Defuse Cancer Risk by Reversing Biomarker (Early Warning Signs) | CLIP | Vital Signs

cancer intervention tends to focus largely on the endgame you might say like chemotherapy or radiation therapy to shrink the tumor or surgery to cut it out the Technologies to do this have certainly improved over the years but what if we were better equipped to prevent cancer from even starting how many more lives might be saved how much more invasive treatment might be avoided welcome to part two of fixing Cancer's risk factors in part one we probed the underlying causes of cancer cancer is very common colon cancer is common but there's certain cells of your body that are virtually immune from cancer and that tells us a lot of interesting stuff like your muscles heart cancer is virtually unheard of now for part two if we can detect the earliest risk factors for cancer how do we then defend against those risks Dr day and Gooden now has spent decades developing systems of early disease detection he's conducted clinical trials into ovarian colon and pancreatic cancer identifying the early warning signs of cancer risk to enhance prospects for prevention and treatment the Dr Gooden our Research Institute continues to research breast colon and pancreatic cancer welcome to Vital Signs where we look at how to get healthier from all angles from the biochemical and nutritional to the things we do that nourish our minds and our souls I'm Brandon Fallon I think we've probably touched on this to some degree um but just in a nutshell why does cancer Target certain cell tissues and organs rather than others it targets tissues that are more susceptible to being in the FED State a good example is breast cancer okay breast cancer is one of the highest rates and we have a genetic risk factor for breast cancer called the braae okay so the braa protein okay so women who have this bracka mutations braa one braa 2 right um they have significantly elevated risk of breast cancer so much so that many of them will go through and get ectomies right which I think is horrific personally but the point is is that what that braa Gene actually does the braa protein the the braa gene codes for that protein is like it it maintains the fasting state of a cell okay so when the cell switches from fed to fasting the bracka protein holds it in the fasting State it's like a lock in the um in your wheels if you will just like a lock right and women who have a bracket genotype that locking mechanism is faulty so it doesn't really hold the cell in the fasting state so it goes in the fasting State and it skips out of gear and it goes to the FED state it can't really hold the fasting State and so that's why those cells can't maintain their fasting State and so that's why the risk gets really high but it only gets manifested in an individual who dietarily and lifestyle-wise um doesn't can't maintain that type of cellular environment because even though the risk factor is high okay um not everyone will get you know not everyone with a bracka genotype will get breast cancer and when you say they can't maintain that the right cellular environment what what does that mean so so when the body is using um fatty acids for metalism when you're in the fasting State this is when your body makes certain critical molecules in your cell makes your plasmalogens for your membranes it makes your hormones and so many other things right and so when you're using fatty acids as energy and so when it can't do that your your your body can't use the fatty acids and it repackages them on triglycerides and send them back to your fat cells so your your triglyceride levels will Elevate which again indicates that your cellular strength is poor if you go to your doctor and you get your fasting triglyceride levels right if it's over 100 okay in using the United States scale um that means your cellular metabolism is is impaired okay people should have fasting triglycerides in that 60 to 90 range soon as it gets over 100 by definition either your cells are not metabolizing all the fatty acids that are coming into it which means the cells can't the fasting state of the cells are poor and so often we get inflamed other things will cause our triglycerides to level to elevate in the fasting state so yeah that's what happens so when when when the body can't use fatty acids for energy then um it is forced to use glucose and if it's forced to use glucose then it gradually trains itself to be a glucose sensitive cell and as it trains itself to do that it eventually becomes cancerous so whereas your skeletal your skeletal muscle and your heart they basically have no choice they have they they run on 80 90% fatty acid energy like they just can't like it's fatty acids are nothing for them type of thing right so that's why they really are resistant to to becoming cancerous because like they really they're programmed and they're they're adapted to really just using fatty acids or or very high percentage of fatty acids for the metabolism why is it that people older people are most acceptable to cancer why does cancer manifest in in their cells more often It's a combination of things one is this cholesterol regulation decreases with age you know if you look at people as they get older they the fasting triglycerides start going up with an age Association your fasting insulin goes up okay so your type two diabetes like the incidence of type two diabetes goes up as we get older all of these metabolic diseases are indicative of your cellular Health becoming less and less functional okay so these are all these age Associated things so the part so your cellular Health as you get older goes down plasmalogen manufacturing is a critical component of all cause mortality it's a very important part of your plasm your your membrane very critical for your reverse cholesterol transport virtually every single cancer every single cancer that I've studied okay we're talking tens of thousands over 100 thousand uh person studies every single cancer has low plasmalogen levels we publish this with breast cancer and so on so forth so this this is an indic and plasmalogens go down as you get older so the cellular you know regulation plasmalogens are kind of a partner in your three-legged Race For example right and so as we get older that that one partner loses its function so that's one of the big things and then of course your Police Department right your immune system also starts diminishing with age so your ability to come in and take care of the mess goes down so you you get kind of a double whammy right one your susceptibility goes up your ability to contain it kind of goes down but also your policing mechanism your immune regulatory system um also diminishes so you have a bunch of little things that kind of add together to increase your risk of cancer as you get older we we touched some before you gave that very interesting example with India the comparison between the the cancer rates that it's seen in India and America so about 27% of the population in India smokes and about 23% of the population of the United States smokes so India has more smokers than the United States but has seven times less lung cancer than the United States so really smoking is causing cancer does that make any sense to you and that begs the question what is it in the environment in India that's different To America that that brings this effect so what what kind of key environmental factors are at play in influencing someone to have cancer or not yeah so that's a very good question so a lot of it is our diet okay the type of diets that we eat um the high fat but it's also the the frequency of our diet okay that we that we eat in the west and all the answers are not there one thing for colon cancer is clear is the turmeric use okay so that's a good here's a really interesting nugget for people so curcumin which is part of turmeric the spice of Curry for example right um which is high prevalent use in India curcumin and the turmeric type spices have a very very clear negative association so higher turmeric use lower rates of colon cancer very very clear um and so in terms of the colon cancer risk that's one aspect of it and the turmeric the curcuminoids are actually very potent anti-inflammatories um and so they have things across the board that can benefit from us so there's those environmental things it's the type of meat and the amount of meat that is eaten um is probably a big deal so I guess it's the difference between eating red meat and and other types of meat yeah and the amount of it um and so and it might even be the type and quality of the meats too like there's so many variables that can go into that okay aspect it's clearly not you know environmental toxins like if you ever been to Delhi or hyderbad you know it's not exactly the cleanest city in the world and so it's you know so the working environment like the actual Smog or you know it can't be that fundamentally because clearly the general environmental stress is probably higher in in India than it would be in the United States so it has to be more to do with their diet and lifestyle and all the individual factors because they carry their low risk with them when they come from India to the United States so it's clearly their their dietary lifestyles