Welcome to "Healthy Living!"
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I'm your host Margo Marshall.
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What does a stubbed toe
or a splinter in the finger
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have to do with your
risk of Alzheimer's disease,
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heart attack or cancer?
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More than you might think!
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Scientists established a
link to an age old defense
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mechanism called,
"inflammation" - so stay tuned.
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Inflammation of short duration
can be your best friend,
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but uncontrolled inflammation
plays a role in almost
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every major disease.
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And here to tell us
about inflammation is my
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guest, Dr. Eddie Ramirez.
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Welcome Eddie! Thank you!
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Lovely to have
you on the program.
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This is a fascinating
subject and something I'd like
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to understand better than I do,
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so I'm looking forward to what
you have to tell us about this.
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Yes, as I always tell
my patients, you know,
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in the top three things
that you need to know is
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I want you to understand
"inflammation" because
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as you correctly said -
many of the common diseases
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such as heart disease and
Alzheimer's and many more,
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are directly
linked to inflammation.
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So we need to
understand what inflammation is.
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Inflammation is
basically a response mechanism
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of the body that
responds when there are
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certain injuries or
problems happening on the body.
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For example, let me
give you this illustration.
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Suppose that you poke
yourself with a thorn.
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I've done that, I've done that
quite recently so I know that.
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I imagine somebody must
have done that in the past.
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So what the body
does, it knows there is an
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injury happening there, so
inflammation what it does is
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it calls the
mechanisms of repair to come and
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aid in repairing that area.
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So in that way the body knows
there may be some pathogens
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there as the thorn crosses the
protection layers of the skin,
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pathogens go inside.
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The body knows that it needs
to send something to stop them,
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so the new system goes
there and there are some
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classic symptoms of
inflammation that even all
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the way from the time of the
Romans, the physicians back then
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saw those four symptoms and
we can see them on the screen.
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You feel the area, it feels hot,
it's painful, it becomes red,
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it becomes swollen.
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I know all of that when it
comes to pricking my finger or
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some other
injury - I've seen that,
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but what's the
connection between that and say,
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heart disease or brain problems,
that's what I don't get.
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Absolutely! A
very good question.
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So that mechanism of defense
is saying something is not
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right here, I need help.
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All the mechanisms
of the body go and help.
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So when this is
happening in an acute state,
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just within a
short period of time,
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this is actually a big blessing.
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See, if you didn't have
this mechanism, you could
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actually die of a
thorn pricking you. Yes.
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Why? Well, the bacteria would
start reproducing and suddenly
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you will be full of
bacteria and you would literally
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die of a thorn pricking you.
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And that used to happen
before the antibiotics came up.
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Yes that used to happen before
we had antibiotics and so forth,
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but still the mechanisms of
the body would stop a lot of it.
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So what's the link
between that and those
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current modern diseases?
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Well, a physician back
in the 1800s by the name of
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"Virchow," he is a German
physician - he started putting
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the pieces together and
he realized that many people
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were having chronic inflammation
and when that inflammation
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becomes chronic, many
times those four symptoms that
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we mentioned - they disappear,
the person doesn't even know
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that this is happening to
them and suddenly different
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problems start to come about.
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How do we know
that? Because now with our
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modern understanding of
biochemistry and pathology,
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we can trace those
problems to problems
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of chronic inflammation and
you know this is something I
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face in the clinical practice.
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So chronic is something
that just goes on and on.
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That's right, it's long-term,
you don't resolve that
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inflammation.
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So, for example, I see
this in the clinical practice.
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A patient comes there, I go
ahead and take some blood tests,
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and I check and I see that
there are things there that
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don't look good and I
tell the patient, "You know,
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I would like you to do
a few lifestyle changes."
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Some of the patient say,
"Lifestyle changes, why do I
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need to change, you
know I'm doing good,
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I don't need any change."
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They don't realize that
inflammation is active inside
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of them and that
is extremely harmful.
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And there are some interesting
studies that have been done
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with populations in which
we can see rates of disease.
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For example, there was a
very interesting study done
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a few years ago in which
they were having different
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groups of people - they had
Japanese that live in Japan;
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they had Japanese that moved
to Hawaii, Hawaii is part of
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America and they had
also the Americans per se,
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the Caucasian.
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They were
comparing these three groups.
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And I want you to go and
see that screen and you can see
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how similar those
different cancers in the
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different populations are.
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Please notice how the Japanese
that live in Hawaii and the
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Caucasians in Hawaii,
you can see that the cancers
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are very similar in their rate.
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The only one that changes there,
you can see, is the cancer
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of the esophagus and the cancer
of the stomach - that has to do
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with their consumption
of smoked products, okay?
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When you eat smoked fish,
smoked things are carcinogenic,
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and in a minute, we'll talk
a little bit more about that.
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But can you see the big
change that happened - from the
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one that lives in Japan to
the one that came to Hawaii?
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The reason why this
happened is because many of the
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habits that they
acquire in that new country were
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inflammatory!
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So point #1- Understand
that inflammation many times
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can be silent especially
the chronic inflammation.
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It's not like the thorn that
pricks you, you quickly know
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something is not right
there (Oh yes), and that's why
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"Time Magazine" ran
a whole issue about it.
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And "Time Magazine"
put a fascinating title,
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it calls it, "The
Silent Killer," and it's
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true, you know. Yes.
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So it's there in the body
for a long time and don't even
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know that it's there?
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Well it's not that
it's in the body but your
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habits are actually
encouraging the growth of it.
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I like to use the
following illustration:
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Think of inflammation like fire.
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You know, in the winter in
Australia, to have some nice
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warmth - this actually is
welcome because it can get
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cold here in Australia. Oh yes!
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So you have a fireplace, some
of you have a fireplace and you
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know, that's fantastic to have
a fireplace, sit down in front
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of it and get that nice heat.
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But, what happens if the
fire starts coming out of the
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fireplace and those flames start
invading outside of your home?
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Is that good or is that bad?
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I would say, not
good, not good at all.
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You can end up in
disaster if this happened.
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Or the second illustration
I would like to use:
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Like a stove - imagine a stove.
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The nice thing about a
stove compared to a fireplace
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to cook, is that you have the
ability to control the amount
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of heat that is being
generated, so you can adjust.
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Yes, too much, too little
- it's a fantastic invention.
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But what happens if that heat
that is supposed to be contained
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to the stove, starts going
out of control, starts heating
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the food, flames start coming
out of the food or the oil,
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disaster comes about.
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So the key with inflammation
is that it can be very good
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for you because you
stop a pathogen - for example
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the thorn example, but
it can also be bad for you
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if your habits are inflammatory.
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Okay, so what are these
sources of inflammation?
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That is an excellent question!
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Let me share with you a
few, there are many but let me
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share with you a few of
those important sources.
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One of them has
to do with sunlight.
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If you get too much
sunlight, it is inflammatory.
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Now let me ask you -
"If you have gotten more sun
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than what you should, what
color does your skin become?"
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Oh, it goes red.
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Okay, remember the
symptoms of inflammation?
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Let me repeat them - You have
the heat, you have the pain,
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you have the growth and
you have the redness. Okay.
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DING! Some people are saying,
"Okay, I see the connection."
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So when you have too much
sun, you're skin becomes red!
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See, you can quickly put
there the two by two together.
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So people, for example, that
day by day - excess sunlight,
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excess sunlight -
that can be harmful.
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Another source of inflammation
is cigarette smoking and in a
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minute, we will
talk more about it.
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Also, alcohol!
Very inflammatory!
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Every time you drink
alcohol, it is inflammatory.
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A study just came in,
just a couple of weeks ago,
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demonstrating how
inflammation and alcohol intake
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is directly related.
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If you want to go and read
the paper - visit my Twitter
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"Eddie RD MD" - you can
see the copy of the paper.
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Also another source of
inflammation is animal product
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intake - animal
products are very inflammatory.
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And another
source of inflammation is
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having excess weight.
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If you have more
weight than what you should,
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that actually
creates inflammation.
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Now I don't want you to worry
if you have a few kilos extra.
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What I want you to do - I
want you to get yourself on a
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plan to start losing weight.
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And this is the beauty of
this, as soon as you start
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losing weight, your inflammation
in your body decreases.
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Let me show you a couple of
more sources - yes go ahead.
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So you start to get
the benefits right away?
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Immediately as you
start losing the weight,
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the inflammation
in the body decreases.
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That's why somebody that
has a problem with their weight
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we know very well there
are many different types of
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cancer that that person has
the risk of getting because of
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that link of
chronic inflammation.
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Can I just tell
you one thing about my
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one effort to smoke? Yes.
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I was a little kid, I
don't really remember how old,
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maybe 8 or something like that.
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So my sister and I
decided we would have a smoke,
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but we couldn't get our hands
on any so we had to improvise,
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and all we could find to
improvise was some paper straws.
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Anyway, the fire wasn't a
problem, we had a wood fire
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like you were just saying.
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So my older sister was
very gracious and she said,
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"Don't you go first?,"
so I went first and so I
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put this thing in the
fire and it caught a big flame
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at the end and it started
to burn down fairly quickly
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and I thought, "Well
I better be quick here."
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So I did what I'd seen people
do and I drew back heavily,
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(laughter), and that
flame went down the straw
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and down my throat. Hmmm!
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And I could hardly - Oh,
it was a wonder I could speak.
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And when I did, I said to Olga,
"Well, it's your turn now,"
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and she
wouldn't do it! Laughter!
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So anyway, fortunately by the
time I was a few years older,
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I had enough sense to
think, "I don't think it's a
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good idea at all," so I never
did actually smoke a cigarette.
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I'm glad you
learned the lesson early!
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It stayed with me
for quite a while.
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Other sources of inflammation
are virus and bacteria.
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For example, papilloma virus
- something very common today.
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Unfortunately studies
show that, for example,
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in high schools today, here in
Australia, three-quarters of the
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young people have
the papilloma virus...
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How did they get it?
Sexually transmitted virus.
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And you know, these people
have a huge risk for male and
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female-related cancers
later on in their future.
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And even though there is a
vaccination that is being used
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nowadays, that only
covers a few of the subtypes.
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There are more than 100
different types of subtypes
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of papilloma virus.
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So your choices can
interfere with this.
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Also another source
of inflammation could be
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pollution, so be careful on
exposing yourself to pollutants.
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And another very important one
that you have a lot of control
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on it has to do with
your emotional state.
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If you are somebody under
lots of stress, lots of anxiety,
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these types of situations,
that mental stress by itself
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is a very important
source of inflammation.
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So what I would
advise you is take hold
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of spiritual resources. Okay.
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You know, sometimes
we're in problems that makes us
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feel overwhelmed or
that we cannot go ahead,
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well, take advantage of
those spiritual resources.
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One of the things that has
been actually proven in the
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scientific
literature to deal with stress
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has to do with prayer!
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When you pray, you're actually
having an outlet for that stress
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to go out from your system. Yes.
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So be very diligent
at trying to incorporate.
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I actually read a study one
time and they found that people
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who prayed and meditated
for 10 minutes twice a day,
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significantly
lowered their blood pressure.
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That's right!
It's just beautiful!
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There's a very good connection,
you know, with our mind
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and our body and our
soul, all of that - they are all
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very interconnected.
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And so what works for one,
works for the other for good or
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for bad unfortunately, so yes.
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And I love the stuff
you've been telling us in the
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sources and the problems
because when you stop and really
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think about some of those things
that you've said - that can
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cause inflammation, they're
all pretty much common sense,
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but not that common,
unfortunately, so go on.
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So my goal is for you to try
to find sources of inflammation
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in your lifestyle;
identify them and as soon as you
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find them, then stop them!
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There was a
fascinating study that was
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done a couple of
years ago in which they
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had two groups of people.
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One group - well both
groups were fasting overnight.
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One group was just
drinking water in the morning;
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the other group ate
typical things that actually are
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being used
commonly here in Australia.
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Their breakfast consisted
of white bread, cheese,
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egg and fried potatoes.
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That was the
breakfast that they eat.
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And I think they got that
on their way to work at a fast
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food place.
Probably on the way to
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work in a hurry.
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Yes, that doesn't
sound like a home one.
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So there is, in the body, a
special marker of inflammation,
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It sounds
complicated but it's simple.
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It is called: NF-kappa beta.
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Basically what this long
name means - it means that this
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is the main switch of
inflammation - that's what
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our current understanding is.
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As you go to your home and it's
dark and you turn on the light,
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and the light goes on
- the same thing happens
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with inflammation.
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When you have NF-kappa
beta active (on), we know
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inflammation in
the body is happening.
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So we can see on the
screen the results of the study.
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If you can see, on the
left side, you see a line
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that starts going up and
you can see...line 1-2-3,
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can you identify that?
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And then you see a bottom
line that stays more or less
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flat, okay. Oh yes.
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The line that
stayed more or less flat,
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Let me guess - that's
probably going to be the people
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who just drank the
water? Absolutely! Alright.
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So no inflammation
in the body happened.
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But as soon as you ate
that inflammatory breakfast,
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immediately inflammation
shoots up in your body.
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And this is the issue - yes.
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Now, can I just say this? Yes.
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That's when you eat something
that's not a good choice.
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That's when you
eat inflammatory food.
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Sure, but if someone ate
a whole wholesome breakfast,
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that wouldn't happen.
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That inflammation
wouldn't go up at all.
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So this is the issue -
see, if you were to eat this
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inflammatory food, oh
and sausage, I forgot to add.
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There was
sausage there also. Okay.
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There was sausage, egg and
a white bun and some cheese.
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That's right, some cheese and
some potatoes, fried potatoes.
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And so the fat would be about...
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The fact that you fried the
potato could be problematic.
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But are you saying all
of those elements so that
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may allow all inflammatory?
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The potatoes actually
wouldn't be that inflammatory,
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a little bit with the frying,
but the rest of the other
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food groups
would be inflammatory.
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So let me tell you
this, if you were to eat
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this once a year, nothing
is going to happen to you.
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You know,
inflammation is going to go up,
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and then after a few
hours, it's going to come down,
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everything is happy.
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But there are people that
eat inflammatory breakfast,
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inflammatory lunch,
inflammatory supper;
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man, you are putting petrol
to the fire - sooner or later
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the flames are going
to go out of that oven and
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believe me,
disaster is going to happen.
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You missed out something.
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You missed out what
they have in-between.
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Because let me tell
you, it doesn't matter what
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time of day you see
people, there's something going
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in there and
it's all those kinds
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of things that
you're talking about.
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The things that we know - I mean
we know that there are things
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that aren't good for us.
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So I see what you're
saying, it's really just fueling
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the fire in an ongoing way.
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Let me tell you the potential of
inflammation of certain foods.
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There was also another
study published in the journal
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"Nature," and in this journal
they were trying to see how
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much inflammation is there
if you eat a charbroiled steak,
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and we can see
that on the screen.
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A charbroiled steak, a
kilo of it, when you eat that
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it has the cancer-causing
equivalent as smoking
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600 cigarettes. Six-hundred.
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Six-hundred cigarettes!
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One steak, one
chargrilled steak.
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One chargrilled kilo of this.
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So can you see the potential
of inflammation in this
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and what disaster is happening?
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This is like filling
your fireplace to the very top
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with fuel and wood.
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Man, that fire is
gonna start coming out!
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And you know, the issue is here,
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animal products and
this is what happens.
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Yes, I was just going to
say to you - What would be
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like the major ones?
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You've mentioned quite a
few sources of inflammation,
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but which would be the
ones that are high on the list?
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That's right, so animal products
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would be foods that are
very inflammatory and this is
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the reason why - it
also has to do with the
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fact how you are
cooking these foods. Okay.
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So if you are cooking
these foods with things like
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charbroil or frying
it, see, vegetables have
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anti-inflammatory agents in
them - so when you're putting
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let's say broccoli on the grill,
as damage has been happening
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to the broccoli, the
anti-inflammatory agents are
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stopping the inflammation.
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When you're frying something
that's a little bit worse,
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you do create some inflammation
there in the vegetable products.
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So the best thing is actually
not to fry your vegetables,
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a little bit of oil
in the oven, it's fine.
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But frying them, that
creates other cancer-causing
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substances and you
want to avoid that.
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But see, meat doesn't
have anti-inflammatory agents,
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just many people think
that meat is a complete food.
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It's actually a
very deficient food.
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It's only concentrated protein,
no good source of carbohydrate,
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no good vitamins, no
anti-inflammatory agents.
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So people would like to
take a pill for this. Right.
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And you know, pharmaceutical
companies have invested
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millions of dollars
to try to come about
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with a pill to
stop inflammation.
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I have bad news for you
- it's not going to happen.
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See, we have found out that
what we need is to run to the
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farmer's market - that's
where we're going to find -
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The farmer's
market not the pharmacy.
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Not the pharmacy or
the chemist, that's right.
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That's where we're
going to find those sources of
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anti-inflammatory,
that's where we're going to
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find the extinguisher.
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As we were talking about
fire, we need an extinguisher
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to stop that.
Alright, let's hear about
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the fire extinguishers
- this is what we need
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to take away from this.
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So I want you to
eat the whole rainbow!
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There are people that eat
a banana a day and they say,
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"Oh I ate my fruit for today."
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Please don't deceive yourself,
there are dozens and hundreds
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of different types of fruits.
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In fact, you guys are blessed
here in Australia, with all
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these ethnic people
immigrating to your country,
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they have brought all
their vegetables and fruits.
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Some people look at
them and say, "Ugh,"
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they put only a bad face.
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Don't be that kind
- I want you to go and
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find on the
internet how to use them.
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So I want you to use the whole
rainbow, I tell my patients,
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so there are fruits and
vegetables that are white,
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yellow, orange,
purple, blue, black - the whole
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rainbow you have to eat.
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There are more than
3,000 substances that help
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fight problems of inflammation
that have been documented
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in fruits and vegetables.
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So if you wanted to
take this in a pill format,
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imagine taking 3,000
pills to have these agents.
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Imagine paying for them too.
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And paying for
them - that's right.
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So yes, you know, some
people are going to try to come
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and try sell you this
exotic berry from South America
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and so forth - don't do that!
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One last graphic I want to
show you is how cigarettes are
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inflammatory.
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One cigarette will
create inflammation
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for more than a day.
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You can see the little light
turn on within half an hour
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of smoking and the smoker
doesn't smoke one cigarette,
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he or she would smoke many more.
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So you want to avoid
inflammation, no smoking,
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plant-based diet,
exercise and peace within
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will give you a nice long life.
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Well that's beautiful!
That's a really good wrap up.
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And so I hope we all will
be able to take that onboard
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and at least some - I
mean, sometimes we hear
00:27:42.89\00:27:45.59
a lot of things that cut across
our lifestyle and we think
00:27:45.63\00:27:49.20
"Umm, that's a lot to
take onboard," so at least
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if we make some steps, you know,
move towards a plant-based diet,
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and look at opportunities
to be able to just come into
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line because for some people
they can do it very quickly
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and others, well at least
it's, you know, differently
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with taking some steps.
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