Fungal Poisons, Cancer
In this video, Doug Kaufmann spends about 25 minutes speaking on "Fungal Poisons, Cancer" at the 43rd Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
Transcription
Great to see you. Great to.
No one's ever done that. Think of fungus. You think of me.
I thought only my wife did. Indeed, indeed.
I wrote a research paper, many of you know this that got published, a couple of physicians and I got published in the November issue of oncology news. And that was the title that they accepted. Finally, we have some solid science that says fungi definitely plays a role in cancer. And I'll explain that to you today. Two years ago when I was here, I was a little technical. Some of you may have seen that. If you didn't, I'll give you an overview. Number one, fungi emit a poison. It's called a mycotoxins once it gets inside your body. These poisons, I'll expound on a little bit. But these poisons cause genetic mutations. You go to an oncologist today and you say, Doctor, you told me that lump in my breast was cancer. What causes it? His answer, a genetic mutation. OK, doc, go with me here. What causes the genetic mutation? We can induce cancer in dogs by injecting a fungal mycotoxins into them and they all get cancer. Okay, this is gonna be an interesting study. Couple other things I went over a few years ago before I start this. Number one, we have two processes in our body that prevent us from getting cancer. They say we get it several times in our lifetime. Those two processes are a gene called the p53 gene. The Superman gene. And the second one is phagocytes. That's right. We all learned in high school white blood cells gobble up debris, cancer cells and so forth. In each instance, the p53 gene is mutated.
Remember, it's a gene and genes mutate in the presence of certain fungi. If you're sitting here today with cancer, my guess would be you lived in a moldy home at some time in your life. You took lots of antibiotics. You drank more than you should have. When you turn 21 years old or you've eaten a lot of corn and popcorn and peanut butter and a lot of grains, and I'll tell you why as we go on here now, do I operate this manually? You're the guy that said it. Technology can fungus cause human disease in the course of time. Sixty nine thousands of peat species of fungus have been recognized. About a million and a half. They're now thinking two and a half million exists. A comprehensive list of all the fungi that can cause human disease is about 400 species, we now believe. OK, what are the similarities between cancer and fungus? This