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Nicholas Gonzalez MD NYC Custom Diet
ANNOUNCER: Hello, because food is our fuel it is essential that we use the proper type
of fuel for our particular genetic makeup. Unfortunately, most conventional cancer doctors
don't understand why this is important. Enjoy the video.
INTERVIEWER: Doctor, you talked about diet and how you personalize a diet. Why do you
need to do that and how do you determine which diet for which person?
DR.GONZALEZ: Humans are very variable species and we've occupied just about every ecological
niche around the world except traditionally there was no one living in Antarctica, but
you have, for example, the Eskimos lived on an all meat diet and they were studied extensively
at the turn of the last century by McGill University between 1929 and 1934 they sent
a team to study the Eskimos. Traditional Eskimos lived on nothing but red meat. You think about
it up in the Arctic. There are no fruits and vegetables in the next season. All there is
lichen and lots of meat; caribou, seals, walruses, fish, salmon, whales. That's what they lived
on. The traditional Eskimo diet was 100% animal products. Eighty percent fat, 20% protein
was a really high fat diet, huge amounts of saturated fat and traditional Eskimos never
had heart disease, stroke, hypertension diabetes. Only when they moved into the towns and villages
and started eating white sugar, white flour, carbohydrates, then that's when they developed
epidemic diabetes, heart disease, mental illness, cancer. Traditional Eskimos never had mental
illness. So humans are very variable. Then you get equatorial peoples who were surrounded
by thousands of edible plants, tubers, fruits, nuts, seeds, not as much animal protein. You
have the Maasai in Kenya that traditional lived on nothing but milk and blood and some
meat, and they had herds of cattle. When they would drink, the average Maasai warrior would
drink a quart, up to a gallon of raw milk a day with blood and it was a high fat milk.
Then you go up to the high Andes. You've got the traditional descendants of the Incas that
lived on a grain-based diet, so humans traditionally adapted to a variety of different diets with
varying amounts of animal protein, fruits, vegetables, nuts seeds and grains. Polynesians,
for example, lived in a completely different diet. It was a coconut-based diet. They ate
fish, you know, some wild animals, but a lot of it was coconut-based. They would eat new
coconut-fruit. They will make coconut oil. Drink the coconut milk. Eskimos never drank
coconuts. They didn't have coconuts. But the Polynesians thrived on that. So if these traditional
cultures could not do well on these idiosyncratic diets, they would have died out. The fact
is the Eskimos physiologically and biochemically are adjusted to eating red meat and like lions
and tigers eat nothing but red meat and they do great. Try and feed a lion greens or grains
and they are going to be dead in six weeks. Gazelles eat nothing but grain. Gazelles never
eat meat. They eat nothing but grass on the, you know, savannahs. So humans were about
as variable. You got the Eskimo lines eating nothing but red meat, the Maasai drinking
milk, doing great on milk, traditional Maasai were extremely healthy and they drank a gallon
of milk a day, raw of course. Then you think of Polynesians living on coconuts and they
would get fat from other things as well. So different groups of humans adjusted to different
diets, and in the U.S. particularly, you know, we're a melting pot, we're famous as that.
We got people that are genetically meat-eaters, genetically vegetarians, and everyone in between,
and it's absolutely critical to provide the right diet or prescribe the right diet for
each patient, you know, food is fuel. You know, you have a Mercedes-Benz and you put
water into it, it just ruins your car. On the other hand if you have a steam engine,
you put diesel fuel into a steam engine, it's going to explode. You put water into a steam
engine and it works fine. Well, humans are about as variable. Food is fuel. You have
to put the right fuel into the right engine otherwise it isn't going to work well, and
the right engine for us, you know, the right, the engine that we are requires the right
food, the right fuel. You know, Eskimo and genetically-based meat eaters need fatty red
meat and they thrive on it and never get heart disease. People who have genetics from more
of a plant-based group like from the equatorial area, they need fruits and veggies and leafy
greens and that kind of thing, and that, you give the body the right fuel, the right food,
it works better, whatever the problem is be it cancer or toenail fungus, the body will
work better with the right food which is the fuel that keeps us going.
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