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>>My father was a police officer.

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The morning of the test, that I was supposed to take the test,

I almost skipped out.

I was trying to go back out the back door of the house

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to go to Martha's Vineyard.

And he stopped me.

And so I ended up taking the test.

I ended up passing.

And I got on really young.

I got on when I was 22, which fortunately,

that way I can retire early, wrap it all up at a young age.

This is me in my, I think that's Captain America underoos.

That's my brother, chowing down on some potato chips.

Oh look it.

An apple.

[laughs] And we still both eat the same.

He still eats potato chips.

I haven't converted him yet.

My dad's badge is 182.

He was a detective with the department for 20 plus years.

He passed away a few years back from cancer.

And then, they gave me his badge number, so I now carry 182.

So I kept this.

And this is a quote that a friend of mine,

named Celine Souci, gave to me.

"Every decision you make stems from what

you think you are and represents the value that you

put upon yourself."

So this is basically the last thing

that I see going out the door on the way to work every day.

>>The speed at which our lives are unfolding

for the average person in an industrialized society,

it's too fast.

We're not present.

We're not in the moment.

We're not with our loved ones enough.

You know, we're not breaking bread together,

enjoying a communal meal together.

We're worrying about things that are sometimes

at the end of our career.

We're worrying about retirement.

We're worrying about our investments.

We're worrying about making one meeting after the next.

>>There is now just a huge amount of research showing

that the actual hormones and neurotransmitters

that your body produces and secretes when you're stressed

lead to so many of these chronic diseases,

like cancer and heart disease.

>>The public is ill.

They're overweight and they're ill.

Over the age of 30, almost everybody in this country

is sick.

Two thirds of the people are overweight.

Well, over 30% are on medication over the age of 30.

And about half have risk factors,

like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high blood

sugar that predict that they're going

to have a less than ideal life.

>>We have a classification called morbid obesity.

They're now coming up with one called morbidly morbid obesity.

We're getting fat.

We are the fattest people in the history of the world.

And we're getting fatter.

>>I was told by my university teacher, the first nutrition

class that I had, and the funny thing

is the first day of class, he walked into the classroom,

and his belly literally came in the door before he did.

And he proceeded to tell me about health

and how to lose weight.

>>Most Americans are living in the dark ages of nutrition.

And they're eating a diet style that not only is not

nutritionally sufficient, but it actually is so dangerous,

causing unnecessary tragedies, needless deaths,

and a tremendous amount of suffering.

People don't understand that they're digging their graves

with their knives and forks.

>>And then when you get a headache,

the doctor comes and gives you pain relieving pills, toxic.

Or if you have a joint ache, or this ache, or that ache,

the doctor comes with more drugs, more chemicals,

and people have long lists of chemicals

that they have to take or to live on.

The doctors say you can't stop it.

People are toxic, seriously toxic.

>>In 1945, one cup of spinach had a certain amount

of minerals.

To get that amount of minerals in one cup of spinach in 1945,

we'd have to eat 65 cups right now, that's

how depleted our soil is.

There's 12,000 additives being added to our food right now.

>>What's happening now is kind of the summation

of many different types of lifestyles,

which are out of accordance with natural order.

And nobody's at fault. We just made mistakes.

We didn't know, and so we experimented

with eating chemicals, junk food.

All different kinds of really toxic types

of animal foods, toxic plant foods.

And now, we washed up onto the beach, and we're sick.

So now, we've got to figure out how do we get well.

>>I've got a quote somewhere that everybody's

a brush stroke.

And they say, you know, every chance

you get to get a vegetable or a fruit inside, get it.

So anytime anybody offers me one--

I could be walking by the main desk,

someone will have a bag of carrots, you want one, Eric?

Absolutely.

Eat them all while they're doing their report.

People say how do you not want to just rip into a steak?

And I don't know what drives people to want to do that.

Emotional eating or whatever it is.

Or why they want a coffee.

Maybe they just never tried what I have tried.

And I thank my lucky stars that whatever

it is that came into my life made me try this

because it's the best thing I have in my life is the way

I eat.

There's no two ways about that.

It grounds me.

It keeps me happy.

It keeps me stress free.

It makes me enjoy workouts.

Whereas, maybe, years ago when I wasn't, I

was working out but not eating as well.

I liked when my workout was over.

It takes zero willpower for me.

Like they say you have so much willpower.

And I'd love to take that credit,

like I have all this awesome willpower.

But truly what it is is I crave it, you know what I mean.

This is a hot fudge sundae to me.

You could put a piece of pizza, and it just

wouldn't interest me at all.

>>I didn't know Eric was that old.

Not that he's old.

But when I saw him, I thought he was like 30, 31, you know.

He just has so much energy.

So he's been here almost 20 years in the department.

I didn't know that.

I've only been here nine.

I met him like this.

So when people tell me before he used to be kind of heavy,

always eating differently, just eating bad.

And I didn't witness the change, so I've

met him the way he is today.

But you speak to the other guys about him,

and they're like, oh yeah, doesn't he look great

from before.

And I'm like, what was before?

>>I remember Eric back probably 10 years ago.

And he was probably 30 to 40, probably 50 pounds heavier

than he is now.

He wasn't healthy you know.

Eric, now, he's total vegan.

He eats-- basically, we say he's like a cow.

He grazes all day.

>>Before I did this, I would go, I had a typical American diet,

where it was coffee.

Hardly ever drank any water.

You know and just sub shops.

I don't really remember exactly how I felt.

But I know if I just did that for one day

right now that the chances are I probably

would finish that day by going home

and just watching television.

I wouldn't even dare to try going to the gym.

>>That'll do it.

Stick and jab.

>>You're getting a little tired, Eric.

Don't do that.

>>Charles Dickens in his "Tale of Two Cities"

opened the book with, "It was the best of times.

It was the worst of times."

And 200 years later, it's the best time ever.

It's the worst time ever.

It's both.

And I will bet my money that what we're going to see

is a continuation of that.

That what we're going to see is whatever choice you want

will be accelerated to an incredible destiny

either to your benefit or to your detriment.

It just depends what your choice is.

So for example, if somebody's choice is, I don't care,

I give up, it doesn't matter, it's too late,

then they will accelerate to the worst ever in a way that

was never even possible before.

Just in the same way as if somebody says, no, no, no,

it's possible.

I can create a future that is incredible.

There is hope in the world.

There is love in the world.

The best food ever is possible.

The best water ever is possible.

The best herbal medicine ever is possible.

Then, they will accelerate to a destiny that they cannot even

imagine.

>>Everything that you eat affects the way you think,

affects the way you feel, and it literally

affects the print out, or the receipt

that you get of your body.

Your body is basically a receipt for all the food

that you've invested in.

So when people see you, they see your receipt.

So we want to really be more proactive and empowered

by this versus, I'm made of Gummy bears,

and goldfish crackers, and cheeseburgers,

being made of the best food on the planet.

>>Well, I was pretty much overweight my entire life.

From the age of five, I was the cute chubby kid that everybody

wanted to pinch his cheeks.

And went up to being overweight, and then obese.

And then right around that time they coined a new term which

was morbidly obese.

Until finally, I hit 400 pounds.

And as you can imagine, that was a very scary time in my life.

I tried over 30 different diets.

None of them worked.

I was on the verge of having gastric bypass surgery.

Went through all the tests to get ready for that.

And at the very last minute, I decided

that that wasn't for me.

I was reading a book about fasting.

And they mentioned the words "raw food."

And I knew they weren't talking about sushi.

But it had to be something important because I

kept getting drawn to it.

And I literally went out and bought

about 20 different books.

Started researching them.

And made the switch overnight to 100% raw food lifestyle--

raw being fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds,

all in their uncooked form.

And before that, I was probably having

7,000 plus calories a day, two to three meals fast food.

So it was a pretty intense of a change.

But I'm a bit of an extremist.

I wanted to give it a go.

And I lost the weight so fast.

I mean, it was the first time in my life

I actually lost more than 20 pounds.

>>I think the common denominator amongst all

of these patients who I've seen really

make a remarkable turnaround in their health

is that they were empowered, that they

believed they could do it.

And with that said, I've seen a number of patients

lose in excess of 100 pounds in relatively moderate time spans.

We're not talking years here.

We're talking less than a year.

>>Within the first three months, I stepped on a scale.

And this wasn't a regular scale.

I had to go to the hospital.

I had to go the gastric bypass section and get permission

to use their scale because my scale at home didn't work.

My scale in my doctor's office didn't go high enough.

And as I got on this scale, I realized in three months,

I had lost 55 pounds with just diet change alone, no exercise.

And then that year, I continued on.

In the first year, I lost 100 pounds.

And something hit, like automatically,

I had this revelation.

I said, oh my god, the power of food.

I never realized it.

So many times, people said you have to go to the gym.

You have to do this and that.

>>And the core of that really drew, was they

got back to a diet which was centered

around fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds,

very small amounts of animal protein.

Not a significant amount of refined food in their diet.

So it was a diet that humans have

eaten for thousands and thousands of years.

And once they got back to it, their health

really reflected that.

>>My belt size changed.

I was a five extra large shirt and a size 58 pants.

But the size of the weight change,

I ended up leaving my job of 11 years to pursue my passion.

I started doing public speaking around the world,

helping other people.

And my relationships changed, my spirituality changed,

my confidence changed, the way I interacted with women changed.

And I just started to really enjoy life for the first time.

Whereas before, I was just waking up depressed and sad

every single day.

So the long answer to your question

is the food was the catalyst for so much more

than I ever expected.

And I'm so grateful for the opportunity

to be able to take part in this amazing journey.

>>The Gerson therapy was developed many,

many, many years ago, actually in the late '20s

and early '30s by my father Dr. Max Gerson.

He wasn't a medical doctor.

And he sort of accidentally, you know how these things are.

When you find scientific materials accidentally,

that when you change your diet, you

change your entire physiology.

And you can heal things.

And he accidentally found out that when he changed his diet

to cure his own migraine headaches,

it also helped a patient who happened

to have skin tuberculosis.

You couldn't heal just one disease.

When you use the right nutrition and you

restore the body's ability to heal itself,

it would heal everything.

>>Guys will come to me.

That's usually when someone will come and ask me

what should I eat for this when it's a little bit too late,

when they have a problem, maybe diabetes, Crohn's disease.

You know, different things like that, or their doctor

says you got high blood pressure.

And they'll come to me and they'll

say, what can I add to my diet to fix this?

Guys that will quit smoking.

That type of thing.

And I always wished that I could just snap my fingers

and get them-- and I always say this,

I say if you could eat the way I eat for a month,

if I could just force you to eat the way I eat for a month,

you'd never eat any way again.

It wouldn't work for a week.

It wouldn't work for three days.

You'd feel deprived, and your body would probably

go through some type of withdrawal

from all the bad stuff that they're putting in there.

But I always wish that I could do that for people.

Just snap my fingers.

People are getting their intestines cut out a couple

feet at a time because they have Crohn's disease,

and a medical doctor will tell them-- we'll cut them open

and gut them, rather than tell them to stop potato chips

and Snickers bar.

It should be illegal.

Really, you know, when you think about it.

But I don't know.

>>I come from a family of medical doctors,

and I grew up in that environment.

I grew up in that environment of hospitals,

emergency rooms, doctors' offices,

house calls with my dad when I was a kid.

And so I've been uniquely prepared

with an interesting viewpoint for the life's work

that I have, which is to really find out what medicine is all

about and to really dig into medicine

that's available to the people, that the people can understand.

>>When I was 20 years old, I was diagnosed with something called

Degenerative Disc Disease.

So essentially, my spine was deteriorating very fast.

And I went to see my traditional doctor,

and he put the MRIs up for me to see.

And he told me that I had the spine of an 80-year-old.

And to hear that when you're 20 is pretty shocking.

And it sent my life on a tail spin downward very fast

because not being completely ignorant,

I went and seeked out other expert opinions.

So I got a second opinion, a third opinion, fourth opinion.

And all the doctors told me the same thing.

That this was a situation that was incurable,

and I couldn't do anything about it.

Now, the funny thing is with that first doctor,

I had the wherewithal to ask him,

was there anything that I can do to fix this.

Should I change my diet?

Should I change the way I'm exercising?

And he looked at me kind of in pity,

and he said this has nothing to do with your eating.

And then he wrote me a prescription to eat some pills.

>>The medical system is increasingly

and onerously expensive.

It's bankrupting people.

It's bankrupting companies.

It's toxic in many cases.

It does some good, but it does some damage at the same time.

There's always side effects to every drug.

It has a place in trauma care.

It has a place-- I'm not trying to put it down.

But I'm saying that we've lost touch

with our ability to prevent disease in the first place.

All people hear about is detecting cancer and treating

it through the medical profession.

Nobody's focusing on what can we do

to never get it to begin with.

And I think that people are living in a fairy tale

to think that we're going to invent some magic pill we're

going to pop in our mouth and not get cancer.

Life isn't a fairy tale.

We choose to eat the foods that result in the problems

that we develop in life.

Why not choose to eat foods that maximize our health?

>>You know, I watched my father die from cancer.

And I actually had a friend die from leukemia last year.

And I watched both of them.

The same exact thing happened.

I know it's a touchy subject when

you get into heavy medications like that.

But at the end, it was a battle as to what

was putting them down worse, what was killing them worse.

And at the end, it was the medication.

The medication was just pounding away, I remember,

at my father's body and the different side

effects that he was getting.

>>When we go to medical school, we're taught to treat symptoms,

and we look at something with this kind of cut, burn,

and poison paradigm.

>>So much of the health care costs

that the system is burdened with now

had been totally preventative.

It's been sound nutrition, stress reduction,

daily exercise, or movement.

You know, these are the only things

that if you look at the timeline,

if you really launch a trajectory out

from any point in an individual state of disease,

those are the things which have been shown to make a change.

>>My friend and colleague, who's a nephrologist,

one day, he turned to me, we were at a meeting together,

and he said, you know Daphne, it's really amazing to me.

People don't seem to be able to take the half hour or hour they

need in their day in order to make themselves healthy food

and exercise.

But when their kidneys fail, they sure

have that four to five hours a week to go sit there

and just get hooked up to a dialysis machine.

>>We call it a health care, but it really

would be better accurate, more accurate

to call it disease care.

Because our medical system, what it does is it

diagnoses disease once it's already there.

Then comes in with treatments, usually surgery

and pharmaceutical medications, and so forth.

But what about preventing those illnesses

from occurring in the first place, building up health?

We need to create a culture of wellness.

>>Meet Shirly Mislamof, probably the world's oldest man.

This mountain villager claims to be 163,

and he credits hard work and a simple life for his longevity.

The Caspian Sea region has dozens of centenarians.

>>Studies have shown that places on this earth where people

lived the healthiest and longest lives,

where the elders are looked up to not just as reservoirs

of wisdom but also because they're vibrant and strong

people still.

They still are giving.

They're still connecting.

They're still part of the community

in really a significant way.

We can look and say, well, what do they have in common?

What are the attributes of those cultures?

What are they doing that seems to be working?

>>I found it to be actually remarkable what

is possible in areas of the world

where people move every day, eat a plant-based whole foods

type of diet that is centered in their local agricultural

system.

Foods aren't coming from the other side of the globe.

Things are grown right there in that valley.

>>But they found these villages in China,

where you really couldn't get a heart attack.

You couldn't get diabetes.

And the women could not get breast cancer.

And these friends of mine from Cornell University and Oxford

University went into these villages.

What's going on?

Well, you work in the fields 12 hours

a day, eating rice, beans, tofu, veggies, three times a day.

Meat, twice a year.

Total cholesterol 127.

Heart attack rate virtually zero.

Diabetes.

You know, why is the breast cancer zero?

Well, we think it's because they're

on largely a plant-protein diet, like those ladies in Japan.

Born in Japan, raised on a plant-protein diet,

don't get breast cancer.

Their sisters, however, who migrate,

Honolulu, San Francisco, catch up

to the high breast cancer rate of American women,

adopting the American diet.

>>The patient in my practice who was originally from Brazil,

and her family for many generations

came from a very small village that

was on the banks of the Amazon River.

And she had, in her lifetime, emigrated

first to Rio, and then from there to San Francisco.

And by the time I saw her, she was in her late 30s

and had a number of chronic health problems.

She was battling her weight, was quite overweight.

She had depression.

She had osteoarthritis of the knees, so degenerative joints

in the knees that was probably largely due to her weight.

She had borderline high blood pressure

and borderline diabetes.

And a couple months before she came to see me,

she actually had gone back to her family's village in Brazil

on the banks of the Amazon River and had spent a couple months

there.

And while she was there, without any particular health

goal in mind, she noticed that she was getting healthier.

And then she came back to San Francisco,

and all her problems started to come back again.

And it was at that point that she

came and had her first visit with me and said to me,

I really want to figure out what was causing that jungle effect.

>>I think the many populations experience a better pattern

of health or greater longevity in certain geographical areas,

because they have a cleaner food supply, often

a more traditional food supply, so it's

based on foods which are, again, less refined

and have been part of their culture for thousands of years.

But you look at those populations, none of them

are really big meat eaters.

Most of them have some type of legume, some type of bean

or lentil on a daily basis.

They all eat a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables.

So I think that it's hard sometimes

to separate faith from diet or spirituality

from other lifestyles.

But I think, in general, they have a really clean diet,

and they practice some form of meditation or prayer

where they're present for part of the day.

>>Okinawa, amongst their elderly population,

there is a lot of long livers.

There's a lot of longevity and very low

rates of many chronic diseases.

But what was for me most compelling

was that they have exceedingly low rates of breast

cancer and prostate cancer.

>>The same could be said for the Hunza Valley way

up in the Himalayas.

And some of the other places that have been found.

Really Hawaii is also a blue zone.

Hawaiians have the-- and not just the native Hawaiians,

but literally Americans who move to Hawaii

and other nationalities and races that move to Hawaii

have the lowest cancer rate of the 50 states.

They have also the lowest death rate.

Florida's the highest.

Hawaii's the lowest.

>>There are certainly places that have higher average life

expectancies than others.

So Japan is almost at the top, I think around 83, 84 years.

There's the Seventh Day Adventists,

but they're more of a religion rather than

a particular geographic location.

They're concentrated in Loma Linda, California,

but they're all over the country and are certainly

a very mixed group when it comes to ethnicity.

And their trick seems to be some exceptionally good health

habits.

And so they have average life expectancies of about 88,

89 years.

>>I love to look at what I've observed in other populations,

but I also like to look at the research

that as we get older things don't have to go downhill.

You can look at research that's based on muscle recruitment.

You can look at the research on blood pressure, bone density.

There's some fascinating work that

shows if you take care of yourself,

if you don't bombard your genes as we've

talked about with an unhealthy diet, an unhealthy way of life,

that as you get older your blood pressure can go down,

that your bone density can improve,

that you can maintain that muscle mass

you're told you're just going to lose.

So I really think that centenarians and people

of all ages should have hope that getting old

isn't a sad story.

It can really be a beautiful story.

>>Time and time again, people would ask me,

but don't you think that at the end of the day,

the reason that you're seeing such low rates

of these diseases in various places

is because genetically this is a culture which

is protected for whatever reason from this disease.

And the easy answer to that is that we

have tons of data at this point-- when for example, West

Africans migrate to an urban area

and start to eat an urban diet and have an urban lifestyle,

they get colon cancer at the same rate as everybody else.

And in fact, African Americans, many of whom

can trace their ancestry back to West Africa,

have some of the highest rates of colon cancer in the world

and even higher rates than Caucasian Americans.

So we know it's not genetics in that point.

Because you look at your ancestors,

and they have very low rates.

Same with Japanese Americans.

They get breast and colon cancer the same as anybody else

once they're living here in the US.

And yet in Japan, incredibly low rates.

>>Very few cancers are actually genetic.

It's like less than 3%.

Right.

Why didn't we have a cancer epidemic a hundred years ago

if it's genetic?

Right.

Why is it now one in almost every two people

is going to develop cancer?

How come now?

Why wasn't it like that a hundred years ago

if it's genetic?

So that whole genetic story is falling apart

under the weight of epigenetics.

What the epigenetics are indicating

is that there are lifestyle factors that

are triggering the expression of the gene or suppressing it.

Right.

So yeah.

You can have a genetic weakness in a certain area,

but it will never express itself unless you go out

and you do as much booze as you possibly can.

Eat the worse food ever.

Run your body into the ground.

Then, that gene will express.

>>You try to make the best of it.

You try to laugh.

But basically, you argue with people for a living.

You see a lot of unfortunate living situations.

So a lot of negativity.

So it can hammer away at you, you know, your mood.

It can definitely have its effects on you, stress wise.

When you get out, you definitely need a release.

Some guys find it in good ways.

And some guys find it in bad ways.

Life Alive is my only stop.

And to be quite honest with you, with the way my day goes.

It's like an oasis.

She calls it an oasis.

Life Alive, Organic Garden Oasis.

But it is.

I go in there.

It's peaceful in there.

It's serene.

The atmosphere is serene.

Heidi goes-- Heidi goes way out of her way in terms

of the hiring process to make sure people care about what

they're doing and the message that they're getting across.

They're not just serving food.

And so she wants a well atmosphere.

And she's got the bulletin board.

You're going to learn about other things

in life, meditation, yoga, whatever it might be.

They have different seminars in there.

Going in there.

I'm in tenement buildings all day,

in not the most beautiful lifestyles.

After seeing negativity, negativity all day,

it's really nice to be able to go in there

if I get half an hour to sit down and eat my meal,

be around pleasant people that are trying on a daily basis

to become more pleasant and more well.

And so going in there is a real treat for me.

A little bit of heaven on earth.

Squash, kale, broccoli, corn, almonds, carrots, quinoa.

>>The most immediate changes that people can make,

right from the beginning, is start

making half of every plate of food

that you consume fruits and vegetables

with fruit and vegetables predominately coming

from North America.

That's one of the most important things anybody can do.

Eat more fruits and vegetables.

Eat less meat.

Less dairy.

Really reduce that to a very small percentage of your plate.

Cut a lot of refined flours and sweeteners out of your diet

completely because those are undermining our health as much

as any other dietary factor.

>>One of those categories of great medicines is raw foods.

Getting back to raw foods and fresh juices

and getting that prana back and life force

energy that comes from real living plant cells

instead of cells that have been exploded by heat or cells

that have been fried or radiated or microwaved.

So that's a big part of the work that I do.

And that brings life back.

Right.

Life comes from life.

And live food makes you more living.

>>If an indigenous person, a hunter-gatherer

was to come into your kitchen and look around and see

your food, what would they think?

Would they be able to recognize where that food came from?

So they come in and they look through your kitchen

and they see the vegetables and the fruits in there.

And they're like, yeah, vegetables and fruits.

I recognize those things.

And they see the seeds and nuts.

And they're like, yeah, we have those things.

And they see the animal foods.

And they say, yeah, we hunt animals.

But then they see the ramen noodles.

Then, they see the Lucky Charms.

Then, they see the Doritos.

And there's a big disconnection.

They can't recognize where those things came from.

There's not a Dorito bush.

>>I eat a plant strong diet.

I get as many of my nutrients from plants as possible

because they tend in that way to come with phytochemicals

and multiple kinds of minerals, and all kinds of nutrients

that we need, our cells need, to function optimally.

>>I get home late at night, you know.

So I'll eat a really big salad.

That's usually what I finish my night with.

And it's like a serving bowl.

Like this.

Tons of greens, avocado, some flax on there,

pumpkin seeds, almonds, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers,

onions.

You name it.

Any vegetable that you throw in front of me.

If I can find it, I'm going to put in there.

>>One thing that everybody could relate to, and I think

can recognize, that green vegetables, for example,

are particularly micronutrient dense and related to longer

life and low rates of cancer.

So no matter what kind of diet you're

on, or whatever you believe, you're

probably not eating enough green vegetables.

>>I grew up very poor.

So I mean I had the worst of the worst food.

I mean everything that was in a can and had no labels on it.

And it was interesting because as I started to literally purge

myself of foods that had pesticides, herbicides,

fungicides, larvicides, chemicals, dyes, poisons,

I actually realized that I was able to think clearer.

That even my connection with, we'll say God,

was just a bit more clear, and I started

to change the way I had an outlook on life.

So it really was just the catalyst,

it was the ground floor of what was going to be,

everything else was going to be built on.

>>You have the old adage you are what you eat.

But I take it a step further and say you eat what you are.

Again, it starts with your green vegetables, number one.

Again, I know for myself, getting

into kale, collard greens, spinach.

But also some of your, even your more bitter greens, you

know you have your dandelion.

I love turnip greens.

I can't overstate the importance of eating

really good vegetables.

>>I went to a Walmart.

I went to Safeway out there.

I went to some other smaller stores.

And what I realized is that many of these foods,

in fact, most of them you can find, really,

all over the country.

Things like the dried beans, and a lot of the greens,

and even the fruits and vegetables that are in season.

>>50 or 100 years ago, America spend three times as much

on food as they do today, as a percent of total take home pay.

And they're actually spending less on food

today than they ever did before in history, well,

except for spending 10 times more on medical care.

Don't forget.

So we're spending more on medical care.

But not as much on food.

>>Want some good wholesome food today as always?

>>Yes, ma'am.

Fortunately, you guys got it today.

Let's see.

Any oranges?

>>The point is that we could grow food in our backyard.

Green vegetables, collards, and kale, and mustard greens

are not expensive.

Zucchini is cheap.

Beans are cheap.

Rices are cheap.

>>Pinto beans every night really over the course of a lifetime

is going to work in your favor.

You know, you don't need to have the meat.

You don't need to have the animal protein.

You don't need to have a lot of heavily processed but maybe

organic snacks.

They're more expensive because they're processed,

and they're packaged.

And there's a lot of marketing centered around them.

But they're not necessarily anything

you want to have on a regular basis.

So I think that beans and rice and green leafy vegetables

for a life are going to produce a greater overall quality

of health than a diet that's much more complex

but is centered around animal protein

and heavily processed foods.

>>When you're eating healthy, you're

satisfied with fewer calories.

It actually becomes less expensive because you're not

driven to overeat anymore.

And you don't have to eat for two.

You can eat just for one person because the extra calories

really feeds your doctor.

>>So this is, in fact, a budget way to eat healthy.

>>The food that we need to eat that's in the best

form for the body to heal itself is

food that's in a liquid form.

So we should start with our fresh coconut water,

our fresh juices that we make.

And we use that.

That creates a great balance in terms

of giving the body what it needs nutritionally in a liquid form,

whereas you're looking at 95% to 99% water.

Then, the healing is quick.

>>With juicing, you can concentrate the food.

It's easily digested.

It goes right into the tissues, into the cells,

where it belongs.

And it immediately raises the level of nutrients

so the body can start to heal.

>>When you're dealing with juices,

you're talking 15, 20 minutes, it's in your bloodstream.

When you're dealing with blended food,

it's like you've chewed that thing a thousand times.

The whole food is still completely there.

You've just accelerated to its end goal

of being completely liquefied.

And then once that's in your body

and into your digestive track, your body

can absorb everything that was there.

Again, instead of doing 10 times, with the blended stuff,

you've chewed it a thousand times.

>>Towards the end of the year, I started

to hear about this idea of a juice fast,

an extended juice fast, which is when

I decided to go on this crazy, 100 day juice fast.

Right.

Nothing but juice for 100 days.

And by the end of that second year,

I had lost another 100 pounds, literally

cutting my body weight in half within two years time.

Safe, natural, skin repairing itself.

And I saw so many people that had come up,

that were gastric patients that had lost that kind of weight

in maybe three or four months.

But then were having skin issues and different things like that,

so it was really cool to take the time

to really do it the right way, give myself

lots of green juice, alkalize my body.

>>A coconut water as a water is food and a water

simultaneously.

So when we drink that, we don't need a colonic.

We don't need anything other than that.

That will go and clean out our whole system.

>>Yeah.

Until you get the plates transferred over.

>>Right.

>>Yep.

>>OK.

All right.

>>See you, buddy.

All right.

>>All right, man.

>>All right.

I'll see you.

>>You're not going get beat up anymore.

>>Stay out of trouble.

Will ya?

How you doing?

How's it going, ladies?

>>Good.

How are you?

>>Good.

I truly believe that there's one fountain of youth,

and this is it.

I think that I feel like in the last six years

not only have I not aged, but I feel

like I've grown more youthful.

I turn 40 next summer, and I feel 25.

The way it seeps into your life.

I mean I act like I'm 25.

I do things that 25-year-olds do.

I find myself drawn to 25 year-old people.

It's really crazy.

It's changed my life.

It's the one thing that-- the best decision

that I've ever made in my entire life.

>>I think that if the fountain of youth does in fact exist,

it exists inside of us, probably inside of our brains

in the way we look at life, our outlook on things,

being positive.

Not becoming too cynical, not becoming all

depressed with respect to how bad sometimes things

look environmentally or with respect to our health.

I think we all have that in us.

I think that that coupled with a diet which

supports our biochemistry, the basics, you know,

offers us more alkalinity.

Not an acid loaded diet.

Keeping our blood sugar levels more in check.

I think the fountain of youth comes from outlook on life

and how simple we can keep our diet.

>>Modern nutritional science has advanced

to the point where we can live longer and in better health

than prior years.

Where the average American lives about 75 years old,

the average worldwide life expectancy

is between 75 and 80.

Even the best populations, 80, 81

is the very best longest lived people,

and I'm saying that I'm seeing sick patients come

to me in their late 60's and 70's and now in their 90's

thriving because of excellent nutrition.

We could add 20 quality years to people's life

with excellent nutrition.

>>So many people would say that it takes a lot of will power.

And I've heard that a lot of times.

Wow, it takes so much will power to do something like that.

And I've found that it really doesn't.

It's actually just a change of your will.

What you decide is important in your life.

So many times, I've had conversations

with people and say, what's your priorities?

Is health your priority?

And they say, yes, but when I'm at my families,

I end up eating this way.

Or when I'm out with my friends, I end up eating this way.

And so as you start to reframe and look at your priorities,

and really see what you want for your life,

and you put health first, all of a sudden,

all the decisions become very easy.

When you're out and everybody's eating junk food, for example,

you just say, OK, what am I going to do?

Let me look down my priority list.

Oh, health is number one before maybe socialization or whatever

that happens to be.

And that's the choice that I'm going to do.

>>I've seen so many individuals, once they realize that they

could do it, that they were going to do it,

drop a ton of weight.

Really change their biochemistry.

Right to the core.

>>The day you decide you want to be well,

you got to do it 100%, just like a cigarette smoker.

A cigarette smoker can hear over and over again

about how bad tobacco is and get all kinds

of negative reinforcement.

And they may practice going without cigarettes

for two or three hours or so.

But then the day comes, and they say I want to be different.

I don't want to be a cigarette smoker anymore.

And then they stop 100%.

Same thing with the food.

You can practice for a while if you want.

But when you decide to really get your health back,

to get your personal appearances back, then you do it 100%.

>>The tools to heal ourselves are always available,

whether they are foods, or movies, or books,

or inspirational plays, or whatever

it is, or family time, or time with the grandkids,

or whatever it is.

The tools are there.

It's just opening to it and just allowing it in.

I really believe very strongly in stacking

the odds in your favor whenever possible.

Whenever it's possible to make a choice that

will stack the odds in your favor for healing, do it.

Make that little extra effort.

For example, instead of just drinking the water.

Bless it.

Take one extra second.

Bless the water.

Then, drink it.

It helps.

It improves it.

And if you start stacking those things

on top of each other with every moment,

ultimately, that's the kind of life that is a blessed life.

>>One night, I made the decision, before I went to bed,

this epiphany happened.

Where I was asking constantly over and over again, why me?

Why is this happening to me?

Why won't anybody help me?

And started to shift the questions

I was asking because our brains operate on questions.

And I began to ask, what is it that I need to do to change?

What is it that I need to do to get better?

And from asking those questions, I

started to see all the different places in my life

that I was not living up to my potential.

>>There's nothing more valuable than our body and our temple.

I mean it's priceless.

We cannot put a value on it.

And if we believe that this is a one-shot deal,

then I think we would be a lot more responsible with our food

choices because we understand that is our healing, that

is our true medicine.

>>We got to ask questions.

>>Thank you very much.

>>Try to help you with helpful cooking tips.

But for the most part, all this stuff, chop up.

Put in a salad.

>>I eat raw.

I eat raw all the time.

So this is all like--

>>You're in the right place.

>>Yeah, this is perfect.

>>Cool, man.

>>Thank you.

>>You got it.

>>The biggest obstacle I think right now

to the average person that wants to get healthy

is that it's been portrayed as something that's very complex.

That you have to be really well-educated to understand

or to follow.

And that it's expensive.

And that it requires the use of extensive supplements

or these so-called magic potions.

And in fact, it's the simplest thing we could ever follow.

>>Every morning, I make kale shakes.

>>Oh yeah.

>>I make them.

Sometimes I'll throw kombucha in with them to liquefy it.

Sometimes, I'll throw coconut water in there.

Throw maybe like a lime.

Gets me out the door.

You know.

Perfect.

Puts a smile on my face for work for at least maybe

like an hour.

Then, I have to swing back home and get another one.

Awesome.

I got your back.

All right.

Take care.

>>We'll see you around.

>>All right.

Take it easy.

How you doin'?

>>Good.

How are you?

>>I made the decision to get well.

And that's really what changed everything for me.

Most times, when people are diagnosed

with a severe condition, they give up.

They don't understand that you can make the decision

to get well and do something about it.

>>The day I stood on the scale it

was-- you're either saying yes to life,

or you're saying no to life.

And for me, I was dying fast.

You don't see many 400-pound, morbidly obese old people.

So I realized, what's the decision that I'm

making right now for my life.

And that's when I made the switch in realizing

I want to say yes to life.

And there is hope for every single person out there.

It's just one thought and decision away.

The way you're thinking right now can be instantly changed.

You say, you know what?

That's not the outcome I want for my life.

I choose to enact my will and choose

to look at health as my number one priority.

Without that, I'm not going to be able to play with my kids.

I'm not going to be able to enjoy my partner.

And then once you start to create

those kinds of a technology or system,

everything else just filters down through.

Just kind of like dropping a marble in a game

and watching it go through.

All your decisions go through that path,

and it actually becomes easy.

And so many people have laughed when

I say this but losing 200 pounds was the easiest thing that I

ever did in my life.

>>This here is the criminal bureau

where my father used to work as a detective prior to passing.

Main desk's up here.

That would be a good show on television

if these people would just sign a waiver.

You know what I mean just sign-- that's

what David Wolfe should do.

Sign a waiver.

You're off the show.

And it's like six months.

And you're going to be force fed a raw food diet for six months.

You go off it, you're off the show,

and you don't get the million bucks at the end.

And then take like 20 people and see how many go back

at the end of six months.

None of them will go back.

Right.

Probably none would go-- maybe, who knows?

Maybe some would go back.

But that would be an amazing way to get people to try it.

[laughs]

Sorry.

Hi, honey.

How are you, ladies?

>>You got a purple one.

>>That looks pretty good.

Right there.

>>Right there.

I'm going to get the fiber bowl.

>>The fiber bowl.

Yeah.

>>With some wheat grass.

>>Hey, how you doing?

We're going to get fiber bowls and two shots of wheat grass.

>>Smalls or larges on the wheat grass?

>>I don't know.

>>Large.

>>Large.

>>Two larges.

Anything else, guys?

>>No.

That'll be all.

Thank you.

>>It'll be $28.89.

>>All right.

It's on you.

He makes money.

>>You know in the summer he sits outside and eats an acorn.

People drive by in the cruiser.

Then where we stop.

First, you see what he's putting in his body.

This is colorful stuff too.

So it draws attention, as you can see.

And if you just say hi to him, and he'll talk to you.

Right away, he's like, hey, you got to try this.

Come inside.

Do this.

Do that.

I mean if you've got the cure to something, you share it.

Right.

And you believe in it, because it happened to you.

So that's why Eric's the way he is.

I tell you that's the way I see it.

I mean if you just look at-- look at all the color in this.

We got carrots, corn, raw almonds.

I love raw almonds.

It has beets.

I'm going to take a bite of this.

Hold on.

[chuckles]

I mean this is delicious.

This is delicious.

It has so much flavor.

I mean cheeseburgers and crap like that.

Or like Chinese food.

I'm not going to say I've never had Chinese food.

But you know you're hungry an hour later.

When you eat like this, you're actually

full like for four or five hours.

I think that's how people actually start limiting

what they put in their body.

So if you're not as hungry all the time,

you know, you just put less in your body.

>>If you want, I can jump up on this table.

Want to see?

Jump up on it.

Ready?

>>Nice.

That was great.

>>That was pretty cool.

>>All right.

It's good.

You're still alive.

>>Well, thank you.

That's good to know.

I thought I was dead for a while.

>>That was excellent.