- Hey, guys, Dr. Mike here.
I know you've seen me fight this plant before.
We're gonna do this on camera?
But right now, I'm about to take on Google round two.
This week, we're tackling curing cancer with,
let's get started. (beeping)
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(air whooshing)
Someone Tweeted at me that this exists.
The first search result is carrots.
Let's explore.
Obviously, 'cause of someone wrote a book
called "Curing Cancer with Carrots."
In 2013, this person cured stage four colon cancer
without chemotherapy or radiation,
by drinking carrot juice.
Since then, others with a variety of cancers
have reported similar successes.
This person wanted to find out why such
an apparently simple cancer cure, just carrots, works.
Can you see the veins starting to grow in my head?
No, you cannot cure cancer with carrots.
I actually know where this started.
All of this came up with one of the ingredients
found within carrots called beta carotene.
Beta carotene is something that you actually find
in a lot of your vitamin supplements as some antioxidant
that will help you boost your overall health.
Beta carotene is important and we should get it
from our foods, but taking excess beta carotene,
like this person recommends, does not work.
This happened because some research came out
from beta carotene helping mice in mega doses
get rid of some of their cancers.
But the reality is,
it has never proven to have worked in humans.
Here's the crazy part.
Taking too much beta carotene has actually proven
to increase some cancers.
Just think about that.
Curing cancer with baking soda.
It makes me think of that song.
Got that baking soda.
- Baking soda.
- Cancer cells thrive in an acidic environment.
Proponents of baking soda theory believe
that reducing the acidity of your body
will prevent tumors from growing and spreading.
There's no scientific evidence to suggest
that baking soda can prevent cancer.
It's important to remember that cancer grows quite well
in healthy tissue with normal pH levels.
Additionally, naturally acidic environments
like the stomach don't encourage cancer growth.
This is one of the most common misunderstandings
that I find my friends, who are smart, believe in.
If tumors prefer an acidic environment,
if you eat certain foods or drink water even
that's alkaline, it will somehow protect you from cancer.
This is horribly untrue.
Your blood pH level, which decides how much acid
or base is present, is tightly controlled.
What you eat plays a very insignificant role
on that number.
Because that number is tightly controlled
by the organs inside your body.
That's what decides your acidity level
or your alkaline level, not whether or not
you drink fancy alkaline water.
It's completely useless, actually.
Curing cancer with sound.
(laughing) Oh my god, please tell me this is someone
saying like, "Om," cures cancer,
'cause it doesn't.
Oh, that's not fair.
This is a (laughing) yes it technically is sound.
This is about the high-intensity focused ultrasound.
It's a treatment that aims to kill cancer cells
with high-frequency sound waves.
This is actually interesting.
It's a possible treatment.
It doesn't work on all cancers.
It's better for single tumors that are solid.
It is one of the options that we discuss with our patients,
at least oncologists discuss with their patients.
The great thing about this is there's few side effects,
as opposed to other treatments.
Curing cancer with, all of these things that pop up here,
I'm gonna get all of them.
Diet, vitamin C, fasting.
All those things, they may help maintain
a healthy lifestyle, but curing cancer,
it's important that we think about what cure means.
Cure means is you have an illness
and then if you do x, it removes the illness.
Vitamin C does not cure illness.
If you're deficient in vitamin C, yes, that's a problem.
Most of us are not.
We don't suffer from scurvy.
We're not pirates from 800 years ago.
Jesus, I hope that's accurate. (laughing)
History buffs, jump into the comments section
and correct me.
Fasting, I'm a huge fan of fasting,
and there has been great research that talks about
how programmed cell death occurs, apoptosis,
and whether or not you're able to control cellular debris
recycling in a more effective way
through intermittent fasting.
In fact, I like intermittent fasting.
But never will you hear me make a statement called
curing cancer with fasting.
Juicing, by the way juicing is one of those things
that drives me up a wall.
'Cause the amount of promises made
by the juice industry is wild.
Boosts immune system, detoxifies your mind.
If you're in active treatment or having trouble chewing,
swallowing, or digestive problems,
or struggling with excess weight loss,
juicing may be a good option for getting valuable nutrients.
But no, it's not a cancer cure,
and you should eat whole foods.
Because when you juice, you actually remove
a lot of the great components inside fruits
and vegetables like fiber.
(water slurping)
Cure cancer by mind power, ah.
There's already a YouTube video.
Cancer cured in six steps.
You are evil for titling your video like that, evil.
I think mind-body medicine is actually really important.
I'm a fan and I'm a fan because I know
that your mental state directly reflects
on how you feel physically and how well your body performs.
And I'm not just talking about performance in the gym
or at work.
I'm talking about performance internally,
how well your immune cells work,
how well your hormone levels are functioning.
All those things get affected by your mental health state.
So if you're consistently stressed
in this hypersympathetic state where you're always
in a fight or flight response,
that's gonna cause harm to your body.
So if you have cancer or you wanna reduce your cancer risk,
focus on those things that can change chronic stress
into acute stress.
That type of intermittent stress is good for you.
It's that long-term where you never get a break,
that's the stuff that's toxic to your brain and body.
And it's not just about cancer.
It's about all aspects of your life.
For some people, that could mean a bad relationship.
Chop, chop.
Cures cancer black seed oil.
Nigella sativa, sometimes called black cumin,
is not a natural treatment for cancer.
It doesn't cure cancer.
It's ridiculous.
Why does cancer make you tired,
oh why does cancer cause weight loss?
That's good.
Because tumors essentially start acting as their own organ
and taking energy and calories to keep growing themselves.
And when they do that, you start shrinking
and it makes you cachectic, which means very skinny, frail.
It's actually tough when you see it in cancer patients.
My mom, for example, was quite cachectic before she passed.
My cancer is stable, is terminal, (laughing) what?
Okay, this is, we're going from very serious
to very funny.
My cancer man is ignoring me.
My cancer man is acting distant.
My cancer boyfriend is ignoring me.
Clearly, if you're of the zodiac sign Cancer
and you're male,
I feel like astrology's such a scam.
Whenever I tell people I'm a Scorpio, they're like,
"Oh," and they're either like, "That's amazing,"
or they're like, "Oh, you suck and I dated someone
"just like you and you're a Scorpio, uh."
Time to make a revelation about myself.
It's my 30th birthday today, woowoo.
Dirty 30s.
Bear, did you come to wish your dad a happy birthday?
C'mere.
Bear, it's your dad's birthday.
Do you think I'm old?
Lick me if you think I'm not old.
Oh no.
(laughing)
Yeah, thank you Bears.
Ow.
Yo, talk to me again.
This plant sometimes just starts coming out of nowhere.
(plant banging)
Are you a fan of "House M.D." or "Grey's Anatomy?"
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And I'll see you in one of those, staying happy and healthy.
Ba, ba, ba.
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