Cancer TED Talk

        Can we eat to starve cancer? The answer is yes. In a TED talk, Dr. William Li introduces the idea of starving cancer cells by not allowing them to obtain their own blood supply. Without their own blood supply they can not grow and spread. Cancer cells put out signals, telling the body to make new blood vessels in the exact place the cancer cell is located. However, by eating anti-angeogenic foods which act as a natural inhibitor of angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels), you can inhabit the body from producing these blood vessels to cancerous cells.  

          Different anti-angiogenic drugs and foods can help starve tumors. Dr. William Li has even helped different species with his drug combinations. There are twelve different drugs already helping eleven different cancer types. In the last couple years as anti-angiogenic treatments have become available, patient survival has increased by 70%-100% for four different cancer types from the original treatments of radiation and chemotherapy. Although these treatments are revolutionary, they are starting too late in the game, when the cancer has already grown. In order to prevent cancer we need to eat these anti-angiogenic foods. Foods like red grapes inhibit blood vessel growth by 60%! The higher the potency, the better it inhibits this growing of blood vessels. With these new and amazing discoveries, we can now have a chance at preventing cancer. 

         I believe this is an incredible discovery and should be more global and talked about. Without learning this in school, I wouldn't have known about this amazing knowledge and be able to use it to benefit myself. With this new information, impoverished countries and countries lacking many medical resources, can still have a way to prevent and cure this deathly disease.