Module 1: First Things First
Module 3: Implementing the Anti-Cancer Diet
There’s a big difference between ‘Eating to Live’ and ‘Living to Eat’. Our culture is obsessed with food, with entire TV channels and shows dedicated to food. If you have cancer, now is the time to get away from that kind of thinking. Because every bite that you eat has the potential to promote health in your body, or promote disease, depending on your choices.
In order to heal cancer you need to make radical changes to your diet and lifestyle now. And you need to be prepared to maintain this lifestyle for the rest of your life. But there will be a point in time when you’ve gotten your health back, and can go out and enjoy ‘recreational food’. But for now, no exceptions. Because making exceptions can become a slippery slope. 100% is easy, 99% is hard.
What Not to Eat
Man-made Food – If you pick up any package of food and you read the ingredients, there’s going to be a long list of things you’ve never heard of. Processed foods contain artificial additives, preservatives, flavors, and colors that your body was never meant to ingest. It was never meant to ingest an isolated chemical compound, but rather whole foods from the earth.
Restaurant Food – Loaded with sugar, salt, preservatives, oils, and it’s going to be very difficult finding anything healthy eating out. So for now you need to eat at home. This might sound depressing to some, and it’s not forever, just for now.
White Sugar – Promotes cancer growth, and causes a host of problems in the body, it spikes your insulin to very high unhealthy & unnatural levels. So any candy, junk food, anything with white sugar has to go.
White Flour – This is wheat flour that is refined and bleached, stripped out of all the nutrition until it’s almost valueless, with a vitamins & minerals added back to it.
Meat – All animal food: beef, chicken, pork, fish, shrimp, anything that comes from an animal. In a 2005 study by Dr. Dean Ornish, took a group of early stage prostate cancer patients, and put them on a diet & lifestyle program that included a low fat plant-based diet, walking 30 minutes per day, with 1 hour per day of stress management (yoga stretching, breathing, relaxation). After one year, their blood had 8x the cancer stopping power as patients eating the standard western diet. Their blood slowed down the growth of prostate cancer cells by 70%, versus western diet blood which only slowed it down around 9%. In addition, they all had lower PSA counts, which indicates they were reversing the progression of early stage prostate cancer.
In 2006, some of the same researchers conducted a similar study on breast cancer cells. They took blood from overweight, postmenopausal women, eating a western diet. They dripped their blood on three different types of breast cancer cells. At the beginning of the study, the blood of the women eating a standard American diet suppressed the growth of breast cancer cells a little bit. Then they put these women on a low fat plant-based diet, with a daily exercise class. Twelve days later, they took more blood from the same women, dripped their blood on the cancer cells again, and stopped cancer growth between 6-18%, and increased apoptosis (aka cancer cell death) between 20-30%. (source) & source)
IGF-1 – How do Meat & Dairy promote cancer? One way is by raising Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 aka IGF-1, a growth hormone produced by your liver when you eat animal protein, and is linked to cancer growth. When you stop eating meat, your blood levels of IGF-1 drop significantly. IGF-1 promotes cancer growth, so you want to remove as much of it from your body as possible.
Methionine – The second connection between animal products & cancer, is the amino acid called Methionine – required for survival by cancers of colon, breast, ovaries, melanoma, leukemia, and many more – without it they die. This discovery was made in 1974. The highest sources of methionine are found in animal foods. While beans are the highest source in the plant kingdom – milk, eggs and red meat all have roughly twice as much methionine as beans. Chicken and fish have 5x-7x times more methionine than beans. Vegetables, nuts, and grains are extremely low with less than half the methionine as beans. Fruit has basically zero methionine.
Dairy – Has over 60 different hormones in it. The purpose of cows milk is to grown a baby calf from a 65 pound newborn to over 500 pounds in a matter of months. It’s baby cow growth formula, which you don’t want to ingest into your body. It’s not doing your body good, it’s promoting weight gain and cancer growth. Cut out the milk, cheese, butter, yogurt – all dairy.
Overview – “Eliminate meat, wheat, sweets, and anything that comes from a teet.” Eliminate anything processed, man-made, artificial, of which includes the majority packaged in a can, bottle, box, or bag. Those are the foods promoting disease. There’s only one part of the store you need to grocery shop in, that’s the produce section. Also avoid most grains. The food to eat now is fruits & vegetables – food from the earth in its whole form.
Juicing
My anti-cancer diet had two major objectives:
1) eliminate all food that might be a burden to my body or promote cancer.
2) overdose on nutrient dense food from the earth that would support my bodies ability to repair, regenerate, and detoxify.
I wanted to saturate my cells with vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, and the thousands of phyto-nutrients and anti-cancer compounds in plant food. Less than a third of Americans eat two servings of fruit and three servings of vegetables per day. “I went from eating one, maybe two on a good day, of servings of fruits and vegetables on a good day – to eating between 15-20 servings of fruits and vegetables every single day… that’s what taking massive action looks like.” Imagine how much your internal terrain would change if you went from eating 1-2 servings of fruits and vegetables per day, to 15-20 servings per day.
When you eat food, you juice it in your mouth. Your teeth are grinding it up, changing it from a solid to a liquid. Once it’s liquified, you swallow it. Digestion begins in your mouth, and your saliva contains enzymes that begin to break food down as you chew it. So let’s say you eat an apple, you chew it up & swallow it. The liquified part of the apple or juice, passes through your intestinal wall and into your bloodstream and circulates throughout your body and feeds your cells. The larger particles that cannot pass through, like insoluble fiber, move through your digestive system and go out the back door. The better you chew, the more nutrients you absorb.
Juicing releases about 90% of the nutrients in food, which is about 3x better then what you can do with your teeth. Juicing is an easy way to extract massive amounts of nutrition without having to sit down and chew through 20 pounds of produce every day.
I made 64 ounces of vegetable juice first thing every morning and I drank it throughout the day. That’s 8x 8oz servings, made all in one batch because I didn’t have the luxury of running my juicer 8x a day. So I had to figure out a way to make this radical diet change work for me. Some people may tell you that you have to drink the juice immediately after juicing, but you don’t. Juice will stay fresh in the fridge for a couple days. Just make a big batch every morning & drink it throughout the day.
Juicing is especially helpful for late stage cancer patients because they typically have very low energy. Juice is easily absorbed, you don’t even have to use any energy to chew. It goes straight into your bloodstream & is bringing vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phyto-nutrients and energy straight to your cells. It’s immediate, clean burning energy.
2004 Juice Formula
• Carrot
• Celery
• Beet
• Ginger root
Carrots – High in vitamin A, alpha-carotene and beta-carotene. One 8oz cup of carrot juice has over 45,000 IU of Vitamin A. Vitamin A is good for your liver, it promotes liver detoxification. Avoid Vitmain A in supplement form, in a study it was given to cancer patients and they got worse. It must come from a whole food like a carrot.
Carrots are also rich in vitamins B6, E and K, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, flavonoids, carotenoids, lycopene and lutein. This is all in carrots! And all these nutrients work together synergistically to feed your cells, inhibit the growth of many different cancers, and stimulate your immune system.
Carotenoids and vitamin A have a strong ability to protect you from cancers caused by viruses, chemicals and radiation.
One of the most powerful ant-cancer compounds in carrots may be Falcarinol. Falcorinol has antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, immune-boosting, and anticancer properties – specifically against leukemia and colon cancer. Falcarinol is also found in celery, parsnips, coriander, cilantro, and ginseng.
Beets – High in antioxidants. Like carrots, beets are also rich in carotenoids, lycopene and vitamin A. Beets have a special phytonutrient called Proanthocyanidin, which gives them their red color. Beets also contain Betaine, which is an anti-inflammatory. Beets are a good source of vitamin C, folate, managanese, and potassium. Beets can lower your blood pressure, and improve athletic performance.
Both beets and carrots are fantastic, so don’t be afraid them, they are potent anti-cancer foods, and you want them in your body.
Celery – Contain falcarinol, vitamins A, C and K, calcium, potassium and magnesium, and noteworthy anticancer flavonoids: apigenin and luteolin, which help block angiogenesis (the process by which tumors form new blood vessels).
Research from Ohio state demonstrate that Apigenin can stop breast cancer cells from inhibiting their own death. In other words, Apigenin turns breast cancer cells back to normal again, so they will die like a normal cell.
Apigenin is an Aromatase inhibitor. Aromatase is an enzyme that helps produce estrogen, which can promote the growth of certain types of cancers. There is even a class of chemotherapy drugs that are Aromatase inhibitors like Aromasin.
Apigenin activates a tumor suppressor gene called P53 and makes cancer cells more sensitive to chemotherapy. So for patients taking chemo, celery and other foods with Apigenin could help the chemo kill more cancer cells.
Make sure you buy organic celery, conventional celery is heavily sprayed with pesticides.
Sugar: Good vs Bad – @16min
Organic vs Conventional – ~@17min
SQUARE ONE Juice Formula
• 3-5 carrots
• 1-2 stalks of celery
• 1/2 beet root
• 1-2 beet greens
• slice of ginger root
• as much tumeric root as you can stand
• 1/4 of a lemon or lime
• 1/2 apple (he doesn’t worry about coring the apple)
• 1 clove of garlic
Gerson Carrot Apple Juice
• equal parts carrot & green apple
• 3 large carrots = 1 apple
Gerson Green Juice Formula
• 1/4 to 1/2 head of red, green or romaine lettuce
• 2-3 leaves of escarole
• 2-3 leaves of beet greens
• 5-6 leaves of watercress
• 2-3 leaves of red cabbage
• 1/4 green bell pepper
• 1-3 leaves of swiss chard
• 1 granny smith apple (they recommend coring the apple)
Breuss Juice Formula
• 1 beet
• 1 carrot
• 1 celery stalk
• 1/2 potato
• 1 radish
Daily Routine
Eating the same thing every day sounds boring, but started loving it and was all he wanted to eat. He felt good, and kept his life very simple. What we’re doing is putting as much potent anti-cancer nutrition in your body as possible, every single day. We’re overdosing on nutrition, we’re giving your body all the ammunition and firepower that it needs to fight cancer and to repair, regenerate, and detoxify. You’re building a new body with every bite you take. You’re putting the highest quality raw materials in to your body, that it’s going to use to rebuild.
Morning Juice
• juice 64oz carrot juice (takes about an hour from start to clean up)
• store the juice in mason jars (keep juice fresh & convenient servings)
• drink a juice about every hour
See testimonials for those who have beat cancer drinking only carrot juice. However, feel free to rotate between any of the other juices as desired.
2004 Giant Cancer-Fighting Salad (Lunch & Dinner)
• get a big bowl, start with leafy greens (kale, spinach, swiss chard, watercress, argula)
• add broccoli or broccoli sprouts, cauliflower, purple cabbage, slice of red onion, red/yellow/green pepper
• add a few nuts like almonds or walnuts
• sprouted lentils or beans (garbanzo or mung)
• on some days also avocado
• top off with naturally fermented food (sauerkraut, kimchi)
• apple cider vinegar (or lemon juice, or both)
• bragg organic extra virgin olive oil & barleans organic flax oil
• anticancer spices: oregano, garlic powder, tumeric, curcumin, curry powder, cayenne pepper, black pepper, bragg organic sprinkle
You can blend your salad, and drink it. Or you can transfer it to the stove, warm it up, and it like soup if you’re craving something warm. You can also fully cook it if you have a hard time digesting raw vegetables in the beginning. If eating a giant salad causes gas and bloating, this could mean you have SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth). If you have an overgrowth of bad bacteria, when you start eating high fiber food like raw fruits and vegetables, there is a reaction that happens because you don’t have the right bacteria in your gut to digest it. The bacteria in your gut is determined by what you eat. The good news is your gut bacteria will change in just a few weeks.
Top 10 Anti-Cancer Foods
1) garlic (allium family)
2) leeks (allium family)
3) broccoli (cruciferous family)
4) brussel sprouts (cruciferous family)
5) califlour (cruciferous family)
6) kale (cruciferous family)
7) cabbage (cruciferous family)
8) wasabi (cruciferous family)
9) spinach
10) beet root
asparagus, green beans, radishes, rutabaga
The most consumed vegetable in America is potatoes, which happens to have the least amount of anti-cancer properties.