The 6 Foods That Can Cause Cancer

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today, I want to cover the six main foods that can potentially cause cancer. However, many other factors can trigger cancer, including:

• Exposure to environmental toxins such as pesticides, radon, and cleaning chemicals

• Old age and age-related changes in the body's cells

• Viruses, fungi, parasites, and bacteria

• Pollution

Six foods that may cause cancer:

1. Alcohol: Chronic alcohol exposure can damage your mitochondria, which can lead to cancer.

2. Trans fats: These are artificially produced fats commonly found in fried foods and processed snacks. They have been linked to an increased risk of cancer and other health issues.

3. Burnt or charred meat: Harmful chemicals such as heterocyclic amines (HCA) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) can be formed when meat is cooked at high temperatures. These have been linked to various types of cancer. Add garlic or rosemary to your meat while cooking to reduce your risk.

4. Advanced glycation end products (AGEs): These are compounds formed when protein and sugar are heated together. Foods high in AGEs include barbecued meats, fried foods, and ice cream.

5. Processed meats: These can contain nitrates, which have been associated with an increased risk of cancer. It's important to note that grass-fed and grass-finished meat differs from processed meat. Therefore, it's important to choose quality sources of meat.

6. Ultra-processed or junk foods: These foods are highly refined and are high in sugar, unhealthy fats, and chemicals. They can cause inflammation and deplete our vitamin and mineral reserves.

It’s important to look out for Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) foods that are unhealthy, such as:

• Maltodextrin

• Modified starch

• High fructose corn syrup

• Corn oil

• Soy oil

• Canola oil

• Corn syrup

DATA:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17023...

https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/a...

https://usrtk.org/ultra-processed-foo...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ec...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29444...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36477...

Transcript

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0:00.0	Today we're going to talk about six main foods, well they're kind of categories of foods that can potentially cause cancer.
0:08.5	There's some really key things you need to know. Number one, it's the dose that determines the poison, okay?
0:15.7	And so the key with cancer is chronic exposure to a certain thing that can create
0:21.9	inflammation and or dysfunction in a certain part of your cell.
0:26.9	And that certain part is called the mitochondria. The mitochondria is the energy factory of your cells that uses oxygen to help burn fuel.
0:38.2	With cancer, that mechanism is destroyed.
0:41.4	Then you have a backup system that is used to keep things alive and that
0:46.6	system is called fermentation okay so it's a whole different pathway that's set up
0:52.3	that acts as a plan B for survival.
0:56.6	And so when this shift happens,
0:58.3	that cancer becomes out of control.
1:01.0	It loses its mortality. It can live on forever. In this presentation I'm not going to
1:06.4	talk about all the different things that can feed cancer. I'm mainly going to focus in on the things that
1:11.6	can trigger cancer. Let's talk about this chronic exposure.
1:15.1	It can be chronic exposure to like pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, things like that.
1:19.5	I mean just pesticides alone in the United States. We release 1.3 billion pounds of
1:25.3	pesticides into our environment every single year. Let's say for example you do
1:29.8	yard work and you're constantly involved with pesticides or you're doing farm work, you're definitely
1:35.8	more susceptible to having more exposure and more chronic damage.
1:40.0	But again, it's the dosage, it's the chronic exposure of that poison you have something
1:45.3	called radon which is kind of this invisible odorless gas that can leak in from the
1:51.6	soil from you know into your basement this is why when you buy a house
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