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Alright, this is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com. Today I have another exciting episode for
you here in my backyard garden, sitting amongst all my beautiful raised beds and some of my
plants I'm growing here in the backyard. Anyways, today's episode is going to be an interesting
one. It's going to be kind of my commentary on some things that have been happening lately
in the news and all that kind of stuff. I don't normally get involved too much in the
news, but some things are just hard to avoid and today's video topic is about my answer
to cancer. It's my vegetables garden, man. I'm sitting between it. Gardening is an integral
part of my life because, I mean, we all have to eat, we all got to eat food and I want
the majority of the food that I'm eating coming out of my garden, my vegetables garden, and
eating a lot of the healthy foods for me. So, you know, many of you guys may have heard
some of the things recently going on in the news, famous people, actresses or whatever,
are getting their *** cut off, you know, nice women with nice ***, getting them
but off because they don't want to get breast cancer. So, the though is if I remove the
breast, it will greatly diminish my risk for breast cancer because the cancer can't go
to my breast. Well, in my opinion, and before I go on I do need to give my disclaimer in
this video is that everything that I say in this video is my opinion and it's for entertainment
purposes only. If you do have a cancer or any other kind of disease, please consult
a qualified medical practitioner that can help you out. This is just sharing with you
guys my views and my opinions on this subject. So, they get the *** cut out and then they
have a much lower risk of getting breast cancer, because there's no breast cancer for the cancer
to go, but if the cancer doesn't go to the breast, it may go to the uterus, then what?
They're going to cut out the uterus, and if it doesn't go tot the uterus, where's it going
to go? It's going to go to the brain next or the lungs or, you know, the skin, you know.
There's always another place the cancer will go if it doesn't, you know, go to one place.
It's going to go to another. You know, so, what I like to do instead of worrying about
the cancer and cutting parts of me out. You know, I don't want to cut off my testicles
'cause I'll get testicular cancer. I mean, that's part of me, you know what I'm saying?
So, you know, instead of cutting things out, it's my opinion and what I'm doing in my life
is doing the proactive approach. I mean, you may be able to predict to some level of extinct,
you now, the risk of you getting cancer based on your genes and based on your parents and
your parents parents and all this kind of stuff, but, you know, I think the best things
to do is to be proactive about your health, no matter if it's the cancer or anything else.
Now, how can we be the most proactive for the health? Well, you know, the one thing's
to me is really clear is if we look like 100, 200 years ago, what were the levels of breast
cancer? When you were a kid growing up, did women have breast cancer? Was all these cancers
like astronomical and cancers sky high happening to like, you know, people you know? Like if
someone of you got cancer, it as like a big thing because people rarely got cancer back
in the day. Why? What changed between back in the day and now? Have our genes changed
that much in 100 years? No, they haven't but what has really changed dramatically is the
food people eat. Maybe just 100, 200 years ago, the majority of food people ate they
grew themselves. They ate natural foods, foods found in nature. They didn't buy things found
in packages, bottles, and jars. They didn't eat in restaurants. They didn't have restaurants.
If you wanted to eat, you had to grow it and cook it and eat it yourself and do all that
stuff, and this is what's really changed in my opinion, and so for me I want to be proactive
and I want to do gardening and I want to grow my own food and have the majority of the food
that I'm eating come out of my garden. I mean, there's research put there that shows things
like the allium family, and we got some. Wow, smells amazing. We got some sweet onions flowering
right now and I love, last night I actually took these flowers off and spread them all
over my salad. It's totally delicious. WE got the allium family here. The onions, which
are also included in the garlic. We got the other ones, the brassica family. This is actually
some broccoli and same thing with karabi and collard greens and Bok choi. They're all in
the same family of plants. These 2 family of plants. There's a lot of research that
support these are some of the, you know, probably most protective plant categories against things
like cancer and other things. So, I like to include some of these in my diet every day,
whether I'm eating the onion bulb or the onion stalk or the onion flowers. All those, you
know, nutrients are in there, and now the nutrition, while there are vitamins, minerals,
you know, what's the most important nutrient in the plants you're growing in my opinion
are the phytochemicals. These are many discovered and also yet undiscovered nutrients in the
plants and why are these phytonutrients in the plants? Phytonutrients are in the plants
not for us. They're in there for the plants. These are the same phytonutrients that are
in the plants that protect them from predators in nature. What are predators of onions? I
don't know, animals that would come and eat the onions, right? And chow on them because
every plant in your garden, every creature on earth, the number one main thing to do,
they're primary directive is to reproduce and multiply and continue on so that they
don't become extinct like the dinosaurs, and some of these properties in the plants which
make their, you know, phytochemicals and phytonutrients are there for the plants, but when we eat
them, they give us some protective powers as well, much like some pixie dust, but in
any case, seriously though, you know, and that's why I'm growing my own food, and based
on my research, some of the phytonutrients and some of the nutrients in the produce can
be lost, you know, during harvesting, hydro-cooling and shipping. Matter of fact, one of the research
studies I've seen shows that within 24 hours, up to 50% of certain nutrients can be lost
in produce that's cut, picked, harvested and shipped to you, and then it's even shipped
or put on a truck from California to Florida or the eat coast. If you live on the east
coast, especially in the wintertime, and you know, there's even more nutrient loss. Now,
am I sating that fruits and vegetables in the grocery store are, you know, worthless?
You know, I'm saying if that's the best you can do, then that's great. Eat more fruits
and vegetables. These have the protective properties in them that are really good for
us, that may prevent things like cancer based on some of the research I've seen and based
on my beliefs because of the research. So, I just want o maximize those nutrients. Furthermore,
you know, if we look at studies in the past, like in the 1950's, 1930's, back in the day,
you know, there've done studies where they take on apple of then, back then, and one
apple of today, and you have these like 2.5 apples of today to get the same nutrients
in the one apple form back then. What's going on? Is it the hybridization and the new different
kinds of seeds that they're using od those apples or is the soil depletion so the nutrients
are no longer in the soils so that the plants can absorb those nutrients and put them into
apple for us to eat? So, you know, its' my thought that it's, you know, primarily due
to the nutrient depletion of the soil so that's why I'm growing the most nutrient dense crops
that I can. Based on the research that I have, adding things like the, you know, compost,
organic matter, and the trace minerals back in the soil so that my pants can be fully
healthy and when your plants have more nutrient in there, guess what? They're going to be
healthier themselves but based on the studies I've seen they're also going to contain more
phytonutrients and phytochemical and other protective properties for us. So that's totally
crazy. Now, I know if you're a woman out there you might be things, you know, 'John, it's
all good that you want to eat healthy to prevent thing's,' you know, 'not get cancer and whatnot,
but' you know, 'there this thing called the PCRA gene or whatnot, and' you know, 'if you
got that, you're just going to get cancer,' but I have done research and there are studies
that show that by changing your diet, you can actually be less susceptible to getting
things like cancer. I mean, let me share with you guys my story for these of you guys that
don't know it. I mean, I personally might not be here right now to share this message
with you. What happened to me, when I was in my 20's I had what's called spinal meningitis.
This is a potentially fatal disease and actually the doctors told me that I might not make
it out alive. Now, that's not a fun place to be, especially in your 20's or at any age.
I mean, when I was in my 20's I thought, 'man, this isn't supposed to happen to me until
I'm like way older,' but the reason why I got that was because the doctors said what
I had was compliment immune deficiency. So, what they said was I had these genes that
basically made me chronically have a weak immune system, which means I was more susceptible
to any disease and I could get it and then be sick and lose my life, and, you know, back
in the day when I was in the hospital I really thought hard, what was the most important
thing to me at the time? Is it all the money in the bank, you know? Is it, you know, having
a girlfriend or having a nice car? No, that wouldn't do me nothing right then and there,
but having my health was the most precious gift hat I could have and it learned that,
you know, that I had bad genes. So, was I supposed to just live out my life with bad
genes and just cross my fingers that I wasn't going to get spinal meningitis or cancer or
anything else again? No, I need to like do something to change my outcome. So, what I
did was I did a lot of research and I found that by eating, you now, plants-strong diet,
plant-based diet, whatever you want to call it, you know, these are the things that have
protective properties for us and it's the overconsumption and too much consumption of
animal products and especially processed foods that may raise your instances of illness and
sickness in my opinion based on my research. So, that's why I stared eating more plants
and then to even further that, I started growing my own plants and growing my own foods that
I could better my diet, better than what I could buy so that I could have the most health,
and that's what I encourage all you guys to do is to, you know, stay motivated about gardening.
If you're not currently gardening, I encourage you guys to garden and in not only grow the
food but also eat the food because, you know, besides just changing your diet by growing
a vegetables garden, your going to be healthy in other ways. Number one, this is totally
apparent, you're going to be getting exercise. I mean, you're going to have to lift hose
compost bags, you're going to have to dig, you're going to have to do all that kind of
stuff. Do some physical activity. Many people these days in my opinion re not getting enough
physical activity. Number 2, you're going to be out in the sun, man. The sin's so nice
out here today. Barely any clouds in the sky, and, you know, and there's bugs, too, but
the sun's so nice and wen you, when the suns comes in contact with your skin, your skin,
your skin makes vitamin d, and there are studies that show vitamin d may have positive roles
of play with prevention of cancer, but they don't prevent flies from landing on you, but
yea, vitamin d's a great things to have, and, you know, especially with people living indoors
too much, they're not creating the vitamin d they need. Another thing that's really good
about being outside is breathing the fresh air. Breathing fresh air is really important.
You know, we need oxygen to survive, and indoors there's been a lot of studies that show, you
know, indoors are getting recirculated air and it's not quite as fresh as it could be,
so get outside to get some fresh air. Another thing that's really important to me in gardening
is that, you know, in gardening, when you're outside playing with the plants, and I love
my plants. They smell so good. You're back to nature. I mean, this is where we all originated,
man. We originated in nature, we originated in the outdoors. You know, back 2000 years
ago I don't even know if they had houses and stuff. Maybe they had castles and stuff and
caves, but, you know, we want to get back to nature. WE are creatures of nature just
like every other creature on this planet. We're all creatures of nature and we live
in an artificial environment in little houses or teepees or yurts or whatever you got. So,
getting out to nature we could just reconnect with, you know, with our absolute being and
stuff. In addition, another thing that really beneficial about the gardening is you're smelling
things and, you know, here we got some soil here and there has been studies that show,
like smelling soil like smelling a fine wine, it gets better with time, but no seriously
though, there's studies that show, you know, there's microbes in the soil that when we
breathe them in they may be able to lift your depression and they make you feel better.
So, you know, I mean, all our sense are just really here to help us in nature. I mean,
our eyes are used to spot, you know, things that are ripening so we can tell the difference
in colors and stuff. It's just so cool to just be out in nature and use your senses,
feel the wind on your hair and on your skin and whatnot. So, besides just the soil and
the microbes in the soil and being connected back to nature back with the earth, mother
earth, which is where we live here, another reason for gardening is because you're going
to be outside and you're going to be in nature and you're going to be in natural elements
so you're going to be in less stressful environment. In my opinion, stress is a big reason for
many illnesses and, you know, we just need to relax and just be at peace in nature, whether
you want to ohm underneath a tree, or you just want a garden to see green all around
you, you just need more peace and less stress. We need to get out of that busy 9-5 world,
whether we're on a computer, running from here to there and just being in nature gardening
at your time. Tie just seems to fly when I'm gardening because I'm just having so much
fun, and, you know, being more at peace instead of in that fast paced society that we all
live in. So, the final thing I'd like to say today is, you know, besides just the gardening
and all the benefits you're going to derive from, I really want to encourage you guys
to really eat what's coming out of your garden, whether your onion tufts, whether your broccoli,
whether your leafy greens that you can barely see down there. I mean, we want to be eating
plants in your diet and eating mostly plants and especially like the name of my channel
is growingyourgreens. Greens in my opinion re some of the most nutrient dense foods on
the planet and have some of these anti-cancer prevention properties contained within them,
and if you're picking them, easting then fresh growing them in the highest quality soil compost,
and using the trace minerals, you're going to have some of the best foods on earth, which
in my opinion in turn will give you the best health on earth to literally disease-proof
yourself. Now, if you don't believe me about this disease proof stuff, there's a really
good website I encourage you to check out. It's called diseaseproof.com. Dr. Joel Forman
wrote a book called eat to live, and I guess the opposite is eat to not live. I want to
encourage you guys to eat to live and check out that book out of a library, but a copy,
it's actually the New York Time number 1 best seller for awhile, and, you know, you could
truly eat to live by eating some of the foods your growing in nature. So, if I was a woman
I definitely would not get my *** cut off. I would much rather grow a garden and eat
out of my garden. Eat the majority of foods out of my garden, including ramping up the
leafy greens by juicing, blending, eating a lot of salads, and just mailing things fun
and more importantly getting the kids involved with nature and the garden because we really
gotten away from gardening and growing our own food, which is simply where we were about
100, 200 years ago, but now we're all about convenience and going to the store and the
food comes form the store, it doesn't come from your garden. I see countless people spending
money and money and money at the grocer when they could simple be growing their own food.
I mean, I really just don't have to buy things like onions or garlics or greens now because
I have so many growing in my garden that I could just come out here and pick every single
ay, and yet these little tubs of 5 ounces of organic greens and the whole foods store
is $3.50, $4. It's just insane. So, gardening will also save you money. So, hopefully after
watching this video you'll start to garden and really realize the importance of the food
you can grow yourself. There's some of the most cancer preventative foods in my opinion
based on the research I've seen. So, I hope you guys enjoyed this quick episode. Stay
tunes for upcoming episodes where I'm getting more into the gardening and sharing some techniques
and tips with you so that you can grow more food at home. Once again, my name is John
Kohler with growingyourgreens.com. We'll see you next time, and remember, keep on growing!