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today we're going to be diving into five
foods that can actually help fight
cancer and the first food we're going to
actually talk about is green tea now
green tea contains cakin that have been
shown to lower the risk of colon cancer
stomach cancer esophageal cancer cancers
are the gut actually because you're
sipping the green tea and it's flowing
down uh and touching your entire GI
tract now what's in green tea something
called kakin specific spefically EG CG
all right Edward George Charlie George
and this is actually something that I've
studied um I'm a researcher uh I have
actually studied food as medicine in the
lab specifically green tea and I can
tell you that this is a natural chemical
found in tea leaves um that when you
brew a cup of tea the egcg comes out uh
into the liquid so whether you actually
have tea bags you have loose tea uh
leaves
uh or you have some powdered tea which
is another form of getting it and
whether it is uh green tea whether it's
matcha you're all getting this kaken
into your system so what does egcg do in
the body well something quite amazing uh
drinking tea has been shown by cancer
researchers to lower inflammation which
is of course uh one of the drivers for
cancer green tea also boosts the immune
system now we all have cancers growing
inside our body it's a natural part of
being alive uh when our cells divide uh
they make mistakes and each of those
tiny little mistakes is a microscopic
cancer but our immune system Wings by
finds that microscopic cancer and takes
it out like a sniper and so good strong
immunity is actually cancer fighting and
green tea actually does that as well but
the thing that I think is most most
remarkable is that the cakin found in
green tea cut off the blood supply to
tumors now all tumors are harmless until
they actually get a blood supply and
this is a process called tumor
angiogenesis now our normal cells our
normal tissues have angiogenesis we need
them in order to be able to heal our
wounds but tumors hijack this process
okay and they actually feed themselves
to get oxygen and nutrients and when a
cancer actually does that that is
actually what allows tumors to actually
grow wildly in fact studies in the lab
have shown that without a blood supply
tumors can't grow Beyond about 2
millimeters in diameter that's the size
of the tip of a ballpoint pen but the
moment blood vessels can actually grow
up and touch that tumor and feed it that
tumor can grow
16,000 times in just two weeks time all
right so angiogenesis which is normal
for healing good for our body when
tumors hijack it it the the oxygen and
nutrients allow the cancer to explode in
growth so tea containing the cakin cuts
off the blood supply prevents tumor
angiogenesis and that is one of the most
powerful and important ways that green
tea can actually be beneficial now I
like to drink green tea um every day in
fact I have a cup of it right
here walk walk and um I find it really
relaxing uh I drink green tea uh all
throughout the day especially in the
evening um but green tea actually is
something that uh is goes back tens of
thousands of years if you look at Asia
uh tea bushes tea plants naturally grew
there uh and they are handpicked they
are dried Under the Sun they are lightly
roasted over fire and then process takes
off in order to be able to um uh convert
them into different types of tea you mix
them with Jasmine flowers for jasmine
tea you grind it into a powder to make
matcha um you roast it deeper in um in
order to be able to create black teas
which are also beneficial for your
health by the way not just green but
black is also good somewhere in between
is a oolong tea it's kind of a medium
tea and then you can ferment tea it's
called po beautiful tea but let's start
with let's stick with green tea for a
second green tea has these anti-cancer
benefits so one of the questions is how
much how do you actually make the green
tea uh and how much should you drink
well listen I like using loose slea tea
you can actually Brew it in a pot with
hot water don't ever drink um a tea with
the boiling water you just put in there
that actually this that scaling liquid
has been shown to increase the risk of
cancer because you're injuring the
esophagus so do not do that let the tea
cool down and actually it takes that
time of cooling down to also steep out
the cakin that's a little uh tip for you
and if you're using a tea bag you want
to dunk the tea bag all right uh in
order to be able to shake out those
cakin into the liquid when it actually
is uh uh uh cool enough to be able to
sit comfortably then sip it two to three
cups of tea a day actually has been
shown to be beneficial for many
different um uh types of conditions but
the most important thing that I like is
that it tastes great and it's actually
relaxing okay next food we're going to
talk about is Brasa barasa is a type of
vegetable it's a class group of
vegetables and contains broccoli
cauliflower bok choy uh it's a green
vegetable that you can sauté uh common
in many different types of cultures uh
you find it in Mediterranean you find it
in in Asia and what's actually in these
barasa vegetables are sorines these are
another natural chemical and these
sorines what do they do they boost the
immune system right good strong immune
system knocks out microscopic cancers uh
also lowers inflammation inflammation is
like the gasoline on a fire making the
cancer grow hotter and faster when you
actually uh calm inflammation you're
putting out the fire all right uh and
actually that is very helpful when you
want to fight cancer the other thing uh
that uh the the Brasa does it actually
contains the sorines that actually are
anti-angiogenic they starve the cancer
by cutting off the blood supply and this
has also been shown um with uh uh
broccoli for example now here's
something really interesting this is a
pro tip the grownup broccoli is not just
the Treetops that's what we used to
always eat when I was eating when I was
a kid your mom always told you eat those
Treet tops okay and the Treet tops do
have the sophanes but it turns out that
the stock the long stem of a broccoli
broccoli is actually mostly a stem it's
like a tall tree with uh some Treet Tops
on it the Treet tops have the Sul orane
but the stock has twice as much of the
good stuff so if you're actually cooking
broccoli um cook this cook the Treet
tops uh the fettes is what they they
call them but also save that stem stem
if you slice it on a diagonal and sauté
absolutely delicious you'll find it in a
lot of uh Asian dishes that way if you
don't want to sauté it you can actually
just put into a food processor and make
a broccoli soup you want to add a little
oregano in there it really mix of
broccoli oregano soup is actually
absolutely delicious I actually included
that broccoli oregano soup recipe uh in
my book Eat to beat disease uh if you're
actually interested uh in it okay so
broccoli cancer fighting the next food
we're going to talk about is papaya now
most people don't think about papaya uh
as a cancer fighting food but this is
actually sort of an oblong football
sized and kind of uh oval shaped uh
fruit tropical uh when you cut it open
when it's ripe it's actually bright
orange inside with little black seeds
you scoop out the seeds and the flesh
when it's ripe is absolutely delicious
you can just eat it with a spoon slice
it up put it onto a plate and just have
it for breakfast have it um after dinner
for a dessert absolutely delicious now
papaya has been shown to actually um
lower the risk of lung cancer now why is
that well that red color in papaya
contains carotenoids something called
beta
cryptantha carotene and these uh
actually are also
anti-inflammatory and you guessed it by
now you get the drift it's actually
anti-angiogenic as well all right so we
went through tea we went through
broccoli U Brasa and now we're on to
papaya um I love to have papaya for
breakfast it's a great way uh to get
some fruit it's not very sweet which is
an advantage if you need to watch the
amount of sugar you eat and speaking of
sugar uh sugar and fruit is perfectly
fine for most people all right don't eat
too much of it eat a reasonable amount
of it and the whole fruit is always
going to be easier on your metabolism
because it has less sugar in it than
having the juice so I always recommend
having papaya fruit as opposed to Papaya
juice if you're going to actually uh
enjoy papaya all right and and most
places actually have papaya you don't
have to go to the tropics although
wonderful to be there uh and if you go
to uh tropical countries do look for
papaya but you can actually find it at
the grocery store by the way um frozen
papaya chunks are also really good as
well the Frozen uh uh chunks uh they
actually trap all those bioactive so um
perfectly fine cancer starving
anti-inflammatory all right Next Food uh
we're going to talk about are purple
potatoes if you haven't seen a purple
potato it is a beautiful uh potato
regular potatoes kind of brown dirty
looking purple potato you could tell
even from the outside uh there's
something interesting because it's
purplish on the outside but when you cut
cut it in half and hold it open man that
is a beautiful purple color and the
purple comes from a natural die called
anthos anthocyanins are bioactives and
these bioactives you guessed it lower
inflammation they cut off the blood
supply to tumors
anti-angiogenic against tumors cuts off
the blood supply feeding Cancers and
there's one additional thing that I
think is absolutely brilliant about
purple potatoes and the research have
been done on them in the last is that
purple potatoes actually have been shown
to kill cancer stem cells now cancers
are just an abnormal mass of cells but
when they keep on coming back they need
their own stem cells to regenerate
themselves you know when a cancer
patient actually um has their tumor uh
removed by surgery treated by chemo or
radiation and you're done right for five
years but sometimes they come back well
the reason those cancer cells come back
is because of their stem cells that
cancer figures out how to resurrect
itself uh and so purple potatoes
actually been shown to kill uh colon
cancer stem cells what an amazing thing
plus a beautiful food uh to boot now by
the way if you actually cook purple
potatoes steam them sauté them bake them
do it however You' like you can make a
purple potato soup uh I have a recipe
for purple potato noi in my first book
absolutely beautiful beautiful uh if you
want to actually make it even uh even
better for your gut microbiome all right
because uh there's fiber and potato um
you actually put it in the fridge turns
into a resistant starch uh easier to
digest uh and also um helps uh your gut
microbiome become uh healthier so purple
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food we're going to talk about
pomegranates speaking about purplish
reddish um uh Foods the pomegranate also
a tropical uh fruit although you can
find them uh in most grocery stores now
they are kind of like a big apple with a
thick skin and a little bit of a crown
at the very top they're heavy and you
know why they're heavy because they're
filled with seeds that around every seed
uh is a little little bit of liquid and
that's pomegranate juice now this uh
these seeds uh and pomegranate juice are
packed with bioactives these are
naturally occurring chemicals that give
Foods their biological punch okay this
is what you eat to beat disease um is is
are these foods with these bioactives
and in pomegranate they're called
tannins now Elija tannins also help to
give uh the the bite the kind of acidity
um and also contribute to the color of
the pomegranate um you want to be
careful when you actually um eat and
work with pomegranate because that dye
around the seeds will stain in your
clothes if you're not careful all right
um but absolutely delicious you know by
the way each seed looks to like a little
Ruby beautiful red color you ever see
pomegranate and salad uh I had a Syrian
salad the other day called fatou and it
had little pomegranate seeds in it so as
you're eating the salad you bite into it
these little Ruby fruity rubies and an
explosion of sweet uh flavor and Juice
absolutely delicious okay so what do
Elijah tanas do well they do a couple of
things uh pomegranate Elijah tanas have
been shown to cut off the blood supply
to tumors all right starve cancer
anti-and enic and in fact clinical
studies have even been done in men with
prostate cancer showing that pomegranate
juice can actually slow down the rise of
PSA you don't know PSA is a blood marker
that goes up when you have prostate
cancer and for men who are actually
having their PSA go up up up up up um
having panate juice pretty much um kept
them at a uh cruising altitude so they
wouldn't actually uh keep riding pretty
amazing right so what do we think
actually is going on well turns out
Elijah tannins are anti-androgenic they
cut off the blood supply to cancer and
in the case of prostate cancer would
make the prostate um cancer harder make
it harder for them to actually grow uh
and become more aggressive hence we
think this is actually why the PSA
actually is able to be leveled off um
now the other thing that pomegranate
juice does which is really amazing is
that the Elijah tannins um which you eat
goes trickles down your gut goes down to
your lower gut your colon and it
stimulates your colon to produce natural
mucus right we think about mucus
normally in the in the upper throat back
of the mouth right if you want to
actually have spit right but mucus is
all throughout our GI tract all
throughout intestines and in the colon
when your colon secretes mucus mucin um
it helps a natural healthy gut bacteria
called acromania
mucil some people say mophia wrong
acromania
mucin this is one of your best friends
in of gut bacteria because
acromania when it comes to cancer talks
to your immune system makes your immune
system a lot beefier and stronger in the
battle against cancer so here's
pomegranate with pomegranate juice with
elianin that actually lower inflammation
they starve cancer by cutting up the
blood supply they help um nurture your
gut microbiome including an organism
acrania muop that actually talks to your
immune system and helps your immune
system pounce and get rid of cancer all
right five foods that actually um help
fight cancer let's go through them green
tea brassa these like broccoli uh papaya
purple potatoes and pomegranate I hope
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