The Magic Pill Page #7

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your children grow.

-[Robert] Incredible news.

-[Kate] Yeah.

-[Robert] Not big news or...?

-[Kate] Yeah.

I have faith in bigger

and better things, man.

[jazz music playing]

[Sara]

All right, let me just get

my recipe for this one.

So we're going to make

the chocolates and then--

[Sara]

I want you to grind

the macadamia nuts.

[narrating]

Today, we're gonna be making

two survival foods

for somebody just starting out.

The first one

is macadamia bread.

-[Robert] That's

your fat bread that I saw?

-That's my fat bread.

I'll deal with the messy part

'cause I've got the apron.

-[Jane laughs]

-[Sara] And I'd like to make

a sugarless chocolate.

It's something you can have

in your refrigerator

when you just, "Ah,

I need something sweet."

-We both needed our

little something.

-Yeah.

I use stevia.

I don't use sugar

because it elevates

my blood sugar.

[Jane]

Taste it. See what you think.

I think it's perfect.

[Jane]

I think it's perfect too.

I think it's perfect.

Everybody needs

to learn a new word

it's called hyperinsulinemia.

We're going to grind the

macadamia nuts into a butter.

We are constantly triggering

our insulin.

Some people develop

type II diabetes,

some people develop

cardiovascular disease,

some people develop Alzheimer's.

I developed cancer.

In 2012, I went

for a breast MRI...

and something lit up

like a Christmas light.

I had invasive

with HER2 amplification,

which is a very aggressive

and metastatic type

of breast cancer.

I'm going to add

the coconut butter.

Cancer cells have

an Achilles' Heel.

You inhale oxygen,

your blood stream carries

oxygen throughout your body.

So that's an energy source

for healthy cells,

and that energy is used

by the mitochondria,

which is in the cytoplasm

of the cell.

But cancer cells can't do that.

Don't do this

if you have granite.

They can't get energy

from oxygen.

Cancer cells need

to ferment.

They need sugar and refined

carbohydrate to proliferate.

Did you ever see "Star Trek:

The Trouble with Tribbles"?

Okay? Do you remember

at the end they say,

"I figured it out!

If you don't want them to

reproduce, stop feeding them."

And that's what cancer is.

So I started

a ketogenic diet.

A ketogenic diet is

a high-fat, very-low-carb.

It's like Atkins on steroids.

This particular diet for cancer

means 80% healthy fats,

10, 12, maybe 14% protein...

and no more

than 12 grams carbohydrates.

[Jane]

Oh, yeah.

Look at how nicely it rose.

[Sara]

All I was looking for

was to prevent it

from metastasizing,

and, surprise of surprise,

it started shrinking.

My tumor started shrinking.

You can see

it came out gorgeous.

And my last MRI,

the radiologist said,

"Had I not known you were

diagnosed and treated,

"I would look at this

from another patient

and say,

'Nothing to see here.'"

[Robert]

So, you never actually

went through chemotherapy?

I didn't do surgery,

I didn't do chemotherapy,

and I didn't do radiation. No.

[Robert]

The headscarf is a religious--

Right. Yes. Absolutely.

No. No. I have my hair.

-[Robert] I don't know

how to ask that.

-I have my hair.

[Sara] I eat well.

I have a wonderful family.

I have a wonderful healthy life.

This can be in a doughnut pan

so you can make lox,

cream cheese, and bagels.

I've never had an illness

from the day I was diagnosed.

My immune system

is so good now

that everybody

will get sick with the flu,

and my grandchildren

are coughing in my face

and sticking their hands in

my mouth, and I don't get sick.

-That's the norm.

-[Sara] Yes. That is the norm.

[acoustic guitar playing]

[Sara] I'd walk into the

doctor's office, and they'd say,

"Ah! Our miracle patient

has arrived."

And that was

very disturbing to me,

because I didn't think--

you know, God runs

the world of course,

but I didn't think

there was anything miraculous

about what was happening.

I thought it was hard science.

What did I do that was different

from what anybody else can do?

And the answer

to that was the research.

A scientific study

changes the picture.

[Eugene Fine] Cancer's

described as an immensely

heterogeneous disease.

That's, in fact, a buzz-word

that's now very much

in the literature.

If you have a primary tumor,

this cell can have

this mutation,

and right next to it

you can have a cell that

has different mutations,

and the cells in the metastasis

have still different ones.

So, what happens is,

no matter how you target

your cancer therapies,

you're gonna end up catching

some of the mutations,

and then some of them are

simply going to be mutations

you didn't hit with

these particular therapies,

and then those cells

are gonna be the ones

that survive

and come back to get you.

Most cancers

are treated by cocktails

of multiple drugs which fail.

They also subject the patient

to toxic side effects

and poor quality of life

while it's failing.

But in some respects,

the more heterogeneous

the cancer gets,

the more it tends to converge

to a common metabolism:

That cancer cells depend

on glucose as a source of fuel.

That then could lend itself

to a metabolic approach

which targets just that.

I don't know that that's

going to be the case

in most cancers,

but it still doesn't

stop me from being optimistic

about the idea

of using diet as an adjunct

to chemotherapies

and other forms of therapies

to improve the overall efficacy

of treatment.

[Jason Fung]

So I can make anybody fat.

Insulin causes weight gain.

So for example,

if I prescribe insulin

to people, people gain weight.

I could make you obese. I just

have to give you enough insulin.

If you think about

what the major causes

of disease are

in the 19th century

and early 20th century,

what was killing people

was infections.

Right? So people are

dying of tuberculosis,

people are

dying of pneumonia.

We developed penicillin.

We developed all these great

drugs, so people lived.

The problem is that's

not our situation now.

So we've taken

the same attitude of,

"Here's a magic pill,"

and we've applied it

to a dietary disease.

That's insane!

The multi-million

dollar question is,

"Why is it happening?"

I mean, it's not like

we're deficient

in pharmaceuticals, right?

And we don't have

a Toujeo deficit.

Right now, it's really

the perfect storm.

I mean, we're eating

more processed food

than ever before,

our environment is toxic,

and we're leading these

incredibly stressful lives.

I think a lot of diseases

are really the same disease.

so like obesity,

type II diabetes,

high blood pressure,

heart disease--

it's all basically

the same problem.

[Jason]

Type II diabetes is

a dietary disease.

It's the leading cause

of blindness.

It's the leading

cause of amputations.

It's the leading cause

of kidney disease and dialysis.

It's a leading

contributor to cancer.

It's a leading contributor

to heart disease.

So, practically 70%

of what we practice

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