The seed or the soil.

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0:42 Eastern Time on W4HC Radio at W4HC. com as together we discover the secrets to better health through science and spirituality. A better life with Ageless Blueprint starts now. Here's your host, Dr. Eldred Taylor. Hello, good morning. This is Dr. Taylor. I'm the Hormone Doctor, and this is Ageless Blueprint, and it's Wednesday at 9 o'clock, and that's when we talk about things that can improve your health. and how we try to connect your body, mind, and spirit. But today, I really wanna talk about, usually I talk about hormones, but hormones are involved in what I'm going to talk about today. I wanna talk about cancer, okay?

1:31 And what I wanna talk about is how you can be involved in your cancer treatment, okay? Now, I'm not an oncologist or anything like that, but I am a functional medicine doctor, and I try to help people function before, during, and after a cancer diagnosis and all the things that people have to go through. And almost everybody is touched by cancer, okay? Either you know someone, you have survived a cancer, everybody has been touched by cancer. And I see these patients in my office and they don't know what to do, okay? So I want to just try and give some guidelines. I want you to to look at cancer a different way. And what we're going to talk about today is, is cancer a product of the seed?

2:25 We've been talking about, we talk about the DNA and how the DNA can be damaged and that causes cancer, but it's really only about 10% of cancers are due to any kind of genetics. A lot of it is due to the environment. And so what we're going to do is talk about the seed versus the soil. OK, is it the is it the mutation or is it the soil that we are great? All right. So that's good. The seed or the soil, a new way to look at cancer. And so what I want to do is I don't want to talk about all the DNA mutations and all those kind of things. I just want to talk about how we can have a soil that grows good things and doesn't grow cancer. OK, so if the right the right soil will grow what you want it to grow. The wrong soil will grow weeds. And you want to look at cancer as the weed. And what we want to do is have an unfavorable environment for the cancer and a favorable environment for your healthy tissue, all right? So a new way to look at cancer, exploring the connection between the cell and its surrounding environment, right?

3:34 So I actually did this lecture in 2016. So this is one of my vintage slides. and it's inflammation and breast cancer. And one of the reasons why I was looking at this in 2016, because my sister, my older sister passed away in 2016, and she had an inflammatory condition, and then she developed a breast cancer. And from that, I started to understand how important inflammation is in disrupting the soil. So she may have had a seed, but the soil was more favorable for the cancer growth than it was for her survival. And so that's how I got interested in this. And so this is a little bit of the past lecture, and then we added a few things to that, all right? Now, here's the important information.

4:27 Cancer biology begins well before the visibility, all right? So by the time you see something on mammogram, it has been there for a while. It has to grow big enough for the imaging to actually see it. So all of this depends upon certain cancers. Different cancers are definitely more aggressive than others. You know, that's why they have the stages and all those that say how aggressive something is. So aggressive cancers, some cancers are uncontrollable, especially if they're what we call triple negative breast cancers. But then there's other cancers that are slower growing that may give you signs earlier that something is wrong. And so that's what we want to talk about. All right. Now, I want to do this kind of in sections. One, we're going to talk about what is a favorable environment for the cancer to grow, all right? So the angiogenic switch, how this works, how cancers work, they begin to grow, and then they start to outlive their own little blood supply.

5:30 So therefore, they have to try and recruit blood vessels from other tissue, all right? And there's certain things that can turn that switch on and there's certain things that can turn that switch off. So blood flow can support expansion and create routes for progression. All right. So after they get these new vessels, now they have different pathways where they can go and invade or metastasize other tissues. So what if there were things that you could do to turn off that switch, to choke off the blood supply? of that cancer, all right? That's what you want to do. So how tumors recruit new blood vessels. So they get so big that they don't have any oxygen. So hypoxia means that they are low in oxygen, all right? Then there's something called vascular epithelial growth factor. You don't have to learn that. But it's V-E-G-F. That means that it's going out looking for ways to get more oxygen. And so it recruits blood vessels and those new vessels sprout.

6:30 And when they sprout, again, it gives the cancer an avenue. So I'm not a nutritionist. I'm not an expert on this. But this guy is. Dr. William Lee, Eat to Beat Disease. This is a book. I have the book. I didn't bring it in. But this is a book that really goes through all of these items, all of these different areas where you can intervene. to not only beat cancer, but to also beat other diseases. But what I want to talk about now, he talks a lot about angiogenesis. He says that's the first step. And he was actually studying cancer drugs. And then somehow he stumbled upon that there were certain foods that did some of the same things that the cancer drugs did. So he started investigating foods that would fight disease. And some of you guys may see him on, on YouTube or whatever, but I found his book to be very enlightening. So he talks about how food influences the biological terrain or how food either supports growth of good tissue or it is a open door for cancer cells. So food influences the biological terrain and already talked about inflammation. And there's a lot of people who have food sensitivities that they're not aware of. OK, because I'm not talking about food sensitivities that are like

8:01 I ate a shellfish and my face swole up and I couldn't breathe. Nobody really has to do a test after that happens to you. You'll never, ever eat shellfish again. But some people can be sensitive to broccoli. They can have what they call leaky gut. where little pieces of broccoli get into the bloodstream, your body sees it as foreign, and now it causes it to have an inflammatory response. It sees it as an invader, so it makes antibodies to it. So it gives you a low level of inflammation that you don't really recognize as inflammation. but it may come out as fatigue or brain fog or inability to lose weight. All of that can be due to food sensitivity, all right? So then we all know about insulin, not eating simple carbs that spikes your glucose because cancers love glucose. The microbiome, we know that the gut actually protects us from things that can inflame us. So we want to make sure we have a good microbiome. And also the microbiome, it has so much influence on your immune system. And there are actually studies that show if you can take the microbiome from one person who's healthy and put it in another person who's not healthy, sometimes just changing the bacteria ends up helping to end the disease or decrease the symptoms of the disease. And then we want angiogenic balance, all right? We want blood vessels

9:32 to go toward the normal tissue and not toward the abnormal tissue. So now in his book, Dr. Lee, he talks about specific foods and certain things they can do. So berries, they have anthocyanins. I know it's a big word, but it helps calm down inflammation and it decreases blood vessel growth. Tomatoes, and you may have heard all this, lycopene, and it's really good for guys who have prostate cancer, may influence oxidative stress and vessel growth signals. Okay. So you're stopping it at the earliest point that you can think of. And again, hopefully it stops anything from growing if you don't have any type of cancer. So soy foods, isoflavones, things that are in soy that actually, you know, people say to avoid soy because it has estrogens, but really it has mild estrogens or weak estrogens that actually protect you from stronger estrogens that you may be exposed to or estrogenic compounds that are in the environment. So green tea helps regulate that growth factor, that VEGF, so that you don't make new blood vessels to supply the cancer.

10:46 And then there's cruciferous Those are things like broccoli and cauliflower, and it has something in it called sulforaphane. And sulforaphane actually allows estrogen to be metabolized in a very safe manner. Estrogen can go down two paths. One is a very safe path for estriol, and another path is called estrone. You don't want it to go down the estrone pathway if you can avoid it, because too much of that is the estrogen is more carcinogenic. So it makes it go toward that other pathway. Then herbs and spices, plant compounds may help regulate inflammation and oxidative stress. So food patterns matter more than isolated claims. So I'm not saying that, hey, if you eat tomatoes, you're not going to get prostate cancer.

11:35 But what I am saying is that if you do a more plant-forward diet, you are doing things that could possibly decrease your risk. At least you're not adding something that can inflame the tissue if you go toward this. And I will tell you that my cancer patients who came in, all of them said that they had stopped eating meat. And there is evidence that meat and the things that are in the meat could be carcinogenic, especially if you barbecue it or nitrites and all those things, those can be carcinogenic, right? So I'm just telling you, I believe, and I think the evidence supports it, that the more plant-forward you are, then the less likely you are to be, you know, be exposed to anything that would cause disease. So, all right, so food is important.

12:28 So during cancer treatment, the best diet supports treatment tolerance and adequate nutrition. So even though the patient may not feel hungry, they need to have a good diet, okay? And so... That's what you want to do. You don't want to not eat or support your body, but you also don't want to support the growth of the cancer. Now, I will tell you one of the best things that I have seen that can make the soil better is vitamin C. Vitamin C helps the body to make collagen a major part of the extracellular matrix. So when I say extracellular matrix, I'm talking about the tissue that is around the cell or the substance that is around the cell.

13:16 And that's what makes the cell strong and makes the good cells or the healthy cells healthy enough to fight off the cancer or to prevent the cancer from invading the tissue. So it also supports immune function and normal antioxidant defenses. Now, this is what I use to support that. This is not a cancer cure, but it has been shown, and I'll show this in a little bit, It has been shown that it supports a better quality of life while they're going through the cancer treatments. Now, there are some treatments that you don't want to use vitamin C for, but it really does help. It seems to help support the patient. All right. So I use vitamin C to support patients while they go through the cancer treatment. And it seems to help patients come back and say, hey, look, the doctor is really pleased with what's going on. It's pleased how I am not having the regular side effects of some of these. So again, Does everybody respond like that?

14:11 But I'm telling you, there is a lot of evidence that vitamin C can help these patients get through all of these treatments. So again, I never, ever use this as a cancer treatment. These are for people who are coming to try and help support them. Because a lot of times I think that we're so involved in killing the cancer, we don't see that the patient is actually not functioning well. is not having a good quality of life. So, and the oncologists, you know, they're doing their job and I try to do my job, but also the patient needs to do their job also. All right. So human clinical evidence, dozens of published human studies, most are phase one or phase two trials. Some report better quality of life, fewer treatment side effects or improved cancer outcomes. And this can vary based on dose or protocol or cancer type and outcome. I'm just saying overall, vitamin C seems to help. Now, the one person you don't want to give high-dose vitamin C to is anyone who has a G6PD deficiency. They are not able to handle high doses of vitamin C and cause disruptions in their blood cells. So is it a panacea? No. But vitamin C has a lot of clinical uses. And I will just tell you, because you can't patent vitamin C, it's not going to be at the forefront. But this is something that I believe you should know and that it could help you. All right. Now,

15:43 we talked about food. We talked about vitamin C. We talked about all this. Now, I want to talk about another thing. So we're talking about how we can prevent cancer. Now, I want to talk about how you could possibly better diagnose it. All right, so mammography. Every woman knows about mammography and the calcifications and all of the recommendations. And it is very good. It's very good at detecting disruptions, masses, calcifications. So it's very good at that. But no calcifications alone does not mean that it's a negative mammogram or that there's not anything brewing or there's not something that's trying to develop a blood supply. It's not actually going to see that, but it's very good at detecting any kind of structural problems, right? Now, The structure and surface physiology. Mammography, we can see structural abnormalities. So we can see a cancer.

16:43 We can see that something looks, you know, out of balance. One breast looks different from the other on mammogram. But in thermography, what you can do is you can look at temperature asymmetry. you can look at different temperatures. So it's called thermography because therm is heat. So if you recruit a blood supply that is out of the ordinary of the usual breast architecture, that blood supply is going to be heat. It's going to be hotter than the rest of the tissue. It's going to be 98.5 or whatever. Okay. So you can do a thermogram that picks up heat signals and you can say, wow, there's inflammation over there. And we know inflammation is And breast cancer, they go together.

17:26 So if you see something that's hot or hotter than the rest, then it requires some kind of investigation. Is it inflammation? What's going on? So this is how a thermogram looks. You don't have to squeeze the breast. You don't do any of that. You just have the patient has to be in a temperature controlled room. it's there's some you know criteria for it but this is how it looks and the darker red areas are inflammation and so when you see that and we know inflammation is what causes aging so we talk about ageless blueprint is is decreasing inflammation is how you live longer inflammation is the problem with cardiovascular disease the two top killers cardiovascular disease and cancer are are both promoted by inflammation. So if you can see that there's inflammation, you want to try and calm the inflammation. But if you see it in the breast or any particular organ that's more concentrated, you're saying, wow, why is so much blood going to that particular spot? And so that alarms you or it requires you to look a little bit further.

18:35 All right. So, and a lot of people haven't heard of thermogram. And if you live in a big city, there's usually probably a thermogram center close to you. And again, this is something that you can do on your own. I'm not telling you that insurance is going to pay for it. I'm just, what I want to do is just inform you that there's other things out there. Okay. I want you to follow all of the rules. Okay. But if you want to go a These things are available to you. That's all I'm trying to do. So negative, the reason why I'm so careful, because when you talk about cancer, you have to be very careful not to give false hope. Okay, so that's why I'm being so careful about what I say. So if the mammogram is clear and the breast is still hot, so if you have a negative or benign mammogram and you see a focal hotspot, you want to look at the clinical context. Okay, where is it? Is it in a place where we see a lot of cancers? like that red part in the chest there that you saw, that's probably just generalized inflammation.

19:36 But what you want to know is you want to make sure you do the appropriate follow-up. You don't want to panic, but you don't want to dismiss the signal that why is this area warmer than the other area? Is it due to recruiting a blood supply? Because it is estimated that you can see some of these preclinical detectable phases in some breast screening models, one to three years prior to seeing something on mammograms. So I'm not telling you you're always going to see something on thermogram, but this is a possibility. This is a possibility that could work for you. So that's the key here is that I just want people to know that there's other options because cancer is frightening and you don't know which way to go. And I'm not telling you which way to go, but I'm telling you there are There are ways that you can go down this road together. And then there's ways, you know, some people just want to do it naturally. I don't advocate that. I don't try and promote that. But some people, that's what they want to do. And so I'm just trying to tell them that here are some things that you can do on your own. So if you have a hotspot, now this is where the hormones come in. This is where the hormone part comes in. Because if I see a hotspot in the breast, you want to make sure that her estrogen and progesterone are in balance. And you want to make sure she doesn't have too much estrogen. You want to make sure she doesn't have too many dangerous estrogen metabolites.

21:06 So you really want to make sure that if it is a cancer and if it is estrogen receptor positive, then you want to make sure that you are going to investigate her hormone panel. And you know me, I want to do it in the saliva. I don't think the blood tells you much. But I'm definitely going to do that. And then I also want to know her reproductive history. Does she have a issue? When I talk about reproductive history, has she had children? Because there are a lot of women now who are delaying childbirth or not having children. And that's actually an increased risk of breast cancer. Now, I also want to know, does she have a family history of breast cancer? And what is her current exposure to hormones? Is she on hormone replacement?

21:49 And this is what I will tell you. Back when I was practicing, we used to give women Primrin and Provera. And then the Women's Health Study came out. Now, and what everybody is saying now, which is very true, the real culprit in breast cancer was the Provera because it had something called matrix metalloproteinase. And so whenever you see ACE, that means it's going to eat up something. It's an enzyme. And so what it did was it destroyed the extracellular matrix. It made the tissue intact. around the cancer, around the cells, very susceptible to invasion or to growth or whatever. So it is correct that that Women's Health Initiative really may have put the blame on the wrong culprit, but that's why I'm saying it's a combination of hormones and the environment around the cell. And we also want to make sure that they're not insulin resistant because remember that cancer cells love glucose. So also adiposity, the more fat tissue you have, the more estrogen you're actually going to make.

22:56 So even a postmenopausal woman who is obese can have too much estrogen. And even any postmenopausal woman can. You want to look at the inflammatory load. What is their diet? Are they eating meat? Do they have a plant-forward diet? Is there any infection? Again, infection is what's the end result of inflammation. So is there any injury? Actually, if you injure a part of the breast and that tissue is damaged, this is more susceptible than the normal tissue. And then you want to look at the breast content. Are they dense? Are the breasts dense? And that's why the mammogram didn't show it. Is there a family history?

23:39 And is there previous imaging? Is this a change? And usually with demography, you will do an initial one, and then you do another one a few weeks later. and you want to see if there's any change. So that's with anything. You want to see, is this getting better? Is it getting worse? Also, you can use thermography to see if you've completed, if you have normalized all of these things, the hormone content, the metabolic content, the inflammatory load, and the breast content. What you can do is that you can see if you've changed those, if that area went away, you can say, oh, We took care of it. It was brewing, but we caught it in time. All right. This is the last one I want to do. So let's go for a break now, okay? Because I want to kind of put this in separate things. I want to talk about the food and nutrition, and then I want to talk about better surveillance. Or I won't say better.

24:33 You can say two kinds of surveillance. We're talking about mammogram and thermography. And then we're going to talk about different ways to monitor the cancer other than just getting a scan every six months. Because I see patients all the time and they're so nervous a week before they're about to do a scan because they just don't know what it's going to show. And I want to show you that there's other things, and oncologists are using this test to see how they can monitor cancer progression or regression better. So let's go for a break, and then we're going to go here, and then we'll have some questions if we have any questions, or we'll just see what happens. So let's go to break.

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26:03 Shop now at TaylorMDFormulations.com and discover smarter supplements for smarter health. That's TaylorMDFormulations.com. We are back for more of Ageless Blueprint. Once again, let's join Dr. Taylor for more insights and research on the ancient secret to better health and a better life in modern times. Here's your host, Dr. Eldred Taylor. Okay, we're back. I'm Dr. Taylor, and we're talking about cancer, and we're talking about is it the seed or the soil? And what that means is, is it the environment around the cancer cell, or is it actually the cancer cell itself, or is it a combination of the two? And like most things, it's a combination of the two. If you put a seed in rocky soil, it won't grow, okay?

26:51 If you put a seed in good soil, it will. And that's the same with negative soil. You put... a bad seed and bad soil that's going to cause the weeds or whatever to grow. That's what you don't want. So anyway, we talked about food. We talked about mammography versus thermography. And if you hadn't heard about thermography, please listen to this. And that's an option that's available to people. And then I want people to know that there's a test called Signatera. And oncologists, there are some oncologists that use this. Some oncologists don't, but this is something you could ask for. And right now, the test is free.

27:31 I'm not sure how they do that, but the test is actually free. If you don't have insurance or if your insurance doesn't pay, as far as I know, most of these are free and you need to talk to you know, whoever you get this from. But what it does, it looks for the DNA of your particular cancer. So I use this in my office for cancer patients, and sometimes they'll bring one in from their oncologist. And so what it will do is I will get a pathology report. We send it to Signatera. Signatera goes to your hospital that did the surgery and asks for a sample of the pathology of the tissue. And what they do is they take that particular DNA from that particular cancer that knows all of the seed, okay, that knows that cancer.

28:20 And then what it looks for, it looks for fragments of that cancer in the bloodstream. So they go through that and they look, they can match, hey, look, are there any of this DNA in the bloodstream? So that could possibly mean that the cancer is shedding DNA, okay? So if you see that, then you know that, hey, either your treatment is working or it's not working, whether it's chemotherapy or whatever. And you know it before you see a scan that has some big mass. Because with signatory, you'll do a baseline one. You do another one four weeks later to see if it's going up or it's going down. And if you've intervened with a treatment, you'll wait four to six months and say, is it four to six weeks? And say, is it going up or down?

29:03 You don't necessarily have to wait six months. in order to have your scan. And I'm telling you with cancer patients that scan and what it may show is very anxiety provoking for them. And when I show them this and I can show them that, Hey, look, I'm not telling you, uh, you know, that this is 100%, but at least it gives you some idea that, Hey, look, do I have, do I need to do more myself or do I need to show this to my oncologist and say, hey, look, I don't know if this therapy is working. Can we do something before the six-month scan? So that's what I'm trying to, show you, is that there are other things out there. And there's probably things that I don't know. But this is some information that I think patients should know. And in my office, the people I see, that's just a few people. So if I can put this out here, and I don't get any money from Signatera. I don't. I just think it's a great tool for cancer patients. And like I said, I'm not a representative of signatory. I'm just telling you how I use it in my office. All right. Again, we talked about the three windows, the three windows of cancer.

30:15 There's mammography. So you want to do that first. If you see anything there, you want to do all of the follow-up and do exactly what they're telling you to do. If it's a negative one and you are really concerned, you could think about thermography. And if you see a hot area, it does not mean you have cancer. It just means you may need to investigate that more than just doing what the mammography showed, okay? Because they'll do an ultrasound and if they don't see anything, that's fine, all right? So that can be your third layer if you're interested. And then once you have a cancer diagnosis, I'm just showing you that there is another way to monitor it other than along with, I won't say other than, along with the six-month scan or the three-month scan or whatever it is, right? So there's a cancer care continuum, I believe, okay? The food and cutting off the blood supply and decreasing glucose, those are all risk reduction. And again, the mammogram, the demography, the ultrasound, all of those are detection mechanisms. And then we want to talk about the treatment.

31:22 How can we better personalize the treatment? Well, you can do that with the surveillance with the Signatera. Okay. You can know early on, hey, wow, this treatment is doing, you know, we're doing this treatment and the Signatera keeps going up. Let's see what we can do. And let's not wait till we can see something on our PET scan or our MRI or whatever. All right. So food can support the terrain across the continuum. and its roles changes after diagnosis. Other thing I want to, I usually recommend, you know, books to patients, because I think the more they understand, the more they understand their cancer or any information like this, the more they understand it, the more likely they are to do some of the things that these books suggest. I tell everybody to look at Radical Remission.

32:17 radical remission, this PhD, Dr. Turner, what she did, she interviewed a thousand women who had what they thought were radical remissions. They had cancers that the doctors just kind of gave up on. Nothing's working. We can't do anything. And so they decided to take things in their own hand. And she lists nine different things that are very important. And the number one is to take control of your health. That was the number one, because when you feel like you have lost control, That is very stressful and stressful. I'm telling you, stress is the enemy of any cancer. And that's why I try to calm patients down because a lot of them get very anxious when they talk to their oncologist and they tell them they have six months to live. Very anxiety provoking and stress causes inflammation.

33:05 So number one thing is take control of your health. And I would advise you to read her book. And I think I have a little handout that kind of talks about those nine things and But I would encourage you to read the book. The first book that really that inflammation, that original one in 2016, really came from this anti-cancer, a new way of life. And this is actually an MD who had cancer and he had a brain tumor and they had given up on him. And so what he did was he started searching. And he looked at all of the things that were anti-cancer. And he did that as a new way of life for 25 years. Then he wrote that book and he started traveling and everything again. And he wrote another book and said that the stress of the traveling brought his cancer back.

33:55 And he actually passed away after 25 years. And you can say that it was due to the popularity of the book and the stress. And he admits this. He talks about how stress will influence this cancer growth, and how all of that works. And that's why I tell you that stress is the number one enemy of not having cancer, okay, or not letting it progress. And that's also, we looked at our book, The Stress Connection, and how that's connected to all this, and are your hormones making you sick? And I will tell you, you know, these four books are And Dr. Lee's book, I would recommend very highly, along with my two books.

34:38 Okay. Now, we have that. Now, let's go. Hey, do we have any questions, Rebel? Yes, we have a few coming in. I'm getting them ready for you now. Okay. All right. So, what you eat may influence the terrain. And what you measure determines what you can see. So we want you to eat correctly, but then we want to measure it. We want to measure things. I always love to measure. You cannot manage what you cannot measure. So it's hard to manage your cancer if you can't measure what is improving it and what's not improving it. And you want to do it earlier rather than later. The earlier you can intervene and the more consistent you can be with your intervention, then the more likely, I'm not going to say you're going to prevent cancer or cure cancer, but you'll get through this ordeal, I believe, with a better quality of life. And that's what I've seen in my practice. That's what I think some of the clinical observations have shown. And I think there's science that can back it up also. All right. So we'll take some questions as we get ready to end this today.

35:50 I'm going to make some shorts. I want to have this kind of in sections so that if you're interested in mammography or thermography, you'll see that. If you're interested in foods, you can look at that portion. And if you're interested in, okay, how can I do better surveillance? And at least right now, as far as I know, the Signatera is mostly free. So I would tell you, you know, I don't know how long that's going to last, but that has been very helpful in my office. All right. Do you have the questions, Rebel? Yes. First question, how are they offering it for free? I do not know. Okay. I know they're on the stock market. The stock market is doing well, and I'm not invested in it. Okay.

36:33 I'm not. But I'm not sure. I don't know if they're getting funding from some big, company that's going to end up buying them out i i don't know so look don't ask any questions just i say hey look it just just if you can get it i would take it and don't ask any questions okay so uh next question. Um i think you just answered it is this a procedure or a medication. The test no it's it's a blood draw you'll have to get your blood drawn so i can show you um Yeah, they draw the blood, they spin it out, and then they match it with that particular cancer's DNA. And they want to see if anything is circling around in the blood. And if it is, you know the cancer is now shedding. And it can show you You know, the proportion. So you can see, is this more than last time or is it less than last time? So, no, it's actually a blood draw that you'd have to go to your doctor to get done.

37:32 Would you use this before you have cancer or do you have to have it first? Yeah, for this particular test, you have to have it, okay, because they're looking for the cancer that you have. It's not looking for random cancer cells. It's very specific. It's only looking for the cancer cell that matches. And think of that DNA as the seed, okay? So it's looking for the seed and is the soil promoting that cancer seed or is it promoting healthy tissue or is it killing off or choking off that seed? So that's what I want to know. So this is the seed and we've been talking about the soil and then you can image it to see, hey, look, Is it possible that what I see on that thermogram is a very early seed that's starting to grow? So that's how you have to look at those three compartments. But this, you have to actually have the cancer. So I don't know if people want that distinction. But if you have it, I think it's very beneficial. And the number one thing, it decreases the patient's stress. during those six months that they're waiting for another scan. So if nothing else, it helps to lower the stress if the Signatera is showing that the amount of DNA is going down. And again, I want to be very clear. This is not saying that

39:02 your cancer is going to get cured or whatever. It just gives you another reference point. And again, I'd be very careful when I talk about cancer that I'm not giving anybody any false hope I'm just telling you, these are some of the distinctions that we see with cancer and how you can just better inform yourself and protect yourself. And ask the right questions. Go in there and ask, do you do the signatera? Because you may be the one that introduces this test to your oncologist, and now he's exposed to it and he can offer it to other people. So don't think that you're learning something just for you. You tell your friends and family or anybody who's been touched by it about these things, about the foods.

39:48 about how they can further investigate whether or not they are more susceptible. And if they have cancer, this is something that could help monitor it. All right? What can prevent cancer? Well, okay, let me be very careful about this. I can't tell you any one thing that can prevent cancer, but I will tell you. What you eat, this is what I'm saying, what you eat affects almost everything, okay? So you want to eat a clean diet. You want to eat a non-inflammatory diet. That's what I would tell you. A non-inflammatory diet because that sets the stage for any type of cancer to grow. If you look at autopsies of people, 80-year-old men, almost all of them have little sections of prostate cancer in their prostate, okay? But it's all walled off. That means that they had the beginnings of cancer, but somehow their body, their immune system or their extracellular environment walled that cancer off. And I want to tell you another thing. You talk about preventing cancer.

40:53 Let me tell you the number one thing you can do to prevent cancer. I won't say that. One thing you can do is get better sleep because when you sleep, that's when something called natural killer cells come out and they try to kill any cancer cell, kill that little seed. It's called natural killer cells. Let me tell you another place where you can get natural killer cell exposure. Under trees, there is a chemical that is expelled through the trees that actually increase your natural killer cells. So being out in nature, actually being out in the sunshine, all of those things, sunshine increases your vitamin D. That's a very immune system boosting vitamin that you can make just by going outside. And they've actually seen that cancer patients, if you can get them outside, they actually get better. There's actually a study to show that the person who, the patient who sits closest to the window in a hospital usually recovers faster than the next person. Now, I know they can have different diseases, but this has all been studied.

41:59 So if you want to prevent cancer, do a non-inflammatory diet, get out of the nature, get sun, make sure your vitamin D is right. Because They're developing all these immunotherapies. What that means is they're trying to enhance your immune system to kill the cancer because that's what your immune system was supposed to do. But because we don't eat right, we don't sleep right, we have a lot of stress, the body can't perform like it's supposed to. So I know that was a long answer, but it's the truth. It's no one cancer-preventing strategy, but it's a lifestyle change. Like the book, Anti-Cancer, A New Way of Life. You have to change your lifestyle. And our lifestyle is very conducive to cancer. I'm seeing women coming in with rectal cancer, all kinds of things. It's crazy. And so I think understanding is one way to prevent cancer. Just understand it.

42:54 And understand how your body naturally defends against cancer. Okay, we have one more question. It might be a big one. And it's probably been answered throughout. But in cancer, Can cancer be turned around and get under control before chemo? Here's what I would tell you. Read Radical Remissions. Most of these people have had chemo. They had a recurrence. And then they decided to do another route. They really decided, can I do it by changing my way of life? So according to this book, it can be turned around. Now, I will be honest with you. A lot of times cancer can be in remission for years, 10, 15, 20 years, and then it can come back. So 100% cure or anything like that. But there are stories of people who have had radical remissions. And again, I don't want to give false hope, but you also don't want to say that there's no hope. So that's what I'm trying to trying to balance what I'm saying. And I don't want to give you false hope, but I'm just telling you, if you understand what's going on, I think it's more likely you'll make the food changes. It's more likely, hey, you may go one step further than the mammogram if you have a history or if you are more inclined to it because no children, all of those other risk factors that we talk about. Are you overweight? Do you

44:26 have a family history? So that's the goal, okay? for understanding and also to give some hope. And like I said, I'm sure these people, they didn't think that they were going to, or they weren't sure if they were going to have a remission, but I'll tell you, they believe that they were going to have one and belief is a big field. And that's what we talk about the spiritual part and belief is that they believe that they were going to have remission. I know everybody believes that, but I'm just saying that is a, That is a story that I think people need to read so that they can see it could happen. So, again, I don't get any royalties from that book. These are just books I tell patients I think they should read, and they seem to appreciate it. All right. So I know Rebel, we got probably got two or three minutes. Anything that you, uh, that you, uh, thought was interesting or we should, we should clarify or what did you think?

45:28 We have, well, it's amazing that people know these things and have options. We have one more question. What, what would you consider an anti-inflammatory foods? Uh, I would tell you be plant for it. I will tell you, I was just looking at something before I, uh, before I came here, uh, You want to make sure you have organic foods because a lot of things, I'll tell you, you want to eat things that are at the bottom of the food chain. The higher you go up in the food chain, the more likely you're going to be exposed to everything that that animal or whatever was exposed to. So two things I would tell you.

46:10 You don't want to eat things that are high on the food chain. And you also want to eat a plant-forward organic diet. And I say plant-forward because I'm not telling you you need to be vegan or vegetarian, but you want to make sure that you include some of these foods. So that's a non-inflammatory diet. And if you're worried, you ought to do a food sensitivity test, and then you can see what foods are causing inflammation. And if I see a thermogram that has a lot of heated areas, then you may definitely want to do a food sensitivity test. Then there's another test you can get in a regular blood draw is called a C-reactive protein. And that is something that gives you an idea of general inflammation. Okay.

46:57 So that's a non-inflammatory diet. And get Dr. Lee's book. I don't make any money off of that. I'm just trying to give you guys information. And the other thing I would love for you to do is subscribe to my YouTube channel. If you go to the school.com Ageless, I have a school. And also, I think you have all of my links. I really would like to connect with you. I'd like for you to be in my school. I actually am starting a course called Why Don't I Feel Like Myself Anymore? And I'm going to have a live Q & A. And we're going to try and have that every couple of months. But I would love for you to go to school and join and sign up for the class and just stay connected to us and be with us. Tell somebody else about this. If you have a loved one or someone with cancer, share this with them. because I really want to get this information out and I'm glad that you're here. So Rebel, I guess, I guess we're trying to wrap this up here. Yes.

47:55 Any last words? I think everybody needs to check out your book, The Stress Connection. Yeah, please. Yeah. The Stress Connection. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. So these, these are my books, but I just, like I said, I want to give you as much information as you can, as much as you can handle. because I know you can do a lot of research on chat GPT. And again, it's just so much that you can't even comprehend it all. So I'm trying to, trying to consolidate it for you and we'll see you next week. Okay. See you. Thanks for joining Dr. Taylor today. If you missed any part of this show, Just check out the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Angel's Blueprint is every Wednesday at 9 a.m. Eastern Time on W4HC Radio at W4HC. com. Together, we discover the ancient secrets to better health through science and spirituality made for modern times.

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