This video, "Strong Country" by Deb Ford, discusses how the United States ranks poorly in global health despite spending the most money on healthcare. The speaker introduces Dr. William Li, a Harvard-trained physician, who focuses on using food to prevent and reverse diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Dr. Li's research emphasizes the importance of whole, real foods, gut health, and specific compounds like Resveratrol found in foods like pistachios and grapes to build health rather than just treat illness. The video advocates for a paradigm shift from a disease-treatment model to a health-building model through diet, inspired by ancient traditions and the lifestyle of populations in Blue Zones.
Key Takeaways
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The United States ranks 69th in global health, despite spending more money on healthcare than any other country.
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Dr. William Li, a Harvard-trained physician, advocates for eating to beat disease by focusing on what to eat rather than what to eliminate, as detailed in his book "Eat to Beat Disease with Food."
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The concept of angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, is crucial in both tumor growth and healthy bodily functions, and certain foods can influence it.
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Resveratrol, found in foods like pistachios, grapes, and blueberries, can inhibit abnormal angiogenesis and help balance the body's systems.
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A critical shift is needed from treating disease to building health through food, which is often overshadowed by the advertising and influence of the big food and pharmaceutical industries.
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Gut microbiome health is essential for overall well-being and can influence the effectiveness of treatments like cancer immunotherapy, with studies showing its ability to slow or shrink tumors.
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Eating prebiotic and probiotic-rich foods like pomegranates, cranberries, and green tea can significantly change gut bacteria within weeks, potentially reversing aging and suppressing cancer risk.
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Ancient traditions, like those found in Blue Zones, emphasize that health begins in the gut and that whole, real foods are our most powerful medicine.
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The principle of "harahachi bu," eating until 80% full, is associated with longer life expectancy and less metabolic stress.
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Real food, consumed in moderation and with a focus on colorful and organic options, is presented as the strongest medicine, while wrong food is the slowest poison.
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well good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition where we
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look at what is new in research what's
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hot in the news or any topic that can
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help us lose weight feel great and live
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longer better okay today's topic eat to
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be a strong country every once in a
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while I go back and I look the at the
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global Health ranking of the United
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States you know I was embarrassed a few
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years ago to tell you that we ranked
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37th in global health spending more
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money than any other country well now we
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rank
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69th and that's just above Algeria
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Mexico and
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Romania we have a lower life
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expectancy higher infant and maternal
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mortality than just about any other
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so-called developed country yet we spend
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far more money than any other country
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you should really look at some of those
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statistics pages I kept scrolling and
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scrolling till I found the United States
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so low I thought it had to be wrong and
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Co stats while the US population I mean
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we're about 333 million people and India
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has about 1.4
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billion we lost a million people out of
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our 333 million to Co in India with
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their 1.4 billion lost half that they
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lost less than half a million what on
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Earth I mean I'm looking at these stats
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and I can't even believe how bad they
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are so bad you know you look at all
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sorts of different agencies
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International Insurance you know it's
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just really downright criminal three
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years
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ago you know we just kept falling and
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falling you know can be reversed though
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and you know I look at all the Western
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countries the top performing countries
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Norway the Netherlands and Australia
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they continue to rank high United States
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ranks last of the 11 that are counted in
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so-called Western countries but yet we
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spend far more of our gross domestic
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product on Healthcare you know that's
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that's ranking on access to care can you
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see a doctor administrative efficiency
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like paperwork Galore Equity who can
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afford it who can't and Health Care
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outcomes how healthy we get yet we spend
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far more than any other country you know
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in the past High income countries spent
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about
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5% maybe 8% on Healthcare us spends
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about
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177% and has the poorest outcome and
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affordability you know residents in
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other countries are less likely to
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report difficulty in paying medical
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bills how many of you have been denied
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in fact one of the biggest causes of
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bankruptcy is health
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problems okay so this isn't going away
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anytime soon average cost per person in
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healthc care in the United States last
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year
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$2,555 while other
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countries much more double we pay double
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more than other countries that
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outperform Us in health so today's topic
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applies to this with some absolutely
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great research by Dr William
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Lee he is great he is a Harvard trained
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physician has been published in over a
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100 times in the most prestigious
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Journal journals science New England
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Journal of Medicine and the Lancet he
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began in cancer research and
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understandably became very disillusioned
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with treating disease and so he's gone
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on to prove commonalities of all
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diseases diabetes blindness heart
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disease wound healing and more than 70
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other
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diseases trained in Internal Medicine
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his specialty is vascular specifically
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oncology you know a tumor remains small
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till it gets blood vessels so it kind of
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tied together once a tumor gets blood
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vessels it can grow quickly because it's
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got all your nutrition new blood vessel
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that's called angiogenesis so he took
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that knowledge of blood vessels and
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studied how it happens to apply in
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healthy
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situations and what powerful things
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happen on a microscopic level when we
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eat certain foods I love this guy he
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created the eat to defeat cancer program
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and you can his website eat
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to.org and a good old healthy eating
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campaign that he has now spread to more
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than 40 countries in all of his research
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on cancer his specialty
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immunotherapy he is retraining the
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immune system to work better and no
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surprise
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he's found compounds in food that help
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the body work better smarter without
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side effects than any drug ever his
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recent book it's a great read even even
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though it has a lot of technical
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information I think you'd love it eat to
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beat disease with food focuses on what
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to eat rather than what to eliminate so
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that's kind of a fun little twist the
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thought of creating disease
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versus treating disease you know it's
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like it takes a sledgehammer to treat
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disease and it costs a lot not as
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effective and it has lots of unpleasant
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side effects whereas creating Health as
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humankind has always done until most
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recently when disease became a big
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business creating Health with food is
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Pleasant delicious creative fun and it
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has other great benefits
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you remember from a recent show I talked
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about the blue zones and an additional
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one Aki aoli Italy I love this place I'm
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going to go there hopefully this year
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15% of the population is over 100 years
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old and they have amazing
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circulation that's kind of what they're
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coming down to there's like virtually no
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de no dementia heart disease cataracts
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or any of those diseases we consider
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common in older ages I'm not going to
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call it normal anymore I'm going to call
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it common you know in a roli Italy they
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eat lots and lots of Rosemary herb
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wonderful olive oil vegetables fish red
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wine and oh by the way very little pasta
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fast food processed food sugar nope just
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real whole food and lots of vegetables
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and spices eating to beat disease goes
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handin hand with what promotes longevity
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as all the experts are going to tell you
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and I have to put a plugin for my latest
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version of my weight loss for Life
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program I use a similar version to
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research programs out there that have
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proven to reverse age by 3.23 years in
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as little as 8
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weeks reverse aging is very similar to
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reversing disease I love it and when
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people can get off their medicines and
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feel younger years younger with more
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health and vitality than they forgot
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they once had wonderful I'm having so
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much fun but back to Dr Lee if you want
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to watch Dr Lee he has got a great Ted
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Talk entitled can we eat to starve
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cancer in his talk you know he goes into
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his favorite topic cancer angiogenesis
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building those blood vessels you know 19
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billion capillaries and you can see we
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all have microscopic cancer cells that
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our immune system targets and destroys
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so what foods can we eat to balance this
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well for one
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Resveratrol that is in a lot of foods
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and that Resveratrol actually inhibits
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iits
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abnormal
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angiogenesis and 60% is found in
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pistachios grapes wine blueberries
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cranberries even cocoa and do CH dock
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chocolate you know these plants make
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Resveratrol to fight fungal infections
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fight ultraviolet radiation stress and
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injury so when we eat them we get this
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protection so Dr Lee decided to look at
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all the major chronic diseases and see
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what they had in common as a vascular
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dock he found
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angiogenesis and how it goes Ary there
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are lots of things they have in common
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but as a vascular dock that's what he
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sees it's the big switch we began
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looking at Pathways to Target healthy
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functioning you know critical
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philosophical Paradigm Shift you know
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from fighting or treating disease
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to building Health that is a mental mind
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shift that in a country like ours it's
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kind of like trying to stop an ocean
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liner with all of its momentum the shift
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to prevention of disease and building
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Health you know it's hard because you've
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got big food and big Pharma those big
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Industries the biggest you look at all
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the advertising dollars they control the
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media you know if they are spending all
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the advertising dollars are you going to
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hear much about this no if you want want
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TV you're just going to see all the
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drugs and food spending money and they
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want you to get you thinking their way
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and buying their mental Paradigm one by
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one we got to change this and it starts
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with eating real food instead of chasing
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disease the science comes to creating
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Health you know whatever area of Health
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you look at the mitochondria the
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mitochondria and the microbiome
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functional medicine gut health food
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science shows it builds health I love it
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it proves it and Dr Lee Maps it out with
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deep science the one thing about science
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he says you can't argue with it it is
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what it is truth and you just follow
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wherever it goes not let by money not
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led by bias by
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profit
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anything nothing but truth food turns
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out to be our best medicine and what is
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old is new again it is truly our
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strongest medicine and the wrong food is
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the slowest poison all the old
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traditional medicines from ancient time
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recognize this you know it's how our
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body responds to food you know you know
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Lee is pragmatic you know he knows
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eating is a learned behavior in humans
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good habits can be
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learned and we should be Treach teaching
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and setting an example to the youngest
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humans have to be taught most animals
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have instincts but they still are taught
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by their parents few years ago in our
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neighborhood I watched a dough raising
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triplets all year you could see that she
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was teaching them what to eat where it
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was safe to be what to watch out for
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like don't slip sleep here or you're
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going to be hit by a golf ball don't
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hang out here at night sleep here
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because there's some good flowers to eat
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and new grass to eat don't go there they
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got a mean dog when we look at how we're
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teaching our young these days ah it's
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not good instead of teaching them how to
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eat well we're teaching them that life
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is stressful go eat a pizza that's
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feeding all the bad bacteria in our gut
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with food that's low nutritional value
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so we need to eat
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home-cooked good organic fresh food oh
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gosh new top science is finding the gut
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microbiome benefits even cancer therapy
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you know the National Cancer Institute
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along with the national Gene project
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just published an article entitled gut
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microbiome
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influences effectiveness of
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immunotherapy and it was published three
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different ones were published in the
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journal science all about gut
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bacteria can show
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slow Advanced tumors and it can shrink
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them or actually disappear so you're
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going to run right out and buy a good
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probiotic right wrong you got to do it
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by eating the right foods that are going
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to promote the growth and according to
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MD Anderson Cancer setter
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including healthy Prebiotic and
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Probiotic foods makes a huge difference
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and another study about the gut
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microbiome was published in the journal
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Nature studies on bifido bacteria in
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helping the body respond to cancer
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immunotherapy acrania is the big one you
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know it used to be you couldn't get it
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imp pill you had to get it
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in in the pomegranates and cranberries
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green tea but now we have acromania and
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Dr Lee's own mother had metastatic
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cancer and within 30 days she was
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cancer-free using immunotherapy and diet
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therapy our gut bacteria talk to our
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immune cells oh my gosh those little
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microbes that outnumber us they are
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powerful you know so eating these
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pomegranates eating cranberry green tea
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cranberry
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walnuts pecans almonds within 2 weeks
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can greatly change the bacteria and even
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reverse agu okay suppressing cancer risk
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and even more research is coming on
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autism cognitive function obesity
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diabetes inflammation cholesterol
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regulating blood sugar and even aged
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Define regeneration of stem cells with
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food this is why we got to take our food
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seriously whether you're talking aaic
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traditional Chinese medicine hypocrates
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all the ancient Traditions understood
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Health begins in the gut you know it's
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because these plants that are really
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good for us make lots of compounds to
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protect themselves from their
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environment when you eat them you get
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their energy you get those nutrients uh
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another key point is to eat less for
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Less metabolic stress you know so if
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you're eating busting at the seams has
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become a habit you're probably hungry
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all the time because you've disregulated
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the natural leptin so there is a concept
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that comes clear back and from
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confucious called harachi Buu where it
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just means eating to until you're 80%
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full American Buffet fans may be
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displeased because Americans caloric
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intake is
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3,300 ah so this principle of harachi BU
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is associated with the longest life
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expectancy food is powerful simple real
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Dr Lee's book is great ancient cultures
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new what we're just learning but we need
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to eat real food to be healthy so thanks
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for listening to another edition of
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today's nutrition I hope you learn
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something that will help you have better
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health longevity and vitality as always
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replays are available on my website
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de.com on YouTube or anywhere you listen
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to podcast food is your most powerful
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medicine or your slowest poison so
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choose W wisely and Wily I guess have a
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great day and remember real food not too
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much and keep it colorful and organic
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have a great one
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Strong country
Deb Ford DCN RDN
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May 9, 2024
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When I look at the latest global health ranking for the United States I was embarrassed 3 years ago when our nation ranking 37th in global health while spending more money per person than any other country? Now, we rank, 69th and that is just above Algeria, Mexico, and Romania.