Food vs. Cancer Drugs: The Shocking Results! | Dr. William Li

Name: Food vs. Cancer Drugs: The Shocking Results! | Dr. William Li
Uploaded: 2024-11-06T12:00:00+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this segment, Dr. William Li recounts a covert experiment conducted during a routine cancer‑drug screening program. He removed a dozen candidate drug…

6 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, Dr. William Li recounts a covert experiment conducted during a routine cancer‑drug screening program. He removed a dozen candidate drug samples from the testing line and replaced them with extracts from various foods, disguising the swap so that laboratory staff were unaware of the substitution. The blinded assay, which is normally used to evaluate the anti‑cancer potential of chemicals supplied by biotech firms, yielded results that astonished him: roughly half of the food extracts performed as well as, or better than, the original drug candidates. The revelation underscores the unexpected potency of certain dietary compounds and suggests that foods may harbor anti‑cancer agents comparable to purpose‑designed pharmaceuticals.

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So while we were screening cancer drugs, I pulled off the assembly line about a dozen of the test drugs and I swapped them in with food extracts that I had ordered. Now we disguised the swap so that the researchers, the technicians would have no idea what the samples were. But when the results came out, and again, this was actually a very, very serious test. Used to assess whether or not a chemical that was sent to us from different biotech companies would have potential to treat cancer. And the results came out, my jaw dropped because 50%, half of the foods that we were screening that I snuck in there were as or more powerful than the drugs that we were testing.