SILVER LININGS 2008
September 6
Arctic 3 Room, Waterfront Hotel, Lahug, Cebu City 
Speaker : Dr. Romulo De Villa
Topic : Eating Right During And After Chemotherapy
Host  : Pinky Marquez 

Pinky Marquez: Here he is Dr. Romulo De Villa.

Dr. Romulo de Villa (DrRDV): Ok, thank you very much. Buti na lang si Pinky. Ok so eating what’s right during and after cancer chemotherapy. But first I’ll do some preparation on it. Even for those without cancer, we need to do something. Do what’s right. Even before ok? Para hindi na tayo umabot dun sa cancer chemotherapy.

Ok so in a survey. I usually do a survey. I ask this question, “What kinds of foods do you eat more often?” It’s usually the ones the on the left: refined – white rice, white bread, white sugar, like that. But the unrefined foods, they’re the ones that’s right. Ok? They’re the ones that’s right. Do you see them on the right? You see. They’re all on the right. What’s right is on the right. Fresh, unpeeled, uncooked, raw foods like that. They’re, healthier. Ok? Now who likes to use the elevator, escalator, car, telephone, driver, messenger? We all do, right? That we do such physical activity. And by serendipity, students in the College of Medicine were doing some study on whether physical activity will reduce the progressiveness of cancer. And you know what they found? Nagkamali sila sa experiment nila eh. But what they found instead of that, what they discovered is that physical activity reduces the chances of developing cancer, ok? Now, who feels the urge to move every time you eat a large meal? We should all do… feel that urge to move every time we eat a large meal. That’s an indication that we have enough fiber. Dietary fiber in our diet. And that’s very important because the chemicals and toxins down there when they stay that’s the reason why the highest incidence of colon cancer is colorectal. It’s in that area. And because that’s where – dun nag uumpisa yung traffic nung toxin. Tapos pataas nang pataas. Yun ang laging nae-expose, the rectum – rectal area. Ok. So who has relatives and friends who have heart attacks, stroke, cancer, diabetes, hypertension? I do – all of, all of them ok? And I won’t ask the next one, you know those. Ok?

So man’s long term survival actually depends on 2 things. One is continuous flow of energy. That’s why we need physical activity, maintain our body weight, ok? But the second principle is the provision of nutrients and non-nutrients. They must not only be in the proper amounts which is the RDA – Recommended Dietary Allowance. Now here in the Philippines, it’s called...we call it RENI or Recommended Energy and Nutrient Intakes.

The 2 kinds of unsaturated fats - OMEGA 6 to OMEGA 3. They must be equal in this case. Puwedeng sumobra yung Omega 6. Ok? Omega 6 to Omega 3 can be up to 4, but too much Omega 6, it’s going to be inflammatory already ok? And chronic inflammation now is being discovered as a cause of cancer. How i-co-control ito yung pag-digestion, respiration, circulation ok? But there are things that we control. We control what we eat. Ok? We control what we drink. We can even control what we breathe. Ok? We can use your mouth to talk to someone, please do not smoke. Ok? Or you can use your feet to walk and prefer to live in areas that are highly polluted or not polluted ok? Then physical activity. We have a choice. You can choose to park your car far or close to the door, very close to the gate, paglabas mo ng pinto mo ng kotse, gate na. Ok? Or you can choose to move around. I have a 4:00 habit. 4:00 habit. 4:00 habit is I walk around. Walk briskly for 30 minutes from 4 to 4:30 ok? So if you’re preparing to go home do it briskly, preparing to go home. Ayos, ayos dun, ayos dito. Ok? And keep walking around. Go around your table “Ah may naiwan ba ako?” 4 to 4:30 walk briskly.

So how do we choose? We choose our food based on what? Number 1 Taste ok? Kung hindi masarap, hind kakainin. And what makes food tasty? Yung mataas ang cholesterol. Yung mga prito, masarap yun, easy pa.

DrRDV: And I hope you come out here, of this room armed with the information on what is truly healthy, okay? So what is the consequence? Ako pag nagturo ako, it is always like, ano’ng gusto ninyong mangyari? That is my question, so you will know what to do, okay? Same process I do in clinic. I teach. If it is like this, this like this, like this, like that - so what do you want to do? You want to feed the cancer, go ahead. You want to starve the cancer, go ahead. I give you the information. I get it from journals, scientific journals and then I broker it to you, and then you decide on it. Okay?

So what is the consequence of poor choices? We have poor quality of life, we age faster, our body degenerates. Diseases that are supposed to come out at 70, 80, 90 are now coming out at 20, 30, 40 years old, okay? Heart disease, heart attack, cancers in the 20, 30, 40 years old coming out. And we get these modern day diseases, your cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, okay? These belong to one family, one family. Sometimes, si diabetes muna ang ipapanganak, in one individual, tapos susunod si cancer. Or, si diabetes muna ipapanganak tapos magiging si hypertension, okay? Ang pamilyang ‘yan was born from dysfunctional parents. Yung tatay na masyadong mabigat yung kamay, causes inflammation, a cause of disease, chronic inflammation. And huwag magagalit ang mga nanay sa akin, pero may mga dysfunctional na masakit sa tenga. Merong magaganun, okay? Toxic sa tenga. So…Exercise yun ano … so… maraming chemicals and toxins that is the nanay of these diseases, chemicals and toxins. And yung tatay ng sakit ng mga ito is the chronic inflammation, okay. So, these killers are now on a rampage.

You look, DOH data show, nabaligtad na. Infectious disease has gone down but cardiovascular disease, malignant neoplasm have gone up, okay? So, the DOH is shifting gears to taking care of people before they get sick, okay? So, I would like to be able to do that. Of, course I will take care also of the sick, but, I want to take care also of the people who are not sick yet and I know they are going to get sick once I see the diet, ah, magkakasakit ito. Show me your diet, and I’ll tell you what you will get sick of. I can already say that, before I could not say it. But now I see the correlation, because every time in clinic, I have a survey or diet survey and I see the correlation already.

So here is the correlation. Healthy diet: pag ganitong diet, wala yang disease. Eat raw fruits and vegetables daily. Eat enough dietary fiber. Have a balanced energy intake, balanced fat intake the good fats. Fat, there’s good fat. It’s not the high nor the low of the fat. It’s not the high nor the low, but the good and the bad, bless you.

So, consequences if not followed. Straight forward now, okay? You can choose what you want, and know what not to eat. So, if you want heart disease, don’t eat raw fruits and vegetables daily. What else will you not eat if you want heart disease? Don’t eat enough dietary fiber, okay. And what else don’t have a balanced energy intake. Eat a lot of carbo, high carbo, low fiber foods. And don’t have a balanced fat intake, eat all the bad fats that you can get and you will have heart disease, okay? It’s like that, okay.

So sa cancer, ganun din. You know what to do. Smoke, ah, any kind of smoke, including cigarettes, vehicle exhausts. There are now five, five sources of pollution. It is not only cigarette smoke, vehicle exhaust, factory emissions, burning of leaves and trash.

Now, here’s today’s unhealthy lifestyle. Excessive stress, paano hindi naman talaga maiiwasan yan. Ako, I have a very stressful life, but do you see it in me? Pollution, vehicle exhaust, factory emissions, cigarette smoke, polluted food choices. Even the food now na supposed to be, food naman siya, eh. Regular food pero it is already unhealthy. Let your food be your medicine, your medicine your food, but, you have to choose the food now. Not all foods are medicines. There are foods that are already now toxins.

So excessive alcohol, low physical activity, convenient but unhealthy diet, okay? Presence of additives in the foods, coloring, flavoring, preserving, and then you have the fast foods and junk foods; essentially, the problem with them is they are already low in micronutrients. And, ang napapansin lang are the vitamins and the minerals. Phytonutrients are also micronutrients, okay? So, that’s the one that’s lacking.

So, we have an unbalanced diet, lack of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, cereals, fish, full cream milk and boiled eggs, okay? Those are the healthy, the healthy foods.

So, now I go, I start with my lecture, “Eating What’s Right During and After Cancer Chemotherapy”.

So, how do you eat what’s right during and after cancer chemotherapy? Simple lang ‘yun, always obey the traffic light, you won’t get into an accident. Obey the traffic light. When it’s green, go. When it’s yellow, go faster?

Audience: Ha ha ha … Caution.

DrRDV: Caution. Look around and prepare to stop, okay? Prepare to stop. What if it is red?

Audience: Stop na.

DrRDV: Stop na talaga. Hindi go as fast as you can, okay? So obey the traffic light. And, I have developed this traffic light of nutrition. “Dr. De Villa’s Traffic Light of Nutrition”. And, this is an interactive power point, so I’ll just click on that; otherwise, this is going to be a three hours lecture.

So, “Traffic Light of Nutrition.” What’s the basis for classifying these foods in the red, in the yellow and in the green light, and what is the basis for the processing.

First, the food, what is the principle behind foods? Pollution accumulates in certain foods. That’s the basis of my traffic light for foods. Because of bio-accumulation of herbicides, pesticides, industrial chemicals and mine tailings involved in the food chain and the water cycle. Animals eat plants, and plants, do they eat animals? It’s an animal that eats a plant. But most animals eat plants, and as you go higher in the food chain, this one, eats this, for example. And in its life before it got eaten by the next one, pollution unit here, when this one has eaten ten of this, how many are they here, and is sent on the top of the food chain?

Now who are higher, plants or animals in the food chain?

Audience: Animals.

DrRDV: Animals, okay? So they accumulate in animals. The pesticide, they do not accumulate in the plant where they are sprayed, because these pesticides are made fat soluble and plants have a waxy covering outside, so they stay out. And when it rains, and when you water the plant, tangay yun. Saan pupunta, water cycle ngayon. Saan pupunta yung tubig na ‘yun? Sa stream, sa river, back to the sea, that’s the water cycle. So if it goes there, goes to the river, then the river is joined by sewage; more chemicals and toxins. Then, you have factories positioned beside the river. There was news, I think, is it last night? Naging kulay blue yung tubig sa river? So now, they’re finding out sinong nagtapon ng chemical na ‘yan. Madaling hanapin ‘yun. Kung saan nag-umpisa yung blue sa taas nun, doon ang nagtapon, because its going to flow like that. So, nandito sa taas, nandoon yung nagtapon. So these factories positioned beside the river precisely, simply dumped it (the chemicals) into the river, okay? So, nagipon-ipon na lahat dun through the water cycle. And where does it eventually end up? In the mouth of the river where it’s very slow, all the pollution settled to the bottom. What’s the animal living in the bottom of the mouth of the river, some fishes, but in the bottom, the crabs, the shells, the shrimps?

So, that’s why I classify that animal, pork and pork products and crabs, shells and shrimps in the red, okay, in the red. The eighty percent (80%) of chemicals and toxins are fat soluble, okay, fat soluble; and they will accumulate where, in the animal, in which animal? The fatty animal, and that’s the pork, the pig, okay?

There’s lots of evidence now, I can show you the evidence. This is a link where I can continue already, or I can end with just this slide. That’s why I made it like this, so if you give me just one minute… one minute left? Okay, this is the last slide, but we have more time.

The Bible, I base it first on the Bible, “Biblical dietary guide”. Meat, what did God tell us? “Nevertheless, these shall ye not eat”, the swine. Okay? Now, look at the evidence on meat, heart disease and bowel cancer correlates positively with meat consumption. The more meat you consume, the higher the incidence of bowel cancers and heart disease, deaths.

Now, pork, there are three reasons why pork for me is out of my diet; high levels of fat soluble chemicals that generate free radicals. This is the one that damages the cell and leads to development of many diseases including cancer.

Strike two; they are rich in long-chain saturated fats. Among the bad saturated fat, it is the long chain that is bad. Medium-chain is good, that’s found in coconut. It protects us against viral infections. The short-chain is also good, that’s found in the cream of the milk.

Milk does not feed cancer. Milk does not feed cancer. Milk is anti-cancer. It has conjugated linoleic acid, the cream of the milk. The cream of the milk also has short-chain saturated fat, butyric acid. And butyric acid has been shown to reduce the risk of colon cancer. It nourishes the linings of the colon; it nourishes the good bacteria thriving there in the colon, so it reduces the risk of colon cancer. Okay? So milk is right. Okay? From grass-fed cows, full-cream milk from grass-fed cows; it’s true, it’s true that story circulating in the internet, nakarating na ‘yan, marami ring nag pass. And, there’s this lady who developed breast cancer, whose husband goes to China, and has came back and nagkausap sila, and sabi ng husband niya, “You know, in China, hindi sila umiinom ng gatas tapos mababa ang incidence ng breast cancer ah, remove dairy from my diet, nag-improve yung breast cancer niya. O, eh di… tama ba? You know, I’m a Doctor of Medicine, I’m also a Doctor of Philosophy. Pag-itinagalog n’yo ‘yun, anong ibig sabihin ‘nun, Tagalog ng “Doctor of Philosophy”? Duktor ng mga pilosopo. Okay? So, look at the reasoning there, straightforward ba ‘yun? You have to investigate. Okay? As a PhD, I investigate to the very detail, to the molecule, yun din ini-investigate ko.

What is the reason for that woman, nag-improve yung breast cancer niya? It was because she was living in Europe, di ba? She’s from Europe, and in Europe the cows are not grass-fed. They are given feeds, and in feeds, in the manufacturing of feeds, dioxane is produced, therefore, the milk contains dioxane that feeds the worsening of cancer. So when it stops nagutom yung cancer sa worsening niya nun tinigil niya yung dairy. Okay? So, is dairy good or bad?

Audience: It depends.

DrRDV: Now you know. You will ask me, “Doc what do you mean? Which dairy are you referring to? From where?” O, di ba, you’re going to ask me. If I ask you that question, you’re going to answer that question with a question. It’s alright. My students, if I ask them a question, and they answer me with a question, maraming professors magagalit, eh tinatanong nga kita, ba’t mo ba ako tinatanong? It’s alright, that’s an indication to me that you understand. Okay? So, yun… okay.

So, strike two. It’s bad, pork, because it has long-chain saturated fats that promote cancer development, atherosclerosis, actually, and diabetes. And diabetes is going to promote cancer because diabetes has a lot of sugar which is the food of cancer, a known food of cancer, but we should not zero out the sugar. Marami akong nakitang mga nagpupunta sa alternative, and then, talagang halos wala ng sugar sa diet, talagang zerong-zero, nanghihina na yung pasyente. Okay? You zero out the sugar, manghihina ka talaga. The key there is excessive sugar, okay? When does it become excessive? Yun ang tanong, di ba? Alam ko na yang mga tanong na yan eh. Frequently asked yan, eh, sunod-sunod na yan, eh. Okay? So, kalian nagiging excessive? When your diet is low in fiber. Your blood sugar after the meal, after you eat food na… or diet or meal na mababa ang fiber, your blood sugar will shoot up in excess of the upper limit and that is going to feed the cancer exclusively, the excess. Okay?

Long-chain saturated fats, actually, when you eat pork it elevates the fatty acids in the blood. This will inhibit the pancreas from releasing insulin, and your blood sugar will remain higher for a longer period of time. That is what the pork is going to do; pork and white rice that is not a good combination, pork chop and white rice, worst combination. Okay? Pork na nilagyan mo ng preservative, salitre, nitrates and nitrites, tapos fry mo pa, you added with white rice, that’s a killer.

Strike three is rich in Omega-6, okay? So I told you that already, Omega-6, when it’s in excess, it promotes more inflammation, which is now a factor in the development of cancer, also atherosclerosis and arthritis. Okay? So for me, pork and pork products are out. Okay?

Here is the evidence. Look at the pesticide content of pork tissue. Ang tagal naman, is it going to work? There, okay? For now in the internet…No, I downloaded it. Ang tagal din. Ah, nawala, I think, yung power. Baka maano ito, mag-off na naman.

Power, power…

Anyway…

So goodbye to our tapa… tocino… longganisa…

It has scientific evidence, because I am going to show the scientific evidence, it’s there. Okay? So, back na tayo, back.

Crab, shells and shrimps, okay, according to God, also in the Bible, “abomination unto you.” Okay? And look at this study, by Prof. Lennart Hardell, Norwegian men may now be developing testicular cancer, not due to them eating contaminated seafood, it was their mothers who ate the contaminated seafood during pregnancy and the cancer came out thirty (30) years after.

Audience: Wow.

DrRDV: Okay? It takes…Yung ginawa ko last week, last month yun ang makakapagbigay sa akin ng sakit. Yung ginawa ko last year, yan ang magbibigay sa akin ng sakit. Pero yung ginagawa ko araw-araw for the past five (5), ten (10) years already, fifteen (15), twenty (20) years na, hindi magbibigay ng sakit. You’re wrong, it can give you diseases. Okay? So, this is evidence.

And three (3) strikes also on bottom-dwelling animals, its out! Okay? Concentration of also of chemicals and toxins that feed development and worsening of cancer through the water cycle. Okay? I discussed that already. Accumulation of pollutants within themselves through the food chain, because those in the mouth of the river, they eat each other, so, sa kanila naiipon. Okay? And, they produce nerve poisons to defend themselves from being eaten. Okay? You think yung tahong, pag walang red tide wala na yung toxin? Nandoon pa rin, it will just take you ten (10), fifteen (15), twenty (20) years before humina na yung nerves. Okay? So, shrimps, crabs, shells, oysters, squids are out. Okay?

Peroxide everyday, that’s what’s happening if you eat, fried foods everyday. Because peroxides are produced here, and this is now… ang ganda ng term, thermally oxidized corn oil is toxic. Toxicity of oxidized fat, tissue levels of lipid peroxides. When you thermally oxidize corn oil, how do you do that? By frying, okay, you produce lipid peroxides. And what does the lipid peroxide do? It’s toxic to the body. And here they look at the liver; it was toxic to the liver. Okay? And not only to the liver, to the kidney, to the brain, to the heart, to the lungs, to the testis; yun lang ang tests nila sa animal, had they tested all the entire…all tissues in the animal, they will find lipid peroxides there. Okay?

Shall I continue? Baka bugbugin n’yo na ako dito.

Baking. When you bake starchy foods, only the starchy foods, when you bake them, the starch is converted to acrylamide. I’m just an information broker here. And acrylamide is a nerve poison and it is also carcinogenic. They found it in gingerbread. They found it in wheat bread…

Wheat bread? Ala!

Yeah… acrylamide. Okay. Pakakainin ko na kayo. Eto ang kakainin n’yo, fruits and vegetables. Okay? The Bible also says it, biblical dietary guide for fruits and vegetables. Okay. From Genesis to Ezekiel: fruits and the vegetables are the green herbs. Okay? So, Genesis 1:29, in which is the fruit of a tree-yielding seed to you it shall be for meat. Yun ang karne ninyo, fruit. The fruit is meat. Okay? And I have given every green herb for meat, yun na naman ang meat. Hindi karne ang kakainin, hindi pork ang kakainin, fruits and vegetables. Okay? So eating what’s right, what’s right.

Malnutrition kills more than 40% of cancer patients. I don’t want that to happen. I want a 100% survival. Why? This is my vengeance to cancer. It took my cousin away. It took my uncle away and took my favorite aunt away. So I want to take it away. If I was not able to do it with my relatives, I will do it with you.

(Audience claps).

So, nutrition protects patients against toxic effects of chemo, radiation without reducing their effectiveness. Okay? That is right. We need to eat certain foods particularly during and after chemo. One example, I might not reach that slide, but I will give it to you now. Curcumin was found to reduce the resistance of cancer cells to chemotherapy drugs. They become more sensitive to the chemotherapy drugs. So therefore, can we combine curcumin with chemotherapy? Curcumin is found in tumeric, found in curry foods. Okay? If you want the plant, its luyang dilaw. Okay? So, if you’re on chemotherapy, eat lots of luyang dilaw. Okay? To the doctors, I don’t know if there are doctors here, technical persons...okay. It reduces MDR “multi-drug resistant” protein expression, that was the result of the study. So just keep eating those foods. Okay?

Nutrients also support the immune system in killing the cancer cells. Okay? Excessive sugar feeds cancer cells. So you know already. I gave you what to do. Eat high fiber foods. In fact, I say, eat fiber foods first. Okay? Eat fiber foods first. I am the recently promoted Dean of the College of Medicine in Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM). And I began to influence already our president there. Nagkaroon kami ng lunch with the mayor of Manila, Mayor Lim, and that was his treat actually for the graduates who passed the board exams sa PLM. PLM is number three (3) in the board exams. Four (4) years from now, PLM will be number one (1).

And, as we were starting to get lunch, sabi ni President Tamano, “Dito ako sasabay kay Dr. De Villa. Kung ano ang kukunin niya, kukunin ko rin.” Talagang sumabay siya, nandito ako, nandyan siya. Lalapit yan, turn akong ganun, turn din siya. Punta siya dun sa salad table, fresh garden salad muna with balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing. Tapos, nung matatapos na ako ng ganyan, “Dr. De Villa, what’s next?” Fruits, fiber foods first. Mabusog ka na sa fruits and vegetables tama na. Kung hindi pa, kuha ng meat. What’s the best meat? Buffet yun eh, libre, so, salmon, sushi. Okay? Tapos, what’s next? Noodles, cooked in water with vegetables pa rin yung sa akin. Si President hindi na nagpalagay ng vegetable, akin may vegetable pa rin. Okay? And that’s it, tapos na ako. Siya kumuha pa ng dessert. Tapos tinanong ako ano ang kukunin, “kakanin Pilipino.” Yun, huwag yung cakes.

So, nutrients can become biological response modifiers in changing the way the body works to regulate cancer cells. Okay? Nutrients can regulate cancer cells. And certain nutrients like phytonutrients can in fact kill cancer cells. Okay? How? Puwedeng hindi diretso, tinatakot niya yung cancer. Sa takot nung cancer nagpapakamatay. Okay? Catechin from green tea is able to trigger cancer cell suicide. Okay? But the nice thing about it, kahit may katabing normal cell, hindi pinapatay nung catechins. Catechins are found in green tea.

So let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food according to Hypocrates. And I add this one, if you choose the cancer-killing and the cancer-starving food, your food is medicine. Because you may be choosing the toxic food that’s going to feed the cancer and make it more worse. Okay? Doon ko na nilagay sa red, in my traffic light, those in the red are the ones that feed cancer, and those in the green are the ones that starve cancer. They starve cancer but they nourish our body. Okay?

So what foods are medicines against cancer? The cancer-killing plant foods – your vegetables, broccoli, among the vegetables, this is the one well-studied, broccoli. Beans, Soya beans, okay? Food herbs like garlic, teas like green tea.

Animal foods, they are also okay. Hanggang 20% lang ng diet, not more. Okay? 20% because evidence shows in the Okinawans of Japan, they lived to be hundreds and puro centenarian dun, their diet is only 20% animals and 80% plants. Okay? Para itong principle, 80/20. Ganun din ang nag-a-apply dito, 80/20. Okay? What are the animal foods? Full cream powdered milk, boiled eggs and fish, the best is salmon. Okay?

So what is cancer-starving nutrition? Cancer-starving nutrition, they are the anti-oxidants. Your vitamins, minerals, trace elements and phytonutrients. Maiksing word, but there are thousands and thousands of phytonutrients. Plant foods, okay, fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, legumes, grains, all plant foods, they are all okay. And they are anti-oxidants, yes, but aside from being anti-oxidants they are also cancer-snipers. Okay? Snipers - may katabing may cancer cell doon, yun lang ang tatamaan. Yung normal cell na nandito, hindi tatamaan, yung cancer cell lang dun. Wala pala doon, nandun pala yung cancer cell. Okay? So, parang sniper. Pero ang snipers bigyan mo ng napakaraming cancer cell, talo. Okay? So kailangan ng chemotherapy, radio therapy, surgery to do it, to reduce the bulk of the enemy, and take care of the rest with good nutrition, cancer-starving nutrition and cancer-killing nutrition.

Second, reduce the available glucose with the high fiber diet. And now, I am on my way to a discovery and murang-mura ito, vitamin C. High vitamin C can reduce the availability of glucose to cancer. I need to repeat my experiment a second, a third time before I will publish it. Pero I won’t wait for it before I advise it to you, I will already advise it. Okay?

Lipoic acid, a 35 mg plus 12 grams of vitamin C is toxic to cancer cells. It kills cancer cells. And lipoic acid is found in spinach, but you cannot eat 35 mg from the spinach, because 35 mg of lipoic acid is found in 210 pounds of spinach. So it must be supplemented. Vitamin C hindi rin makakain, it must be supplemented. Okay? And, that combination is toxic to cancer cells. It’s not my study, it’s another scientist’s study. And I am pursuing that, trying to find out why. And I am on my way to discovering that it’s because the high vitamin C is reducing the available glucose for the cancer. A cancer gets weak, and it is the lipoic acid that is killing the cancer, the weakened cancer cells. Pero kung hindi weakened yung cancer cell, hindi napapatay nung lipoic acid.

Third, balanced Omega-6 with Omega-3, I told you about that already.

So, here is the nutritional prevention of cancer. These are the phytonutrients. Okay? They fight cancer. Fight-ito, phyto, fight-ito cancer. Okay? Green tea polyphenols, your catechins, isoflavones, of course from soya, lipoic acid from spinach, curcumin from luyang dilaw or yellow ginger. Lycopene, oh, who doesn’t know where they can get lycopene. Okay? Sulfurein from broccoli. Okay?

So, here are the catechins, they are found in green tea, also in grapes, apples, pears. There are many forms that we find, sa puso ata yun, ECG, anti-oxidants. They are anti-oxidants. They are anti-cancer. They are anti-inflammatory, anti-atherogenic, thermogenic and anti-microbial. Okay? Thermogenic pa, here are more actions, medyo technical na ‘yan, hindi ko na di-discuss-in. Okay? More studies, okay, and this is the one I would like to point out because this is eating right. Okay?

Catechins, reverses tamoxifen induced liver injury. Okay? Catechins, where do we get these catechins, from green tea. Okay? It reverses tamoxifen induced liver injury. Okay? So, if you are on tamoxifen, you better get green tea. Okay? The one I prescribe to my patients is the one where one (1) capsule is already equivalent to eight (8) tea bags of green tea, one (1) capsule. Okay? Di ba, Mrs. Sabat? I have patients here, and you tell the rest if that I am saying the right thing, I mean, and telling the truth. Okay? You ask them na lang what it is. Okay?

Flavonoids. Okay? Isoflavones from soya. Flavonoids, they are anti-tumor. They are anti-metastatic to melanoma, and medyo technical ito. They down regulate biofortified prostate cancer cells. Okay? They induce apoptosis. Apoptosis is cell suicide of human leukemic cells. Okay? So marami pang ibang klaseng cancers na matutulungan nito. Okay?

Next, resveratrol. They support the immune system, improve the immune system. Okay? They increase IL-2 (interleukin-2), TGF-beta (transforming growth factor) and reduce the VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), ah medyo technical ‘yan, anong layman dyan? They choke cancer. Okay? They block new blood vessel formation so walang blood supply yung cancer cells, hindi siya makakalaki, yun ang ginagawa ng resveratrol from red grapes. Okay? It must be red grapes. The deeper the red, the better, the more resveratrol. Because resveratrol is color red. It’s the one that makes the red grapes red. It’s not found in green grapes. Okay?

So, these are the actions of isoflavones: they inhibit steroidogenesis, they arrest the cell cycle, tumitigil yung cancer cell from proliferating. They induce cancer cells to commit suicide. They are anti-androgenic also. They block new blood vessels, they choked also cancer. Okay? So dalawahin na natin yung sumasakal sa cancer. May sumasakal dito, sa baba pa sinasakal din. Okay? Controversial ngayon, if you’ve got breast cancer, makatulong ito, makasama? Baka makasama eh, so tigil muna. We don’t really know yet. Okay?

But if you don’t have breast cancer yet, biological effects, sa those who are medyo technical; here’s the spinach. Okay? The spinach, this is a sniper. It can distinguish the abnormal cells. And also, here’s the one I mentioned, enhances high dose ascorbate cytotoxicity to cancer cells, yan yun. Okay? Lipoic acid plus high dose vitamin C, toxic to cancer cells. Okay?
What else? Here’s another one, interaction with chemotherapy. It prolongs the survival of leukemic mice, when added to doxorubicin therapy. Okay? So if combined, your survival will be longer. You combine this with doxorubicin therapy. I don’t know if maybe some of you will be on doxo. Okay? So, pag naka-doxorubicin, okay, it prolongs your survival with spinach. Better yet take the one. Again, I’m prescribing that to my patients, yung one (1) pack twice a day nun, already has 35 mg of lipoic acid. So I combine that supplement with this supplement na vitamin C, patay ang cancer. Okay? And of course hindi na makakaya kung napakarami kaya, may tulong nga tayo ng chemo. Okay?

Curcumin, from plant curcuma longa, this type of compound, okay, is a polyphenol, okay, can both prevent and treat cancer. Okay? Extensive research has indicated, it can both prevent and treat cancer. Okay? Curcumin. And there is no dose limiting toxicity up to 10 grams per day, sobra-sobra naman yung 10 grams. Okay? Those are some of the actions, medyo technical ‘yan for the doctors.

Here’s the more practical one: curcuminoids, okay, a type of curcumin, inhibit human multi-drug resistance protein. Okay? Ito yung sinabi ko kanina, this multi-drug resistance protein is the one that is kicking out the chemotherapy drug. Okay? Siya yung nandun sa pintuan nung cancer cell na sinabihan nung cancer cell, “pag may papasok na chemo drug, sipain mo papalabas.” Okay? Inutusan nung cancer cell, itong multi-drug resistance protein na ito. Tapos pag nakapasok si curcuminoids, okay, sasabihin naman niya doon sa MDR resistance protein, “Huwag kang makikinig dyan, sa akin ka makinig. Pumasok kayo sa loob, huwag kayo dyan!” Okay? So, dun sa pinto wala na yung multi-drug resistance protein, papasok ngayon yung chemo drug, sensitive na ulit yung cancer, and the chemo drug is going to kill the cancer cells. Okay?

Carotene, they are associated with lower mortality from cancer, however, if you are a smoker, it’s going to kill you. Okay? Carotene is going to kill you, if you are a smoker. Okay? So, what’s the thing to do? Stop supplementation with vitamin A? No! Stop smoking. Okay?

So, had we talked about those mechanisms, yung ini-skip, skip, skip ko? These are all the different mechanisms that I skipped and these are the pathways of malignancy that is targeted by those plant foods that I talked about, the fruits, the vegetables, the teas, the beans, okay, yan yung target nila.

And if you want to recover, okay, after chemotherapy, okay, so ito na yung after.

What do you do? This is the rejuvenating food: full cream powdered milk, this will rejuvenate the plasma of the cells, yung laman sa loob. And the soft boiled eggs is going to rejuvenate the cell membranes, okay? Iwasan ninyo lang yung what, given feeds, yun ang may toxins, okay? So sa mga cows, grass-fed cows. Ano sa mga chicken, free-range chicken, okay? So, eggs from free-range chicken. Malapit na akong magpunta into that business. Sasabihan ko yung mga kamag-anak ko sa Batangas. Okay? Para hindi kami maubos ng cancer.

So, those are the foods, and it’s… five minutes more? If I extend a little bit more baka lalo akong tumagal, eh. But, you want anything for me to discuss there? Fish, in five minutes, I will discuss the fish.

Fish, what did God say about the fish. “Those that hath fins and scales.” Why? Studies now show that the fish without scales have the mercury in them. Okay? Next, so God was right, noong-noon pa. Has He ever been wrong? No! So, I’ll just trust Him, without the science. Hintayin ko pa ba yung mga studies. Now science is also proving what He said already before. Okay?

So, what else in the fish? Tatlong “S” ito, S, S, S. Okay? Without scales, scales, okay, “S”, so with scales dapat ang kakainin. And, second “S”, from the sea, from the sea. Why? Yung dalag, yung hito na isda hindi sa dagat, di ba, sa ilalim, okay?

Now, yung pond fish, you make the conclusion, I will give you the evidence. A national survey was done, I do not know if this is ever going to come out, pag publish, pero yung kaibigan ko, hindi ko na lang sasabihin yung institution, eh sinabi sa akin. Kasi baka mapahamak pa siya eh. So, sinabi niya sa akin, they did a national survey of pond fish, and they found in tilapia and bangus mercury. So, you make the conclusion from the information. I am just an information broker. If I am wrong, then show me I am wrong, then change.

So, health benefits from fish. It is a source of Omega-3, okay. Safe fish is from the sea, away from mining areas. Okay? Unsafe is lake fish, fresh water fish, river fish, fish caught in the bay, even if it is from the sea, if it’s in the bay, okay, it is not good. Okay? Look at this data, Environmental Toxicology Chemistry Journal, published 2003 pa ito, “Widespread Distribution of Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid, that is a chemical toxin, in the Belgian and Dutch Marine and Estuarine Environment. Marine and Estuarine. Estuarine is the mouth of the river. Okay? At high, rather high concentrations, okay? Those are the concentrations, the results of the study. Okay? I am just brokering this information to you.

Toxins in bay fish, okay? Published in Environment International Journal, “Heavy Metal Toxins Found in Fish From Kashmir Bay, Turkey”. Shall we do a study in Manila Bay? Metal concentrations range between, the mercury is from 0.05 to 1.3, cadmium, lead, chromium… okay? I just might go into this study also for the Philippines, para ma-prove and then everybody will believe. Sasabihin kasi dyan, “Eh, sa Turkey naman yan, sa Pilipinas iba naman, eh, di ba?” Eh, pilosopo nga din naman ako, eh. So sige, you philosophize me on that, I will do the study here. Okay?

Recently, just two weeks ago, I met a professor in the College of Science in PLM. Sa health cluster, we were preparing to evaluate the research activities in PLM, and he was there. He was saying about his research, and he measures not mercury because he said it’s toxic but he measures, kasi ayaw niya, yung laboratory niya is not well equipped to protect the scientist doing the work. So he measures cadmium, lead, chromium in the test waters. So bibigyan ko lang siya ng fish na hinuli ko sa Manila Bay, di ba? So, can you check this?

So that…

The toxins has reached man. We collected toe nail and hair samples from 160 subjects, this is Lahore City, Pakistan; and they found concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, lead and other heavy metals using this method. Okay. So now, it is also in man, okay?

Am I through? You give me another five minutes, I will do another one. See, that is why this is interactive. Give me more time, I will discuss more. Give me a short time only, give me one minute, I will give you this, just this. Give me five minutes; I will discuss the food and the processing. Give me a day, the entire thing. This is more than 200 slides, interactive ito, with all supporting scientific data, because I am now preparing to write the book on this, “Dr. De Villa’s Traffic Light of Nutrition”. There are three traffic lights now. There are two traffic lights there, you see, right? The traffic light of food, the traffic light of processing and the third one I am preparing is the traffic light of cooking utensils. The utensils, because there is evidence also on that, that I can classify, ah, ito sa red, ito sa yellow, ito sa green. This you use, this we don’t use.

Thus, I will give you a preview of that. Don’t heat food, okay, put it in the red. Stop heating food in plastic, okay? Stop heating the food in plastic, what kind of cooking heats food in plastic.

Audience: Microwave.

DrRV: Okay. So, you know what to do, okay?

Audience: Doc, have you studied lemongrass and malunggay?

DrRDV: Yes, they are okay, that’s in the green…

Audience: (inaudible)

DrRDV: Yes. Okay? So, it seems you want more. But my next talk is 2:30 to 3:30 in the plenary. You can all go there, I will continue.

Five minutes more…

I will continue my talk on this. I will discuss the rest and then if there is time, I will go back to the others, okay? So the others will also hear it. Yung umpisa ko, yung the first few slides, I will discuss that also. Okay?

Audience: What about the microwave…

DrRDV: Yun na nga, microwave is…Microwave is bad.

Audience: …in plastic.

DrRDV: Plastic…

Pinky Marquez: Best to use ceramic or glass, not plastic.

Audience: When I bake, I use microwave, is it good?

DrRDV: That is under study, maybe you can, but we are still investigating the microwaving itself. Okay? The micro…

Pinky Marquez: So, Dr. De Villa will be in the other side of the room for more explanation, and also, I just asked Doctor now, about, kasi, it is abundant in our backyard yung malunggay, tanglad, and kalamansi. Yung tatlo, well in the internet it is under study. So maybe we will wait for your book, if you can research on that, put it there.

DrRDV: Yeah, alam ko we have also.

Pinky Marquez: Kasi we love lemongrass, di ba? Tanglad ba.

DrRDV: I will also include that.

Audience: Tea?

DrRDV: Yeah.

Pinky Marquez: Maybe you can, ano… we will believe it if you research about it. Although the people in other countries have, so we will wait for your book. And the questions, do you think we have time for the question, they are telling us to transfer now…

DrRDV: Dun na lang. You ask the questions there.

Pinky Marquez: Doon na lang po, pwede; because we have to vacate this place for another speaker. So again, let us give Dr. De Villa a big round of applause, please. Yeah, and be there in the main room later on at exactly 3:30 for more stories of hope, but at 2:30, proceed to that venue for another series of sessions.

Okay, and in this room, at 2:30 it’s healing through music, sound, and movement therapy, in this room. Okay? So, so many, you just check your schedule.

Thank you very much Dr. De Villa.

DrRDV: You are welcome.

Audience: Maraming salamat.(Applause).

The website of Dr. Romulo De Villa is www.drdevilla.com.

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