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>>My father was
a police officer.

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The morning of the test, that I
was supposed to take the test,

I almost skipped out.

I was trying to go back out
the back door of the house

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to go to Martha's Vineyard.

And he stopped me.

And so I ended up
taking the test.

I ended up passing.

And I got on really young.

I got on when I was
22, which fortunately,

that way I can retire early,
wrap it all up at a young age.

This is me in my, I think
that's Captain America underoos.

That's my brother, chowing
down on some potato chips.

Oh look it.

An apple.

[laughs] And we still
both eat the same.

He still eats potato chips.

I haven't converted him yet.

My dad's badge is 182.

He was a detective with the
department for 20 plus years.

He passed away a few
years back from cancer.

And then, they gave me his badge
number, so I now carry 182.

So I kept this.

And this is a quote
that a friend of mine,

named Celine Souci, gave to me.

"Every decision you
make stems from what

you think you are and
represents the value that you

put upon yourself."

So this is basically
the last thing

that I see going out the door
on the way to work every day.

>>The speed at which
our lives are unfolding

for the average person in
an industrialized society,

it's too fast.

We're not present.

We're not in the moment.

We're not with our
loved ones enough.

You know, we're not
breaking bread together,

enjoying a communal
meal together.

We're worrying about
things that are sometimes

at the end of our career.

We're worrying about retirement.

We're worrying about
our investments.

We're worrying about making
one meeting after the next.

>>There is now just a huge
amount of research showing

that the actual hormones
and neurotransmitters

that your body produces and
secretes when you're stressed

lead to so many of
these chronic diseases,

like cancer and heart disease.

>>The public is ill.

They're overweight
and they're ill.

Over the age of 30, almost
everybody in this country

is sick.

Two thirds of the
people are overweight.

Well, over 30% are on
medication over the age of 30.

And about half
have risk factors,

like high cholesterol, high
blood pressure, high blood

sugar that predict
that they're going

to have a less than ideal life.

>>We have a classification
called morbid obesity.

They're now coming up with one
called morbidly morbid obesity.

We're getting fat.

We are the fattest people
in the history of the world.

And we're getting fatter.

>>I was told by my university
teacher, the first nutrition

class that I had,
and the funny thing

is the first day of class,
he walked into the classroom,

and his belly literally came
in the door before he did.

And he proceeded to
tell me about health

and how to lose weight.

>>Most Americans are living
in the dark ages of nutrition.

And they're eating a diet
style that not only is not

nutritionally sufficient, but
it actually is so dangerous,

causing unnecessary
tragedies, needless deaths,

and a tremendous
amount of suffering.

People don't understand that
they're digging their graves

with their knives and forks.

>>And then when
you get a headache,

the doctor comes and gives you
pain relieving pills, toxic.

Or if you have a joint ache,
or this ache, or that ache,

the doctor comes with more
drugs, more chemicals,

and people have long
lists of chemicals

that they have to
take or to live on.

The doctors say
you can't stop it.

People are toxic,
seriously toxic.

>>In 1945, one cup of
spinach had a certain amount

of minerals.

To get that amount of minerals
in one cup of spinach in 1945,

we'd have to eat 65
cups right now, that's

how depleted our soil is.

There's 12,000 additives being
added to our food right now.

>>What's happening now
is kind of the summation

of many different
types of lifestyles,

which are out of accordance
with natural order.

And nobody's at fault.
We just made mistakes.

We didn't know, and
so we experimented

with eating
chemicals, junk food.

All different kinds
of really toxic types

of animal foods,
toxic plant foods.

And now, we washed up onto
the beach, and we're sick.

So now, we've got to figure
out how do we get well.

>>I've got a quote
somewhere that everybody's

a brush stroke.

And they say, you
know, every chance

you get to get a vegetable
or a fruit inside, get it.

So anytime anybody
offers me one--

I could be walking
by the main desk,

someone will have a bag of
carrots, you want one, Eric?

Absolutely.

Eat them all while they're
doing their report.

People say how do you not
want to just rip into a steak?

And I don't know what drives
people to want to do that.

Emotional eating
or whatever it is.

Or why they want a coffee.

Maybe they just never
tried what I have tried.

And I thank my lucky
stars that whatever

it is that came into my
life made me try this

because it's the best thing
I have in my life is the way

I eat.

There's no two ways about that.

It grounds me.

It keeps me happy.

It keeps me stress free.

It makes me enjoy workouts.

Whereas, maybe, years
ago when I wasn't, I

was working out but
not eating as well.

I liked when my
workout was over.

It takes zero willpower for me.

Like they say you have
so much willpower.

And I'd love to
take that credit,

like I have all this
awesome willpower.

But truly what it is is I
crave it, you know what I mean.

This is a hot
fudge sundae to me.

You could put a piece
of pizza, and it just

wouldn't interest me at all.

>>I didn't know
Eric was that old.

Not that he's old.

But when I saw him, I thought
he was like 30, 31, you know.

He just has so much energy.

So he's been here almost
20 years in the department.

I didn't know that.

I've only been here nine.

I met him like this.

So when people tell me before
he used to be kind of heavy,

always eating differently,
just eating bad.

And I didn't witness
the change, so I've

met him the way he is today.

But you speak to the
other guys about him,

and they're like, oh yeah,
doesn't he look great

from before.

And I'm like, what was before?

>>I remember Eric back
probably 10 years ago.

And he was probably 30 to 40,
probably 50 pounds heavier

than he is now.

He wasn't healthy you know.

Eric, now, he's total vegan.

He eats-- basically,
we say he's like a cow.

He grazes all day.

>>Before I did this, I would go,
I had a typical American diet,

where it was coffee.

Hardly ever drank any water.

You know and just sub shops.

I don't really remember
exactly how I felt.

But I know if I just
did that for one day

right now that the
chances are I probably

would finish that
day by going home

and just watching television.

I wouldn't even dare to
try going to the gym.

>>That'll do it.

Stick and jab.

>>You're getting a
little tired, Eric.

Don't do that.

>>Charles Dickens in
his "Tale of Two Cities"

opened the book with, "It
was the best of times.

It was the worst of times."

And 200 years later,
it's the best time ever.

It's the worst time ever.

It's both.

And I will bet my money
that what we're going to see

is a continuation of that.

That what we're going to see
is whatever choice you want

will be accelerated to
an incredible destiny

either to your benefit
or to your detriment.

It just depends
what your choice is.

So for example, if somebody's
choice is, I don't care,

I give up, it doesn't
matter, it's too late,

then they will accelerate to
the worst ever in a way that

was never even possible before.

Just in the same way as if
somebody says, no, no, no,

it's possible.

I can create a future
that is incredible.

There is hope in the world.

There is love in the world.

The best food ever is possible.

The best water ever is possible.

The best herbal medicine
ever is possible.

Then, they will accelerate to
a destiny that they cannot even

imagine.

>>Everything that you eat
affects the way you think,

affects the way you
feel, and it literally

affects the print
out, or the receipt

that you get of your body.

Your body is basically a
receipt for all the food

that you've invested in.

So when people see you,
they see your receipt.

So we want to really be
more proactive and empowered

by this versus, I'm
made of Gummy bears,

and goldfish crackers,
and cheeseburgers,

being made of the best
food on the planet.

>>Well, I was pretty much
overweight my entire life.

From the age of five, I was the
cute chubby kid that everybody

wanted to pinch his cheeks.

And went up to being
overweight, and then obese.

And then right around that time
they coined a new term which

was morbidly obese.

Until finally, I hit 400 pounds.

And as you can imagine, that was
a very scary time in my life.

I tried over 30 different diets.

None of them worked.

I was on the verge of having
gastric bypass surgery.

Went through all the tests
to get ready for that.

And at the very last
minute, I decided

that that wasn't for me.

I was reading a
book about fasting.

And they mentioned
the words "raw food."

And I knew they weren't
talking about sushi.

But it had to be something
important because I

kept getting drawn to it.

And I literally
went out and bought

about 20 different books.

Started researching them.

And made the switch overnight
to 100% raw food lifestyle--

raw being fruits,
vegetables, nuts, and seeds,

all in their uncooked form.

And before that, I
was probably having

7,000 plus calories a day,
two to three meals fast food.

So it was a pretty
intense of a change.

But I'm a bit of an extremist.

I wanted to give it a go.

And I lost the weight so fast.

I mean, it was the
first time in my life

I actually lost
more than 20 pounds.

>>I think the common
denominator amongst all

of these patients
who I've seen really

make a remarkable
turnaround in their health

is that they were
empowered, that they

believed they could do it.

And with that said, I've
seen a number of patients

lose in excess of 100 pounds in
relatively moderate time spans.

We're not talking years here.

We're talking less than a year.

>>Within the first three
months, I stepped on a scale.

And this wasn't a regular scale.

I had to go to the hospital.

I had to go the gastric bypass
section and get permission

to use their scale because
my scale at home didn't work.

My scale in my doctor's
office didn't go high enough.

And as I got on this scale,
I realized in three months,

I had lost 55 pounds with just
diet change alone, no exercise.

And then that year,
I continued on.

In the first year,
I lost 100 pounds.

And something hit,
like automatically,

I had this revelation.

I said, oh my god,
the power of food.

I never realized it.

So many times, people said
you have to go to the gym.

You have to do this and that.

>>And the core of that
really drew, was they

got back to a diet
which was centered

around fresh fruits and
vegetables, nuts and seeds,

very small amounts
of animal protein.

Not a significant amount of
refined food in their diet.

So it was a diet
that humans have

eaten for thousands
and thousands of years.

And once they got back
to it, their health

really reflected that.

>>My belt size changed.

I was a five extra large
shirt and a size 58 pants.

But the size of
the weight change,

I ended up leaving my job of
11 years to pursue my passion.

I started doing public
speaking around the world,

helping other people.

And my relationships changed,
my spirituality changed,

my confidence changed, the way
I interacted with women changed.

And I just started to really
enjoy life for the first time.

Whereas before, I was just
waking up depressed and sad

every single day.

So the long answer
to your question

is the food was the
catalyst for so much more

than I ever expected.

And I'm so grateful
for the opportunity

to be able to take part
in this amazing journey.

>>The Gerson therapy
was developed many,

many, many years ago,
actually in the late '20s

and early '30s by my
father Dr. Max Gerson.

He wasn't a medical doctor.

And he sort of accidentally,
you know how these things are.

When you find scientific
materials accidentally,

that when you change
your diet, you

change your entire physiology.

And you can heal things.

And he accidentally found out
that when he changed his diet

to cure his own
migraine headaches,

it also helped a
patient who happened

to have skin tuberculosis.

You couldn't heal
just one disease.

When you use the right
nutrition and you

restore the body's
ability to heal itself,

it would heal everything.

>>Guys will come to me.

That's usually when someone
will come and ask me

what should I eat for this when
it's a little bit too late,

when they have a problem, maybe
diabetes, Crohn's disease.

You know, different things
like that, or their doctor

says you got high
blood pressure.

And they'll come
to me and they'll

say, what can I add to
my diet to fix this?

Guys that will quit smoking.

That type of thing.

And I always wished that I
could just snap my fingers

and get them-- and
I always say this,

I say if you could eat
the way I eat for a month,

if I could just force you to
eat the way I eat for a month,

you'd never eat any way again.

It wouldn't work for a week.

It wouldn't work for three days.

You'd feel deprived, and
your body would probably

go through some
type of withdrawal

from all the bad stuff that
they're putting in there.

But I always wish that I
could do that for people.

Just snap my fingers.

People are getting their
intestines cut out a couple

feet at a time because
they have Crohn's disease,

and a medical doctor will tell
them-- we'll cut them open

and gut them, rather than
tell them to stop potato chips

and Snickers bar.

It should be illegal.

Really, you know, when
you think about it.

But I don't know.

>>I come from a family
of medical doctors,

and I grew up in
that environment.

I grew up in that
environment of hospitals,

emergency rooms,
doctors' offices,

house calls with my
dad when I was a kid.

And so I've been
uniquely prepared

with an interesting
viewpoint for the life's work

that I have, which is to really
find out what medicine is all

about and to really
dig into medicine

that's available to the people,
that the people can understand.

>>When I was 20 years old, I was
diagnosed with something called

Degenerative Disc Disease.

So essentially, my spine
was deteriorating very fast.

And I went to see my
traditional doctor,

and he put the MRIs
up for me to see.

And he told me that I had
the spine of an 80-year-old.

And to hear that when you're
20 is pretty shocking.

And it sent my life on a
tail spin downward very fast

because not being
completely ignorant,

I went and seeked out
other expert opinions.

So I got a second opinion, a
third opinion, fourth opinion.

And all the doctors
told me the same thing.

That this was a situation
that was incurable,

and I couldn't do
anything about it.

Now, the funny thing is
with that first doctor,

I had the wherewithal
to ask him,

was there anything that
I can do to fix this.

Should I change my diet?

Should I change the
way I'm exercising?

And he looked at
me kind of in pity,

and he said this has nothing
to do with your eating.

And then he wrote me a
prescription to eat some pills.

>>The medical system
is increasingly

and onerously expensive.

It's bankrupting people.

It's bankrupting companies.

It's toxic in many cases.

It does some good, but it does
some damage at the same time.

There's always side
effects to every drug.

It has a place in trauma care.

It has a place-- I'm not
trying to put it down.

But I'm saying that
we've lost touch

with our ability to prevent
disease in the first place.

All people hear about is
detecting cancer and treating

it through the
medical profession.

Nobody's focusing
on what can we do

to never get it to begin with.

And I think that people
are living in a fairy tale

to think that we're going to
invent some magic pill we're

going to pop in our
mouth and not get cancer.

Life isn't a fairy tale.

We choose to eat the foods
that result in the problems

that we develop in life.

Why not choose to eat foods
that maximize our health?

>>You know, I watched my
father die from cancer.

And I actually had a friend
die from leukemia last year.

And I watched both of them.

The same exact thing happened.

I know it's a
touchy subject when

you get into heavy
medications like that.

But at the end, it was
a battle as to what

was putting them down worse,
what was killing them worse.

And at the end, it
was the medication.

The medication was just
pounding away, I remember,

at my father's body
and the different side

effects that he was getting.

>>When we go to medical school,
we're taught to treat symptoms,

and we look at something
with this kind of cut, burn,

and poison paradigm.

>>So much of the
health care costs

that the system is
burdened with now

had been totally preventative.

It's been sound nutrition,
stress reduction,

daily exercise, or movement.

You know, these
are the only things

that if you look
at the timeline,

if you really launch
a trajectory out

from any point in an
individual state of disease,

those are the things which have
been shown to make a change.

>>My friend and colleague,
who's a nephrologist,

one day, he turned to me, we
were at a meeting together,

and he said, you know Daphne,
it's really amazing to me.

People don't seem to be able to
take the half hour or hour they

need in their day in order to
make themselves healthy food

and exercise.

But when their kidneys
fail, they sure

have that four to five
hours a week to go sit there

and just get hooked up
to a dialysis machine.

>>We call it a health
care, but it really

would be better
accurate, more accurate

to call it disease care.

Because our medical
system, what it does is it

diagnoses disease once
it's already there.

Then comes in with
treatments, usually surgery

and pharmaceutical
medications, and so forth.

But what about preventing
those illnesses

from occurring in the first
place, building up health?

We need to create a
culture of wellness.

>>Meet Shirly Mislamof,
probably the world's oldest man.

This mountain villager
claims to be 163,

and he credits hard work and a
simple life for his longevity.

The Caspian Sea region has
dozens of centenarians.

>>Studies have shown that places
on this earth where people

lived the healthiest
and longest lives,

where the elders are looked
up to not just as reservoirs

of wisdom but also because
they're vibrant and strong

people still.

They still are giving.

They're still connecting.

They're still part
of the community

in really a significant way.

We can look and say, well,
what do they have in common?

What are the attributes
of those cultures?

What are they doing that
seems to be working?

>>I found it to be
actually remarkable what

is possible in
areas of the world

where people move every day,
eat a plant-based whole foods

type of diet that is centered
in their local agricultural

system.

Foods aren't coming from
the other side of the globe.

Things are grown right
there in that valley.

>>But they found these
villages in China,

where you really couldn't
get a heart attack.

You couldn't get diabetes.

And the women could
not get breast cancer.

And these friends of mine from
Cornell University and Oxford

University went
into these villages.

What's going on?

Well, you work in
the fields 12 hours

a day, eating rice, beans, tofu,
veggies, three times a day.

Meat, twice a year.

Total cholesterol 127.

Heart attack rate
virtually zero.

Diabetes.

You know, why is the
breast cancer zero?

Well, we think it's
because they're

on largely a plant-protein diet,
like those ladies in Japan.

Born in Japan, raised
on a plant-protein diet,

don't get breast cancer.

Their sisters,
however, who migrate,

Honolulu, San
Francisco, catch up

to the high breast cancer
rate of American women,

adopting the American diet.

>>The patient in my practice
who was originally from Brazil,

and her family for
many generations

came from a very
small village that

was on the banks of
the Amazon River.

And she had, in her
lifetime, emigrated

first to Rio, and then from
there to San Francisco.

And by the time I saw her,
she was in her late 30s

and had a number of
chronic health problems.

She was battling her weight,
was quite overweight.

She had depression.

She had osteoarthritis of the
knees, so degenerative joints

in the knees that was probably
largely due to her weight.

She had borderline
high blood pressure

and borderline diabetes.

And a couple months
before she came to see me,

she actually had gone back to
her family's village in Brazil

on the banks of the Amazon River
and had spent a couple months

there.

And while she was there,
without any particular health

goal in mind, she noticed that
she was getting healthier.

And then she came
back to San Francisco,

and all her problems
started to come back again.

And it was at that
point that she

came and had her first visit
with me and said to me,

I really want to figure out what
was causing that jungle effect.

>>I think the many populations
experience a better pattern

of health or greater longevity
in certain geographical areas,

because they have a
cleaner food supply, often

a more traditional
food supply, so it's

based on foods which
are, again, less refined

and have been part of their
culture for thousands of years.

But you look at those
populations, none of them

are really big meat eaters.

Most of them have some type
of legume, some type of bean

or lentil on a daily basis.

They all eat a lot of fresh
fruits and vegetables.

So I think that
it's hard sometimes

to separate faith from
diet or spirituality

from other lifestyles.

But I think, in general, they
have a really clean diet,

and they practice some form
of meditation or prayer

where they're present
for part of the day.

>>Okinawa, amongst their
elderly population,

there is a lot of long livers.

There's a lot of
longevity and very low

rates of many chronic diseases.

But what was for
me most compelling

was that they have exceedingly
low rates of breast

cancer and prostate cancer.

>>The same could be said
for the Hunza Valley way

up in the Himalayas.

And some of the other
places that have been found.

Really Hawaii is
also a blue zone.

Hawaiians have the-- and not
just the native Hawaiians,

but literally Americans
who move to Hawaii

and other nationalities and
races that move to Hawaii

have the lowest cancer
rate of the 50 states.

They have also the
lowest death rate.

Florida's the highest.

Hawaii's the lowest.

>>There are certainly places
that have higher average life

expectancies than others.

So Japan is almost at the top,
I think around 83, 84 years.

There's the Seventh
Day Adventists,

but they're more of a
religion rather than

a particular
geographic location.

They're concentrated in
Loma Linda, California,

but they're all over the
country and are certainly

a very mixed group when
it comes to ethnicity.

And their trick seems to be
some exceptionally good health

habits.

And so they have average life
expectancies of about 88,

89 years.

>>I love to look at what I've
observed in other populations,

but I also like to
look at the research

that as we get older things
don't have to go downhill.

You can look at research that's
based on muscle recruitment.

You can look at the research on
blood pressure, bone density.

There's some
fascinating work that

shows if you take
care of yourself,

if you don't bombard
your genes as we've

talked about with an unhealthy
diet, an unhealthy way of life,

that as you get older your
blood pressure can go down,

that your bone
density can improve,

that you can maintain
that muscle mass

you're told you're
just going to lose.

So I really think that
centenarians and people

of all ages should have
hope that getting old

isn't a sad story.

It can really be
a beautiful story.

>>Time and time again,
people would ask me,

but don't you think that
at the end of the day,

the reason that you're
seeing such low rates

of these diseases
in various places

is because genetically
this is a culture which

is protected for whatever
reason from this disease.

And the easy answer
to that is that we

have tons of data at this
point-- when for example, West

Africans migrate
to an urban area

and start to eat an urban diet
and have an urban lifestyle,

they get colon cancer at the
same rate as everybody else.

And in fact, African
Americans, many of whom

can trace their ancestry
back to West Africa,

have some of the highest rates
of colon cancer in the world

and even higher rates
than Caucasian Americans.

So we know it's not
genetics in that point.

Because you look
at your ancestors,

and they have very low rates.

Same with Japanese Americans.

They get breast and colon
cancer the same as anybody else

once they're living
here in the US.

And yet in Japan,
incredibly low rates.

>>Very few cancers
are actually genetic.

It's like less than 3%.

Right.

Why didn't we have a cancer
epidemic a hundred years ago

if it's genetic?

Right.

Why is it now one in
almost every two people

is going to develop cancer?

How come now?

Why wasn't it like that
a hundred years ago

if it's genetic?

So that whole genetic
story is falling apart

under the weight of epigenetics.

What the epigenetics
are indicating

is that there are
lifestyle factors that

are triggering the expression
of the gene or suppressing it.

Right.

So yeah.

You can have a genetic
weakness in a certain area,

but it will never express
itself unless you go out

and you do as much booze
as you possibly can.

Eat the worse food ever.

Run your body into the ground.

Then, that gene will express.

>>You try to make
the best of it.

You try to laugh.

But basically, you argue
with people for a living.

You see a lot of unfortunate
living situations.

So a lot of negativity.

So it can hammer away at
you, you know, your mood.

It can definitely have its
effects on you, stress wise.

When you get out, you
definitely need a release.

Some guys find it in good ways.

And some guys find
it in bad ways.

Life Alive is my only stop.

And to be quite honest with
you, with the way my day goes.

It's like an oasis.

She calls it an oasis.

Life Alive, Organic
Garden Oasis.

But it is.

I go in there.

It's peaceful in there.

It's serene.

The atmosphere is serene.

Heidi goes-- Heidi goes
way out of her way in terms

of the hiring process to make
sure people care about what

they're doing and the message
that they're getting across.

They're not just serving food.

And so she wants
a well atmosphere.

And she's got the
bulletin board.

You're going to learn
about other things

in life, meditation, yoga,
whatever it might be.

They have different
seminars in there.

Going in there.

I'm in tenement
buildings all day,

in not the most
beautiful lifestyles.

After seeing negativity,
negativity all day,

it's really nice to
be able to go in there

if I get half an hour to
sit down and eat my meal,

be around pleasant people that
are trying on a daily basis

to become more
pleasant and more well.

And so going in there
is a real treat for me.

A little bit of heaven on earth.

Squash, kale, broccoli, corn,
almonds, carrots, quinoa.

>>The most immediate changes
that people can make,

right from the
beginning, is start

making half of
every plate of food

that you consume
fruits and vegetables

with fruit and vegetables
predominately coming

from North America.

That's one of the most
important things anybody can do.

Eat more fruits and vegetables.

Eat less meat.

Less dairy.

Really reduce that to a very
small percentage of your plate.

Cut a lot of refined flours
and sweeteners out of your diet

completely because those are
undermining our health as much

as any other dietary factor.

>>One of those categories of
great medicines is raw foods.

Getting back to raw
foods and fresh juices

and getting that prana
back and life force

energy that comes from
real living plant cells

instead of cells that have
been exploded by heat or cells

that have been fried or
radiated or microwaved.

So that's a big part
of the work that I do.

And that brings life back.

Right.

Life comes from life.

And live food makes
you more living.

>>If an indigenous
person, a hunter-gatherer

was to come into your kitchen
and look around and see

your food, what
would they think?

Would they be able to recognize
where that food came from?

So they come in and they
look through your kitchen

and they see the vegetables
and the fruits in there.

And they're like, yeah,
vegetables and fruits.

I recognize those things.

And they see the seeds and nuts.

And they're like, yeah,
we have those things.

And they see the animal foods.

And they say, yeah,
we hunt animals.

But then they see
the ramen noodles.

Then, they see the Lucky Charms.

Then, they see the Doritos.

And there's a big disconnection.

They can't recognize where
those things came from.

There's not a Dorito bush.

>>I eat a plant strong diet.

I get as many of my nutrients
from plants as possible

because they tend in that way
to come with phytochemicals

and multiple kinds of minerals,
and all kinds of nutrients

that we need, our cells
need, to function optimally.

>>I get home late
at night, you know.

So I'll eat a really big salad.

That's usually what I
finish my night with.

And it's like a serving bowl.

Like this.

Tons of greens, avocado,
some flax on there,

pumpkin seeds, almonds,
tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers,

onions.

You name it.

Any vegetable that you
throw in front of me.

If I can find it, I'm
going to put in there.

>>One thing that everybody
could relate to, and I think

can recognize, that green
vegetables, for example,

are particularly micronutrient
dense and related to longer

life and low rates of cancer.

So no matter what
kind of diet you're

on, or whatever
you believe, you're

probably not eating
enough green vegetables.

>>I grew up very poor.

So I mean I had the
worst of the worst food.

I mean everything that was in
a can and had no labels on it.

And it was interesting because
as I started to literally purge

myself of foods that had
pesticides, herbicides,

fungicides, larvicides,
chemicals, dyes, poisons,

I actually realized that I
was able to think clearer.

That even my connection
with, we'll say God,

was just a bit more
clear, and I started

to change the way I
had an outlook on life.

So it really was
just the catalyst,

it was the ground floor
of what was going to be,

everything else was
going to be built on.

>>You have the old adage
you are what you eat.

But I take it a step further
and say you eat what you are.

Again, it starts with your
green vegetables, number one.

Again, I know for
myself, getting

into kale, collard
greens, spinach.

But also some of your, even
your more bitter greens, you

know you have your dandelion.

I love turnip greens.

I can't overstate the
importance of eating

really good vegetables.

>>I went to a Walmart.

I went to Safeway out there.

I went to some other
smaller stores.

And what I realized is
that many of these foods,

in fact, most of them
you can find, really,

all over the country.

Things like the dried beans,
and a lot of the greens,

and even the fruits and
vegetables that are in season.

>>50 or 100 years ago, America
spend three times as much

on food as they do today, as a
percent of total take home pay.

And they're actually
spending less on food

today than they ever did
before in history, well,

except for spending 10
times more on medical care.

Don't forget.

So we're spending
more on medical care.

But not as much on food.

>>Want some good wholesome
food today as always?

>>Yes, ma'am.

Fortunately, you
guys got it today.

Let's see.

Any oranges?

>>The point is that we could
grow food in our backyard.

Green vegetables, collards,
and kale, and mustard greens

are not expensive.

Zucchini is cheap.

Beans are cheap.

Rices are cheap.

>>Pinto beans every night really
over the course of a lifetime

is going to work in your favor.

You know, you don't
need to have the meat.

You don't need to have
the animal protein.

You don't need to have a lot
of heavily processed but maybe

organic snacks.

They're more expensive
because they're processed,

and they're packaged.

And there's a lot of marketing
centered around them.

But they're not
necessarily anything

you want to have
on a regular basis.

So I think that beans and rice
and green leafy vegetables

for a life are going to produce
a greater overall quality

of health than a diet
that's much more complex

but is centered
around animal protein

and heavily processed foods.

>>When you're eating
healthy, you're

satisfied with fewer calories.

It actually becomes less
expensive because you're not

driven to overeat anymore.

And you don't have
to eat for two.

You can eat just for one person
because the extra calories

really feeds your doctor.

>>So this is, in fact, a
budget way to eat healthy.

>>The food that we need
to eat that's in the best

form for the body
to heal itself is

food that's in a liquid form.

So we should start with
our fresh coconut water,

our fresh juices that we make.

And we use that.

That creates a great
balance in terms

of giving the body what it needs
nutritionally in a liquid form,

whereas you're looking
at 95% to 99% water.

Then, the healing is quick.

>>With juicing, you can
concentrate the food.

It's easily digested.

It goes right into the
tissues, into the cells,

where it belongs.

And it immediately raises
the level of nutrients

so the body can start to heal.

>>When you're
dealing with juices,

you're talking 15, 20 minutes,
it's in your bloodstream.

When you're dealing
with blended food,

it's like you've chewed
that thing a thousand times.

The whole food is
still completely there.

You've just accelerated
to its end goal

of being completely liquefied.

And then once
that's in your body

and into your digestive
track, your body

can absorb everything
that was there.

Again, instead of doing 10
times, with the blended stuff,

you've chewed it
a thousand times.

>>Towards the end of
the year, I started

to hear about this
idea of a juice fast,

an extended juice
fast, which is when

I decided to go on this
crazy, 100 day juice fast.

Right.

Nothing but juice for 100 days.

And by the end of
that second year,

I had lost another
100 pounds, literally

cutting my body weight in
half within two years time.

Safe, natural, skin
repairing itself.

And I saw so many
people that had come up,

that were gastric patients that
had lost that kind of weight

in maybe three or four months.

But then were having skin issues
and different things like that,

so it was really
cool to take the time

to really do it the
right way, give myself

lots of green juice,
alkalize my body.

>>A coconut water as a
water is food and a water

simultaneously.

So when we drink that,
we don't need a colonic.

We don't need anything
other than that.

That will go and clean
out our whole system.

>>Yeah.

Until you get the
plates transferred over.

>>Right.

>>Yep.

>>OK.

All right.

>>See you, buddy.

All right.

>>All right, man.

>>All right.

I'll see you.

>>You're not going
get beat up anymore.

>>Stay out of trouble.

Will ya?

How you doing?

How's it going, ladies?

>>Good.

How are you?

>>Good.

I truly believe that there's
one fountain of youth,

and this is it.

I think that I feel like
in the last six years

not only have I not
aged, but I feel

like I've grown more youthful.

I turn 40 next
summer, and I feel 25.

The way it seeps into your life.

I mean I act like I'm 25.

I do things that
25-year-olds do.

I find myself drawn
to 25 year-old people.

It's really crazy.

It's changed my life.

It's the one thing
that-- the best decision

that I've ever made
in my entire life.

>>I think that if the fountain
of youth does in fact exist,

it exists inside of us,
probably inside of our brains

in the way we look at life,
our outlook on things,

being positive.

Not becoming too
cynical, not becoming all

depressed with respect to
how bad sometimes things

look environmentally or
with respect to our health.

I think we all have that in us.

I think that that
coupled with a diet which

supports our biochemistry,
the basics, you know,

offers us more alkalinity.

Not an acid loaded diet.

Keeping our blood sugar
levels more in check.

I think the fountain of youth
comes from outlook on life

and how simple we
can keep our diet.

>>Modern nutritional
science has advanced

to the point where we can live
longer and in better health

than prior years.

Where the average American
lives about 75 years old,

the average worldwide
life expectancy

is between 75 and 80.

Even the best
populations, 80, 81

is the very best
longest lived people,

and I'm saying that I'm
seeing sick patients come

to me in their late 60's and
70's and now in their 90's

thriving because of
excellent nutrition.

We could add 20 quality
years to people's life

with excellent nutrition.

>>So many people would say that
it takes a lot of will power.

And I've heard that
a lot of times.

Wow, it takes so much will
power to do something like that.

And I've found that
it really doesn't.

It's actually just a
change of your will.

What you decide is
important in your life.

So many times, I've
had conversations

with people and say,
what's your priorities?

Is health your priority?

And they say, yes, but
when I'm at my families,

I end up eating this way.

Or when I'm out with my friends,
I end up eating this way.

And so as you start to reframe
and look at your priorities,

and really see what
you want for your life,

and you put health
first, all of a sudden,

all the decisions
become very easy.

When you're out and everybody's
eating junk food, for example,

you just say, OK,
what am I going to do?

Let me look down
my priority list.

Oh, health is number one before
maybe socialization or whatever

that happens to be.

And that's the choice
that I'm going to do.

>>I've seen so many individuals,
once they realize that they

could do it, that they
were going to do it,

drop a ton of weight.

Really change
their biochemistry.

Right to the core.

>>The day you decide
you want to be well,

you got to do it 100%, just
like a cigarette smoker.

A cigarette smoker can
hear over and over again

about how bad tobacco
is and get all kinds

of negative reinforcement.

And they may practice
going without cigarettes

for two or three hours or so.

But then the day comes, and
they say I want to be different.

I don't want to be a
cigarette smoker anymore.

And then they stop 100%.

Same thing with the food.

You can practice for
a while if you want.

But when you decide to
really get your health back,

to get your personal appearances
back, then you do it 100%.

>>The tools to heal ourselves
are always available,

whether they are foods,
or movies, or books,

or inspirational
plays, or whatever

it is, or family time, or
time with the grandkids,

or whatever it is.

The tools are there.

It's just opening to it
and just allowing it in.

I really believe very
strongly in stacking

the odds in your favor
whenever possible.

Whenever it's possible
to make a choice that

will stack the odds in your
favor for healing, do it.

Make that little extra effort.

For example, instead of
just drinking the water.

Bless it.

Take one extra second.

Bless the water.

Then, drink it.

It helps.

It improves it.

And if you start
stacking those things

on top of each other
with every moment,

ultimately, that's the kind of
life that is a blessed life.

>>One night, I made the
decision, before I went to bed,

this epiphany happened.

Where I was asking constantly
over and over again, why me?

Why is this happening to me?

Why won't anybody help me?

And started to
shift the questions

I was asking because our
brains operate on questions.

And I began to ask, what is it
that I need to do to change?

What is it that I need
to do to get better?

And from asking
those questions, I

started to see all the
different places in my life

that I was not living
up to my potential.

>>There's nothing more valuable
than our body and our temple.

I mean it's priceless.

We cannot put a value on it.

And if we believe that
this is a one-shot deal,

then I think we would be a lot
more responsible with our food

choices because we understand
that is our healing, that

is our true medicine.

>>We got to ask questions.

>>Thank you very much.

>>Try to help you with
helpful cooking tips.

But for the most part,
all this stuff, chop up.

Put in a salad.

>>I eat raw.

I eat raw all the time.

So this is all like--

>>You're in the right place.

>>Yeah, this is perfect.

>>Cool, man.

>>Thank you.

>>You got it.

>>The biggest obstacle
I think right now

to the average person
that wants to get healthy

is that it's been portrayed as
something that's very complex.

That you have to be really
well-educated to understand

or to follow.

And that it's expensive.

And that it requires the
use of extensive supplements

or these so-called
magic potions.

And in fact, it's the simplest
thing we could ever follow.

>>Every morning, I
make kale shakes.

>>Oh yeah.

>>I make them.

Sometimes I'll throw kombucha
in with them to liquefy it.

Sometimes, I'll throw
coconut water in there.

Throw maybe like a lime.

Gets me out the door.

You know.

Perfect.

Puts a smile on my face
for work for at least maybe

like an hour.

Then, I have to swing back
home and get another one.

Awesome.

I got your back.

All right.

Take care.

>>We'll see you around.

>>All right.

Take it easy.

How you doin'?

>>Good.

How are you?

>>I made the
decision to get well.

And that's really what
changed everything for me.

Most times, when
people are diagnosed

with a severe
condition, they give up.

They don't understand that
you can make the decision

to get well and do
something about it.

>>The day I stood
on the scale it

was-- you're either
saying yes to life,

or you're saying no to life.

And for me, I was dying fast.

You don't see many 400-pound,
morbidly obese old people.

So I realized, what's
the decision that I'm

making right now for my life.

And that's when I made
the switch in realizing

I want to say yes to life.

And there is hope for every
single person out there.

It's just one thought
and decision away.

The way you're thinking right
now can be instantly changed.

You say, you know what?

That's not the outcome
I want for my life.

I choose to enact
my will and choose

to look at health as
my number one priority.

Without that, I'm not going to
be able to play with my kids.

I'm not going to be able
to enjoy my partner.

And then once you
start to create

those kinds of a
technology or system,

everything else just
filters down through.

Just kind of like dropping
a marble in a game

and watching it go through.

All your decisions
go through that path,

and it actually becomes easy.

And so many people
have laughed when

I say this but losing 200 pounds
was the easiest thing that I

ever did in my life.

>>This here is the
criminal bureau

where my father used to work as
a detective prior to passing.

Main desk's up here.

That would be a good
show on television

if these people would
just sign a waiver.

You know what I mean
just sign-- that's

what David Wolfe should do.

Sign a waiver.

You're off the show.

And it's like six months.

And you're going to be force fed
a raw food diet for six months.

You go off it,
you're off the show,

and you don't get the
million bucks at the end.

And then take like 20 people
and see how many go back

at the end of six months.

None of them will go back.

Right.

Probably none would
go-- maybe, who knows?

Maybe some would go back.

But that would be an amazing
way to get people to try it.

[laughs]

Sorry.

Hi, honey.

How are you, ladies?

>>You got a purple one.

>>That looks pretty good.

Right there.

>>Right there.

I'm going to get the fiber bowl.

>>The fiber bowl.

Yeah.

>>With some wheat grass.

>>Hey, how you doing?

We're going to get fiber bowls
and two shots of wheat grass.

>>Smalls or larges
on the wheat grass?

>>I don't know.

>>Large.

>>Large.

>>Two larges.

Anything else, guys?

>>No.

That'll be all.

Thank you.

>>It'll be $28.89.

>>All right.

It's on you.

He makes money.

>>You know in the summer he
sits outside and eats an acorn.

People drive by in the cruiser.

Then where we stop.

First, you see what he's
putting in his body.

This is colorful stuff too.

So it draws attention,
as you can see.

And if you just say hi to
him, and he'll talk to you.

Right away, he's like,
hey, you got to try this.

Come inside.

Do this.

Do that.

I mean if you've got the cure
to something, you share it.

Right.

And you believe in it,
because it happened to you.

So that's why Eric's
the way he is.

I tell you that's
the way I see it.

I mean if you just look at--
look at all the color in this.

We got carrots,
corn, raw almonds.

I love raw almonds.

It has beets.

I'm going to take
a bite of this.

Hold on.

[chuckles]

I mean this is delicious.

This is delicious.

It has so much flavor.

I mean cheeseburgers
and crap like that.

Or like Chinese food.

I'm not going to say I've
never had Chinese food.

But you know you're
hungry an hour later.

When you eat like
this, you're actually

full like for four
or five hours.

I think that's how people
actually start limiting

what they put in their body.

So if you're not as
hungry all the time,

you know, you just
put less in your body.

>>If you want, I can
jump up on this table.

Want to see?

Jump up on it.

Ready?

>>Nice.

That was great.

>>That was pretty cool.

>>All right.

It's good.

You're still alive.

>>Well, thank you.

That's good to know.

I thought I was
dead for a while.

>>That was excellent.