How to Deal With Autoimmune Disease | Dr. Chidi Ngwaba

Summary

In an insightful talk, Dr. Chidi Ngwaba delves into the prevention and management of cancer and autoimmune diseases. He references the massive China study illustrating the correlation between diet and cancer rates, noting that a diet high in animal fats increases cancer risk. He emphasizes the role of lifestyle and dietary choices, such as reducing sugar and animal product consumption, and increasing Vitamin D and C intake, in managing disease. He also highlights the importance of medical treatments like immunotherapy, alongside alternative methods like prayer. Regarding autoimmune diseases, Dr. Ngwaba focuses on gut health and the adverse effects of sugar, stress, and cow's milk, especially in individuals with darker skin and women. He advocates for natural sunlight exposure and stress management to reduce disease incidence. The talk offers practical advice for enhancing health and reversing disease progression.

Highlights

• China study linked high animal fat diet to increased cancer rates in wealthy regions 📊
• 50 trillion cells in our body, one gene error can lead to cancer 🔬
• Cancer thrives on sugar, avoid it to lower cancer growth 🍭
• Epigenetics shows lifestyle can override genetic predispositions 🧬
• Autoimmune diseases more prevalent in people with darker skin living in Northern hemispheres 🌎
• Gut health is crucial; stress and diet impact autoimmune disease onset 🌿
• Vitamin D from sunlight vital in reducing autoimmune diseases ⚡
• Eliminate cow's milk and wheat to manage autoimmune diseases effectively 🚫🥛
• Holistic approach: medical treatment, lifestyle changes, and prayer for healing 💫

Key Takeaways

• Lifestyle and diet are crucial in managing cancer risk and prevalence 🎯
• High animal fat and sugar intake correlate with higher cancer rates 🚫
• Immune system plays a vital role in combating cancer cells naturally 🛡️
• Vitamin D3 and Vitamin C are essential in preventing diseases ☀️🍊
• Stress and dietary factors influence autoimmune diseases significantly 💡
• Avoid cow's milk and wheat if you have autoimmune conditions 🚫🥛
• Natural sunlight and stress management can significantly reduce autoimmune risks 🌞
• Engage with medical professionals and consider medical treatments as necessary 👩‍⚕️
• Prayer can support healing along with conventional treatments 🙏

Overview

Dr. Chidi Ngwaba presents a compelling discussion on managing cancer and autoimmune diseases through lifestyle changes and diet. Highlighting the findings from the vast China study, he explains the intricate link between high animal fat consumption and cancer prevalence. This serves as a foundation for adopting dietary habits like reducing sugar and animal products to mitigate cancer risks.

In exploring autoimmune diseases, Dr. Ngwaba stresses the importance of maintaining gut health and minimizing stress, which can exacerbate the conditions. He reveals how factors such as sugar and cow's milk play a pivotal role in triggering autoimmune responses. Dr. Ngwaba also discusses the crucial role of Vitamin D acquired from sunlight in reducing disease incidence, illustrating the direct correlation between lifestyle choices and immune health.

The discussion is rounded off with an emphasis on utilizing both medical treatments and natural methods like prayer to combat these diseases. Dr. Ngwaba underlines the importance of not overlooking conventional medical treatments, such as immunotherapy, while also recognizing the potential of holistic practices in aiding recovery. This comprehensive approach offers valuable insights into maintaining health and reversing disease progression.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to Disease Reversal The chapter introduces the concept of disease reversal, focusing on diabetes, weight loss, cancer, and autoimmune diseases. The speaker mentions a program called 'life colors,' where each color represents a method for reversing a specific disease. In this session, the focus is on the 'green' and 'yellow' components, which pertain to cancer and autoimmune diseases, respectively. The aim is to explore actionable strategies within a limited timeframe.
• 00:30 - 02:00: China's Cancer Study In the late 1970s, the Premier of China, who was suffering from liver cancer, initiated a comprehensive survey across China to determine the reasons behind cancer-related deaths in the country. This task was facilitated by the authoritative nature of the government, which required all citizens to participate and respond to the survey.
• 02:00 - 04:30: Understanding Cancer The chapter titled 'Understanding Cancer' discusses the largest human health study ever conducted, involving over 880 million people and more than 600,000 researchers. It reveals that cancer rates vary by region within a country.
• 04:30 - 09:00: Preventing Cancer This chapter explores the correlation between socio-economic status and cancer incidence. It highlights a surprising finding where affluent regions in China exhibit higher cancer rates, whereas poorer areas show significantly lower rates. The chapter addresses questions about these disparities and suggests that understanding the link between lifestyle, environment, and economic status might be key in preventing cancer.
• 13:00 - 19:30: Autoimmune Diseases The chapter discusses the link between diet and autoimmune diseases, focusing on a significant study called the China study. The study concluded that higher consumption of animal fat and protein in one’s diet increases the risk of cancer. The narrative reflects on the environmental factors such as water and air quality, and suggests a direct correlation between animal-derived food consumption and health risks.
• 19:30 - 27:00: Managing Autoimmune Diseases The chapter 'Managing Autoimmune Diseases' starts by addressing the skepticism researchers faced when linking diet, particularly the consumption of meat and milk, to cancer. This notion challenged existing beliefs, prompting further experiments to prove its validity. The chapter takes a step back to discuss the fundamental understanding of cancer, posing rhetorical questions about the complexity and abundance of cells in the human body, thereby setting the stage for deeper exploration into the subject.
• 27:00 - 29:30: Conclusion The conclusion chapter explores the vast complexity of the human body, emphasizing the staggering number of cells and genes within it. With approximately 50 trillion cells, each containing about 50,000 genes, the immense potential for genetic malfunction is highlighted, specifically in the context of cancer. This chapter underscores the miraculous precision required in genetic processes given the sheer volume of cells and genes, provoking reflection on why, with so many potential points of failure, cancer isn't more common.

How to Deal With Autoimmune Disease | Dr. Chidi Ngwaba Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 Yesterday, as was mentioned, I did talk a bit about how to reverse diabetes and lose weight. Uh we've been going through this program and I call it life colors because each color represents a way of reversing a disease. And today we're going to try and do two in the short ter short time. The green and the yellow that is cancer. What can we do about cancer? What can we do about autoimmune diseases? Um, I'd like to take you back to the
• 00:30 - 01:00 late 1970s when the premier of China was dying from liver cancer. Now, as he was dying, he did something quite interesting. He said, I want to find out why are people dying from cancer in China. So, he did a survey of the entirety of China. And the wonderful thing about being a totalitarian state, everybody had to answer. If you didn't
• 01:00 - 01:30 answer, you go to prison. In fact, this was the biggest ever human health study done in history. It took over 880 million people. The number of researchers was over 600,000. So to this day, there's never been a bigger health study. And what did they find out? Well, they found out that cancer rates differ in different parts of the country. Um, in one area, rates
• 01:30 - 02:00 of cancer could be one in three, one in four, a bit like what we have. But just in adjacent areas, people will have one in a 100,000 incidents of cancer. And they say, well, why? What's the difference? And they realized that the richest parts of China had the highest rates of cancer. The poorest places in China had hardly any cancer. Now, how can that be?
• 02:00 - 02:30 And they tried to think about it. Was it in the water? Was it in the air? What was going on? And they realized that a big study could come out of this. In fact, it was called the China study. And the conclusion they came to was quite simple. It was that the more animal fat and protein in your diet, the higher your risk of cancer. I can see some of you looking a bit disturbed by that. This is the truth. In fact, the
• 02:30 - 03:00 people who were doing the research didn't believe it. They had to do further experiments to prove it. How can it be that eating meat and milk and all of those things, how can that actually cause cancer? Well, it was true. But let me just take you back a bit. What on earth is cancer anyway? We hear the word cancer. What is it? Um well, if I was to ask you, how many cells do you have in your body? If you were to guess, how how many would you guess? Anybody? How many cells
• 03:00 - 03:30 roughly? Trillions. That's actually right. It's about 50 trillion cells we have in the body. Each one of those cells has your copy of DNA. And on those cells, you've got 50,000 genes. So imagine this, 50 trillion cells, each with 50,000 genes. And if one of those genes goes wrong, you can get cancer. 50 trillion times 50,000. You you you must wonder why we don't all get
• 03:30 - 04:00 cancer all the time. So all it is is when the cell starts to replicate and replicate and doesn't stop. That is cancer. Now, here's something you may not know that we all have cancer. Did you know that? All of us sitting here, even newborn babies, we have cancerous cells in our bodies. The reason why we don't get the disease is because we have a wonderful immune system that seeks out and destroys the cancer. But we all have cancerous tissues in our
• 04:00 - 04:30 bodies. In fact, I look at it as one battle lost as opposed to millions of battles won. That's what cancer is. I also like to think of cancer as a weed in the garden. It's just a something you don't want growing in your garden. And if you want to get rid of the weed, you're going to have to learn how do you destroy the weed? Get rid of it and make sure it doesn't come back. And what do this weed, this cancer, what does it like to eat? Anybody know? Cancer loves
• 04:30 - 05:00 sugar. In fact, a cancerous cell will consume 20 times the level of sugar that your normal cell will do. So that starts to give us an indication. Well, what can we do about it? And we'll come back to that. But let me go back to this study because it showed there are different rates of cancer all over the world. And what is it dependent on? You can see in this graph on the bottom x-axis you got the amount of animal fat you take in. on
• 05:00 - 05:30 the y ais is the rate of breast cancer. And you can see there's a line there's a line going along right at the bottom in the corner. You got countries like Thailand and El Salvador, very low rates of animal fat that they consume, very low rates of breast cancer. Then you go all the way up the list up to New Zealand, Denmark, UK, high levels of animal fat, high levels of breast
• 05:30 - 06:00 cancer. There's a linear correlation. Similar with other cancers, even colon cancer, you increase the amount of daily meat consumption, you increase the amount of colon cancer. Uh let me show you this graph. Now, I'll tell you from this map of the world, the red areas are where there are high rates of cancer, breast cancer. Then down to orange, then yellow, then light green, then dark
• 06:00 - 06:30 green. Dark green has the lowest rates of breast cancer. What do you notice about this map of the world? Which countries have the highest rates of cancer? the ones we consider the wealthiest, America, Europe, Australia. In fact, these are some of the countries that people are dying to get into. But when they get there, they realize that they're dying of cancer much more often. And it and it's not genetic
• 06:30 - 07:00 because you take somebody from India and you take them to Australia, their rate of cancer goes all the way up to the levels of the Australians. It's not genetic. It's about lifestyle. is about what we eat, what we drink, and how we work together. I don't know if you recognize this lady. You recognize her? Some of you do. She's a famous actress, Angelina Jolie. Well, she went to her doctor many years ago and they said to her, "You have the gene for breast cancer." The
• 07:00 - 07:30 gene. In other words, you have a a high risk, a 90% chance of getting breast cancer because you have the gene for it. So what she did, she removed her breasts because she didn't want to get breast cancer. But what they didn't tell her was there is a study and this study showed that if you have this gene for breast cancer and you were born before 1940, you have a 24% chance of getting
• 07:30 - 08:00 breast cancer by the age of 50. If you were born after 1940, your risk went all the way up to 67%. In fact, today women with that mutated gene, they have a risk in the '9s. Now, why do you think that should be any significance of 1940? What was going on in 1940?
• 08:00 - 08:30 We had World War II. Exactly. Now, in many countries, and I know I've seen the pictures of Great Britain, Great Britain was relatively poor. We had to have rations. You couldn't eat what you wanted to eat. There was hardly any sugar or chocolate or milk. And at that time when Britain was at its poorest, its cancer rates were at its lowest. Its diabetes rates were at its lowest.
• 08:30 - 09:00 Today there are no rations in Britain. You know, you can see children having Coca-Cola, chocolate all day long. The rates of cancer go up. But here it's saying, look, even if you have a programmed gene for cancer, your lifestyle, what you eat, what you consume, how you live, can overthrow the gene. We call it in the in the area of science epigenetics above the genes. You may have a gene for a cancer, but your
• 09:00 - 09:30 lifestyle can still control that cancer. Because you have the gene doesn't mean you'll have the cancer. So, how do I prevent it? Okay, I'm not giving you the whole story. I have limited time. But there are certain things that you can do to help prevent cancer. One of the things is highdose vitamin D3. Highdose vitamin D3. Now you may realize that we get vitamin D from where? Where do we get it from?
• 09:30 - 10:00 From the sun, right? And many of us are exposed to the sun, especially in Kenya. If you go back to Great Britain right now, it's freezing cold. It's so lovely to be here in Kenya where we have the sun. So, we can get it from um the sun. But if you don't get enough, what you should be doing is taking a supplement of vitamin D3, 10,000 or somewhere between 5 and 10,000 international units per day. Also, something else you can do is take high dose, relatively high dose
• 10:00 - 10:30 vitamin C, 2 grams per day. So, I've also told you though, cancer loves sugar. So, the more you stay away from sugar, the better you will be. Now, what if I already have cancer? What What on earth should I do? Yes. So, look at the treatments. Now, I'm not telling you to avoid the doctors. You must use the medical professionals. If you have a lump or a cancer, it should be removed most of the
• 10:30 - 11:00 time. It should be removed. Now, sometimes when they're talking about things like chemotherapy, ask them is immunotherapy available? Immunotherapy. This uses your own immune system to attack the cancer. Has far fewer side effects. That's one of the best developments in cancer therapy that I've seen thus far. Now, I get asked this an awful lot. Um, you know, can I go the natural way?
• 11:00 - 11:30 I have cancer. I have severe cancer. What about going the natural way with prayer? Now, does prayer work, ladies and gentlemen? Yes, of course. Prayer works. Prayer can heal. I'm sure you and certainly I have seen healing just by the word of prayer. God can do anything he wants to do in anybody's life. Absolutely. But I I want to take you back to a gentleman who you may have heard of in the Bible. His name was King
• 11:30 - 12:00 Hezekiah. You remember him? King Hezekiah. Now, King Hezekiah was told by the Lord that he was going to die. He was told he was going to die. And so, he wasn't happy about it. He cried. He pleaded. And then God said, "Okay, you're going to live an extra 15 years." Now, when God says you're not going to die, that's it. You're not going to die, right? Okay. But he did
• 12:00 - 12:30 instruct him to do something. instructed him to take a a pus of figs and put it on his leg. Okay? Now, God didn't need to do that. When he says something, it's done. But sometimes he wants you to use the medicine of the day, which is what that pus was. All I'm saying is yes, God will heal. But sometimes we can be a bit presumptuous about how he's going to
• 12:30 - 13:00 heal us. He may decide he wants to heal you through medicine. He may decide he wants to heal just through the word of God. But we have to leave that to him. So don't just say, "I know how I want to be healed." We have to prayerfully leave it to the Lord. Okay, I have a little bit of time. I'm going to go over into autoimmune. Now, have you ever heard of autoimmune
• 13:00 - 13:30 disease? Autoimmune disease. Uh have you ever heard of anemia? Yes. You've heard of thyroid disease? Yes. Type 1 diabetes? Multiple sclerosis. All of these weird diseases that affect our bodies. Wherever we have tissues in the body, our antibodies rather than just attacking viruses and bacteria, sometimes it can attack us. And that's an autoimmune disease. Anywhere in the body, it can
• 13:30 - 14:00 happen. And here's the thing about autoimmune disease. It affects people who are like many of us who are dark more than the people who are light. Especially if you live in a northern hemisphere country. And it affects women much more than men. So, black women get these diseases much more than any other people on Earth, especially you'll find if they're living up in North America or in
• 14:00 - 14:30 Europe. So, what is causing it and how do we get it? Well, it starts in the gut. You see, your gut is designed to keep out certain materials and absorb other materials. And anytime you are stressed or you're on certain medication or you have a virus, gut can become a little bit leaky and it can let larger proteins in. If the larger proteins go in, your immune system identifies these larger
• 14:30 - 15:00 proteins as foreign and then starts to attack it. and then it will start to look around for any other part of your body that looks like what it's just attacked. Okay? So, when it does that, that's when you have an autoimmune disease, right? What makes autoimmune disease worse? Sugar. Again, sugar causes inflammation. Causes inflammation of your gut and causes inflammation of any organ that is inflamed. The more sugar
• 15:00 - 15:30 you have, the worse it will get. In certain autoimmune diseases, wheat will cause inflammation. I would say specifically for people who have thyroid disease, they need to avoid wheat. Now, if you want to have something with wheat in it, you can go for the ancient grains or spelt or something like that. But the traditional wheat, especially for people with thyroid disease, you need to avoid it. And Again, the biggest
• 15:30 - 16:00 culprit is milk. If you have an autoimmune disease, the one thing you must do is eliminate cow's milk. Um, and some people say, "Well, what about goats milk?" I say, "No, not goats milk. Leave that for the kids." Okay. Um, some of you understand what I'm talking about. Fair enough. But this, but we've known this for a very long time. You can see this from the New England Journal of Medicine. It showed that type 1 diabetes, that's the one that children get, is triggered by boine
• 16:00 - 16:30 proteins. In other words, by cow proteins, especially cow's milk. Sometimes we wonder why do our children get diabetes? One of the biggest causes, not the exclusive cause, but one of the biggest causes is that it's an autoimmune against cow's milk. And one thing that you must not forget when it comes to autoimmunity it is stress. You know when you are stressed
• 16:30 - 17:00 everything comes out worse. In fact many people don't know they have an autoimmune disease until they go for a very stressful period and then the disease comes out. So there you go. And look at this. Um out of interest this is a map of the world for multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis. The very the highly colored areas are where there is lots of autoimmune disease. All up here
• 17:00 - 17:30 Scandinavia, North Canada along this line the equator there's hardly any autoimmune disease along the equator. And that tells you the power of the sun. Again, the more sun you expose yourself to, the fewer incidents of autoimmune disease you get, especially multiple scerosis. And people say, well, why are you coming to Africa talking to us about sun and autoimmune disease? Well, that's a good point, but
• 17:30 - 18:00 um I will ask you to reflect on your lifestyles in Africa. So, we get all suited up. We go to our office in our air conditioned cars. We go back to our air conditioned homes. We're very rarely exposed to the sun. So because of that, we rarely get enough of the vitamin D that we need. Enough vitamin D from the sun from usually the poorer people, not the executives, usually the poorer people
• 18:00 - 18:30 who are exposed enough so that they can overcome any autoimmune disease. And that's irrespective of their diets. By the way, having enough vitamin D from the sun protects them. So, let me just give you a rehearsal of how you can help to reverse an autoimmune disease. So, avoid all the dairy and the wheat, especially avoid sugar as well. And that means fizzy drinks,
• 18:30 - 19:00 juices, even and especially alcohol. If you want to do your homemade juices, that's absolutely fine. I don't mind those. But the the store-bought juices, no, you need to avoid those. Definitely, we need to manage stress. And if you want to add things to your diet, well, you can add lots of plant-based food, lots of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, seeds, all of that is wonderful for you. And if you have an autoimmune disease, you must definitely be taking highdose vitamin
• 19:00 - 19:30 D3. Okay, so that's me covering cancer and autoimmunity. Tomorrow we're going to be looking at the heart. We're going to teach you how to guard your heart. If you know anybody with high blood pressure, heart disease, any of those conditions, be here tomorrow and we will sort you out and help you to prevent and reverse it. Until then, thank you very much.