Health, Bacteria
In this video, Fred Pescatore spends about 23 minutes speaking on "Health, Bacteria" at the 42nd Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Fred Pescatore
FRED PESCATORE, M.D., M.P.H., C.C.N. was Associate Medical Director at the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York City and Medical Director at the Centers for Integrative and Complementary Medicine in Dallas and New York City. Dr. Pescatore currently acts as Medical Director of Medicine 369, his primary practice, in New York City and is President of the International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists.
Dr. Pescatore is one of the key spokespersons for healthy living and has spoken on 100’s of radio shows across America. For years he was heard daily as the host of the No. 1 health radio show in New York City, called The Logical Alternative. He is currently on the editorial board of Us Weekly magazine and is a regular contributor to In Touch, First For Women and Women’s World magazines.
Dr. Pescatore is the author of the New York Times best-selling book The Hamptons Diet and the No.1 best-selling children’s health book Feed Your Kids Well. His other books include Thin For Good, The Allergy and Asthma Cure, The Hamptons Diet Cookbook and Boost Your Health With Bacteria.
He may be contacted by phone 212-779-2944. Visit him at www.drpescatore.com and follow him on Twitter@drfredpescatore, and Facebook for more information.
Transcription
All right. Thanks for having me. I can't believe it took 42 years to actually get here to be able to be speaking in front of you. Thirty. And I'm only 35. Exactly. So. OK, who have you in this room? Before I get started, because I'm going to be talking a little bit differently than maybe what other people will be talking about, because I'm not going to be a direct X equals Y or P implies Q type of program. I'm going to be talking about bacteria and how your health can get dramatically improved with having the right bacteria. So who in this room who uses antibacterial hand soaps or carries around those little things with them everywhere in the car? How many of you have them with you now?
Well, you should throw them away because they're not good for you. They're actually detrimental to your health. And they'll actually kill you because we have there's so much bacteria on our body.
And the fact that not only do we have so much bacteria in our body, but we have there's different bacteria here than on my elbow, than on my back, than on my knee.
There's different bacteria all over us. There's more bacteria. There's over there's trillions and trillions of cells of bacteria. There's more bacterial cells in their body than aren't that our bottom cells of our body.
So they're there for a reason.
So we've have recently we are we're ending the Human Microbiome Genome Project, which was funded by the NIH.
And it was a multi-billion dollar project. And it was really we've got a lot of we're getting a lot of good information out of it. It's all starting to come out. Now, while this bacteria is good for us and we've we've actually learned some stuff from this and hopefully I'll have the time to talk about some of those things.
So we're going to talk about bacteria and not so like I said, there's over 100 trillion bacteria in the gut alone.
We have good bacteria. It helps us to digest foods, helps us to process and manufacture vitamins, manages and eliminates toxic substances. It kills harmful bacteria.
And we have so far. And I say so far, because there's many more to come, I'm sure identified two thousand strains of beneficial bacteria.
We just don't know what to do with them yet. So we don't.
But what I do know is we don't want to be killing them.
So some of the common bad bacteria that you may have heard of. Well, the first one is MRSA. MRSA is a methicillin resistant staph aureus.
We have no