Food as Medicine
Chasing Life
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The Study of Food as Medicine
Doctor william lee has devoted his entire career to trying to prove in the lab that food really can be medicine. He's written a book called eat to beat disease, which explains how certain foods can heal or harm our bodies. His research all comes down to something called ogenesis, that is the biological process of growing new blood vessels. garlic, chao, artichoke, green tea and berries were just as good at blocking angeogenesis as some cancer drugs. What these foods do is ally starve tiny cancers by stopping those extra blood vessels from growing.
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