March 12, 2025 • 20 mins
Aired January 12, 2025: Pink Lotus Breast Center: Lisa Foxx talks to Dr. Kristi Funk about how to fuel our bodies with cancer kicking foods. She offers incredibly helpful info on which foods are not only healthy, but can help decrease one's chances of getting cancer.
Heart disease is the #1 killer in all women, more then all cancers combined. But cancer is clearly still an issue. Why wait til 'Breast Cancer Awareness Month' to talk about healthy ways we can do everything in our power to KICK CANCER TO THE CURB! And that is the attitude of Dr. Kristi Funk...she is an MD, a board-certified breast cancer surgeon & physician, bestselling author, international keynote speaker and women's health advocate. She runs her Pink Lotus Foundation where her website pinklotus.com is PACKED with cancer kicking info, including special recipes, support groups and upcoming summits to attend.
More information: https://pinklotus.com/breastcenter/
Heart disease is the #1 killer in all women, more then all cancers combined. But cancer is clearly still an issue. Why wait til 'Breast Cancer Awareness Month' to talk about healthy ways we can do everything in our power to KICK CANCER TO THE CURB! And that is the attitude of Dr. Kristi Funk...she is an MD, a board-certified breast cancer surgeon & physician, bestselling author, international keynote speaker and women's health advocate. She runs her Pink Lotus Foundation where her website pinklotus.com is PACKED with cancer kicking info, including special recipes, support groups and upcoming summits to attend.
More information: https://pinklotus.com/breastcenter/
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Lisa Fox and this is the iHeart So
Cal Show.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
So recently on the show, we talked all about the
importance of heart health and how heart disease is the
number one killer in all women. But we talked about
all the ways that we can change that, how we
have the power to change.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
That the number two killer cancer.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
On today's show, we're going to talk about how we
can change that from being a top killer. Do everything
in our power to make our bodies cancer kicking. How
can we fuel our bodies to be anti cancer?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We're gonna find out with doctor Christy fun Hi. Christi
Hi Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
She's an MD.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
She's a board certified breast cancer surgeon, a physician, a
best selling author, international keynote speaker, and women's health advocate.
She runs her own Pink Lotus Breast Center here locally,
and her Pinklotus dot com website is packed.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
With cancer kicking info.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
She's so inspirational, so passionate, and so knowledgeable about the
science behind food that could help us accomplish so much
with our bodies.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I want to dive into all of it with her
right now.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Let's go, doctor Christy.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Funk Yay, let's do it. Let's dive.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, perusing your website pinkloadus dot com. Already, just looking
at the recipes, these vitamin packed, fuel packed recipes, I'm
hungry already. But the fact that we have the power
to create delicious, healthy meals on our own and with
your advice, put together specific meals, eat specific types of
foods that would dramatically lower our risk of getting cancer.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
It's so true. Like every time you lift forked mouth
and chew and swallow down, you are easing either releasing
chemicals from that food that are either pro cancer or
anti cancer. So what I'm doing at pinkloadus dot com
slash kitchen, where you can see all the recipes you're
talking about, is I'm creating these evidence based recipes that
every single ingredient is proven to crush cancer. So all
(01:51):
you have to do is chew and swallow and then
the magic gets released inside of you. So to be clear,
I'm not saying that you can kill an existing advanced
cancer with kale alone, but I am showing you that
you can prepare these fairly simple, definitely delicious, and very
affordable meals that will create an environment inside yourself that
is very anti cancer, that lowers inflammation, that lowers estrogen
(02:15):
levels that fuel eighty percent of all breast cancers, that
lowers very potent growth factors, particularly IGF one, that lowers
the literal blood vessel formation that all cancer has to
bring to itself to exist and persist and then eventually fantasticize.
You eat in a way that is either enabling that
(02:35):
cancer to develop and grow and spread or you're squelching it.
So I created these cancer kicking recipes. It's again pink
quotas dot com slash kitchen in a really fun, interactive way.
We also have a live cook along called cook Live
with Chrissy, who's my amazing bff and holistic nutritionists, so
(02:55):
Chrissy and doctor Christy and what we do We do
it monthly on Instagram, YouTube, based, book and zoom. We
just show you, in really simple ways, live up close
and personal, how easily you can prepare these meals. But
the whole family is going to love. And then what
I do is spotlight certain ingredients to give you just
an overview of what the scient says behind how and
why it's a little ingredient. Maybe it's tumeric or broccoli
(03:18):
or soy is so critical to incorporate into your weekly
dietary habit. For example, Lisa talk quiz, Yeah, what do
you think is the world's number one longevity food? What
is the single most important dietary predictor of survival on
planet Earth? What should you eat every day?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, I know it's the wrong answer, but I know
they're fatting in a good kind of way and they're
good for you.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
But I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Guess avocados because I love them and eat them pretty often,
and I'm sure they're on like a top ten list
of healthy foods for something.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Avocados are definitely on the high on the nutrition list.
There's thirteen grams of fiber per avocado. Yes, they have
some fat in there, so if you're actively trying to
lose weight, you probably don't want to eat a whole avocado.
But I will give you a big sums up on
avo's love love love, like we can't have enough of them.
I have a whole like babysitting regiment in my house.
I first bring them home, I put them in a
dark place because they're always too hard. Then they graduate
(04:11):
to the counter, and then they go to the bridge
Like it's a whole babysitting regiment.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
We're obsessed with amocados in our house, but yeah, probably
not a whole avocado every daye though I would like to, Okay,
what's We're gonna give me a hint or.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
You want to just spill it, I'll just spill the beans.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Beans.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So if you've ever heard of Blue Zones, and if
you haven't, you should go on Netflix Live to one
hundred Secrets of the Blue Zones, amazing documentary by Dan Buttner.
So these are the five places on Earth where the
longest living, healthiest people exist. There's more centenarians, more one
hundred plus year olds in these longevity hotspots than anywhere
else on Earth. And guess what they consistently eat every
(04:50):
single day. One cup of beans.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Different bean in different regions, but they all love beans.
So that's the kind of like little tidbits that I
spew out we're cooking live on the cook Live Show,
and it just incentivizes you to be like wow, wow,
Like all I have to do is eat a cup
of beans. Like there was this one seven year study
followed five groups of people in Japan, Sweed, and Greece Australia.
They found that the one and only food group that
(05:15):
predicted survival again is our beans, but the whole leg
hung family beans, lentils, peas, chickpeas. And for every twenty grams,
which is a third of a cup of canned beans,
for every twenty grams you eat, mortality went down by
eight percent. Wow, all of a sudden, You're like, hmm,
what should I add to my salad to make it
more filling and lovely? How about a thirty cup of beans?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I don't panic if I'm sitting there going I don't
even know when the last time I had a bean was,
So now I have to add it to the list
when we go grocery shopping. My gosh, hey, and it's
never too late, right, get those beans pumping into your diet.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Beans.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
What about beats beets? I become obsessed with beats lately.
I have beats in my salad every single day.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
With the avocados. What about beats from there on the list?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I love it? Yes, beats are definitely on the list.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So good.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So beets are red, avocados are green. Our beans can
be black or beige if they're Gobonza's than what I'm
getting at is you want to eat the rainbow every
day when it comes to breast cancer and food. That
is one of my most favorite things to deep dive
into with my new breast cancer patients because they don't
realize they have so much control over their recurrence and
(06:19):
for everybody else out there, you have so much more
control than you may have ever been told over ever
getting breast cancer, irrespective of your family history. So fun fact,
of all the women diagnosed with breast cancer on planet Earth,
literally only five to ten percent of those people with
breast cancer have an inheritable gene such as BRACA or
(06:39):
check too or PALB too, these genes that severely handicap
you against like sixing cancer when it goes awry. That's
only tops ten percent of people.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Small, which gives us.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Very small the vast majorits of only thirteen percent of
all women diagnosed with breast cancer have a first degree
relative with breast cancer. And while family history is very important,
genes can contribute to your risk, this is never your
true health destiny. It never ends with your genetics. Because
there's something called epigenetics, which means all of the genetics
(07:13):
switches that can go on or off depending on whether
they're good to be on or off or bad. You
have control over your epigenetics, which has to do with
your diet, with exposures, be it toxic exposures to environmental
things such as the Sally's and cosmetics or the BBA
and plastic, but also toxic people in your life, emotional stress,
(07:36):
whether you're exercising or not, whether you're carrying around excess weight.
Because that in and of itself is an inflammation maker.
It spews out this factory of what we call cytokines,
things like IL six and TNF alpha and all of
these letters and numbers that ultimately all you need to
know means inflammation in your body. This chronic, low level
(07:58):
but constant sing out of inflammation from an excess amount
of fat cells. That actually has to be one of
the biggest connections between being overweight and obese and developing
a certain number of diseases that we know overweight people
are prone to be it cancer, diabetes, it doesn't even
have to be one of our major killers, but you know,
heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's. These are all tied into this
(08:22):
baseline inflammation and that's where the weight comes in.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's just so much more important than just thinking, Oh,
I'm so lazy.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I really need to work out at some point. Now
this is a matter of life or death, I would think, right.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I mean the way we need to pump ourselves up
into making lifestyle changes to making sure you know. That
was our conversation with the American Heart Association. It's about, yes,
we know, healthy diet, eating healthy, moving more, but moving.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Your body is key.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But not just to prevent heart disease, but like you're saying,
it's going to lower our risk of getting all kinds
of diseases, including cancer.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, obese, all the major
killers are definitely definitely affected. I mean, the science is
very clear. At least fifty percent of all people who
have that list I just mentioned. It need not be
so because it is from our daily choices. Every time
you eat or don't eat, something stink or don't think something,
(09:14):
forgive or don't forgive, drink or don't remove, or don't move,
you're making a step closer to a killer or stepping away.
And that's where I love to come in and deep analyze,
deeply into your little life and see where's the room
for improvement. A lot of people are quote unquote doing
everything right, but then when we really hold up the
magnifying glass, we can see, aha, there's too much stress here.
(09:38):
Your job actually is you work morning, noon and night
without a break. You're never giving yourselves a chance to
just exale, rejuvenate and repair. How can we do this
differently going forward? So, poor sleep is a massive contributor
to disease. And we listed just now a list of killers,
(09:59):
but there are other things that don't kill you, but
they kill your joy and zest for life, things like
anxiety and depression, joint aches, irritable bowel syndrome, rheumatoid symptoms, lupus.
These are autoimmune disorders, thyroid dysfunction. All of these things
are also again a solid fifty percent, but I actually
(10:20):
question up to eighty to ninety percent of all of
these killer and then joy killing diseases are truly truly
a result of things we choose unwittingly. So that's the
big eye opener is you have so much control if
you eat more plant based and limit or eliminate meat, dairy,
(10:41):
so milk, butter, and cheese, even eggs, All of these
foods that are animal based. When you swallow them down,
they contain some estrogen, but what they're really doing is
creating growth factors. IGF one is the biggest growth promoter
inside our bodies. And that's awesome because we turn over
fifty billion cells a day. But when you're done with that,
if you have too much, it's screaming you to grow,
(11:02):
grow fat, grow plaque, grow cancer, grow metastass. And the
only way you make too much IGF one is to
consume animal protein. So when you change that over to
be tofu or lentils and these beans we've talked about, seeds, nuts,
these protein sources, satan if you don't have a gluten sensitivity,
is amazing. This is a vital weak gluten. Satan my
(11:25):
favorite protein because a third of a cup has eighteen
grams and it's delicious and chewy and grain meat. What's satan?
Se a n I actually buy vital weeak gluten in
massive bags and then I will teach you on my
cook Live how to make your next holiday turkey or
just any night chicken quote unquote fried chicken. But it's
not it's satan. So plant based food is going to
(11:48):
do the opposite. It will lower inflammation, lower the growth
factors I told you lower that blood vessel in growth
for cancers. So eating plant based is a big bowlder
pushing you away from cancer if it's plant based, and
toward cancer if it's animal based foods. Another boulder that
the science clearly shows we've touched on, and that is
being overweight or obese. So you lose the weight, you
lose the risk, huge incentive to get to your ideal
(12:12):
body weight. Another boulder lack of exercise. Exercise is not
only going to release dopamine and make you feel better
and have a happier mood, but it's going to it's
going to stoke your immune system. And your immune system
is made up of T and B cells are flying around.
They're doing the surveillance work inside of you to make
sure that not only cancer cells get squelched and disappear.
(12:33):
The process is called the apoptosis, but they're also just
looking at inflammatory cells that are dying or senescent, like
they've just been around too long, and they start to
like buzz around speeling out these inflammation markers that I mentioned,
like I elpics. So your immune system is taxed with
the job of seeing these cells and destroying them. But
(12:54):
if they never get the chance because you're too busy
stressing out, eating poorly, very.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Highlyrolling on your phone, scrolling on your phone.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Scrolling on your phone, especially when you should be just
going to bed now, so you get that light in
your eyes, Your melowtonin doesn't come out, you don't sleep well.
If you wake up, you can't fall back asleep. All
of these things contribute in such a clear way when
you dive into the science, which I love to do.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But I love your enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You know what makes you so passionate about helping people
fight cancer with all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I love the science behind all the food, all the
healthy food. I love the science because you're.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Making my brain go ooh, Like it's more intriguing, you
know what I mean, instead of like eat your beans,
eat your veggies, instead of feeling like you've been kind
of yelled at your whole life to do that, you're
backing up with facts and the science behind these foods.
And it's just a different twist on learning more about
the foods that fill your body, learning about them and
(13:49):
embracing them and making them flavorful. It's like, ooh, what
sounds intriguing. Oh and it could maybe save my life
or help me live a longer, healthier life. And I'm
here for it. I'm down to do it.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Thank you. Yeah, it is. It's intriguing and it's empowering
because so many women just believe that breast cancer, any
cancer for that matter, and a lot of diseases, including diabetes.
I'll hear people say it, Oh, my mom was diabetic,
her mom was diabetic. I'm overweight and diabetic. You know what. Again,
it need not be so people think things that are
(14:20):
genetically inherited are exactly that, when it's not. It's the
recipe you inherited. It is the idea that a vacation
is to fly somewhere and sit on a beach, which
sounds lovely, and maybe you should do that to de stress.
But my point is like inactivity, right, like we just
our idea of family fun is to just watch a
movie or watch TV every night. Maybe there needs to
(14:42):
be more movement involved with traditions that we think we
Inherit start a new thing that we won't go for
a walk after dinner, which, by the way, immediately lowers
your glucose. I was wearing a continuous glucose monitor just
to biohack for fun for two months straight. And it
was incredible to me that I would eat a meal,
my glue coats would shoot up, you know, you want
it to be like seventy eighty, and then brew it
(15:03):
would start to go up one thirty, one forty one
fifty pretty quickly, especially after oatmeal of all things, even
steel cut oats. If you start walking, it never goes high.
It just immediately tempers and like peaks at one ten,
one twenty and then back down to a good baseline.
So walking right after a meal has so many health
benefits that you may not have known about until I
(15:24):
told you just now to do it. And that's what
I get passionate about. It is not fate, it is
not bad luck. It is not entirely genetics. I don't
want to dismiss that these inherited mutations are a bit troublesome,
but for the majority, as we said, they don't have
these brackup mutations, et cetera. So what they do have
is choice, and that's why I get so passionate. I
(15:46):
love to teach people that you're not a sitting duck,
and no, it's not all about when it comes to
cancer surgery and radiation and chemotherapy and anti estrogen pills
like tamoxifin. No, sister, there's so much you can be
doing behind the scene means to empower your own cells
to seek out and destroy any little rogue killer that
wants to be inside of you. It has been shown
(16:07):
in the science now again you can't do it with
advanced cancers per se, that cancer can sometimes have such
a head start on all of your good intentions and
changed behaviors that it's not enough and it's too not
too late, but it's too late to do in isolation. Right.
There's a role for Western medicine and the things we
do to fight certain diseases. But I love it and
(16:28):
I love talking to people, which is why I have
an entire three day summit to offer women.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Oh yeah, when's the next one coming up?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
By the way, we've been talking to the amazing doctor
Christy funk Board certified breast cancer surgeon, physician, best selling author,
and so passionate, passionate about these cancer kicking foods. Can
you inherent all the information on her website pinklotus dot com.
She's got a guide to cancer and processed foods, sugarcarbs
your diet and breast cancer risk. She's got delicious recipes.
(16:57):
I'm dyning to see what's up with this English muffin,
Mini Peace Tofaid, veggie skiwers stuff, Bell Pepper's look delish.
So you got this whole cancer kicking kitchen with all
the foods and fuel. The way she talks about food
being a fuel and anti cancer kicking fuel for your
body is so intriguing. I hope you pop on our website.
I hope you raised there now pinklodus dot com. She's
(17:18):
got delicious mocktail recipes. You have an alcohol risk analyzer,
you have a BMI calculator, so all kinds of ways
to help people. And your infamous cancer kicking smoothie which
you're always on TV that they always ask about your
smooth when you do these TV appearances on all the
talk shows, so that recipe is a must.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
The recipe for the smoothie is barn one, like the
highest antioxidan drink on planet Earth. And then my Life
Changing Weekend retreat is coming up for twenty twenty four
October four five six in Hot Springs, Arkansas and October eighteen,
nineteen twenty in Palm Desert, California. And if, in the
interest of being evergreen, it is not twenty twenty four,
(17:56):
just go to pinkloadus dot com slash summit and find
out when my next one is. Yes, the smoothie is amazing.
And also, pink Lotus Elements is our online store that
has a number of really scientifically created, all vegan, all
very powerful supplements and other things that help reduce your
breast cancer risk before, during, or after a breast cancer diagnose.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I feel so fright up to have a salad right now.
I can even tell you what beans. I want to
get the avocado in there with the beets on all
of it.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
So, yeah, some whole grains, a little chin waw. Yeah.
And of course you know we want to limit all
the sugars, the white sugar, the white anything white.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I've heard about eliminating white swimmer diet right, No white bread,
no white rice.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
No enriched wheat flower. That's a big thing with the
with the whole grains, which I love because I'm a
product of the eighties. I'm fifty four now, so I
grew up in high school in the eighties and bread, pasta,
rice and potatoes were supposed to make you fat, and
I avoided carbs like the plague until it became very educated.
Writing my bestseller Breast the Owner's Manual, I dove into
the food science and came out vegan, so totally plant
(18:57):
based because the science clearly points you there if you
allow yourself to learn it. And no, carbs are not
the enemy. They are actually your best friend. But in
the whole food form and enriched wheat flower you will
find on the back of your spaghetti impastas is not good.
That is basically pure sugar. It hits your bloodstream quickly
elevates your insulin and insulin screens at everything to grow.
(19:18):
So we don't want that. We want whole grains. Look
for the word Hold, there's whole wheat spaghetti, which is delicious.
They make the good I love it on brown rice
and a mommy. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So many things that you can learn from doctor Christy
Funk on her website, be part of her summit or
is there other ways that people can interact with you
aside from pink lotus.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Dot com, Instagram at doctor Christy Funk. Dr Christy Funk,
you can join our online community Pink Lotus power Up.
We meet throughout the country. We have little groups and
these chapters local chapters. We'll meet here in Santa Monica
at the beach. We go for hikes and bike rides,
and we meet for tea. We have a really great
(19:57):
time and throughout the whole country. So visit thankleodus dot com,
slash power Up and join a local chapter near you.
And yeah, you can always visit me live and in
person or on zoom if you are high risk for
breast cancer or have breast cancer and want to have
a one on one consultation.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
God bless you, Christy for all that you're doing in
getting people like pumped up and excited to care about this,
care about our bodies and fuel our bodies with cancer
kicking foods and fuels. All the information right They're on
her website Pinklotus dot com.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Doctor Christy Funk, You're amazing. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Yay Lisa Fucks, thank you. Iheartradiow
Hey, it's Lisa Fox and this is the iHeart So
Cal Show.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
So recently on the show, we talked all about the
importance of heart health and how heart disease is the
number one killer in all women. But we talked about
all the ways that we can change that, how we
have the power to change.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
That the number two killer cancer.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
On today's show, we're going to talk about how we
can change that from being a top killer. Do everything
in our power to make our bodies cancer kicking. How
can we fuel our bodies to be anti cancer?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We're gonna find out with doctor Christy fun Hi. Christi
Hi Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
She's an MD.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
She's a board certified breast cancer surgeon, a physician, a
best selling author, international keynote speaker, and women's health advocate.
She runs her own Pink Lotus Breast Center here locally,
and her Pinklotus dot com website is packed.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
With cancer kicking info.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
She's so inspirational, so passionate, and so knowledgeable about the
science behind food that could help us accomplish so much
with our bodies.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I want to dive into all of it with her
right now.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Let's go, doctor Christy.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Funk Yay, let's do it. Let's dive.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, perusing your website pinkloadus dot com. Already, just looking
at the recipes, these vitamin packed, fuel packed recipes, I'm
hungry already. But the fact that we have the power
to create delicious, healthy meals on our own and with
your advice, put together specific meals, eat specific types of
foods that would dramatically lower our risk of getting cancer.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
It's so true. Like every time you lift forked mouth
and chew and swallow down, you are easing either releasing
chemicals from that food that are either pro cancer or
anti cancer. So what I'm doing at pinkloadus dot com
slash kitchen, where you can see all the recipes you're
talking about, is I'm creating these evidence based recipes that
every single ingredient is proven to crush cancer. So all
(01:51):
you have to do is chew and swallow and then
the magic gets released inside of you. So to be clear,
I'm not saying that you can kill an existing advanced
cancer with kale alone, but I am showing you that
you can prepare these fairly simple, definitely delicious, and very
affordable meals that will create an environment inside yourself that
is very anti cancer, that lowers inflammation, that lowers estrogen
(02:15):
levels that fuel eighty percent of all breast cancers, that
lowers very potent growth factors, particularly IGF one, that lowers
the literal blood vessel formation that all cancer has to
bring to itself to exist and persist and then eventually fantasticize.
You eat in a way that is either enabling that
(02:35):
cancer to develop and grow and spread or you're squelching it.
So I created these cancer kicking recipes. It's again pink
quotas dot com slash kitchen in a really fun, interactive way.
We also have a live cook along called cook Live
with Chrissy, who's my amazing bff and holistic nutritionists, so
(02:55):
Chrissy and doctor Christy and what we do We do
it monthly on Instagram, YouTube, based, book and zoom. We
just show you, in really simple ways, live up close
and personal, how easily you can prepare these meals. But
the whole family is going to love. And then what
I do is spotlight certain ingredients to give you just
an overview of what the scient says behind how and
why it's a little ingredient. Maybe it's tumeric or broccoli
(03:18):
or soy is so critical to incorporate into your weekly
dietary habit. For example, Lisa talk quiz, Yeah, what do
you think is the world's number one longevity food? What
is the single most important dietary predictor of survival on
planet Earth? What should you eat every day?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, I know it's the wrong answer, but I know
they're fatting in a good kind of way and they're
good for you.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
But I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Guess avocados because I love them and eat them pretty often,
and I'm sure they're on like a top ten list
of healthy foods for something.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Avocados are definitely on the high on the nutrition list.
There's thirteen grams of fiber per avocado. Yes, they have
some fat in there, so if you're actively trying to
lose weight, you probably don't want to eat a whole avocado.
But I will give you a big sums up on
avo's love love love, like we can't have enough of them.
I have a whole like babysitting regiment in my house.
I first bring them home, I put them in a
dark place because they're always too hard. Then they graduate
(04:11):
to the counter, and then they go to the bridge
Like it's a whole babysitting regiment.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
We're obsessed with amocados in our house, but yeah, probably
not a whole avocado every daye though I would like to, Okay,
what's We're gonna give me a hint or.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
You want to just spill it, I'll just spill the beans.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Beans.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So if you've ever heard of Blue Zones, and if
you haven't, you should go on Netflix Live to one
hundred Secrets of the Blue Zones, amazing documentary by Dan Buttner.
So these are the five places on Earth where the
longest living, healthiest people exist. There's more centenarians, more one
hundred plus year olds in these longevity hotspots than anywhere
else on Earth. And guess what they consistently eat every
(04:50):
single day. One cup of beans.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Different bean in different regions, but they all love beans.
So that's the kind of like little tidbits that I
spew out we're cooking live on the cook Live Show,
and it just incentivizes you to be like wow, wow,
Like all I have to do is eat a cup
of beans. Like there was this one seven year study
followed five groups of people in Japan, Sweed, and Greece Australia.
They found that the one and only food group that
(05:15):
predicted survival again is our beans, but the whole leg
hung family beans, lentils, peas, chickpeas. And for every twenty grams,
which is a third of a cup of canned beans,
for every twenty grams you eat, mortality went down by
eight percent. Wow, all of a sudden, You're like, hmm,
what should I add to my salad to make it
more filling and lovely? How about a thirty cup of beans?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I don't panic if I'm sitting there going I don't
even know when the last time I had a bean was,
So now I have to add it to the list
when we go grocery shopping. My gosh, hey, and it's
never too late, right, get those beans pumping into your diet.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Beans.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
What about beats beets? I become obsessed with beats lately.
I have beats in my salad every single day.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
With the avocados. What about beats from there on the list?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I love it? Yes, beats are definitely on the list.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So good.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So beets are red, avocados are green. Our beans can
be black or beige if they're Gobonza's than what I'm
getting at is you want to eat the rainbow every
day when it comes to breast cancer and food. That
is one of my most favorite things to deep dive
into with my new breast cancer patients because they don't
realize they have so much control over their recurrence and
(06:19):
for everybody else out there, you have so much more
control than you may have ever been told over ever
getting breast cancer, irrespective of your family history. So fun fact,
of all the women diagnosed with breast cancer on planet Earth,
literally only five to ten percent of those people with
breast cancer have an inheritable gene such as BRACA or
(06:39):
check too or PALB too, these genes that severely handicap
you against like sixing cancer when it goes awry. That's
only tops ten percent of people.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Small, which gives us.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Very small the vast majorits of only thirteen percent of
all women diagnosed with breast cancer have a first degree
relative with breast cancer. And while family history is very important,
genes can contribute to your risk, this is never your
true health destiny. It never ends with your genetics. Because
there's something called epigenetics, which means all of the genetics
(07:13):
switches that can go on or off depending on whether
they're good to be on or off or bad. You
have control over your epigenetics, which has to do with
your diet, with exposures, be it toxic exposures to environmental
things such as the Sally's and cosmetics or the BBA
and plastic, but also toxic people in your life, emotional stress,
(07:36):
whether you're exercising or not, whether you're carrying around excess weight.
Because that in and of itself is an inflammation maker.
It spews out this factory of what we call cytokines,
things like IL six and TNF alpha and all of
these letters and numbers that ultimately all you need to
know means inflammation in your body. This chronic, low level
(07:58):
but constant sing out of inflammation from an excess amount
of fat cells. That actually has to be one of
the biggest connections between being overweight and obese and developing
a certain number of diseases that we know overweight people
are prone to be it cancer, diabetes, it doesn't even
have to be one of our major killers, but you know,
heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's. These are all tied into this
(08:22):
baseline inflammation and that's where the weight comes in.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's just so much more important than just thinking, Oh,
I'm so lazy.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I really need to work out at some point. Now
this is a matter of life or death, I would think, right.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I mean the way we need to pump ourselves up
into making lifestyle changes to making sure you know. That
was our conversation with the American Heart Association. It's about, yes,
we know, healthy diet, eating healthy, moving more, but moving.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Your body is key.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
But not just to prevent heart disease, but like you're saying,
it's going to lower our risk of getting all kinds
of diseases, including cancer.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, obese, all the major
killers are definitely definitely affected. I mean, the science is
very clear. At least fifty percent of all people who
have that list I just mentioned. It need not be
so because it is from our daily choices. Every time
you eat or don't eat, something stink or don't think something,
(09:14):
forgive or don't forgive, drink or don't remove, or don't move,
you're making a step closer to a killer or stepping away.
And that's where I love to come in and deep analyze,
deeply into your little life and see where's the room
for improvement. A lot of people are quote unquote doing
everything right, but then when we really hold up the
magnifying glass, we can see, aha, there's too much stress here.
(09:38):
Your job actually is you work morning, noon and night
without a break. You're never giving yourselves a chance to
just exale, rejuvenate and repair. How can we do this
differently going forward? So, poor sleep is a massive contributor
to disease. And we listed just now a list of killers,
(09:59):
but there are other things that don't kill you, but
they kill your joy and zest for life, things like
anxiety and depression, joint aches, irritable bowel syndrome, rheumatoid symptoms, lupus.
These are autoimmune disorders, thyroid dysfunction. All of these things
are also again a solid fifty percent, but I actually
(10:20):
question up to eighty to ninety percent of all of
these killer and then joy killing diseases are truly truly
a result of things we choose unwittingly. So that's the
big eye opener is you have so much control if
you eat more plant based and limit or eliminate meat, dairy,
(10:41):
so milk, butter, and cheese, even eggs, All of these
foods that are animal based. When you swallow them down,
they contain some estrogen, but what they're really doing is
creating growth factors. IGF one is the biggest growth promoter
inside our bodies. And that's awesome because we turn over
fifty billion cells a day. But when you're done with that,
if you have too much, it's screaming you to grow,
(11:02):
grow fat, grow plaque, grow cancer, grow metastass. And the
only way you make too much IGF one is to
consume animal protein. So when you change that over to
be tofu or lentils and these beans we've talked about, seeds, nuts,
these protein sources, satan if you don't have a gluten sensitivity,
is amazing. This is a vital weak gluten. Satan my
(11:25):
favorite protein because a third of a cup has eighteen
grams and it's delicious and chewy and grain meat. What's satan?
Se a n I actually buy vital weeak gluten in
massive bags and then I will teach you on my
cook Live how to make your next holiday turkey or
just any night chicken quote unquote fried chicken. But it's
not it's satan. So plant based food is going to
(11:48):
do the opposite. It will lower inflammation, lower the growth
factors I told you lower that blood vessel in growth
for cancers. So eating plant based is a big bowlder
pushing you away from cancer if it's plant based, and
toward cancer if it's animal based foods. Another boulder that
the science clearly shows we've touched on, and that is
being overweight or obese. So you lose the weight, you
lose the risk, huge incentive to get to your ideal
(12:12):
body weight. Another boulder lack of exercise. Exercise is not
only going to release dopamine and make you feel better
and have a happier mood, but it's going to it's
going to stoke your immune system. And your immune system
is made up of T and B cells are flying around.
They're doing the surveillance work inside of you to make
sure that not only cancer cells get squelched and disappear.
(12:33):
The process is called the apoptosis, but they're also just
looking at inflammatory cells that are dying or senescent, like
they've just been around too long, and they start to
like buzz around speeling out these inflammation markers that I mentioned,
like I elpics. So your immune system is taxed with
the job of seeing these cells and destroying them. But
(12:54):
if they never get the chance because you're too busy
stressing out, eating poorly, very.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Highlyrolling on your phone, scrolling on your phone.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Scrolling on your phone, especially when you should be just
going to bed now, so you get that light in
your eyes, Your melowtonin doesn't come out, you don't sleep well.
If you wake up, you can't fall back asleep. All
of these things contribute in such a clear way when
you dive into the science, which I love to do.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But I love your enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You know what makes you so passionate about helping people
fight cancer with all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I love the science behind all the food, all the
healthy food. I love the science because you're.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Making my brain go ooh, Like it's more intriguing, you
know what I mean, instead of like eat your beans,
eat your veggies, instead of feeling like you've been kind
of yelled at your whole life to do that, you're
backing up with facts and the science behind these foods.
And it's just a different twist on learning more about
the foods that fill your body, learning about them and
(13:49):
embracing them and making them flavorful. It's like, ooh, what
sounds intriguing. Oh and it could maybe save my life
or help me live a longer, healthier life. And I'm
here for it. I'm down to do it.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Thank you. Yeah, it is. It's intriguing and it's empowering
because so many women just believe that breast cancer, any
cancer for that matter, and a lot of diseases, including diabetes.
I'll hear people say it, Oh, my mom was diabetic,
her mom was diabetic. I'm overweight and diabetic. You know what. Again,
it need not be so people think things that are
(14:20):
genetically inherited are exactly that, when it's not. It's the
recipe you inherited. It is the idea that a vacation
is to fly somewhere and sit on a beach, which
sounds lovely, and maybe you should do that to de stress.
But my point is like inactivity, right, like we just
our idea of family fun is to just watch a
movie or watch TV every night. Maybe there needs to
(14:42):
be more movement involved with traditions that we think we
Inherit start a new thing that we won't go for
a walk after dinner, which, by the way, immediately lowers
your glucose. I was wearing a continuous glucose monitor just
to biohack for fun for two months straight. And it
was incredible to me that I would eat a meal,
my glue coats would shoot up, you know, you want
it to be like seventy eighty, and then brew it
(15:03):
would start to go up one thirty, one forty one
fifty pretty quickly, especially after oatmeal of all things, even
steel cut oats. If you start walking, it never goes high.
It just immediately tempers and like peaks at one ten,
one twenty and then back down to a good baseline.
So walking right after a meal has so many health
benefits that you may not have known about until I
(15:24):
told you just now to do it. And that's what
I get passionate about. It is not fate, it is
not bad luck. It is not entirely genetics. I don't
want to dismiss that these inherited mutations are a bit troublesome,
but for the majority, as we said, they don't have
these brackup mutations, et cetera. So what they do have
is choice, and that's why I get so passionate. I
(15:46):
love to teach people that you're not a sitting duck,
and no, it's not all about when it comes to
cancer surgery and radiation and chemotherapy and anti estrogen pills
like tamoxifin. No, sister, there's so much you can be
doing behind the scene means to empower your own cells
to seek out and destroy any little rogue killer that
wants to be inside of you. It has been shown
(16:07):
in the science now again you can't do it with
advanced cancers per se, that cancer can sometimes have such
a head start on all of your good intentions and
changed behaviors that it's not enough and it's too not
too late, but it's too late to do in isolation. Right.
There's a role for Western medicine and the things we
do to fight certain diseases. But I love it and
(16:28):
I love talking to people, which is why I have
an entire three day summit to offer women.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Oh yeah, when's the next one coming up?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
By the way, we've been talking to the amazing doctor
Christy funk Board certified breast cancer surgeon, physician, best selling author,
and so passionate, passionate about these cancer kicking foods. Can
you inherent all the information on her website pinklotus dot com.
She's got a guide to cancer and processed foods, sugarcarbs
your diet and breast cancer risk. She's got delicious recipes.
(16:57):
I'm dyning to see what's up with this English muffin,
Mini Peace Tofaid, veggie skiwers stuff, Bell Pepper's look delish.
So you got this whole cancer kicking kitchen with all
the foods and fuel. The way she talks about food
being a fuel and anti cancer kicking fuel for your
body is so intriguing. I hope you pop on our website.
I hope you raised there now pinklodus dot com. She's
(17:18):
got delicious mocktail recipes. You have an alcohol risk analyzer,
you have a BMI calculator, so all kinds of ways
to help people. And your infamous cancer kicking smoothie which
you're always on TV that they always ask about your
smooth when you do these TV appearances on all the
talk shows, so that recipe is a must.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
The recipe for the smoothie is barn one, like the
highest antioxidan drink on planet Earth. And then my Life
Changing Weekend retreat is coming up for twenty twenty four
October four five six in Hot Springs, Arkansas and October eighteen,
nineteen twenty in Palm Desert, California. And if, in the
interest of being evergreen, it is not twenty twenty four,
(17:56):
just go to pinkloadus dot com slash summit and find
out when my next one is. Yes, the smoothie is amazing.
And also, pink Lotus Elements is our online store that
has a number of really scientifically created, all vegan, all
very powerful supplements and other things that help reduce your
breast cancer risk before, during, or after a breast cancer diagnose.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I feel so fright up to have a salad right now.
I can even tell you what beans. I want to
get the avocado in there with the beets on all
of it.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
So, yeah, some whole grains, a little chin waw. Yeah.
And of course you know we want to limit all
the sugars, the white sugar, the white anything white.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I've heard about eliminating white swimmer diet right, No white bread,
no white rice.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
No enriched wheat flower. That's a big thing with the
with the whole grains, which I love because I'm a
product of the eighties. I'm fifty four now, so I
grew up in high school in the eighties and bread, pasta,
rice and potatoes were supposed to make you fat, and
I avoided carbs like the plague until it became very educated.
Writing my bestseller Breast the Owner's Manual, I dove into
the food science and came out vegan, so totally plant
(18:57):
based because the science clearly points you there if you
allow yourself to learn it. And no, carbs are not
the enemy. They are actually your best friend. But in
the whole food form and enriched wheat flower you will
find on the back of your spaghetti impastas is not good.
That is basically pure sugar. It hits your bloodstream quickly
elevates your insulin and insulin screens at everything to grow.
(19:18):
So we don't want that. We want whole grains. Look
for the word Hold, there's whole wheat spaghetti, which is delicious.
They make the good I love it on brown rice
and a mommy. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So many things that you can learn from doctor Christy
Funk on her website, be part of her summit or
is there other ways that people can interact with you
aside from pink lotus.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Dot com, Instagram at doctor Christy Funk. Dr Christy Funk,
you can join our online community Pink Lotus power Up.
We meet throughout the country. We have little groups and
these chapters local chapters. We'll meet here in Santa Monica
at the beach. We go for hikes and bike rides,
and we meet for tea. We have a really great
(19:57):
time and throughout the whole country. So visit thankleodus dot com,
slash power Up and join a local chapter near you.
And yeah, you can always visit me live and in
person or on zoom if you are high risk for
breast cancer or have breast cancer and want to have
a one on one consultation.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
God bless you, Christy for all that you're doing in
getting people like pumped up and excited to care about this,
care about our bodies and fuel our bodies with cancer
kicking foods and fuels. All the information right They're on
her website Pinklotus dot com.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Doctor Christy Funk, You're amazing. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Yay Lisa Fucks, thank you. Iheartradiow
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