Can Food Reactivate Your Stem Cells?

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Among the major superpowers of our stem cells is their ability to self renew. Stem cells can also sense damaged cells and tissues and send signals that promote self-healing. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman speaks with Dr. William Li about the things that both enhance, and impair, our body’s regenerative abilities, including our diet. Dr. Li shares information on which foods have been scientifically proven to activate our body’s stem cells.

William Li, MD, is a world-renowned physician, scientist, speaker, and author of Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself. He is best known for leading the Angiogenesis Foundation. His groundbreaking work has impacted more than 70 diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. His TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views. An author of over 100 scientific publications in leading journals such as Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and more, Dr. Li has served on the faculties of Harvard, Tufts, and Dartmouth Medical School.

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0:00.0	When you and I are growing up, right in grade school, we learn from our teachers that
0:04.4	starfish can regenerate, salamanders can regenerate, but people can't regenerate.
0:08.4	Yeah, right. Can grow a new arm. Yeah, well, it's true. You can't grow a new arm, but we do regenerate.
0:12.9	We regenerate every day. Hi, I'm Kayia Perot, one of the producers of the Doctors' Pharmacy podcast.
0:18.5	We are constantly learning new things about the way food and nutrients impact the body.
0:23.4	In this mini-episode of the podcast, Dr. Hyman speaks with world-renowned physician,
0:27.7	scientist, and author, Dr. William Lee, about activating the body stem cells with food
0:33.1	to enhance its regenerative abilities. I don't think something that most people are aware of
0:39.0	that you can activate your own stem cells. That there's things you do in your life that you can
0:43.6	screw up your stem cells. And what are stem cells? Anyway, what do they do? And how do we
0:47.8	understand how to stop hurting them and start helping them? Yeah, well, stem cells are really simple.
0:53.2	We're made of stem cells. So when our moms and dads got together and created, you know,
0:58.8	us in the womb, we started out as stem cells. They actually made every single organ in the sperm.
1:04.3	And they got the sperm got together and they basically decided they would become a stem cell
1:07.4	factory. And then pretty much we formed out of our own stem cells. And after we were born,
1:14.7	a few of those stem cells stuck around, about 700,000 of them. They stick around and they're
1:19.8	mostly in our bone marrow and they're in lining bar intestines. They hide out in our body.
1:24.2	And they help us regenerate. We know that we regenerate because our hair falls out and grows back.
1:29.6	Our gut lining grows back. Our liverers can grow back. If you actually remove part of your liver,
1:33.5	it'll grow back. Our skin grows back. So our bodies possess the ability to regenerate
1:41.0	through stem cells. Now, what can injure stem cells? High doses of alcohol can damage and
1:48.7	blunt your stem cells. So I'm okay with the one tequila I had last night. You know,
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