Hey it's Chris. Welcome to SQUARE ONE Module 2. In this module I'm going to help you understand
why you may have cancer, why the rates of cancer have exploded, and help you identify
specific cancer-causers in our world--and your in life--that you may need to address
to help your body heal. 70-95% of cancers are caused by diet, lifestyle
and environmental factors. The sad reality is, the cancer industry knows what's causing
cancer, but they're not interested in prevention, and they're NOT addressing the causes. They
just want to treat the symptoms, because that's where the money is. This is where you come
in, because with education and action you can identify and remove many of these potential
cancer-causers in your life. The more you can reduce your body's toxic load, the better
your odds of preventing and healing cancer. The very first thing on a cancer patient's
mind after a diagnosis is, "Why me? Why did this happen to me? How did I get cancer?"
As I said in module 1, cancer is the convergence of a multitude of health destroying factors
in your life that persist for a long period of time, usually many years, long enough to
break you down and make you vulnerable to disease. I also told you that: if you have
cancer, you should assume that the way you are living is killing you. Not to blame you
or shame you, but to empower you to change your life. Many of the these cancer-causing
factors can be removed and your risk of getting a recurrence or dying from cancer can be greatly
reduced, just by your choices. Your choices matter! Now, we know that cancer has been
around for thousands of years because researchers have found a few mummies with evidence of
cancer, BUT the rates of cancer exploded after the industrial revolution. If you look at
the way that most of us live on the earth today, especially those of us who live in
western industrialized nations, we live a very different life than our ancestors. Our
diet and lifestyle is different. Our work habits are different. Our recreation habits
are different. Our entertainment habits are different. It's all totally different. For
most people, their cancer wasn't caused by one thing. There may have been one instigator,
but then there were many other factors in their life that contributed to cancer's
development. Years ago, a study was published which found that the rate of cancer among
Japanese smokers was nearly 7 times lower than American smokers. Why? Two reasons. ONE
is that the Japanese diet and lifestyle is healthier and more protective. And TWO, Japanese
cigarettes may contain less toxic chemical additives than American cigarettes. A healthier
diet and lifestyle, and less toxic exposure, equals less cancer.
There are 3 Pillars of Health. 1 is our diet and lifestyle. 2 is our environment. And 3
is stress. These are broad categories, and we're going to drill down into them, but just
in the beginning, understand that diet & lifestyle, environment, and stress, are the 3 main causes
of cancer and most types of disease. Now, There are two different types of disease.
First is infectious disease, which caused by a virus, bacteria, parasite or pathogen
like measles, herpes, malaria, influenza… Infectious diseases are also known as Diseases
of Poverty. In impoverished nations--third world countries--infectious diseases are leading
killers to this day, primarily because they haven't been educated on hygiene, and they
don't have good sanitation practices. People in third world countries are eating dirty
food, and drinking dirty water that is contaminated with sewage and loaded with viruses, bacteria
and parasites. In the early 1900s, infectious diseases were the leading killer in the United
States, causing roughly a third of all deaths, the majority of which were children under
5. Today, infectious diseases cause less than 5% of deaths in the U.S. We've made huge
strides in eliminating infectious disease, mainly because of sanitation and hygiene.
Simple things like washing our food, washing our hands, public water treatment, and regulations
that prevent contamination in food production. The other type of disease is Chronic Disease.
Chronic disease is also known as Western disease, and Disease of Affluence. The reason they
call chronic diseases Western diseases is because when they first began to discover
them, they were only happening in Western nations, in first world countries, in industrialized
societies… Chronic diseases include heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune
disease... There are dozens of diseases that are categorized as western diseases. Most
cancers are considered to be Western diseases, but according to the International Agency
for Research on Cancer, 18-20% of cancers are linked to infections. This is from viruses
like Hepatitis B & C, HIV, some types of HPV, Epstein Barr, and from lesser known viruses
like human t-cell lymphotropic virus, merkel cell polyoma-virus, kaposi-sarcoma herpes
virus and Bovine leukemia virus. Most of these viruses are spread by kissing, sexual contact,
needle sharing, blood transfusions, organ transplants, and even sharing food and drinks
or a toothbrush with someone who is infected. And some of them can be passed from mother
to child during childbirth, and through breastfeeding. The Epstein Barr virus connection to cancer
was discovered in 1958 by Dr. Denis Burkitt and a form of lymphoma (Burkitts lymphoma)
was named after him. You'll hear more about Burkitt in a minute. EBV has also been found
to cause Hodgkin's, non-Hodgkin's and T-cell Lymphoma, nasopharyngeal cancer, and some
cases of stomach cancer. It's estimated that 95% of adults are infected with a strain
of Epstein Barr. If you've ever wondered why children get
cancer, here's one explanation. A.L.L., the most common form of childhood leukemia,
has recently been traced back to a specific virus called CMV Congenital Cytomegalovirus,
which is a form of herpes that can be passed from mother to child during childbirth. Children
born with CMV are roughly 4-6 times more likely to develop A.L.L. between 2 and 6 years old.
It's estimated that 80% of people carry the CMV virus... So some viruses can't be
avoided, but if you engage in risky behavior like promiscuous sex, or needle drugs, your
odds of contracting multiple cancer-causing viruses is much higher. But don't freak
out, not everyone who contracts these viruses will develop cancer. As long as your immune
system is strong, your risk is low, but, viruses can lay dormant in your body for many years
and then flare up and cause a problem if your immune system becomes weakened or suppressed
for a prolonged period of time. This is why the things that you CAN control--like your
diet, lifestyle, environment and stress--are so important. A healthy body keeps viruses
in check. There's one virus in the list that definitely CAN be avoided. That's the
bovine leukemia virus. Bovine leukemia virus is a cancer causing
virus found in cow's milk and meat. And it's widespread. 80% of small dairy farms,
and 100% of large dairy farms were found to be infected with bovine leukemia virus when
milk supplies were tested in 2007. Pasteurization should render this virus harmless in milk,
but you can also contract it from eating undercooked beef, as in rare or medium rare. A 2003 study
found that 74% of people tested had been previously exposed to Bovine Leukemia Virus. Here's
where it gets really interesting… In 2015, researchers conducted a study looking for
the presence of bovine leukemia virus in breast tissue samples taken from women with breast
cancer. According to their findings, "The presence of BLV-DNA in breast cancer tissue
was strongly associated with breast cancer. AND that as many as 37% of breast cancer cases
may be attributable to BLV exposure." This means that over a third of breast cancers--over
80,000 cases per year--may be caused just by eating undercooked beef.
H. Pylori is a bacteria known to cause inflammation, ulcers and stomach cancer, and the rate of
h. pylori infection and stomach cancer is much higher in third world countries, because
of poor sanitation and hygiene practices. H. Pylori also converts nitrites from cured
meats into cancer-causing compounds in the gut.
The top cancers in Western nations —lung cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer and prostate
cancer—are considered to be Western cancers. Now back to Japan. In 1955, the death rate
for pancreatic cancer, leukemia and lymphomas was 3-4 times lower than the U.S. The death
rate for colon, prostate, breast and ovarian cancers was 5-10 times lower. This was at
a time when animal products accounted for less than 5% of the Japanese diet... Now Japan
is not an anomaly. There are many parts of the world with much lower rates of cancer
than Western Nations like the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, especially where people
are eating plant-based diets. You can actually go to a website called Globocan and there
is an interactive map that lets you see what the rates of any type of cancer in any country
in the world are. One example that may surprise you is Mexico. Mexico has half the overall
cancer rates of the U.S. There are dozens of countries that have a third of the overall
cancer rates of the US. And in more specific regions it's even lower… There are over
20 African nations with a rate of colon cancer that's 5 times lower than the U.S… Mozambique
is nearly 25 times lower. They don't have a genetic advantage. What they have, is a
diet and lifestyle advantage. They're living their lives in a different way, and they're
eating foods that are protective. And they're also NOT doing as many things that are destructive.
Maintaining health requires doing two things simultaneously. Health is NOT DOING things
that are harmful to your body, and instead doing things that are beneficial to your body,
like giving it the right fuel and raw materials that it needs to repair, regenerate and detoxify.
One of my heroes is Dr. Denis Burkitt. Dr. Burkitt was an Irish surgeon who worked in
African hospitals in the 50s and 60s after World War II. During his time there, he noticed
that many of the common diseases in the US, Europe and South Africa, were virtually non-existent
among the rural Africans. The doctors in rural Africa weren't seeing colon cancer, Crohn's
disease, hemorrhoids, colitis, heart disease, diabetes, appendicitis... There's a long list
of cancers and chronic diseases, common to Western nations, that they weren't seeing
at all.This compelled Burkitt to research not only the Africans, but also other cultures
around the world, to figure out why their diet and lifestyles were protective against
Western diseases, like most cancers, heart disease, and diabetes. Burkitt observed that
the rural Africans ate a diet that was very high in fiber. His hypothesis was that their
high-fiber diet was protective against colon cancer, heart disease, and many other western
diseases. And Burkitt's research is the reason dietary fiber became a household word
in the 1970s. What we know now is, it wasn't just the fiber. There was more to it than
that. Like I said earlier, it was the things they were doing, and the things they weren't
doing that were producing optimal health for these people. So what were they doing? Well,
the rural Africans WERE eating a diet that was very high in fiber. They were eating a
starch-based diet, a plant-based diet. They weren't vegetarians or vegans, they were just
people living in the African bush. They were living in small villages, and they were eating
whole foods from the earth. They were living off of starchy vegetables: Beans, peas, lentils,
corn, rice, potatoes… grains, like millet, spelt, teff and wheat, and fruit when it was
in season. They were eating root vegetables like carrots, beets and turnips. They were
eating cabbage and green leafy vegetables like collards and mustard greens… And they
were eating very little meat and dairy, because if you live in an African village, you don't
have access to a grocery store to buy chicken, or fish, or beef whenever you felt like it.
And there aren't any restaurants either. If you wanted to eat meat, you had to kill
an animal. You either had to catch it and kill it in the wild, or you had to kill an
animal that you raised. If you raised chickens, you couldn't kill a chicken every night for
dinner, because you'd run out of chickens. So killing and eating the animals you raised
was saved for special occasions. If you're killing a large animal cow or a pig, it means
the whole village is having a feast. And killing animals in the wild is not that easy, you
definitely aren't doing that every day. So eating animals was sparse. They might eat
animal products anywhere from a few times a week, to a few times a month, to a few times
a year, depending on the region. These people thrived on starchy vegetables. Simple, whole
foods from the earth. They were also NOT EATING white sugar, white flour, table salt, and
oils. They were not eating anything in a package or a box. There was no fast food or junk food,
no processed food. They were eating giant piles of beans and sweet potatoes. They were
living on carbohydrates. High starch, high fiber, high carb... tons of plant food, very
little animal food, and zero man-made processed food.
Western civilization consumes a ridiculous amount of meat, dairy, sugar, white flour,
salt, and oils. Not to mention all of the artificial additives, preservatives, colors,
flavors, taste enhancers, texture enhancers, and all the other junk they put in our food.
The rural Africans also weren't eating any genetically modified food, like corn, soy
and canola, which are the three biggest GMO crops. 90% of the corn, soy and canola grown
in the US is GMO... If you pick up any fast food, junk food, or processed food and look
at the ingredients, you're going to find corn, soy, and canola in almost all of it. We're
eating a lot of genetically modified food. Here' the the GMO cliff notes. GMO crops
are genetically modified to be resistant to weed-killers like Roundup. The main ingredient
in Roundup is glyphosate, which is classified as a probably carciongen, AND a major review
of 44 scientific studies found that glysphosate exposure DOUBLES a farmers' risk of non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma because it disrupts normal white blood cell function, and wrecks your immune
system. BUT it's not just the farmers who need to worry, because Glyphosate can't
be washed off. GMO crops that are sprayed with Roundup absorb the glyphosate, and then
you end up eating it. But wait, it gets worse. Farmers also spray glyphosate on non-GMO crops
before they harvest, to kill the crops, and speed up the drying process. This includes
conventionally grown wheat, millet, flax, rye, buckwheat, barley, oats, beans, peas,
lentils, corn, potatoes and more. Many experts now believe that the widespread use of glyphosate,
not grains themselves, is the culprit behind the high rates of celiac, gluten intolerance,
autoimmune disease, and many other digestive and physiological disorders. (PAUSE)
The rural Africans weren't eating ANY of the crazy stuff we're eating now, and they had
really low rates of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and many other Western diseases.
That's proof that their diet and lifestyle was truly healthy.
Here's a fun fact. Autopsies of our paleolithic ancestors have consistently found starchy
plant matter in their teeth and digestive tracks, like oats... NOT a belly full of bacon,
butter and coconut oil. Just like the rural Africans, population studies from China, India,
the Middle East, South East Asia, and South America, all show much lower rates of Western
diseases. Those are the diets and lifestyles we should be imitating.
Principle Number One is we have to get back to a simple diet of whole foods from the earth
that God made for us. We live and eat like kings. It's interesting,
if you look at the lifespans of the kings of Europe, many of these kings had very short
lifespans. Rich people got rich people diseases. Wealthy people got gout, heart disease, and
cancer, because of their diets. Our wealthy ancestors and kings were also often obese.
Back then, obesity was a sign of wealth and at one point in history, obese women were
considered the most beautiful because it was a sign of their socioeconomic status. Today
we are eating nearly the same diet as the wealthy kings hundreds of years ago. Instead
of eating a pauper's diet, we're eating a king's diet. Kings eat whatever they want,
whenever they want. Kings can afford to eat 3 or more times per day and they can eat expensive
delicacies like meat and cheese at every meal. They can have desserts rich in fat, sugar,
butter, cream and oils. They can eat the finest, richest foods every day at every meal. They
have access to all the wine, beer and spirits they want… That sounds exactly like the
Western diet, doesn't it? We're eating all the food we want--tons of meat, dairy, sugar,
salt, and oils--but today it's even worse because we have all the extra junk: the artificial
additives, preservatives, flavors and colors, and GMOs. Our modern diet is a king's diet,
but worse. If you eat a king's diet, you're going to get king's diseases.
I really want to hammer this home. You have to get back to a simple diet that is based
on whole foods from the earth. You don't have to become a vegan, or vegetarian, or take
on some type of dietary identity/religion. You just have to start making good choices.
We want to mimic the healthiest people on earth. We can learn from successful people,
right? If you want to be successful in business, you study and implement the habits of successful
business people. If you want to live a long, healthy, chronic disease-free life, then you
study and implement the habits of large populations of people that are living long, healthy, disease-free
lives. One of my favorite books is The Blue Zones.
The Blue Zones was a National Geographic project started by Dan Buettner, who took a team around
the world to study specific regions with exceptionally long-living people. The goal was to learn
the secrets to long life and health, to essentially reverse engineer longevity. They identified
multiple regions, called Blue Zones, with the highest percentages of people living past
100. This includes Okinawa Japan; Sardinia, Italy; the Greek island Ikaria; and Nicoya,
Costa Rica. And surprisingly, there is actually one American
Blue Zone: Loma Linda, California. What Salt Lake City is to the Mormons, Loma Linda is
to the Seventh Day Adventists. It's kinda like their headquarters. If you don't know
anything about the Seventh Day Adventists, their religion, denomination, whatever you
want to call it, is largely vegetarian. It's part of their religious beliefs. Half of Adventist
are vegetarian, and about 8% percent are vegan. And the strict Seventh Day Adventists in Loma
Linda have a much longer lifespan than the average American. The men live 7 years longer
than the average Californian man, and have much lower rates of many Western diseases.
All because of their healthy diet and lifestyle. Another example is the China Study. This is
the largest population study of its kind, they collected data on every province in China--millions
of people--to measure their rates of diseases and examine their diets. And the gist of the
China study is that rural China has much lower rates of cancer and heart disease than the
US, and they eat a plant-based diet. They eat tons of rice, vegetables, and fruit, and
very little animal products. Another book I love is Healthy at 100 by my friend John
Robbins, which also examines the diet and lifestyle habits of healthy, long-living people
around the world. Those three books are wonderful reads if you want to get a global perspective
on health and longevity. Truth is simple. And the simple truth is that our diet and
lifestyle choices can promote health or disease. You can dig your grave with your teeth if
you so choose. Hopefully you're starting to understand that
what you put in your mouth will either promote disease, or promote health. We have to change
what we put in our mouth first. Before you run off to a cancer clinic in Mexico, before
you take a million supplements, before you do a bunch of weird therapies that may or
may not help, you have to change your diet. Nutrition is the foundation of health.
Now, circling back to Dr. Burkitt, After Burkitt observed that the rural Africans ate a high
fiber, high starch diet, plant-based diet he was curious about their bowel movements.
He wanted to know how many times a day they pooped, how big their poops were, the consistency,
and he wanted to know how quickly food moved through their system. So he weighed their
poops, and they were twice as big as American poops, and they were soft, more like a cow
patty than a log. Then he added a speical dye to their meals to measured their transit
time and he discovered that their average transit time from mouth to anus was 30 hours,
basically one day. And you can do the same thing with beets. Eat a serving of beets with
a meal and then every time you poop, take a look at it. At some point your poop is going
to be beet red, and it might scare you for a second, but don't worry it's the beets.
And that's how you can measure your own bowel transit time. So Burkitt discovered
that the average transit time for the rural Africans was 30 hours. He conducted the same
tests on Europeans and Americans, and their average transit time was 72 hours. It was
taking nearly two and a half times longer for food to make its way through their bodies.
Why? Because Americans and Europeans were eating so much more meat, dairy, and refined
processed foods. A high starch, high fiber diet is easily digested and it moves through
your body quickly. Meat, dairy, and white flour, are slow movers and cause constipation.
Even if you poop every day, you still may have a long transit time. You may think you're
regular because you're going every day, but what you're pooping today may be what you
ate 3 days ago. That's not good. Do the beet test and find out how quickly food is moving
through your body. There's an easy remedy to constipation, and
that's to switch to a whole foods plant-based diet, lots of fruits and vegetables, which
are naturally high in fiber and starch. You don't need to take a fiber supplement. Just
eat lots of fruit and vegetables every day. By the way, Burkitt also did the same study
on nursing home patients, and he found that their average transit time was about two weeks.
Two weeks! Can you imagine? Now, why is this so important? Why does transit time matter?
Here's why. Your liver is one of your body's main detoxification organs. Your liver dumps
metabolic waste, toxic sludge, into your digestive tract. When you eat food, whatever is not
digested, like insoluble fiber, moves through your digestive tract and it absorbs that liver
bile, and it carries it out the backdoor. Now, a high fiber, high starch diet does a
really good job of absorbing those toxins that are secreted by your liver and carrying
them out quickly. If you eat a diet that's high in meat and
dairy, it moves through very slowly, and the meat and dairy, and whatever else you ate,
mix with the liver bile, and it all putrefies and creates toxic byproducts. Some of them
are called fecal mutagens. What's grosser than gross? Fecal mutagens. These toxic byproducts,
irritate and inflame the lining of your digestive tract, especially your colon. They cause irritation
and pre-cancerous inflammation. And some of these toxins are reabsorbed into your bloodstream.
So you end up in a vicious cycle of auto-intoxication. Your body is constantly reabsorbing some of
the toxins that it's trying to eliminate, because your bowels are moving too slow. If
you feel like crap all the time, it may be because you're actually reabsorbing some of
your crap. The abundance of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and phytonutrients in fruits and
vegetables is an obvious benefit to a plant-based diet. The second benefit is the fiber and
starch, which moves through your body quickly and helps you eliminate toxic metabolic waste
before it can putrefy, cause inflammation, and get reabsorbed into your bloodstream.
The principles of a healthy diet are simple, and we'll talk about specific foods you should
be eating every day in the next two modules, but generally speaking, you just need to eat
a lot of fruits and vegetables, raw and cooked, and you need to minimize or eliminate animal
products and all processed food. As the legend Jack Lalane said, If man made it, don't eat
it. Another problem we have, is too much food.
If you're watching this, you probably live in Western nation with an unlimited food supply.
With the exception of the homeless, even the poorest Americans rarely go a day without
eating. So we have an unlimited supply of food, and our calorie consumption has increased
significantly over time. According to the USDA, in 1909, the average American ate 3,400
calories per day, which by the way, is still 1,000 to 1,500 calories more than most people
need to eat. Today, the average American eats roughly 4,000 calories a day. That's 600
more calories per day than we were eating 100 years ago. This is why 2/3 of Americans
are overweight, and 1/3 of Americans are now obese, because we're eating way too much.
Now let's talk about body fat. Food is fuel. It's a source of energy. We eat food primarily
to give our bodies energy to function. To understand why we're fat, just takes a basic
understanding of supply and demand economics. Your body has a certain requirement of calories
per day, depending on your activity level. Calories are a measurement of energy you get
from food. If you consume more energy--more fuel, more calories--per day than your body
needs, it will store that energy for later, as fat, which is a good thing. Before restaurants
and supermarkets were on every corner, our ancestors would go through periods of food
scarcity. They were growing their own food, raising livestock, and hunting. And guess
what? A lot of food doesn't grow in the winter. And animals migrate or hibernate. So there
was a lot less food available. If they ate a lot of food in the spring, summer and fall,
when it was abundant, they might put on some weight. Then, that extra body fat would be
burned off in the winter when food was scarce. It would keep them alive. We don't have
famines in the U.S. and we don't have food scarcity in the winter, we have an unlimited
food supply, and we're overeating year round. And most of us are gaining a little bit of
weight, a few pounds a year or more, year after year after year. And there's a snowball
effect, the heavier you get, the quicker you gain even more weight. This is why so many
of us are overweight and obese. Why does this matter? Because…
Obesity is the second leading cause of cancer. Cigarette smoking is the number 1 cause of
cancer. Obesity is number 2. When you're carrying a lot of extra fat on
your body, it is a huge burden to your system. Body fat produces a lot of excess hormones,
which can promote inflammation and fuel cancer growth. An obese body is overworked and overwhelmed,
which leads to the break down in optimal function of various systems in your body, which leads
to chronic diseases like high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, et
cetera. Obesity weakens your body and creates an environment that is hospitable to cancer
growth. Being overweight has never been a problem for me, but I did smoke cigarettes
as a teenager and young adult, and cigarettes are the number one cause of cancer, and not
just lung cancer. There are many cancers that are related to cigarette smoking, because
when you smoke a cigarette, carcinogenic compounds go from your lungs into your bloodstream and
circulate throughout your entire body. Colon cancer can be caused by cigarettes. For all
I know, smoking cigarettes could have instigated cancerous cells in my colon. Then my unhealthy
diet and lifestyle choices created an environment where that cancer could grow. If you smoke,
now is the time to stop. Like today. Don't put it off. Don't switch to e-cigarettes.
It's gonna be a tough couple weeks of nicotine withdrawal, cravings and detox, but there
are way worse things. You're a grown up. You can handle it. If you're not willing
to quit smoking, or chewing tobacco, or drinking, or using drugs there's no point in doing
anything else, because those destructive lifestyle behaviors will sabotage your success.
Now, if you're curious about some of the other changes in the American diet in the last 100
years, here they are. Our overall carbohydrate intake has actually come down about 4%, but
the type of carbohydrates has changed dramatically. In the early 1900s, most of our carbohydrates
were from whole foods like grains, beans and potatoes. Today most of our carbohydrates
are from refined foods: white flour, sugar and corn syrup, sugary drinks, chips and fries.
We've replaced whole foods with processed refined foods. And as a result, our fiber
consumption has come down about 10%. But we still weren't getting nearly enough fiber
in 1909. The rural Africans are getting about 3 times as much fiber as we did 100 years
ago. They're getting 75 grams or more per day. We're also eating about 20% more animal
protein than we were in 1909. It's unnecessary. We're eating 60% more fat than we were in
1909. Primarily from oils. Polyunsaturated fat consumption is up 340%, which is found
in corn, soybean and sunflower oils and fatty fish. Monounsaturated fats are up 70% which
includes olive oil, peanut, safflower and sesame oils, and about 20% more saturated
fat, mainly from butter and lard in animal foods. And we're eating roughly 10% more cholesterol.
All totaled, our overall fat consumption is up 60% from excessive amounts of oils and
animal foods. Now let's talk about why you need to eat
organic food. When you eat conventional produce, you are eating pesticides, insecticides, fungicides
and herbicides like Roundup. Those are all toxic chemicals. They are poisoning and injuring
you a little bit every day. The USDA Organic certification means that farmers did not use
toxic chemicals to grow the food, and that the food is not genetically modified. In January
2004, when I first started eating organic, it was really expensive and there was only
one store in town, Whole Foods. Today most major grocery stores have organic produce.
Things have really improved a lot, and the prices have come down, but yes, making the
switch from junk food and fast food to organic fruits and vegetables will cost you more money
each week. But whatever sacrifices you need to make to afford it are worth it. We lived
in a small 2 bedroom 1 bath house, we didn't have cable, and we lived very frugally at
that time, because I decided that the most important thing I could spend my money on
was on my food. That was priority number one—buying the healthiest food possible. I want you to
have that same mental shift. An investment in your health is one of the best investments
you can make. Eating healthy now is MUCH cheaper than getting sick. It's much cheaper to buy
organic, pesticide-free produce than it is to pay a hospital bill. My colon cancer surgery
was $17,000. Ok, Now let's talk about water.
In most Western Nations we're blessed to have clean water to drink. It's clean in
the sense that it is treated to kill harmful bacteria and parasites, but it can still be
toxic. Most cities in America are drinking water with chlorine and fluoride added. Those
are two very toxic chemicals that can promote cancer in the body. The chlorine that they
put in your drinking water, is sodium hypochlorite. That's bleach. They put bleach in our drinking
water. Now, this isn't some sinister plot to make you sick. They put the bleach in there
to kill bacteria, which is a good thing. The problem is, then you drink the bleach, which
is a bad thing. You've got to filter your drinking water.
Fluoride is also completely unnecessary. It was added to our drinking water as a public
health effort, when producers of fluoride, which was a toxic byproduct of industrial
aluminum manufacturing, and the phosphate fertilizer industry, convinced the government
that we would have healthier teeth if they added fluoride to our water supply. It is
completely unnecessary, and does not make your teeth healthier. In fact, our family
has not consumed fluoridated water, with the exception of the occasional water fountain
or in a restaurant, in 12 years. And guess what? No cavities. We've also used fluoride-free
toothpaste for 12 years. No cavities. I went to the dentist in November 2016, for the first
time in 5 years, and he raved about my teeth. Healthy teeth come from a healthy diet. You
will get all the fluoride you need from eating a whole foods plant-based diet rich in fruits
and vegetables. So you've got to filter your water. Besides chlorine and fluoride, there's
all kinds of pollution in our water supply from industrial waste runoff, pesticide and
fertilizer runoff from commercial agriculture. And from the large-scale chicken, beef and
pork farms, where they're pumping these animals full of antibiotics, and then the animal waste
runs off into the water supply, not to mention the lead and rust components from the pipes
that may be bringing water to your house… There are hundreds of potential contaminants
in our water supply. Even if you have well water. So I highly recommend you invest in
a really good filtration system. Most water filters remove very little. They may remove
some chlorine and some heavy solids, but that's about it. Reverse osmosis systems and distillers
remove pretty much everything, but if you do a little research on the popular faucet
filters and pitcher filters, you'll find they don't filter much at all. In 2004, I
bought a countertop distiller and used it for many years, eventually it started leaking
and I switched to a Berkey water filter. The reason I like the Berkey, it removes 99.9%
of hundreds of contaminants. And it has a fluoride attachment that removes 95% of fluoride,
and arsenic, which is another cancer-causer that could be in your water. Plus the Berkey
is portable and it doesn't require any water pressure, or electricity. And the two main
filters will purify 6,000 gallons of water, which means you consume 10 gallons of water
per week they will you last 11 years. I made a video called 5 Reasons Why I Love My Berkey
Water Filter. You can watch it at www.chrisbeatcancer.com/berkey Ok we've covered diet, now let's talk about
our lifestyle. We're living a very different lifestyle than the healthiest longest-living
cultures around the world. Number one is being sedentary. We don't move our bodies enough.
"Sitting is the new smoking" because people who are seated for 8 hours a day or more,
are prone to health problems. When you're in motion, you're increasing circulation and
burning calories. Activity promotes health. Movement is LIFE. When you don't move, you
promote disease. There's a very simple solution to this. You have to move more. Take the stairs
instead of the elevator every day. Walk, run, hike, dance, do yoga, rock climb, do karate.
Any extra movement you can do will help you. You've got to move your body every day.
I'll cover this in detail in the Exercise & Rest module, including the best exercise
for your immune system, how much exercise you need each day, the types of exercise you
want to avoid, and how to get optimal healing sleep.
Another destructive lifestyle habit is substance abuse. Alcohol and illegal drug abuse are
obvious health destroyers. But prescription drug use can be as well. We have an epidemic
right now of prescription drug use and addiction. All prescription drugs have side effects.
For starters, they're all hard on your liver, which is your body's main detoxification organ.
Once your liver goes down, you're dead. Many of the most common prescription drugs,
like blood-pressure and cholesterol-lowering drugs, and drugs for mood disorders, have
significant long-term side effects in the body. Drug companies are one of the biggest
advertisers on TV, and if you pay attention to the drug commercials, it's not uncommon
to hear in the disclosure that many of these drugs "may cause certain types of cancer".
This includes birth control drugs, fertility drugs, psychiatric drugs, digestive disorder
drugs, hormone replacement therapy… Any prescription drug could be suspect. Read the
warning labels carefully. If you're taking multiple prescription drugs, then your odds
are even higher, because there's a synergistic toxicity that happens in your body when you're
taking multiple drugs. Something else you need to know. There are over 100 prescription
drugs that inhibit the production of melatonin, which is one of the most powerful anti-cancer
hormones in your body. Melatonin stops cancer growth. But it's only produced at night when
you sleep. This is also why it's common for people who take prescription drugs also
suffer from insomnia. Even if you don't take prescription drugs, if you stay up late every
night, you're not getting good quality healing sleep. If you're a workaholic and you're working
18 hours a day and getting 6 hours of sleep or less, then you are chronically sleep deprived,
and your health will suffer for it. Melatonin is a key component of cancer prevention and
healing. Now, I realize getting off prescription drugs
can be tricky, and quitting cold turkey can even be life-threatening depending on the
drug and your medical condition. If that's your situation, I want to encourage you to
share this goal with your doctor, who can work with you to hopefully reduce some of
your doses now, and help you get of prescription drugs over time as your health improves. Remember,
you might feel lousy for a week or more while you are breaking your body's dependence
on prescription drugs. Once your body fully detoxifies and adapts to functioning without
drugs, you will feel good again. Ok so, Let's recap the lifestyle habits that
promote cancer and disease. They are: smoking, drinking, illegal drug use, prescription drug
use, being sedentary, and lack of sleep. I eliminated every negative lifestyle habit
in my life. For some of you this may sound like a daunting task, but don't be overwhelmed.
I did it. And you can do it too. And I'm going to walk you through it step-by-step
in the rest of the SQUARE ONE course. Circling back to what I said at the beginning
of this module, there are Three Pillars of Health: Your diet and lifestyle, environmental
pollution, and stress. So now let's talk about factor number two: Environmental Pollution.
We live in a world full of toxic chemicals. There are over 80,000 man-made chemicals in
our environment. Thousands of new chemicals approved by the government every year. Many
of these chemicals do not have adequate safety testing. And some of them are known carcinogens.
Many of them are industrial and agricultural chemicals, and some are pharmaceutical drugs,
like certain chemo drugs. We're being bombarded with cancer causing industrial chemicals.
Next we've got toxic pollutants in our environment. Like air pollution from automobile and industrial
exhaust. L.A. has a notorious smog problem from pollution, but you may be surprised to
know that American cities don't even crack the top 1000 most polluted cities on earth
according to the WHO. Cities in India, Saudi Arabia and China have some of the worst pollution.
But it doesn't take much to make you sick, so it's important to take a look at your environment.
Do you live in polluted area? Are you breathing toxic fumes? We used to think that living
out in the country was a healthy place to live. Not necessarily. If you're surrounded
by conventional farmland, then you're bombarded with toxic pesticides, herbicides, fungicides
and fertilizers. You may work in a toxic environment… If you work in a factory around industrial
chemicals, paints, varnishes, solvents and plastics, and you're breathing in smoke and
fumes every day—these are potential cancer causers. If you are a mechanic working around
gas, oil, lubricants, antifreeze, engine exhaust... Even hairdressers, have elevated rates of
cancer because they're breathing the fumes from bleaches, dyes, straighteners, hair spray,
nail polish—all of the chemicals in beauty products… Even working at a print shop or
a copy place, where you're breathing printer ink, all day long could be hazardous. Dry
cleaning chemicals are notoriously toxic… I just found out a few months ago that the
groundwater under the house I lived in when I had cancer has been polluted for years by
chemicals from a former dry cleaner around the corner. It's important to take a hard
look at any toxic chemicals you may be exposed to at work, or at home. Incense, candles and
air fresheners may smell nice but they also put out toxic smoke and chemicals, get rid
of them. Diffusing essential oils is a much safer alternative. While you're at it, it's
a good idea replace any toxic cleaning products with natural non-toxic ones, laundry detergent,
dish soap, spray cleaners. Dr. Bronners, Earth Friendly, Ecover are a few top-rated green
cleaning products. Also check your house for toxic mold and radon.Toxic mold can make you
very sick and vulnerable to cancer and radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer
besides smoking, causing about 10% of lung cancer deaths in non-smokers. Mold and radon
test kits are inexpensive and can be bought on amazon and many hardware stores. (PAUSE)
Finally, in addition to the toxic chemicals that you may be putting IN your body, there's
also the chemicals you're putting ON your body. Your skin eats what you put on it. If
you're putting body care products on your skin: lotions, potions, creams, makeup, toners…
your body is absorbing that stuff into your bloodstream. The ingredients in personal-care
products are largely unregulated and can contain known cancer-causers like formaldehyde, and
endocrine disrupting chemicals like phthalates and parabens. And there's no way to test
the long-term safety of putting all these chemical soaps, lotions, shampoos, conditioners,
moisturizers, perfumes and deodorants on your skin and into your bloodstream every day for
decades. This is a concern for everyone, but more so for women because they use more a
lot more body care products than men. Your best bet is to switch to verified non-toxic
brands, and use as little as possible. Healthy beautiful skin is created by your diet, from
the inside out. You can research non-toxic skincare, makeup and cleaning products on
the Environmental Working Group website at EWG.org. They have a searchable database with
thousands of products. It's a great way to find clean, non-toxic home and body care products.
If you have cancer, or if you want to prevent cancer, you need to reduce your toxic load
as much as possible. Every little bit helps. Like I said in the beginning of this talk,
cancer is the convergence of multiple health destroying factors in your life, and in your
body. If you imagine the effect of all of these pollutants coming into your body every
day, well, the more you can eliminate, the better. The harder your body has to work at
detoxification, the less energy and capacity it has to prevent or heal cancer. If you're
constantly overeating, and putting tons of toxins in and on your body, and breathing
toxic fumes, your body is working overtime trying to process all the junk that's coming
in. And just like a factory, if everybody's working overtime with no breaks, then problems
are going to arise, but everyone is too distracted to notice... And that's how cancer goes
undetected in the body. 70-95% of cancers are caused by diet, lifestyle and environmental
factors. The sad reality is, the cancer industry knows what's causing cancer, but they're not
interested in prevention and they're not addressing the causes. They just want to treat
the symptoms, because that's where the money is. This is where you come in, because with
education and action you can identify and remove many of these potential cancer causers
in your life. The more you can reduce your body's toxic load, the better your odds of
preventing and healing cancer. Now, some things you can change quickly, like exercising every
day, switching to an organic diet and getting rid of the toxic stuff in your home like body
care products, chemical cleaning products, air fresheners, candles and incense. But other
changes take time, like getting off prescription drugs, or changing jobs or moving... Remember,
this is a process. The goal is not perfection. The goal is continual improvement. All the
small changes you make will add up to a big change over time. So don't let the changes
you need to make overwhelm you and stress you out. Hopefully you took a lot of notes...
Just make a to-do list and get after it. The Three Pillars of Health are Diet and Lifestyle,
Environment, and Stress. Stress is so important that I dedicated an entire module to it. In
module 7, I will show you how to identify and eliminate the harmful health-destroying
stress in your life. Stress is the x-factor in cancer. It's the one thing that can outweigh
everything else you do. Don't skip module 7. For some of you it will be one of the most
important modules in the entire course. The next two modules are all about the Anti-Cancer
Diet. I will show you exactly what I ate every day to help my body heal cancer, along with
the nutritional science that supports it all. This is a simple, powerful, proven dietary
protocol. We'll cover the most potent evidence-based anti-cancer fruits, veggies, herbs and spices,
my simple daily anticancer routine, juicing, smoothies, raw food vs cooked food, whether
or not you should eat animal protein, and more. Don't miss it. Thanks for watching.
I'll see you on the next one.
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