Alright, this is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com.
Today I have another exciting episode for you here in my backyard garden, sitting amongst
all my beautiful raised beds and some of my plants I'm growing here in the backyard.
Anyways, today's episode is going to be an interesting one.
It's going to be kind of my commentary on some things that have been happening lately
in the news and all that kind of stuff.
I don't normally get involved too much in the news, but some things are just hard to
avoid and today's video topic is about my answer to cancer.
It's my vegetables garden, man.
I'm sitting between it.
Gardening is an integral part of my life because, I mean, we all have to eat, we all got to
eat food and I want the majority of the food that I'm eating coming out of my garden, my
vegetables garden, and eating a lot of the healthy foods for me.
So, you know, many of you guys may have heard some of the things recently going on in the
news, famous people, actresses or whatever, are getting their boobs cut off, you know,
nice women with nice breasts, getting them but off because they don't want to get breast
cancer.
So, the though is if I remove the breast, it will greatly diminish my risk for breast
cancer because the cancer can't go to my breast.
Well, in my opinion, and before I go on I do need to give my disclaimer in this video
is that everything that I say in this video is my opinion and it's for entertainment purposes
only.
If you do have a cancer or any other kind of disease, please consult a qualified medical
practitioner that can help you out.
This is just sharing with you guys my views and my opinions on this subject.
So, they get the boobs cut out and then they have a much lower risk of getting breast cancer,
because there's no breast cancer for the cancer to go, but if the cancer doesn't go to the
breast, it may go to the uterus, then what?
They're going to cut out the uterus, and if it doesn't go tot the uterus, where's it going
to go?
It's going to go to the brain next or the lungs or, you know, the skin, you know.
There's always another place the cancer will go if it doesn't, you know, go to one place.
It's going to go to another.
You know, so, what I like to do instead of worrying about the cancer and cutting parts
of me out.
You know, I don't want to cut off my testicles 'cause I'll get testicular cancer.
I mean, that's part of me, you know what I'm saying?
So, you know, instead of cutting things out, it's my opinion and what I'm doing in my life
is doing the proactive approach.
I mean, you may be able to predict to some level of extinct, you now, the risk of you
getting cancer based on your genes and based on your parents and your parents parents and
all this kind of stuff, but, you know, I think the best things to do is to be proactive about
your health, no matter if it's the cancer or anything else.
Now, how can we be the most proactive for the health?
Well, you know, the one thing's to me is really clear is if we look like 100, 200 years ago,
what were the levels of breast cancer?
When you were a kid growing up, did women have breast cancer?
Was all these cancers like astronomical and cancers sky high happening to like, you know,
people you know?
Like if someone of you got cancer, it as like a big thing because people rarely got cancer
back in the day.
Why?
What changed between back in the day and now?
Have our genes changed that much in 100 years?
No, they haven't but what has really changed dramatically is the food people eat.
Maybe just 100, 200 years ago, the majority of food people ate they grew themselves.
They ate natural foods, foods found in nature.
They didn't buy things found in packages, bottles, and jars.
They didn't eat in restaurants.
They didn't have restaurants.
If you wanted to eat, you had to grow it and cook it and eat it yourself and do all that
stuff, and this is what's really changed in my opinion, and so for me I want to be proactive
and I want to do gardening and I want to grow my own food and have the majority of the food
that I'm eating come out of my garden.
I mean, there's research put there that shows things like the allium family, and we got
some.
Wow, smells amazing.
We got some sweet onions flowering right now and I love, last night I actually took these
flowers off and spread them all over my salad.
It's totally delicious.
WE got the allium family here.
The onions, which are also included in the garlic.
We got the other ones, the brassica family.
This is actually some broccoli and same thing with karabi and collard greens and Bok choi.
They're all in the same family of plants.
These 2 family of plants.
There's a lot of research that support these are some of the, you know, probably most protective
plant categories against things like cancer and other things.
So, I like to include some of these in my diet every day, whether I'm eating the onion
bulb or the onion stalk or the onion flowers.
All those, you know, nutrients are in there, and now the nutrition, while there are vitamins,
minerals, you know, what's the most important nutrient in the plants you're growing in my
opinion are the phytochemicals.
These are many discovered and also yet undiscovered nutrients in the plants and why are these
phytonutrients in the plants?
Phytonutrients are in the plants not for us.
They're in there for the plants.
These are the same phytonutrients that are in the plants that protect them from predators
in nature.
What are predators of onions?
I don't know, animals that would come and eat the onions, right?
And chow on them because every plant in your garden, every creature on earth, the number
one main thing to do, they're primary directive is to reproduce and multiply and continue
on so that they don't become extinct like the dinosaurs, and some of these properties
in the plants which make their, you know, phytochemicals and phytonutrients are there
for the plants, but when we eat them, they give us some protective powers as well, much
like some pixie dust, but in any case, seriously though, you know, and that's why I'm growing
my own food, and based on my research, some of the phytonutrients and some of the nutrients
in the produce can be lost, you know, during harvesting, hydro-cooling and shipping.
Matter of fact, one of the research studies I've seen shows that within 24 hours, up to
50% of certain nutrients can be lost in produce that's cut, picked, harvested and shipped
to you, and then it's even shipped or put on a truck from California to Florida or the
eat coast.
If you live on the east coast, especially in the wintertime, and you know, there's even
more nutrient loss.
Now, am I sating that fruits and vegetables in the grocery store are, you know, worthless?
You know, I'm saying if that's the best you can do, then that's great.
Eat more fruits and vegetables.
These have the protective properties in them that are really good for us, that may prevent
things like cancer based on some of the research I've seen and based on my beliefs because
of the research.
So, I just want o maximize those nutrients.
Furthermore, you know, if we look at studies in the past, like in the 1950's, 1930's, back
in the day, you know, there've done studies where they take on apple of then, back then,
and one apple of today, and you have these like 2.5 apples of today to get the same nutrients
in the one apple form back then.
What's going on?
Is it the hybridization and the new different kinds of seeds that they're using od those
apples or is the soil depletion so the nutrients are no longer in the soils so that the plants
can absorb those nutrients and put them into apple for us to eat?
So, you know, its' my thought that it's, you know, primarily due to the nutrient depletion
of the soil so that's why I'm growing the most nutrient dense crops that I can.
Based on the research that I have, adding things like the, you know, compost, organic
matter, and the trace minerals back in the soil so that my pants can be fully healthy
and when your plants have more nutrient in there, guess what?
They're going to be healthier themselves but based on the studies I've seen they're also
going to contain more phytonutrients and phytochemical and other protective properties for us.
So that's totally crazy.
Now, I know if you're a woman out there you might be things, you know, 'John, it's all
good that you want to eat healthy to prevent thing's,' you know, 'not get cancer and whatnot,
but' you know, 'there this thing called the PCRA gene or whatnot, and' you know, 'if you
got that, you're just going to get cancer,' but I have done research and there are studies
that show that by changing your diet, you can actually be less susceptible to getting
things like cancer.
I mean, let me share with you guys my story for these of you guys that don't know it.
I mean, I personally might not be here right now to share this message with you.
What happened to me, when I was in my 20's I had what's called spinal meningitis.
This is a potentially fatal disease and actually the doctors told me that I might not make
it out alive.
Now, that's not a fun place to be, especially in your 20's or at any age.
I mean, when I was in my 20's I thought, 'man, this isn't supposed to happen to me until
I'm like way older,' but the reason why I got that was because the doctors said what
I had was compliment immune deficiency.
So, what they said was I had these genes that basically made me chronically have a weak
immune system, which means I was more susceptible to any disease and I could get it and then
be sick and lose my life, and, you know, back in the day when I was in the hospital I really
thought hard, what was the most important thing to me at the time?
Is it all the money in the bank, you know?
Is it, you know, having a girlfriend or having a nice car?
No, that wouldn't do me nothing right then and there, but having my health was the most
precious gift hat I could have and it learned that, you know, that I had bad genes.
So, was I supposed to just live out my life with bad genes and just cross my fingers that
I wasn't going to get spinal meningitis or cancer or anything else again?
No, I need to like do something to change my outcome.
So, what I did was I did a lot of research and I found that by eating, you now, plants-strong
diet, plant-based diet, whatever you want to call it, you know, these are the things
that have protective properties for us and it's the overconsumption and too much consumption
of animal products and especially processed foods that may raise your instances of illness
and sickness in my opinion based on my research.
So, that's why I stared eating more plants and then to even further that, I started growing
my own plants and growing my own foods that I could better my diet, better than what I
could buy so that I could have the most health, and that's what I encourage all you guys to
do is to, you know, stay motivated about gardening.
If you're not currently gardening, I encourage you guys to garden and in not only grow the
food but also eat the food because, you know, besides just changing your diet by growing
a vegetables garden, your going to be healthy in other ways.
Number one, this is totally apparent, you're going to be getting exercise.
I mean, you're going to have to lift hose compost bags, you're going to have to dig,
you're going to have to do all that kind of stuff.
Do some physical activity.
Many people these days in my opinion re not getting enough physical activity.
Number 2, you're going to be out in the sun, man.
The sin's so nice out here today.
Barely any clouds in the sky, and, you know, and there's bugs, too, but the sun's so nice
and wen you, when the suns comes in contact with your skin, your skin, your skin makes
vitamin d, and there are studies that show vitamin d may have positive roles of play
with prevention of cancer, but they don't prevent flies from landing on you, but yea,
vitamin d's a great things to have, and, you know, especially with people living indoors
too much, they're not creating the vitamin d they need.
Another thing that's really good about being outside is breathing the fresh air.
Breathing fresh air is really important.
You know, we need oxygen to survive, and indoors there's been a lot of studies that show, you
know, indoors are getting recirculated air and it's not quite as fresh as it could be,
so get outside to get some fresh air.
Another thing that's really important to me in gardening is that, you know, in gardening,
when you're outside playing with the plants, and I love my plants.
They smell so good.
You're back to nature.
I mean, this is where we all originated, man.
We originated in nature, we originated in the outdoors.
You know, back 2000 years ago I don't even know if they had houses and stuff.
Maybe they had castles and stuff and caves, but, you know, we want to get back to nature.
WE are creatures of nature just like every other creature on this planet.
We're all creatures of nature and we live in an artificial environment in little houses
or teepees or yurts or whatever you got.
So, getting out to nature we could just reconnect with, you know, with our absolute being and
stuff.
In addition, another thing that really beneficial about the gardening is you're smelling things
and, you know, here we got some soil here and there has been studies that show, like
smelling soil like smelling a fine wine, it gets better with time, but no seriously though,
there's studies that show, you know, there's microbes in the soil that when we breathe
them in they may be able to lift your depression and they make you feel better.
So, you know, I mean, all our sense are just really here to help us in nature.
I mean, our eyes are used to spot, you know, things that are ripening so we can tell the
difference in colors and stuff.
It's just so cool to just be out in nature and use your senses, feel the wind on your
hair and on your skin and whatnot.
So, besides just the soil and the microbes in the soil and being connected back to nature
back with the earth, mother earth, which is where we live here, another reason for gardening
is because you're going to be outside and you're going to be in nature and you're going
to be in natural elements so you're going to be in less stressful environment.
In my opinion, stress is a big reason for many illnesses and, you know, we just need
to relax and just be at peace in nature, whether you want to ohm underneath a tree, or you
just want a garden to see green all around you, you just need more peace and less stress.
We need to get out of that busy 9-5 world, whether we're on a computer, running from
here to there and just being in nature gardening at your time.
Tie just seems to fly when I'm gardening because I'm just having so much fun, and, you know,
being more at peace instead of in that fast paced society that we all live in.
So, the final thing I'd like to say today is, you know, besides just the gardening and
all the benefits you're going to derive from, I really want to encourage you guys to really
eat what's coming out of your garden, whether your onion tufts, whether your broccoli, whether
your leafy greens that you can barely see down there.
I mean, we want to be eating plants in your diet and eating mostly plants and especially
like the name of my channel is growingyourgreens.
Greens in my opinion re some of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet and have some of
these anti-cancer prevention properties contained within them, and if you're picking them, easting
then fresh growing them in the highest quality soil compost, and using the trace minerals,
you're going to have some of the best foods on earth, which in my opinion in turn will
give you the best health on earth to literally disease-proof yourself.
Now, if you don't believe me about this disease proof stuff, there's a really good website
I encourage you to check out.
It's called diseaseproof.com.
Dr. Joel Forman wrote a book called eat to live, and I guess the opposite is eat to not
live.
I want to encourage you guys to eat to live and check out that book out of a library,
but a copy, it's actually the New York Time number 1 best seller for awhile, and, you
know, you could truly eat to live by eating some of the foods your growing in nature.
So, if I was a woman I definitely would not get my boobs cut off.
I would much rather grow a garden and eat out of my garden.
Eat the majority of foods out of my garden, including ramping up the leafy greens by juicing,
blending, eating a lot of salads, and just mailing things fun and more importantly getting
the kids involved with nature and the garden because we really gotten away from gardening
and growing our own food, which is simply where we were about 100, 200 years ago, but
now we're all about convenience and going to the store and the food comes form the store,
it doesn't come from your garden.
I see countless people spending money and money and money at the grocer when they could
simple be growing their own food.
I mean, I really just don't have to buy things like onions or garlics or greens now because
I have so many growing in my garden that I could just come out here and pick every single
ay, and yet these little tubs of 5 ounces of organic greens and the whole foods store
is $3.50, $4.
It's just insane.
So, gardening will also save you money.
So, hopefully after watching this video you'll start to garden and really realize the importance
of the food you can grow yourself.
There's some of the most cancer preventative foods in my opinion based on the research
I've seen.
So, I hope you guys enjoyed this quick episode.
Stay tunes for upcoming episodes where I'm getting more into the gardening and sharing
some techniques and tips with you so that you can grow more food at home.
Once again, my name is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com.
We'll see you next time, and remember, keep on growing!