I recently gave a lecture on breast cancer risk reduction . And I was sad to find that intake of vegetables polyphenols is such an important predictor of future risk of breast cancer . Like when you're at 5060 plus .
And if you have evidence that you could show a 17 year old that they've got micronutrient gaps , I think that would be a motivator for them to eat differently at a time when it's so critical , even though it's , you know , 25 years in the future that it's going to potentially change this arc that they're on . What do you do for a young woman who doesn't like vegetables is or is not somehow able or willing to , to get those five colors a day of vegetable to help support the microbiome , you know , are supplements , uh a useful tool in that case . Um what other sorts of tools , behavioral or otherwise are useful ?
So that with , you know , kind of a , a taste that they like whether that's chocolate , which is what most of my clients want or , you know , vanilla with berries and that sort of thing . So , that can go a long way if you don't like vegetables and short of that , I would say some supplements , but I would say that's a distant second to making a smoothie . I've got one patient that I have to mention because um he took this to the extreme .
So what I try to get that person to do and I don't see many teens anymore other than NBA players , what I try to get them to do is to have a smoothie , very hard to get them to have a smoothie every day . But if I could get them to have a smoothie three times a week and to throw some of these vegetables in , that makes a huge difference . I mean , we know that makes a difference in terms of microbiome change .
And so he became hell bent like only a physicist could on changing this microbiome . And he dramatically shifted it by having a smoothie every day with 57 vegetables and fruits in it 5757 independent . So I mean , this just warms my heart the way that he did this .
