THE Drink That Regrows Stem Cells & STARVES Cancer (Shocking Results) I Dr. William Li

0:00 Our bodies possess the ability to regenerate through stem cells. Our gut, our liver, any organ that needs to be replaced, our stem cells come out and replace them. As we get older, the aged adult could lose up to 50% of their stem cells. What can injure stem cells, high doses of alcohol, high blood sugar. More exciting to me is the ability for every single person listening to this podcast to be able to actually enhance their own stem cells. There's foods that can actually mobilize stem cells. Double the number of stem cells flowing in your bloodstream just by having two cups of honey.

0:47 We're made of stem cells. So when our moms and dads got together and created, you know, uh uh us in the womb, we started out as stem cells. They actually made every single organerm and egg and sperm got together and they basically decided they would become a stem cell factory. And then pretty much we formed out of our own stem cells. And after we were born, a a few of those stem cells um stuck around. Um about 700,000 of them, they stick around and they're mostly in our bone marrow and they're in lining of our intestines. They hide out in our body and they help us regenerate. We know that we regenerate because our hair falls out and grows back. Our gut lining grows back. Our livers can grow back. If you actually remove part of your liver, it'll grow back. Yeah. >> Um our skin grows back, you know. Um so we our bodies possess the ability to

1:34 regenerate through stem cells. Now >> what can injure stem cells? You know, um high doses of alcohol can damage and blunt your stem cell. You know, people who drink a lot have damaged stem cells. Diabetes is another state, a metabolic state that, you know, it really impairs, it cripples our stem cells. >> Sugar, >> high blood sugar cripples our stem cells. So, >> the excess of anything can be harmful, including to our stem cells. Exciting to me is the ability for every single person listening to this podcast to be able to actually enhance their own stem cells. And here's the research. So, the Mediterranean diet had it's been a study by Spain looked at um uh elderly people on the Mediterranean diet and those who

2:19 uh were on a Mediterranean diet compared to not on a Mediterranean diet had five times the number of stem cells in their circulation in their bloodstream. >> So again, it's not one magic food. It's the pattern of food that you're actually eating. Now, when you you can actually do the research on specific things as well. So, for example, tea. Green tea will increase your stem cells. But guess what? So can black tea. You know, people in Asia drink a lot of tea. People in Britain drink a lot of tea as well. We used to say green tea is good. Black tea is fermented, so it's not going to be that good for you. We're changing our minds. We have to keep our minds open. >> Black tea can also double the number of stem cells. Cacao has been shown to actually double the number of stem cells flowing in your bloodstream just by having two cups of hot chocolate made

3:06 with 80% high flavonol chocolate. Dark chocolate. >> Come on. >> Yeah. It's been done in people 60-year-olds with heart disease. The polyphenols in this dark chocolate that we we know what they are. They're called pro-enthocyanid. 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

3:53 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 their 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 get they got better rebound, they're 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

4:39 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. As we get older, we have fewer stem cells when we're born. We got all the stem cells we're ever going to have and so we're using them up one by one. So by the time we are getting into our the second half of our adult lives. All right? So anybody listening is interested in longevity. All right. Now, pay attention to this because we know that as we get older, um, the aged adult could lose up to 50% of their stem cells. You're out of 50% of your ammo and the stem cells that are left are not as active. They're old stem cells. What about the strip mall? What about the

5:24 athletes that want to get stem cells? Okay, first of all, I will tell you that medically stem cell transplantation has been approved for use in cancer. So stem cell, the first approval of stem cells was in cancer. The government invested in stem cell research after World War II when they saw the devastation caused by the atomic bomb to wipe out the bone marrow. Basically, it nukes your bone marrow literally and then you die because you can't >> get any you have no more stem cells. That's wiping out your health defense system completely. Yeah. >> All right. Other reasons you can die from a nuclear blast, but that's one of the that's one of the long-term reasons

6:09 why you like long-term survival is very very poor. >> Okay. >> Um so, a group of researchers actually began to study in animals what happens if you nuke the the bone marrow and wipe out all the stem cells. Remember I told you the stem cells are packed away like shirts on a shirt box. What happens if you nuke that and literally give radiation to a lab animal? Boom. They got no more stem cells. Okay. So they start to die. What if you take healthy stem cells and transplant them back in that animal that's been nuked? You can save their life. Amazing. So that wound up getting translated into cancer treatments where we give radiation and

6:55 certain drugs that can wipe out the cancerous bone marrow of people. All right. Um so now we've nuked all of the cancer cells, but now we have to transplant healthy cells from a donor back into the cancer patient to save their life. These stem cells that are approved are, you know, undergo like like clinical trials. We know it works. They are not coming out of a strip mall. We're not getting it out of the gray market. It's not coming out of Eastern Europe or, you know, some uh Caribbean island. Okay? So, you really need to be careful about the source of the stem cell. There's donor matching. There's sterilization. The quality control has to be exquisite >> in somebody that you give a bone marrow

7:40 transplant to. So, I have to tell you, I've seen some uh cases of people who were in the last throws of life getting resurrected with stem cell injections or infusions. So, I know >> it can be quite miraculous, >> but they're done under highly uh scrutinized, highly uh uh quality controlled conditions. Can we scale this up so we know it's going to work for everybody? Not yet. Um we haven't been able to do the clinical trials at scale enough yet to show that they actually work. This is long expensive, you know, um really kind of ball busting type of work to get to show how we can actually get it to work. These

8:26 biological therapies are not easy to show these, you know, do we have an offtheshelf stem cell treatment that works for everybody? I would tell you categorically no. And I'm an expert at this. We don't. This is an really provocative study of kiwi fruit. Two kiwi fruits a day times four days and you measure the stool in healthy subjects from every single day. And you can see that just having uh two kiwi fruits in the first 24 hours changes the bacteria that you can measure in the stool by improving the good bacteria as quickly as the first day and over four days you can increase another good bacteria as well. So these changes can be really quick and harmful foods can actually similarly change the makeup very quickly. We don't measure this

9:11 routinely in the clinic but in the future we will. There are other foods that actually contain bacteria. Yogurt is the best example of this but there are other fermented foods whether it's powai kimchi or a sauerkraut. And these all actually are exposed to the air healthy bacteria grow in them. We eat them. And over the course of hundreds of years, cultures have realized that this is actually something that can be beneficial to us. And now we're beginning to dive down deeply and understand why. Here are some foods that are beneficial to the microbiome. Finally, I want to just close by saying the microbiome is connected to the uh immune system, which we know is important because we be now realize that about 70% of our immune systems actually wrap like a jelly roll inside our intestines and the bacteria talks to our

9:57 immune system. Former US President Jimmy Carter had melanoma that spread to his liver and his brain and he retired from public life thinking that he was not going to survive. He received one of the biggest breakthroughs in medicine today, which is an imunotherapy that doesn't kill the cancer directly, but unccloaks the cancer from that's been hiding from the immune system to allow a 90year-old person's immune system to find the tumor as the health defense and to wipe it out. Now, this is the type of response that he got before treatment and after treatment. This is a CT scan of the brain. you can see uh tumor versus no tumor and we do see this in melanoma for example but less than 20% of the people

10:43 actually respond. So this is very frustrating the difference between life and death response and no response. It's one of the big mysteries today and one of the things that's really remarkable is we're beginning to understand that the foods we eat may impact our immune system through the microbiome. And this is actually a colleague of mine Laurifogal at in Paris at the institute Gustaf Rousi found that in 200 consecutive patients treated with immune therapy those patients who responded had one bacteria that the ones who didn't respond did not have in their stool and that's a bacteria called acromancium eucinaphila and you can't eat that as a probiotic. You can only eat foods that cause your gut to secrete the mucus that it likes to grow in. And this is now

11:30 changing the way that we think about um how cancer patients are fed because how many cancer patients that that you know might be getting an antibiotic unknowingly and wiping out this bacteria that could make the difference between whether they respond or don't respond. This is also beginning to change this and this is how it works. Pomegranate it's got a loitanins bioactive. It causes the gut to secrete the mucus. The bacteria acromancia grows. It lights up the immune system. So now you have a more fortified more active immune system. Now you hang a bag of imunotherapy and then cancer imunotherapy will then work on and allow the activated immune cells to go find that cancer. This is oversimp simplified but this is what we believe works and I it's very personal to me as I figured

12:16 this out because my mother who was in her 80s was diagnosed with endometrial cancer cancer the lining of the uterus that spread and she was told by her doctors there was no chance to survive and at her age chemotherapy might be worse than the disease itself and that she should actually just go under undergo paliotative care. So we actually took the tumor, did the deep dive, found the smoking guns for immune therapy. We then altered her diet, made sure she had the ecmansia, and after three treatments, nine weeks, we had a complete response. Never had chemotherapy. She was actually able to be uh completely saved. And this is her uh today completely well with no sign of cancer. So again, this is not a simple case, but a complicated way that we're

13:01 beginning to think things. And then finally, let me just tell you, broccoli sprouts um also boost the immune system. And this is a study of 29 volunteers who are getting the flu vaccine through a nasal spray. And it found that if they gave them two cups of uh broccoli sprout uh uh shake uh as a smoothie a day combined with the nose spray, they had a 22 times increase in their immune response to the flu vaccine compared to people who didn't have it. So what I've actually showed you is not just food as medicine, but foods and medicine where what's happening is that the technology that nature laced into food is meeting the technology that we have within our body. Hey, if you like that video, then you're going to love this one. Check it

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