Will we have longer lives? Will we have
longer health spans? The future is
already here. It's just not yet evenly
distributed. Looking at human brains
that you can put on a scale and weigh an
autopsy. And the brains with more
[music] plastic actually tip the scale.
You can actually measure the ones that
have more plastic. Those people with the
most microlastic studying their blood
vessels actually have a three to
fourfold higher risk of having a fatal
stroke. What's not to love about this
cup? Loaded with polyphenols that lower
inflammation. They improve my blood
pressure. They relax my mind. They are
heart healthy. It starves cancer by
cutting off the blood supply. So, if you
want to actually lower your burden of
[music] environmental exposures,
something very simple you can do is to
get an
Dr. Lee, what's your diet? I always say
I don't follow a diet. I follow a
pattern. If I had to characterize my
pattern, and I'm going to give you the
individual some individual foods in a
second. I always say I eat Mediterrasian
style for health. I love Mediterranean
food. I love Asian food. You know,
Mediterranean is sort of like dealer's
choice. You go into a restaurant, you go
to your own kitchen. What could I make
or what could I order? What could I have
that actually is within those genres and
they tend to be really healthy, those
ingredients and the way that they
execute the food. I would just riff on
some of my favorite foods. Well, first
of all, I I love green tea. When you
asked me if I wanted tea, I immediately
said green tea, right? And that's
because I know green tea is loaded with
polyphenols that lower inflammation.
They improve my blood pressure. They
relax my mind. They uh are heart
healthy. It starves cancer by cutting
off the blood supply. What's not what's
not to love about this cup? If you want
the really full test of all the
polyphenols, don't just have green tea.
Have matcha cuz matcha is the entire tea
leaf ground together. And so you you
spare no good stuff. Another beverage
that I really enjoy is coffee. I've
always drank a lot of coffee. Turns out
coffee is loaded with polyphenols like
chlorogenic acid. as long as you don't
put, you know, the pumpkin artificial
pumpkin flavor and extra added sugar to
it. Like I like my coffee jet black.
Coffee has been shown to slow down
cellular aging. So the burndown rate of
the tieumirs, which are the little DNA
caps that protect your DNA from aging,
slow down their burn rate. So you
literally age slower from the inside out
when you have coffee. What's not to love
about that, you know, and you're more
awake anyway? I love mushrooms.
Mushrooms are loaded with dietary fiber
called beta glucan. Beta glucan actually
is good for your gut health which is
good for your immune system. Mushrooms
are great for immunity. If you want to
boost up those super soldiers, mushrooms
are great. What are some of the best
mushrooms? Well, shitake mushrooms which
are, you know, people talk about
medicinal mushrooms. Turkey tail and
cortiseps and rayi. I try to say those
are medicinal mushrooms. Stick with the
mushrooms that are culinary mushrooms.
trumpet mushrooms,
you know, kind of thick stock, um, a
little cap. If you, they are packed with
a, they have a lot of dietary fiber,
good for you. But they're also packed
with a bioactive called erggoanine.
Ergoine is good for brain health, good
for cognition, lowers depression, lowers
anxiety. People diagnosed with cancer is
slightly increasing at a skewed towards
younger age. So there's something going
on right now in society that we don't
understand. When I was in medical
school, colon cancer was a disease of
people in their 70s, older people, much
older people. Now we're seeing people in
their 40s, 30s. There's even reports of
teenagers like 16 year olds getting
colon cancer. We don't understand why
that dynamic has changed. But something
is happening either externally exposing
our body or altering our health defenses
so that younger people are becoming more
vulnerable. That said, we are also
seeing people who are taking care of
themselves actually plateau the rise of
some forms of cancer as well. And then
the third axis that you need to really
think about, the third dimension of this
is really that cancer treatment
breakthroughs are happening at a faster
pace than ever before. And I will tell
you as a card carrying medical doctor, I
never thought I would in my career see
treatments that could take stage 4
cancer to stage zero cancer. Can't do it
for everybody yet. We don't understand
how it is, but it's happening. And I
personally know well over a dozen people
who have gone, including my own mother,
by the way, you know, had stage four
cancer. That's a game over. You know,
she was 80. There's nothing more we can
go do for her. The treatment's worse
than the disease. And I said, "No, no,
she's got health defenses. Let's raise
her shields." And for my own mother, we
were able to give her immunotherapy,
jack up that critical defense system
along with diet and medications and some
other things. And uh got we worked on
her gut and guess what? Her own
80year-old body was able to rear up its
own shields powerfully enough to be able
to wipe out stage 4 cancer. So this is
actually the transformation that's
happening. Remember, I told you we're
going away from killing the cancer to
healing the person. Now, here's the
reality. In the moments that you're
stressed, most people don't stop and
think, "I should breathe slower or
activate my vag nerve." You're probably
already overwhelmed, and that's where
taking a structured approach can make a
difference. There are ways to directly
stimulate your vag nerve using
controlled signals that apply externally
along the nerve itself, right on your
neck. Devices like Pulto are designed
for exactly that. So instead of trying
to remember techniques in the moment
that you're feeling stressed, you can
give your body more direct and
consistent cues to shift out of stress
mode. And what makes this useful is not
just the science cuz that science is
real. It's how practical it is. Look at
this. You can use it at the end of the
day when you're trying to wind down or
in moments when you're feeling your
stress building or if you just want to
interrupt that stress cycle with
something that is very, very practical
to do. So, if you're dealing with stress
regularly, having a tool like this can
make it much easier to activate your
calm down, destress parasympathetic
system through the vagus nerve. You can
learn more about pulsetto in the link
below. So, if you want to actually lower
your burden of environmental exposures,
something very simple you can do is to
get an air filter for your house, your
home. Something with a hepailter will
actually capture most of the nasties
that are in the air. Here's an
interesting thing that people don't
think about is airing out your house
every now and then. Open your windows,
open your doors, let some clean air blow
that out. You know that radon that comes
out through the ground? You open your
windows and doors, it'll blow it out.
It'll actually diffuse it, disperse it.
And so those that kind of circulation
and cleaning up the air is something
really fundamental you can do. Another
thing from an environmental exposure
perspective, and then we're going to I
want to talk in a moment about diet and
lifestyle, but is actually get a water
filter. Okay? You know, this history
that we have of industrialization,
of just burying toxins and unleashing
them into the air, into the ground or
having a spill for that matter. You
know, that defense that the shield, the
gate, you can the guard you can put at
the gate to the water coming your house
as a water filter to take out as many of
the nasties as you can. So that way the
water you're drinking, you're cooking
with, you're showering with, you're
brushing your teeth with. Basically,
you're actually lowering the harmful
exposure there. So that the air, the
water, pretty fundamental things. We
need both of those to live. And then
what about food? Our diet
actually has been shown to either
support and boost or attack and
dismantle our health defenses. Now, you
don't have to be a rocket scientist to
know you want to actually raise your
shields. not destroy them, right? So, I
mean, think about it like all the things
we do to protect ourselves in our home.
We lock the doors when we go out. We
turn off the the stove. We close the
windows at night. You know, basic
things. So, what are some of the foods
that we can avoid to protect ourselves
from exposures? Avoid ultrarocessed
foods as much as possible. It's kind of
impossible to avoid all of them. And,
you know, honestly, we all enjoy some
ultrarocessed foods. We grew up with
that stuff, right? I would say like get
off all the snacks, all those crazy
colorful prepackaged in plastic uh
things. If it comes in a bag, in a box,
in a can, you know, and if it's ultra
plastic, and by the way, I always tell
people, whatever you're going to buy,
you know, you you're wheeling your cart
in the grocery store, whatever you're
going to buy, pick it up, take two
seconds, that's all it takes, to look in
the ingredient label, okay? if it's not
in the produce section uh and the fresh
section and look and just get a g take a
gander at how many ingredients there
are. If there are like more than 20
ingredients and you can't pronounce them
and you don't know what they're there
for, that's an ultrarocessed food. If
you can find one that's simpler, that's
a substitute for that that doesn't have
as many chemicals that you can identify
what they're there for, I would do that
instead. That's a simple way to just cut
down your ultrarocessed foods. And then
go for the fresh foods. you know, maybe
taking a more intentionality to our
lives in terms of our food. Buying more
fruits and vegetables, nuts and legumes,
fresh healthy foods, um, actually will
pay off the, you know, like health is
not a convenience. Health is a
birthright, right? That like like we're
born with a healthy system. You want to
stay healthy your whole life. Like take
the time to appreciate the food, be
intentional about the food. When it
comes to nutrition and health, people
tend to be black and white. This is good
and then this is evil and then they
swap. No, no, no. This is good and this
is evil. Now, you know, it's life isn't
that simple. And you know, the details
matter and the context matters and the
individual matters. And so I think that
you know, a little bit of meat, not bad.
Get good quality meat. Don't make it
your main thing. I try when I'm making
videos for the public. Like this is kind
of like my mission in life is to get
practical information out to people that
they can relate to and they can do
something with. If I'm at a restaurant
and what do I order on the menu? I try
to pick I try to have the healthy
choices and I try to pick for things
that are healthy and tasty. Got to taste
good. And so that I think that's really
where we need to reconcile like what do
we enjoy eating that is also healthy and
that we've kind of lined it up perfectly
to be able to live the rest of our lives
that way. There have been real human
studies done at autopsy looking at
brains, human brains that you can put on
a scale and weigh at autopsy and the
brains with more plastic actually tip
the scale. you can actually measure the
ones that have more plastic. And it gets
more concerning than that. We have found
in uh people with blockages in their
neck arteries that could lead to a
stroke that the people who have the
bigger thicker blockages wind up
actually having more plastic studying
their blood vessels. I study blood
vessels, so I know a lot about this. And
what's kind of crazy is that over time
they've now associated those people with
the most microplastics studying their
blood vessels actually have a three to
four-fold higher risk of having a
stroke, a fatal stroke. All right? So,
you know, this is not harmless and
nobody wants plastic in their body. We
found it in breast milk. We have found
it in liver tissue. We found it in the
penis. You know, besides being in our
food, do you know where most of the
microplastics that we that are in our
body come from? Actually comes from car
tires.
>> Car tires.
>> Yeah. So, when car tires are driving on
the highway, all right, you don't have
to have a blowout. Just driving on the
highway spinning that friction actually
throws off millions of microplastic
particles. Now, think about if you live
near a big highway, okay, or or even a
bus route. those big tires grinding and
throwing stuff in the air. Ah, I'm going
to go out and get some fresh air. Well,
you know, we start now starting to
understand that, wow, microplastics are
everywhere. And rather than freak out
and say, I'm going to wear, you know, a
space suit and I don't want to be
exposed to the sun or the ground or the
air, what I would say is, you know what,
if you are so stressed out about
everything, you're actually going to
damage your health defenses more than
anything else. try to take a chill pill
as difficult as it may be to suspend
your disbelief that your body's got what
it takes to help us stay healthy. Panels
of biohackers that get together and they
you know they're futurists that predict
what's going to happen in terms of
healthcare lifespan technology. I will
tell you that in my own career I've
already seen things like the glass
ceiling broken time and time and again
cancer imunotherapy stage four to stage
zero. I never thought you'd be able to
see uh the end stage of cancer where we
would have naturally thought about
hospice,
uh morphine drip, end of life care. No
way, man. Today, if you're in that
situation, your oncologist has a lot of
tools to tap into. A whole new gateway
has opened up. And if your doctor says
there's nothing else we can do for you,
you might want to have another
oncologist because there's so much we
can do now. I mean, this is today. So,
you're asking me about the future. I
don't even know what the future's going
to bring because the things that are
happening today have been so dazzling,
so jaw-dropping, so eyepopping that, you
know, what I say is that don't look at
20 years from now. Why don't you just
look 20 months from now? Because we're
in this revolution. I mean, there's a
lot, you know, there's a lot of
distractions happening in society now.
People generally feel that, you know, we
don't live in great times. There's a lot
of stress. There's a lot of war, you
know, a lot of turmoil. I would say from
where like my from the cockpit of the
plane that I fly and what I'm seeing out
the windows, it is so amazing what's
actually happening that we should look
forward to the future. Will we have
longer lives? Absolutely. Will we have
longer health spans? Absolutely. Will we
actually be able to have better foods
and medicines and wearables and
biometrics and different techniques to
improve our health defenses? That too.
Absolutely. Because they're already
here. We're restarting them. The future
is already here. It's just not yet
evenly distributed. Hey, if you like
that video, then you're going to love
this one. Check it out.