it's
amazing I got I got a little I used to
live in Italy and I just got into this
habit of drinking espresso H so I got a
little cup here amazingly coffee
actually lengthens your teir come on I I
kid you not it's it's quite amazing um
uh and uh leafy greens some of the
polyphenols and leafy greens can also um
slow down and some of actually look like
they can Len a tiir as well so the key
thing is that we you know we are not
just helpless ponds of Aging we can
actually do something about it and we
can also fight against our environment
um because look the the tax that we pay
for being on planet Earth is we're
exposed to stuff all the time and we
need to we count on our body's Health
defenses to fix this so that's a fourth
defense and our fifth defense is our
immune system which you know after two
years over the last two years we all
know how important our immune system is
but what have I told you that your
immune system is so powerful that when
it's in its best shape even when you're
80 years old it is strong enough to
fight cancer in fact it can even wipe
out metastatic cancer that's spread all
over your body That's How Strong your
immune system is if you give it the
chance and so here's what theyan system
does it's like an army of super soldiers
so uh Rangers seals as you know uh
Marines Special Forces they're all
they've all got these are all parts of
the immune system all cells of the
immune system and like the Special
Forces they got their own weapons their
own training their own tactics but they
all work together for you know the
collective good and what happens is that
uh when you've got good strong defenses
you can fight off Invaders from the
outside bacteria and viruses for example
and but it's not just outside Invaders
you got inside Invaders as well and
those little microscopic cancers are
inside Invaders and so our immune system
patrols our body okay cops on a be and
they're looking for things that don't
look right and you see that microscopic
cancer that isn't can't grow because it
doesn't have a blood vessel blood
vessels feeding it androgenesis
basically you the immune system goes
there and takes them right out okay and
takes a sniper shot and it's gone and so
that's why we got to protect our immune
system and there are lots of foods that
can actually boost our immunity as well
what would you be those what would be
those top three that boost the immune
system uh blueberries are a food that
definitely boosts the immune system it's
uh in young people as well as older
people uh uh they boost the natural
killer cells which is really cool um
broccoli Sprouts can boost our immune
system now these are the three these are
like the three-day old Sprouts right
okay um okay I mean okay here's
something here's something most people
don't know the big broccoli that when we
eat broccoli we really you know our moms
told us to eat the Treetops right those
they're all same you go to the freezer
section of a grocery store and you buy
some frozen broccoli and they all look
the same they're all the same size
that's not really what broccoli looks
like if you go to the farmers market and
you see a a real broccoli is this
gigantic stem with a little bit of tree
toop okay so what's in a broccoli it's
called sorane so that's what gives
broccoli that unique taste of broccoli
it's a little sulfurous okay so you got
to put a little olive oil a little bit
of garlic you know you could sauté it up
okay so the suor fanes we've done
research now looking at what what's in
the Treetops and it turns out that these
sophanes can starve cancer
anti-androgenic help help your body cut
off the blood supped cancer
broccoli Treet tops have it but guess
what the stock of the broccoli has twice
as much of the good stuff than the
Treetops eat the stocks eat the stocks
so man like if you don't want to eat if
you don't want to sauté the stocks like
a lot of cultures will just cut the
stocks and saute them stick it in a
blender you can make it into a smoothie
or create make a soup out of it you know
and so there's a lot of good things you
can do put a little broccoli stem little
oregano powder you know you can light
light it right up a little turmeric
it'll be really good um smoothie or a
soup however here's the thing so this
imagine this adult broccoli having these
suanes well it turns out that these big
broccoli plants used to be
sprouts and the Sprouts pretty much were
born or sprouted from the seed with all
the sophanes it's ever going to have all
right so when it gets bigger it just
gets distributed with the stock closer
to the ground having more of it of
course but the brol Sprouts have 100
times more wow of the suor of good stuff
as a grownup broccoli so Sprouts
broccoli Sprouts now Studies have been
done to show that if you give people a
flu shot people in a winter should get a
flu shot so you don't get the flu all
right just go to your drugstore to get
one uh turns out that if you uh people
are they did a study looking at people
getting the flu shot and they gave half
the people a little Shake made with
broccoli sprouts and the other group
just got a placebo and the people who
got the broccoli sprout shake and the
flu shot their beneficial response of
their immune system is 22 Times Higher
huh like it totally rocked if they
actually had um a broccoli sprout shake
so that's not food versus medicine that
is food and Medicine which is really
cool right interesting so we never want
to throw we don't want to throw out the
baby with a bath water we want to figure
out how to make everything go work even
better absolutely