AI Mark explains how foods act as molecular signals that turn genes on or off, affecting inflammation and cancer risk. A double cheeseburger and fries silence protective genes, while watercress, wild salmon, and berries activate them. Phytochemicals in traditional longevity diets like Ikaria's show how eating shapes which genes your body uses.
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When you eat, it's literally sending messages to turn genes on or off. I'm going to turn on the antioxidant genes or I'm going to turn on the anti inflammatory genes or I'm going to turn on the genes that cause cancer. So we really think of the food as the little signals. And the code is regulating your biological software. And you want a new operating system that's an operating system of health and well being. Well, you have to put in the right code and the right code is the right food. I mean what, what messages are you sending to your biology when you eat a double cheeseburger, fries and a coke, what messages are you sending to your body? And if you're eating like we had last night, this watercress salad, we had this incredible watermelon gazpacho with mint. So many different things. Eggplant with all kinds of spices and sauces on it. It was so delicious. And spices also are full of these phytochemical flavor things. There's so many ways that we should be thinking about how we regulate our body. What if you had fresh wild salmon and wild berries, maybe wild strawberries. Ever since a wild strawberries is bursting with flavor and fresh wild greens like they had in ikaria where they live to be 100 years old. And that's a very different set of molecules that you're putting in your body that regulate what's going on.
