5 Foods That Help Fight Against Cancer & Repair The Body | Dr. William Li

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 potatoes check them out hey just a quick note I wanted to share another great resource with you look I love eating eating seasonally when foods are in season they taste fresher their flavors are better and they have more importantly more bioactives that help your body activate your health defenses so they're better for you as well and I put

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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 you found this uh useful and thank you for watching hi there have you enjoyed watching this video I know you'll love the next one stay here and check it out and I'll see you there