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of mast cell activation.

Just absolute and total

remission of symptoms

just so quickly and it lasted

for about a month I'd say

which is, I've understood that

I need to do it once a month.

I was diagnosed with a

very rare, only 10 to 20%

of all cases are this type of cancer,

with a very rare and

very, very aggressive,

it's called triple negative breast cancer.

Coincidence (laughs), I had

just arrived in LA, thankfully,

because I was told that I

could join a medical trial

for their new fasting product

which is called Chemo Leaf.

- And they're looking

at it in cancer patients

to improve the efficacy and

safety of chemo therapy.

- Fasting we find that

mice and probably patients

become protected against chemo therapy

and the cancer cells instead don't,

when you just use fasting

cycles, usually at least in my,

fasting cycles are as

powerful as chemotherapy

but it is the combination

of fasting and chemotherapy

that is really effective

and that's where we see

20 to 60% of mice becoming

cancer free in response

to the combination and this is true

for many different types of cancers.

- That was a number that

made me think, okay,

so I am, I'm gonna do both

especially when I was told

that it would protect my

body, my immune system,

and I just thought I

really can't pass that up.

The amazing thing is that

I have this pre-existing

inflamatory condition, the

mast cell activation syndrome,

which means that part of my immune system

is kind of on the fritz

and it's these cells,

the mast cells, are constantly

releasing inflammation

into the body and so, consequently,

we're really susceptible

to allergy type things.

There's nothing more allergy

inducing then chemotherapy

which is why they give you

steroids the day before,

the day of and the day after

and then maybe everyday

after that depending on how you react.

Let me tell you, I went

through one cycle out of eight

without the Chemo Leaf because I fasted

and then there was a scheduling

mix up at the hospital

and I wasn't able to do

my treatment that day.

So the difference between the

time that I went without it

and the time that I went,

the times that I did the Chemo Leaf,

I felt myself going into shock

while I was receiving the chemotherapy,

that time without the Chemo Leaf,

and I firmly believe

that I was okay the other

times because my immune system

was being protected.

All the genetic testing

that I did revealed

was that my tumor had

certain characteristics

that respond to fasting which is amazing!

So I can actually switch off

the genes that were expressing,

the troublesome genes that

were found in my tumor,

that were driving the growth of the tumor,

are turned off by fasting.

The reaction of most

people when you tell them

that you're going through

chemotherapy is absolute horror.

Nowadays, we have

medications that can handle

the side effects, people are on steroids,

they're on two or three different

kinds of antihistamines,

they're on medication to

stop them from throwing up,

they're on medication to help them sleep,

they're on medication,

they're on beta blockers

to block the adrenaline

because they're having so much anxiety,

they're on Xanax, stuff like that.

I didn't take most of what I was given.

I was kickboxing for an hour

at a time, three days a week.

I was doing yoga.

I was standing on my head,

I was doing headstands.

I was almost doing acro-yoga.

I was running up to 45 minutes a day

but the cycle that I

didn't do the fasting,

I struggled to exercise.

I maintained my weight

throughout the whole thing.

People keep telling me

things happen for a reason

and it's kind of what

kept me going through

the whole cancer thing

and thinking, (exhales)

I need to tell everybody

about the fasting.

I need to tell everybody

because I think it's gonna

save sanity.

I think it's gonna save lives.

Sometimes something is so life

changing that you can't help

but want to shout it out to absolutely

everybody you meet because

what you experienced

was so profound.

- One of the problems with fasting

and fasting mimicking diets

are what you're essentially

selling is nothing.

You're selling the idea that

your body can fix itself

if we remove all of the outside stimuli.

So monetizing that can

be a real challenge.

Getting people to care and

invest money in something

where essentially the benefit

is other people get better

is the ultimate goal but it's

not a very good business model

for the most part.

That's one of the

challenges in getting people

to care about this is

how, what's in it for me?

- It's a little tricky.

What do you do with drugs

and it should be handled

by people that spend a lot of time,

so I encourage anybody that's thinking

about a clinical trial to contact us

and have our contribution in developing

the clinical protocol for the trial.

The fasting mimicking

diet has been published

in the top scientific and medical journals

such as Cell, Cancer Cell,

Cell Metabolism,

JAMA which is the Journal

of the American Medical Association

and Science Translational Medicine.

- Recently published just a few months ago

a major paper in Cell showing

that fasting mimicking diet

some five to six cycles

are able in mice models

to reverse Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.

This is the first time in

history that the reverse

of Diabetes could be done and, again,

it's due to the stem cell rejuvenation.

The stem cells in the body,

when the body is starved,

they actually specialize in

beta cells in the pancreas

and allow the pancreas

to reproduce insulin

and decrease glucose in the blood.

- Beta cells in the

pancreas are rejuvenated,

regenerated.

- There's nothing in medicine today

that can induce these effects.

- We think it's a very old program

that is not that different

from what happens

when you cut yourself.

So you cut yourself and within a few weeks

everything goes back to

almost a perfect state.

So the body really knows

how to repair itself

is that probably fasting

has always been used

as a way to get rid of bad

cells, turn on stem cells,

regenerate for tens of thousands of years

and now in the last 100 years or so,

we eat so much all the

time and most patients

that we talk to have never

gone more than a day or so

without food.

- So it turns out that

once you get to about

the third day of not having any food,

then your body has to go into action.

- After two days either on a complete fast

or a fasting mimicking diet,

now the body starts really entering

a starvation response mode.

- The body then starts

shedding elderly cells

and cells with DNA damage

because these are consuming calories,

they're not doing their job right though

and then the body starts

pushing the stem cell,

the young cost effective

from (inaudible) cells

pushes them to actually replace those

and now you have new cells

in the body replicating

and taking action.

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