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I've told you some scary statistics, but now let me kind of give you the where the breakthroughs are coming through. Right. So with this kind of knowledge, what do we what can we do with cancers, not just breast cancers, but in general? Number one, we know that if you boost your immune system with foods, with exercise, diet, lifestyle, you're going to actually make your immune defenses a lot stronger, to patrol your body, to wipe out those microscopic cancers. That's why healthy diet and lifestyle lowers the risk of cancer. That's why eating the right foods that boost your immunity can substantially lower your risk of cancer as well.
We also know that you can eat foods that support, prompt up, fortify your body's natural ability to control blood vessels. Keep those blood vessels where they're supposed to be and get rid of those blood vessels where you don't want them to be, which is kicking in the cockpit to take over your circulation to feed cancers. So, if you eat foods like that are anti-androgenic foods that like are unstable, you've got um coffee and tea; both of those contain natural substances that cut off the blood supply and starve cancers. That's a good thing. So, that's why we know our what we do with our diet can actually help to lower the risk of cancer as well. I'm assuming the opposite also applies. I I could eat foods, I can drink things that cause my body to malfunction, i.e., makes the blood vessels unregulated, makes and starts to feed the cancer, right?
Yeah, absolutely. So, let's talk let's talk a little bit about that. So, okay. So, I told you the body's hardwired with these defenses. Shields up, right? That's what we want to do because shields are already normally up. You want to raise them higher, but what about, and this is a brilliant question you're asking, a very probing question. What are the things that take your shields down, right? What are the things that turn off the smoke alarm in your house, that unlock the doors?
Can I take a guess? Is it this? Okay, now I know the answer that you're setting this conversation up for, which is a burger with meat. Uh, is that actually uh disease-causing? And I would I would tell you that yes and no. A burger is something that many people enjoy eating. And I would say eating meat, eating burgers, even eating ultrarocessed foods once in a while is not going to harm you if your health defenses are naturally strong. But if you make it a habit, a regular habit of eating this at the expense of eating healthier foods, more plant-based foods, less processed foods, okay? Um, you are actually going to tip the uh your odds where the diseases are more likely to get you. What that what that means is that overeating fast foods like burgers will actually contribute to taking your uh health defenses down, shields down.
So what are those things then that bring the shield down? You were saying, okay, excess sodium, too much salt, which can be present in a lot of restaurant foods. People eat out a lot, go to restaurants all the time. You ever you ever go to the back of a kitchen of a restaurant to see how they're salting seasoning their food? Patrons love salty food. It makes food taste really great. There's a, you know, our brains uh respond very well to salty food. That high sodium levels actually speeds up, accelerates our cellular aging, so we actually age faster. But it also um is a huge wear and tear on our health defenses, specifically our circulation, our our blood vessels; our androgenesis system is taken down by excess salt.
Okay, I've got a question here. Obviously, there's a a big movement at the moment around hydration and electrolytes, and these electrolytes have magnesium, potassium, they have sodium in them. Yeah. So a lot of people are now taking electrolytes to hydrate themselves. Is there a a risk here? So the great news is that the healthy body has got its own titration system for electrolytes. If you drink a electrolyte fortified beverage, you're your body's going to take everything it needs and it's going to pee out the rest. You're going to eliminate through your urine. All right. However, sodium uh is one of those electrolytes is present like you're not drinking electrolyte fluid all day long, but sodium you're eating it in almost every food that you actually have, except perhaps dessert, but maybe even then. And so this is one of the things that we realize is sodium is a high risk for hypertension, high blood pressure, inflammation of the lining of your circulation, and that that sets up for a lot of badness downstream when it comes to your health and it takes down your circulation um health defenses that we talked about.
High blood sugar can also do the same thing. So if you're eating an excess of added sugar, we all have heard by now glucose spikes and glucose crashes. I don't actually use those words by the way. I don't like to actually cast our body's metabolism in terms of spikes and crashes. I think those are fear words. They get attention. Uh, they they do make you pay attention to it, but in fact, really our the healthy body sort of has, you know, smooth ups and smooth downs. They're gentle slopes up and down of our blood sugar. And that's completely fine. All right? And and it should be like that. However, if you have an uphill climb of your blood glucose and it continues to stay up, that can actually happen if you're eating too much added sugar. Okay, added sugar, ultrarocessed foods. What happens is that your blood sugars, your intake of the sugar, glucose rises up up up, and now your body has your metabolism to chase that blood sugar down and it's got to work harder and make more insulin. And eventually, you just wear out that system and then you have a high blood blood glucose and an insensitive metabolism, and that's the beginning of sort of the the dominoes starting to fall apart in your body. And so sugar, high blood sugar, added sugar is a problem. You get it from fruit, not a problem. Okay? No one's going to be eating a crazy amount of fruit. This is why extremes aren't good. Diversity. Switch it out. Keep it interesting for yourself. This is what our human nature uh wants anyway. Uh, it's how we're hardwired. You you'll actually be fine. So salt, sugar, those are two offenders. Okay.
Um, alcohol is another one that actually can take down your health defenses over time. You know, people say, "Well, what about red wine? Isn't red wine healthy?" What I would say is that actually the fermented products, the or the bioactives that come out of red grapes from the skin of red grapes that's found in red wine, those there can be some healthful properties of the resveratrol and other polyphenols that come out of uh that are in wine, but it's never the alcohol. It's not the alcohol in the beer, the wine, the whiskey. Nope. None, none of that is the alcohol is is a universal toxin. Toxic to your brain, toxic to your liver, toxic to your heart. Can't get away from that. Your body will recover. Shields up little. It can take a ding. It's like a, you know, like a drink is sort of like a driving behind a truck and it flings a little pebble right into your windshield. You might get a little spider in the windshield. Okay, don't worry. It'll repair itself. You You'll fix yourself. You'll bounce back. It's not going to break your windshield. But if you keep on drinking, you're actually gonna smash your windshield. And that's why alcoholism is so devastating to the health. But you know, regular a small amount of alcohol. So alcohol itself is is a toxin.
Do you drink? Uh, I I rarely drink, and when I drink it's in moderation.
Mhm. And I was thinking about stress as well. Does that bring down the So besides the foods you eat, other things that can compromise your health defenses? Uh, and by the way, there are five health defenses. We talked about blood vessels. We talked about immunity, but there's three other ones uh that are core to functioning in the healthiest way possible. You want to if you want longevity, you need all five of your health defenses and more to be working in your favor. But stress, what does stress do? Lowers your immune system. Shields down. All right? Those microscopic cancers. Whoa. That's why stressful people are more vulnerable to de developing diseases like cancer. All right? Stress also causes your blood pressure to go up and causes uh neurotransmitters, hormones to be released from your brain and your kidneys, your adrenal glands that ought to wear down your circulation. Now your androgenesis system is also uh not functioning uh as well to protect yourself and keep good blood flow going where it needs to go. Now your circulation is actually down. Um, so again, stress also can actually damage the DNA. We talked about naturally copying and pasting and having errors. Add some stress to it. Now, it's kind of like um you're trying to copy that sentence I was telling you perfectly. Now, I'm going to come in and just smash your fingers down every now and then, and let's see if you actually make a mistake. You will. All right? Stress will actually do that. It's devastating to have so much stress continuously.
Listen, by the way, I want to be really clear to anybody listening or watching this, a little stress is actually good for you. You know, like just being coddled all day long and living in a happy bubble. That doesn't that's not that's not good for our health either. We kind of get laxidasical. We let our guard down. Little stress. I mean, anybody who's hardworking, you know, successful knows that, you know, it's not the no pain, no gain. It's that the that the grit that goes along with it, which gives a little stress keeps us sharp, you know, uh which is a which is a good thing. You want to be on you want to be on. So, a little stress is good, but when that stress is unabated, it literally sinks your health defenses. It is just taking those shields down.
Yeah, I've noticed that with myself. I've spent the last 10 years running businesses, a little bit more than 10 years now, but probably the last 13 years running businesses. And the only times when I really get sick, where I'm like out for a week and I really, really feel it is one week after two weeks of stress. So when I say two weeks of stress, what I mean there is when something happens in my life, business where that it's kind of chronic and it's enduring stress. I can deal with having a stressful day. I can deal with having two stressful days in a row. But when I've had like two weeks of an enduring issue, like an enduring angst or a problem, almost perfectly predictably, a week later, I'm sick. And I'm extremely rarely sick because I think I sleep really well. I I think I eat really clean. And so it's taught me something about if I zoom out on that and see what's going on in my body, well eventually like my body's kind of my immune system is running out of energy almost more than your immune system.
So when you're super stressed, it also interferes with your ability to sleep well. Yeah. When you're sleeping well, you know, sleeping is something that I was taught when I was a kid. When you're sleeping, you're resting. And when you're resting, you're not active, right? Well, that's just our physical self. It turns out when we're sleeping, even though our muscles may not be moving like we are during the day, in fact, a lot of other systems including our health defenses are being repaired, renewed, regenerated, rebooted while we are sleeping. So in those ideally eight hours, 7 to n hours, eight's the sweet, sweet number, you know, our brain is cleansing itself, detoxifying itself, releasing.
Do you know about the lymphatic system in the brain? Not as well as you do. Okay. Well, there's a there's a um sewer system of the gra of in our brains that's called the glimpmphatic system and it's shut tightly during the daytime when we're using our brain doing our work uh whatever we're doing and during the day we accumulate a lot of uh toxins in inside our brain during the day. It's just a matter of functioning. All right? And what happens is that those toxins accumulate which is that you know at the end of a really really tough hard day. You got if not a headache you've got your you feel like your brain is it's full. It's the cup runth over. Right. All right. So when you go to sleep, guess what this sewer system it's like the sewers of par underneath Paris. The grates open up suddenly and it drains those toxins out while you're sleeping. And only when you get good sleep. So, when you're stressed and you're not getting good sleep, you start to accumulate these toxins that are never quite cleaned up and your brain is not that cleaned up. When your brain's not cleaned up, you're feeling foggy. So, think about the, you know, when you're in college, you pull an all-nighter or you go to a party or whatever and you're and you're staying up all night, you're never quite the same. It takes a while for your brain to clean up itself. When your brain is foggy, you tend to not make as good decisions. I'm too tired to work out. I'm too tired. I don't care what I eat. I'm just hungry. I'm going to eat anything. You start to make bad decisions when it comes to diet and lifestyle. You see? So, it's a it it the stress can cascade on your health like that.
Is there a certain stage of sleep where the glimpmphatic system kicks in? Yeah. It's during like the deep REM sleep. Okay. That dreaming sleep. Okay. And that usually comes later in the night as well. Correct. Correct. And in more qual quantity later in the night. So, you need to really be getting a lot of sleep. Now, the other thing about deep sleep is while you're sleeping really deeply, your metabolism is also burning down fat. So, you think that you're not working out during the night, you're right, you're not actually exercising, but in fact, your metabolism is burning fat because while you're sleeping and your insulin levels don't need to be high because you're not eating, insulin levels go down, your metabolism shifts gears. I I sort of give people the analogy it's like your your body is a race car, sports car, like a Ferrari. During the day, you are in gear to drive, accumulate speed, and and you're you're revving your engines. At night, you shift gears where you're actually burning down fat. You don't need to accumulate more fuel. Now, you're burning down the fuel. So, when you're sleeping, you're actually burning away fat. But when you don't sleep well or you don't sleep long enough, you're not burning down that fuel. That fuel accumulates, day or two of not good enough sleep, that's that's okay. Think about flying overseas, getting some jet lag. You got to catch up. Once you get catch up, you feel better. All right? But think about this like day in and day out. Chronically stressed people are never getting good sleep. Add a little booze, alcohol to the to the equation. You can kind of see the problems that are going to build up. Your brain's going to be foggy. your metabolism is going to be out of whack. You're not burning as much fat from the calories that you ate during the day. Now, inflammation starts to uh rise in your body and that inflammation really takes down your health defenses and now you're much more vulnerable.
So, in your own example of where chronic stress leads to poor sleep and then you get sick, no surprise. If we go back up the thread there, we were talking about the sort of individual perspective on cancer. And I was looking at some stats here and it says that the number one Google search related to cancer is breast cancer. One in two people will develop some form of cancer during their lifetime. That's according to the NHS. Cancer is the second highest leading cause of death worldwide. And by 2040, there will be 28 million new cases of cancer each year worldwide. But one of the most shocking things that I saw was that globally early onset cancer incidents has risen by about 80% by 1990 and 2019. And there was an article which I'd sent to my team a couple of weeks ago. It's it's called the worrying puzzle behind the rise of early onset cancer. And it says that there are rising cases of breast collateral and other cancers in people in their 20s, 30s and 40s. And it posits the question, what is going on? Over the last 10 years, rates of colorctyl cancer among 25 to 49 year olds has increased in 24 different countries, including the UK, US, France, Australia, Canada, Norway, and Argentina. I mean, what is going on?
Yeah, that's a big question. So, are we seeing the results of more harms in our environment that we're being exposed to that are more toxic and leading to earlier incidents of clinical cancer? They're talking about clinical diagnosed cancer, not the invisible microscopic ones that are forming all the time. Um, it's yes, it's very worrying. Are we be exposing ourselves to something that is more commonly encountered today than before? Number one. Number two, are our defenses being taken down by forces that we didn't appreciate are compromising us? Most likely both. It's most likely uh I mean the human makeup hasn't changed and so it's got to be the fact a combination that we're being exposed to more harmful things and though some of those harmful things are actually you know provoking more cancers but and we're also being exposed to things that take down our health defenses. So the balance is being tipped against us and it's true. I can tell you that when I went to medical school I mean colorectile cancer was something that you rarely saw in people even in their 50s. it was for much older uh people uh now to see uh I mean there's even teenagers that have actually developed colurectal cancer which was unfathomable so I will tell you one thing that's actually arisen in terms of like what are some of the clues of these things that could be happening right so we are talking about climate change and all the things that are happening in our environment that's a that's almost too big a conversation to have to answer a question like this but we I think we cannot afford to ignore the fact that the environment, the climate that we live in has changed. But there are other things that we're beginning to unearth that we didn't realize until just within the last few years. And one of them is the is how many inflammatory microlastics we are ingesting.
When I was growing up, uh my mom very uh well-intentioned would store foods in plastic leftovers. Uh and we'd buy foods that came in plastic packages, right? We wouldn't think think second have a second thought about it. A plastic cup, styrofoam cup, go to a picnic, you're eating off of a plastic plate, right? I mean, these are all common uh experiences that we all have uh in the modern developed world. Well, what if I told you that we now realize that the plastic touching food can shed the plastic itself as microparticles into the food and then we eat the food and okay, we've known this for maybe more than a decade. Maybe there's little plastic particles uh that come off, but you know, hey, there's no harm, right? We we haven't been able to discover it. I I used to say that. Now, just within the last few years, we're beginning to pinpoint that number one, it does plastics can actually embed themselves in our body. We even know where we also know that these plastics uh are associated with inflammation. That is a big red flag. The claxon alarm should start going off. And third is that the volume of plastics that we're consuming is crazy. There was a study that came out recently that showed that in normal autopsies of people that didn't die of a brain problem that when they were doing the autopsies and looking for plastic that we could find them. And the amount of plastic that was found in the average human brain is about the amount you'd find in a typical plastic picnic spoon just distributed throughout the brain. This is like a normal this is a person who's died of something else.
Wow. Does that mean that you know like you and I are actually you got a plastic spoon worth of plastic in our brain. There's been some people that calculated and this has been the actual calcul math has been challenged but there was an estimate that you know some people might consume as much as a credit card's worth of plastic every single week in their food if they're not careful about it. And let me just tell you where we're finding microplastics. And you know I want to get to the point where we're talking about the healthy foods that can actually turn the ship around. How do we turn the battleship of of unhealth back to health? So, we're back on the course that everybody wants to go to. We want to go to that north. How do we find our northstar for health? So, I do want to get to that, but let me just say something about microplastics. We've now found microplastics in the brain. As I mentioned to you, we found it in a bloodstream. A group in Italy actually looking at men who had narrowing of the corateed artery. That's the blood vessel feeding the brain from comes from the heart right to the brain the corateed artery. Oh through the neck through the neck. They found that the narrowing that can occur in some men can accumulate plastic. They can actually find plastic particles. There's photographs of the chunks of plastic the particles fragments of plastic in there. And they followed them over a period of time. Those men who had plastic embedded in their blood vessel lining had a four-fold increase in the chances of having a fatal heart attack or a stroke years later. 400%. Four four-fold. Yeah. Okay. Now, that's that's not kidding, right? So, now you're now we're beginning to take notice of this, but we're also finding microplastics in breast milk. We're finding microplastics in testicles. We're finding microplastics in human semen. How does it get there? And urologists who are doing surgery on the penis are finding that in in the human flesh when they look under the microscope, we never used to look for this. Now we're looking for it. That there's even microplastics in the flesh of the penis. Okay. So if anybody listening this isn't taking notice about microplastics now, it's time to start thinking about this. So one of the questions is and I'm not saying that the rise in rate of cancers that we're seeing is due to microplastics. What I what I am saying is that we're beginning to wake up to the fact. So let's close off on microplastics. What are the the easy wins in our lives? Do you think when you think about microplastics? Is it just removing anything plastic that I eat from or are there some sort of easy cheap wins? Is it my shampoo? Is it my frying pan? Is it a container?
Yeah. So, I always tell people that the easiest way to lower your exposure to microplastics is to throw out your plastic cups, your plastic plates, and your plastic silverware. Mhm. Okay. And get ceramic or glass. Uh, that's the best way to actually avoid those. And also, when you're buying food, try to avoid food that comes clearly packaged in plastic. If you love the Diver CEO brand and you watch this channel, please do me a huge favor. Become part of the 15% of the viewers on this channel that have hit the subscribe button.