Hello, I'm Agatha Thrash,
from Uchee Pines Institute
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and we have a program for
you today on "phytochemicals. "
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It's a big word but it
means something very simple
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and very common.
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The Lord put in all of the foods
that He intended for us to eat
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every nutrient that He
intended for us to have...
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...all that will be needed
to keep us in good health.
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Listen to this
from Genesis 1:29,
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"And God said, Behold, I have
given you every herb bearing
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seed which is upon the face
of all the earth and every tree
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in the which is the fruit
of a tree yielding seed; to you
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it shall be for food. "
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And so we have here, the
prescription that God gave
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to man for his diet.
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We hope you will
join us for this program.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute.
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And now, here's
your host, Dr. Thrash.
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We can have perfect confidence
that all we need to preserve our
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and to make us strong
and cheerful can be found
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in the food that
God has provided.
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Then we might say...
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Well why is it that
sometimes, for some reason,
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we get a little
nutrient deficient,
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or perhaps we even find
that what we have been eating
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is not protecting us against
some of those things that
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afflict mankind at this time.
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And so what we want to
do is to study the chemicals
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that God put in foods
in the very beginning...
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In this way, we can
know what foods we may have
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overemphasized
because our modern palates
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call for something that
may not be the best for us,
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or some of the refinements
or manufactured products
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that we have taken, have
not been in cooperation with our
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body's own physiology.
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And so as we study these things,
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we can know what we
should emphasize in the diet,
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and what things
we should minimize.
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So I've asked Dr. Winn Horsley,
who is one of my colleagues
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at Uchee Pines... he is one
of the staff physicians there,
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and he is going to be assisting
me to talk with you about
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phytochemicals.
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I like this topic.
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I like to talk about foods.
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I like food.
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And so I'd like us to just
talk about phytochemicals...
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a big word.
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The very words that you said
was what I was going to say...
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that this, to me, is a
very interesting topic.
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Well, I'll make
the point in a minute.
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Maybe one should look
at what the word means...
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Does that make sense?
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"Phyto" is a root
that simply means "plant. "
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And, "phytotherapy"
is therapy with plants.
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There are whole courses
of study in Europe where they
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study herbs and so on...
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So phytotherapy is a
well-recognized thing.
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"Phytochemicals" then are
chemicals that are in plants
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and especially in foods...
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Well, I see you've got quite
a sheaf of papers and I've got
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quite a sheaf of papers...
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The subject is a big one.
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And what we have is a
small part of a huge library
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on this subject
of phytotherapies and
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phytochemicals.
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You know, I get the impression
that this has really become
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a major area of study in just
the last 10, maybe 15 years.
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I know that when I went through
medical school, and even after,
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that there really wasn't the
same kind of interest now that's
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impacting not just nutritionists
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but doctors that are at all open
to this area of the protective
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chemicals that God
has put into foods.
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Yes, and as we study
even one food, we can say...
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well this food, I like it.
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Say for instance, apples...
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I like apples because
they're high in boron.
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Boron is good for the bones...
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And, therefore, women ought
to eat apples, because they are
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good for the
bones with the boron.
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But then somebody else says...
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But apples also have
this principal that normalizes
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the blood pressure.
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Ah yes, so everybody
who is susceptible to
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high blood pressure, should
be taking an apple a day...
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that's good!
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But then somebody else says...
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But then there's a
lot of fiber in apples...
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Well yes, anybody who
has... so we just, you know,
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we go on and on...
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It's not just one food
has one property... Right.
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You know, one could even ask...
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why didn't this
become a subject of study?
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There was lots of science
back in the 1950s and earlier...
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And maybe one should clarify
that when we are talking about
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phytochemicals, we're not
talking about the macronutrients
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...the BIG things
that are in food usually.
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I suppose one could use it
that way, but that's not usually
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the way the word is used.
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It's not talking,
therefore, about protein or fat,
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or carbohydrate that's in food.
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And, it's not even talking
about the trace nutrients like
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vitamins... where if a person
or an animal, when they do
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experiments, they give them a
diet without a certain vitamin,
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for a certain number of
weeks or months and soon they'll
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develop a
deficiency disease or even die.
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Here, we're talking
about something that has a very
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unique property... a
phytochemical, in general,
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is trace, but if you
don't give it to the person,
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they won't die soon, necessarily
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they won't necessarily develop
an obvious deficiency disease,
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but what's been found is...
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that as the years go by,
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they can age quicker.
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Or, they don't have
that protection that would
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keep them from cancer.
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And so, one can see why,
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in original
studies on nutrition,
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they just didn't
show up early along.
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Yeah... because it takes
years sometimes or decades
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for these things to develop.
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And another thing that we find
in the study of phytochemicals,
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is that... it's
the balance also...
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it's not just that a nutrient
is there, or the complex or
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cluster of nutrients that join
together to make a perfect food
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for the body.
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That also is a part of this
whole picture of the study of
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phytochemicals and
makes it so fascinating.
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I think that isn't taking
into account enough even yet...
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...that it's not just any
one, or even all of them saying
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in that you'd take it
different times but the
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combination that interacts
probably is having the effect.
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So we know that our Father put
all of these things in the foods
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in the beginning, so that
we would eat them more in the
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natural state.
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So we couldn't expect that if
we take selenium and lithium and
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chromium
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and administer these
in what we know to be
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the daily requirement,
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we can't get the same effect as
we can if we take the whole food
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Absolutely.
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This is before we started
talking here, just thinking
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about this whole
issue of phytochemicals...
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When you take it in well,
you begin to see that it just
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goes straight against mankind's
tendency to want to analyze
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and then
willy-nilly play with foods...
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Instead, we should treat
it almost like a sacred thing
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that God has put together just
exactly what He wants and knows
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that we need.
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It's not wrong for us to
cook things and to mix things
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and sometimes we even peel
or slice or take the heart of
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something instead
of the whole thing...
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that isn't wrong but
what is wrong is for us to
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think that we can depend on
supplying each little nutrient
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and that's going to do the
same work that God intended
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when he made the whole thing.
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And, you know, talking
about how one food can sort of
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become the prototype of
health for a certain organ,
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I would like us to
talk about men's diseases.
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We often don't do that.
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We concentrate on
women's diseases a lot...
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But do you have any special
information that you could tell
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people about what would
keep the prostate healthy,
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and how to protect the prostate.
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Maybe not just with foods,
but with other things as well.
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Well, we should maybe say
a word about the prostate...
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it's one of the issues of
men's health that's right up
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at the top.
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Almost without exception,
men, as they get older,
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and from the age of sometimes
even as early as 40 on...
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and by the time of 60
years of age is reached,
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I would guess it's way
over 80% of men have trouble
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with the prostate
enlarging and starting to give
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urinary symptoms.
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And then prostate cancer turns
out to be the most common cancer
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in men and perhaps in humans.
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I guess almost every
man old enough will get it..
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So, this issue of whether our
diet can affect the prostate's
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health is one of real concern.
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Do you suppose that it's
diet that determines whether...
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since we can expect that all
men will eventually get cancer
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of the prostate, but so
few men, relatively speaking,
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die of cancer of the prostate...
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do you suppose it's diet?
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Or is it lifestyle or
both that protects some men.
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There is a fatal prostate cancer
and a nonfatal prostate cancer.
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What makes the difference?
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They both look alike when I
see them under the microscope.
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Well, you know, on that issue,
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we don't even need to guess or
suppose because there has been
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some good scientific study
that has made clear correlations
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between the diet that a man is
following and whether he ends up
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with prostate cancer and
the risk of death from it.
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Some of this study has shown
things that could be suspected
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by just the wealth of
material that's out there about
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diseases caused by animal foods.
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And sure enough,
all the animal foods...
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meat, eggs, dairy products
do tend to cause an increase
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in prostate cancer.
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One that sticks in my
mind, because it's old fashioned
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cow milk that's
considered the perfect food,
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this graph showed that when
there was more than 2 glasses
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of cow's milk
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consumed per day,
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the risk of prostate cancer
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in that man went
up quite sharply...
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Well you know, that's similar
to what it is with breast cancer
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As certain animal products,
especially milk, goes up,
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the incidence of
breast cancer goes up.
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I have long suspected that
there might be a relationship
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between the factors that cause
breast cancer and the factors
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that cause prostate cancer.
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Do you have an idea about that?
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I think that there
really is quite good evidence
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and doctors have realized this
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even in the treatment of,
say breast cancer or prostate
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cancer, it's well known that
the corresponding hormones...
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female hormones in a
woman with breast cancer
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and the male hormone,
testosterone, in a man
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with prostate cancer, are
going to often, not always,
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but the large majority of cases
are, in fact, going to foster
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promote the
growth of that cancer.
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And, therefore, if you can
block that hormone's activity...
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in fact they used to do surgery,
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maybe it's still done...
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of castrating a man
with prostate cancer and then
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your growth will be
cut way down in the cancer.
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Because the major testosterone
source is lost... That's right.
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Yes, I remember back
when I was in medical school,
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they were already doing...
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in fact, that was one of the
best procedures considered was
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a prostatectomy with an
orchiectomy at the same time...
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so the testes and the
prostate were both taken out
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at the same time.
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Now, on that issue, that's
where these phytochemicals are
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so interesting.
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There are plant foods
that have phytochemicals
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that act as hormones.
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They mimic the action of
estrogen or of testosterone.
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In general, they are quite
gentle compared to the force of
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one's own hormones... and,
therefore, they're not going to
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cause a tremendous effect.
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And, in fact, the gentleness
of their stimulation towards
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that hormone activity, is a
help because they will occupy
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the site... the receptor site
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where that hormone
would act in your body,
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and so they're blocking
the hormone... your own hormone
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that would
stimulate more strongly
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and so that they are then
in fact damping, slowing down
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that stimulation that you would
get from one's own hormone.
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It's interesting how our
Heavenly Father looks down
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through the centuries
and knew that in this age,
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with all the things that we have
to make us have an increased
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risk of cancer...
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He gave us that protective
thing with the plants.
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He put into the
plants that that would occupy
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the stimulating site for
cancer by our own very powerful
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hormones.
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I'm thankful to our Heavenly
Father for the way that He made
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us and made a world for
us to live in that was very
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user-friendly.
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Should we mention one
of those phytochemicals?
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Why yes, I'd
like it if you would.
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In fact, we won't get through
your list here... nor mine.
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Well, you might
have more than I do.
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I didn't write down a whole
lot but I thought we should
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say one anyway... "lycopene"
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Lycopene is one of these
phytochemicals that has been
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found to definitely
help prevent and perhaps even
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help when the cancer is present,
to keep it from growing so fast.
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I've heard of dosing
like 15 to 20 mg 3 times a day
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of lycopene which
is found in tomatoes...
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I'll tell you, instead of taking
a little pill with 15 to 20 mg
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of lycopene 3 times a day,
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I would much
rather eat the tomatoes.
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Absolutely... a whole tomato.
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No reason why you can't eat...
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you don't have to eat
just a little slice... ah no..
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You can eat a whole tomato
because they are only this
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big... you know we always
think of eating a whole apple.
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Now you mentioned about the
Lord does let us do some things
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with food and cooking
can, in fact, be helpful.
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Here's a good example... Uh huh.
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With cooking of
tomatoes, it's felt that,
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in fact, if anything,
you release more lycopene.
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And so, tomato sauce, as
long as you're using other good
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ingredients with it, is
a worthwhile thing to use.
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Yes, in fact, it probably makes
it so that we can absorb it
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better.
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And so the Lord instructs
us that we should cook and
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that we should grind
and whatever we wish to but
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He has made these
foods for us very nicely.
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Now I notice here that tomatoes
are red and lycopenes are red...
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What about watermelons
and beets and some mangos
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and some other tropical fruits?
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Are they also high in lycopenes?
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Dr. Agatha, you're asking
because I think you've got the
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answer... Yes, we
don't have to take the pill.
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And let's say you're sensitive
to tomatoes... is all lost?
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You're not going to be
able to get lycopenes because
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unfortunately you're
sensitive... No, you can
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eat a lot of other things.
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You can eat tomatoes,
or ANYTHING that's red.
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And a lot of things that
are red are just absolutely
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wonderful to the palate as well.
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I'd like to come in with
one other thing that has a
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fascinating story to me
with regard to prostate cancer.
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This time, it's
probably not lycopene.
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It's a phytosterol... that
is one of these phytochemicals
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that acts like a hormone...
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Sterol... I would think
that sterol would be one of the
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steroidal-types like estrogen
and testosterone... Yes.
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Yes, those
steroidal... phytosterols
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Phytosterols and this was with
respect to red clover... Ah yes
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Red clover has
quite a lot of this in it.
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Now the story is this...
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A doctor in Australia
must have had some symptoms
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of perhaps a lump that
was felt in his prostate.
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He had it checked out and a
biopsy showed it was cancer.
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For some reason, there was
a delay until the definitive
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surgery was done.
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During this time,
he went ahead and took,
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I guess on a hunch... he had
an idea that red clover might do
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something and he took
a concentrated extract of
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red clover for those days or
weeks until the surgery occurred
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When they did the surgery,
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and the pathologist
looked at what should have been
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...you know, necrotic or... not
necrotic... it should have been
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cancer cells there...
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Instead what was seen was a
whole ream of dead necrotic...
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that's where I want to
use the word... the dead cells
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And, as a result of that,
there has been quite a spark of
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interest that has ignited over
the issue of whether, in fact,
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red clover or other
sources of similar phytosterols
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might be very useful for
prostate cancer and perhaps
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breast cancer, since the
two have similarities like that.
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Yes, there is a
product on the market,
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I believe called, is it
"Promensil"... that's the one.
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...That we have used for
men with prostate cancer.
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And, you know, it's interesting
that those cancer cells
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actually died with
this nutrient ... Yes
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So there are nutrients that
build and there are nutrients
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that will not allow
certain cells to grow...
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Or maybe they act as a
restrictor of the blood supply.
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Every tumor, every cancer has
to produce its own blood supply,
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has to grow it's
own blood supply.
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And some of
these "phytochemicals"
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will cause an inhibition or
a closing down of the specific
00:19:54.84\00:19:59.89
blood vessels that
supply the cancer...
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and when there is an attempt
to increase the growth of
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blood vessels by the cancer,
there is an inhibition of this
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so-called "angiogenesis"
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or the building of blood cells.
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Yes, in fact we have recommended
and worked with people using
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a substance that
has been extracted from
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what's called "bindweed. "
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Oh yes, bindweed.
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I think there is a
fair bit of that around
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and it does the very
thing that you describe.
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It inhibits that growth of
blood vessels that are required
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by a tumor or a cancer so
that the cells will stay alive.
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Do you know if they
have discovered what it is
00:20:43.38\00:20:46.04
in bindweed... what
that phytochemical name is?
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No, I don't recall the name.
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I don't know that
either but the term "bindweed"
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is sort of catchy, you know,
00:20:54.37\00:20:57.71
and so I remember
that one very well.
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I thought, just one
little point there...
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People think of cancer as... of
course, it is a terrible thing
00:21:02.08\00:21:08.11
but they think of it as
a monster that there is no
00:21:08.14\00:21:11.80
release from and as those cancer
cells are as though they're
00:21:11.83\00:21:15.53
infallible.
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But the facts are, that
actually cancer cells are weaker
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than our normal cells... Yes
00:21:19.98\00:21:22.13
When a fever is undergone,
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if there's something that puts
a stress on cells, often it's
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the cancer cells will die first
rather than our own good cells.
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If a person fasts, the
cancer cells will suffer first
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before our own...
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So, are you thinking then of
something like fever treatments
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or fever baths?
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Exactly... I think that
this has to do with a number of
00:21:45.54\00:21:48.23
natural treatments that
are used and it's just simply a
00:21:48.26\00:21:52.61
fact that the cancer
cells are more susceptible.
00:21:52.64\00:21:55.82
So if we bring, let's
say the mouth temperature
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up and up and up, as far
as a patient can comfortably
00:21:59.52\00:22:05.29
or maybe a little
uncomfortably tolerate it...
00:22:05.32\00:22:08.19
we should be able to heat
the cancer up enough so that its
00:22:08.22\00:22:12.74
cells become much
more vulnerable to damage,
00:22:12.77\00:22:16.13
than one's own cells would.
00:22:16.16\00:22:18.14
In fact, one's own cells
won't begin to get damage until
00:22:18.17\00:22:22.26
we're above 110...
00:22:22.29\00:22:24.62
and so we could bring maybe
a person's mouth temperature
00:22:24.65\00:22:29.37
up to 103 or 104 degrees and
expect that maybe the internal
00:22:29.40\00:22:35.40
temperature
might be 105 degrees...
00:22:35.43\00:22:37.87
And, at least in the laboratory,
it has been shown that cancer
00:22:37.90\00:22:42.07
cells taken up that high,
even above 103, often will die
00:22:42.10\00:22:47.75
and will almost always,
that cell will be unlikely to
00:22:47.78\00:22:53.75
reproduce itself.
00:22:53.78\00:22:54.83
And then, of course, the
other big factor we are doing
00:22:54.86\00:22:57.33
when we raise that temperature
is we're adding a tremendous
00:22:57.36\00:22:59.80
stimulus to the
immune system... Yes..
00:22:59.83\00:23:01.74
...which can then attack too
00:23:01.77\00:23:03.36
We are not defenseless
against cancer... That's right.
00:23:03.39\00:23:06.26
The Lord has given us such cells
as the natural killer cells.
00:23:06.29\00:23:11.79
And, these cells are
quite capable of seeking out and
00:23:11.82\00:23:17.73
attacking the cancer cells.
00:23:17.76\00:23:21.76
Now in a certain class of foods,
00:23:21.79\00:23:24.67
the so-called cruciferous
foods, the cabbage and bok choy
00:23:24.70\00:23:32.17
and radishes and turnip greens
and broccoli and brussel sprouts
00:23:32.20\00:23:36.34
LARGE FAMILY!
00:23:36.37\00:23:37.71
There are some cancer inhibiting
or cancer destroying properties
00:23:37.74\00:23:46.39
sulforaphanes and
all that indole group,
00:23:46.42\00:23:51.28
the indole
carbinols and the like.
00:23:51.31\00:23:53.66
All of these can
have a benefit in cancer.
00:23:53.69\00:23:58.07
Do you have any
special word on that?
00:23:58.10\00:23:59.07
Don't ask me for many
names but there is one that has
00:23:59.10\00:24:04.88
stuck in my mind
from soy... Ah ha
00:24:04.91\00:24:07.98
And this one is
"genistein"... Yes
00:24:08.01\00:24:12.17
I believe there's
another called "daidzein"
00:24:12.20\00:24:15.66
And these I don't believe are
so linked to steroid activity
00:24:15.69\00:24:23.51
but instead they're strong
antioxidants that will also help
00:24:23.54\00:24:27.81
fight cancer.
00:24:27.84\00:24:28.97
Now an interesting
thing about the soy protein
00:24:29.00\00:24:32.20
is that soy protein has
fairly recently been shown
00:24:32.23\00:24:38.06
to be protective to the kidney.
00:24:38.09\00:24:40.35
And so individuals
with kidney problems
00:24:40.38\00:24:44.56
and sometimes people
with cancer and other diseases
00:24:44.59\00:24:49.85
also have kidney problems
like with diabetes, they
00:24:49.88\00:24:53.60
may have kidney problems, and
the soy protein has been shown
00:24:53.63\00:24:54.99
to be actually
protective for them.
00:24:55.02\00:24:55.99
That was very interesting to me
00:24:59.77\00:25:02.54
to see that there is
this effect of soy protein...
00:25:02.57\00:25:06.25
because when you
have kidney failure,
00:25:06.28\00:25:08.78
the standard rule has
been way down on protein...
00:25:08.81\00:25:12.78
You know, barely
enough to sustain life... Yes
00:25:12.81\00:25:16.01
But here, they've done
experiments and shown that
00:25:16.04\00:25:18.65
the function of the kidney
actually improves with the use
00:25:18.68\00:25:22.65
of soy protein.
00:25:22.68\00:25:23.65
Yes, so a vegetarian
diet can indeed be used then
00:25:23.66\00:25:27.54
for a kidney
problem... Definitely.
00:25:27.58\00:25:28.78
I wonder if it's the protein,
or if there is another of these
00:25:28.81\00:25:33.28
amazing little phytochemicals
that God puts in foods...
00:25:33.31\00:25:37.64
In any case, it
works with the soy.
00:25:37.67\00:25:39.96
Yes it does. It works.
00:25:39.99\00:25:41.10
And that's, of course, the
thing that is most helpful.
00:25:41.13\00:25:44.99
Now, there's another food
that many of us like a lot...
00:25:45.02\00:25:49.98
Garlic.
00:25:50.01\00:25:51.16
And, what do you know about
the phytochemicals in garlic?
00:25:51.19\00:25:55.51
You know, there's a
host of them in garlic too
00:25:55.54\00:25:58.54
Now again, how
many names are there?
00:25:58.57\00:26:01.54
You know, there's a whole list
and every week some new ones
00:26:01.57\00:26:04.91
coming out and a lot
of them with LONG names...
00:26:04.94\00:26:08.02
And I don't have
many names at all.
00:26:08.05\00:26:10.66
I remember "allicin" is
one of them. Yes, allicin.
00:26:10.69\00:26:13.84
And there's another one
that is of interest to me...
00:26:13.88\00:26:17.72
It's called "ajoene"
that's in garlic... Yes
00:26:17.75\00:26:20.43
And I believe that is
the main anticoagulant
00:26:20.46\00:26:23.53
component of garlic.
00:26:23.56\00:26:24.93
And, when we speak of garlic,
we're not talking about just one
00:26:24.96\00:26:27.31
property.
00:26:27.34\00:26:28.45
There are a number of
medicinal properties of garlic.
00:26:28.48\00:26:31.21
I think a lot of
people have heard about it
00:26:32.24\00:26:35.07
fighting infection.
00:26:35.11\00:26:36.29
It's an antibiotic in its
nature but it actually helps.
00:26:36.32\00:26:40.89
They've shown that in
animals that have cancers,
00:26:40.92\00:26:43.53
garlic will somehow
promote the immune system,
00:26:43.56\00:26:48.22
or will somehow work
in there and I don't think
00:26:48.25\00:26:50.75
it's completely understood
how... that's right...
00:26:50.78\00:26:52.65
that it will fight the cancer.
00:26:52.68\00:26:54.90
And there are several
other effects of garlic.
00:26:54.93\00:26:56.73
All of them probably
mediated by these phytochemicals
00:26:56.76\00:26:59.99
You can see very easily
why the ancients considered it
00:27:00.02\00:27:04.94
to be the food of the gods.
00:27:04.97\00:27:06.40
They also called it the
"stinking rose," and it does
00:27:06.44\00:27:10.40
have some stinking properties
especially on the breath.
00:27:10.44\00:27:13.96
But nowadays, you can get
some of the properties in the
00:27:14.00\00:27:17.49
deodorized forms of garlic
which are quite common today.
00:27:17.52\00:27:22.88
If we did like
the East Europeans,
00:27:22.91\00:27:25.39
everyone eats garlic and no one
worries about a garlic smell...
00:27:25.42\00:27:28.82
In fact, if you don't
have garlic on your breath,
00:27:28.85\00:27:30.66
you are considered to be a
little bit gauche, maybe...
00:27:30.69\00:27:34.43
...not in with the in crowd.
00:27:34.46\00:27:37.04
So, as we think about
these wonderful things,
00:27:37.07\00:27:39.88
I'm just sorry out time
has run out to talk about
00:27:39.91\00:27:42.95
all of these wonderful
things that God has produced
00:27:42.98\00:27:46.80
and has put in the foods
to make it so that we can
00:27:46.83\00:27:49.72
be healthy and happy
00:27:49.75\00:27:51.23
and of a good frame of mind.
00:27:51.26\00:27:52.23