- As a matter of fact, the consumption of bacon,
and hot dogs, and pastrami, and lunch meats,
even prior to conception in women,
increase the risk of childhood cancers
or autism, or brain tumors in their offspring.
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- Many people don't know, but the fumes that you smell
when you cook bacon are actually carcinogenic.
You're eating cooked meat that is processed,
high in salt, high in fat,
so that can actually immediately constrict your arteries,
and they have actually seen children as low as eight,
nine years old, already showing signs
of constriction of their arterial system,
and we all know that a high salt diet
is also increased with increased risk of mortality,
definitely processed meat as well as colon cancer,
and all types of cancer.
- When you eat too much animal protein,
there appear to be unfavorable effects
on many different levels.
You know, there has been interesting work
looking at the gut microbiome,
and metabolites that might be released into the bloodstream
that might play a powerful role
in terms of promoting inflammation.
We also know that the body is not able
to process meat as well.
This might have adverse effects in terms of
just your ability to properly regulate
your own sugars, your blood sugars,
and a lot of things like that
end up being out of balance,
and again, promote inflammation.
This ends up being a bit of a snowball effect.
- So when we eat bacon, what happens
is that we introduce the introduction of excess cholesterol.
Our body actually produces cholesterol.
The liver makes cholesterol, and it makes
just enough cholesterol to satisfy
all the hormones in the body,
but when we introduce excess cholesterol,
the body says hey, this is great.
You've given me some extra cholesterol.
I better store it because I don't know what's gonna happen.
We might be in an ice age tomorrow.
We might be in a drought.
I'm gonna store it because it's a really good product.
And the problem is it starts to store it in the organs.
It starts to store it in the liver, in the muscles,
and in the vessels, so within those nice circular vessels,
the cholesterol starts getting deposited in the vessels,
and it builds up slowly and slowly.
And the vessels don't like it.
The process of atherosclerosis
is actually one where the body starts to attack
those cholesterol deposits that go into the vessels,
and of course, it builds up and up, and up, and up,
and the vessels close, close, close, close.
And that means that you have impaired blood flow
to the key organs.
- Well, all of the things that are risk factors
associated with eating high amounts of animal foods,
increased risk of cancer,
increased risk of Type 2 diabetes,
increased risk of coronary artery disease.
It's significantly worse when you
eat this processed garbage, I mean bacon and hot dogs,
and I've often thought that one of the things
that we could do to discourage people
from even wanting to eat these things
is to show them a short video about how hot dogs are made.
A significantly higher risk of
chronic degenerative conditions,
and much more severe forms of those conditions,
particularly cancer, when you eat
processed meats like bacon and sausage and hot dogs.
- Hypertension, high cholesterol,
chronic kidney disease, hypothyroidism,
cognitive decline, insulin resistance, diabetes, cancer,
you name it, and so processed meat in general
is considered a class one carcinogen,
and not only can it increase your risk for cancer,
but as far as diabetes is concerned,
processed meats, meat in general,
foods that are relatively high in their total fat content,
end up depositing small amounts of fat
inside of your muscle tissue
and inside of your liver tissue
every single time you eat that food.
So as those lipid droplets become larger
inside of muscle cells and liver cells,
then you end up developing insulin resistance,
which is that insulin has a difficult time
communicating with those tissues.
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- So we know that if you expose
any part of your digestive tract to a processed meat product
you're putting that part of your body
at higher risk for developing cancer,
and most notably, or infamously,
is the colorectal cancer risk with processed meat products.
Bacon, and other processed meat
is a class one carcinogen,
and in the World Health Organization,
that means that the research is so strong
to show that it causes, not associated with,
but it causes colo-rectal cancer.
That's as much research, and that's as strong in evidence
as you see with products like tobacco and lung cancer.
- The heme iron in bacon is also toxic to cells,
and it creates oxidative stress and inflammation,
which damages cells, and makes it more prone
to DNA damage, and therefore cancer.
It also causes cells to be insulin-resistant,
and therefore increase risk of diabetes.
Bacon is high in salt, and we know that salt
increases our risk of developing hypertension,
so high blood pressure, which is again,
directly related to our risk of heart disease.
- You know how many articles had to be published
before the Surgeon General of the United States
put out a warning against cigarettes?
7000 studies, right?
Before they would be alerted.
Do you think that there was a tough lobby
in Congress against killing the tobacco industry?
I mean, can you imagine the power of something like--
Well, here we are trying to kill the meat,
dairy, egg, pork, and sugar industry.
Think there's any power against us?
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Listen, it's the challenges in life that are exciting,
and the word is gonna get out there, yeah.
- Those foods are hormonally unfavorable too,
because when you eat a lot of these animal products,
it pushes up hormones, fat storage hormones,
growth hormones, like IGF-1, insulin-like growth factor 1.
What I'm saying here, for a diet to be hormonally favorable,
it has to be low in processed carbohydrates,
'cause processed carbohydrates
could push up insulin too high.
But the diet has to be low in animal products too,
because too much animal products pushes up
insulin-like growth factor 1 too high.
It's also processed meat,
which is full of nitrosaminal compounds,
which are known carcinogens.
As a matter of fact, the consumption of bacon and hot dogs,
and pastrami, and lunch meats,
even prior to conception in women,
increased the risk of childhood cancers
or autism, or brain tumors in their offspring.
These foods are very dangerous foods.
You know, they should come with a warning label
on the package.
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