We all want to eat the kinds of foods that make us feel better, live longer, but there's so

much conflicting information out there, so many nutrition opinions.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

It's my job to give you the information you need to make the healthiest choices possible.

In the beginning, there was angiogenesis, the creation of blood vessels.

Tumors use it to keep growing and as it turns out our fatty tissue also needs it to expand.

So might an anti-angiogenic approach work for weight loss too?

Many of our modern frontline therapies against cancer incorporate anti-angiogenesis strategies from the

Greek words angio, meaning vessel, and genesis meaning creation.

So anti-angiogenesis is opposing the creation of blood vessels.

In other words, fighting cancer by cutting off tumor supply lines.

Some cancers are only able to grow to about the size of the tip of a

ballpoint pen without a blood supply.

Tumor growth then stalls. Autopsy studies show that virtually everyone has these tiny tumors in

them by age 70 cancer without disease can therefore be considered the normal

state during aging. To commentary our blood supply tumors diabolically release angiogenic

factors, chemicals that cause new blood vessels to sprout towards the cancer. Once a blood vessel reaches the tumor and attaches, it's all the of its blood supply, chemotherapy that blocks this process can sometimes cause tumors to shrink, but ideally we wouldn't have to wait until such a late stage to nip them in the bud.

That's where our diet can come in.

Many of the phytonutrients we know and love in tea, spices, berries, broccoli, and beans have anti-angiogenic properties.

Given the power of plants, the foundation of an anti-engogenic approach to cancer

has been considered a whole food plant-based diet. But the title of this video is targeting angiogenesis to lose weight.

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