Friday Favorites: Benefits of Nutritional Yeast for Cancer

[@t10mcg]

Nutritional yeast has so many great benefits! Thanks!

[@gafanisagood]

I'm so glad I've been introduced to nutritional yeast almost a year ago. Now I won't stop having it when I turn vegan in a few months 😊👍.

[@annaal7480]

Must remember to eat it regularly. Thank you .

[@aussiedadreviews]

Always informative and encouraging

[@purpleworm4725]

I guess I must add a warning here for others - although there are benefits to consuming nutritional yeast, as with most things it is not wise to generalize and call it a miracle food and good for everything. For example, this same channel has a video "Is Nutritional Yeast Healthy for Everyone?" where it is discussed how immunity stimulating abilities of nutritional yeast can worsen symptoms of Crohn's disease - a disease where your immunity is hyperactive to begin with. Our immune system is in fine balance - sometimes you need it to be more active to fight diseases, but sometimes its too active and causes damage itself such as when people suffer from autoimmune diseases. So never assume and generalize - always check if someone has put it to the test, especially if you want to consume something in large doses.

[@G-rig6969]

I guess if you have a pre existing issue then you may be sensitive to a lot of particular foods. It's not that cheap anyway and you need to eat a lot instead of taking b12 supplements or shots.

[@liviacotto7647]

So good for the body and the taste! Thank you so much Dr Greger

[@armindaalexander2692]

Dr. Greger, can you please recommend a cancer “boot camp” similar to the Longevity Center that your grandmother Frances went to for her heart disease? We have been mostly vegan for 7 years but my husband has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. With chemoradiation he is expected to survive past one year but 5 years is not in the cards. We’d like to improve his odds of survival and quality of life. It would be a bonus if it were located in the Pacific NW. Thanks so much..

[@lukeweaver9287]

Hippocrates Health Institute West Palm Beach. Worth the trip.

[@meman6964]

Eden Valley, Loveland Colorado. Some people on staff in have cancer and have way out lived the Dr life expectancy date

[@julesvonbavy]

Sending your husband and family 💛

[@AndrewPawley11]

I have loved Nutritional Yeast since I first tried it. I started taking it for the B12 but finding out about the additional benefits convinces me to have it every day on every savoury meal. What's the downside? Tastier rice?

[@novembah]

Wait nutritional yeast has b12????

[@tnijoo5109]

@@novembah only fortified nutritional yeast does. It doesn’t occur naturally in the yeast. I don’t like that they add it. I get natural organic nutritional yeast and I take b12 sublingually as liquid methylcobalamin and I think that’s the best way.

[@mikepaquette1245]

@@tnijoo5109 thats not true. It occurs naturally. You have to look for unfortified nutritional yeast

[@tnijoo5109]

@@mikepaquette1245 okay. I’m looking at unfortified natural nutritional yeast and it doesn’t contain any B12.

[@tnijoo5109]

@@mikepaquette1245 I’ve researched it before so I’m pretty confident it doesn’t naturally contain any B12. I’m curious to know though what you’re looking at. Is it your own bag if it?

[@jacobhinderer9125]

I try to have nutritional yeast weekly!

[@ChalfantMT]

Nutritional yeast is also high in protein and many other nutrients. ❤

[@becoolnotcruel]

Nutritional yeast seems to be a trigger with migraines for me. Many years ago I read that there is quite a lot of arsenic in nutritional yeast if it is not certified organic and non-gmo. I'm wondering if that is correct or not? I've never wanted to bother testing it out as the migraines are debilitating and can last for weeks at a time on one side and then switching to the other side.

[@eelkeaptroot1393]

It's not just popcorn that tastes better with nooch!

[@danheuser5148]

Yeah, I use it in place of parmesan cheese in things like pasta dishes.

[@milesclark2966]

Two of Coleys patient's died but the tumors did shrink, I can just imagine the look on the faces of the deceased relatives when he told them that.

[@61loneviking]

I love nutritional yeast and eat it every day. But, healthier because of it? Hmmm, dunno, maybe?

[@michaelkane7021]

So time to expand the daily dozen to daily thirteen or even fourteen with Fenugreek too???

[@straightedgeveganbel2453]

Both fortified and unfortified?

[@shirleywolff611]

That was my question too.

[@dr.mantistoboggan4746]

I LOVE nutritional yeast, it is the one true super food. Be careful as the high purine content can raise uric acid (causing gout and kidney stones). Food's Alive non fortified is best, 2 pounds for $40. I eat some meat, but the trace minerals and all B vitamins are incredible in nutritional yeast.

[@BethShearon]

Thank you, is this the same influence people are talking about when they say nutritional yeast is an excitotoxin? This video says somehow it boosts the number of white cells, is it because there's something in it the body does not like? It looks like it's handy against tumors but wondering if we should be eating it all the time

[@phillippinter7518]

If nutritional yeast is just dead yeast (same type as in bread) than shouldn't eating in the form of bread (preferably whole grain) also work?

[@WolfD24]

I enjoy nutritional yeast by eating it out of a 2 pound bag with a tablespoon, so tasty 😋

[@robeson1070]

Unfortunately, nutritional yeast absolutely wrecks me GI-wise -- doubled over in pain with IBS/Chrohn's-like symptoms. Wasn't always like that, but started in my mid/late 30s and took a period of time to narrow down the offending ingredient. A very inconvenient ingredient to have to avoid while following a plant-based diet. It's in many vegan prepared foods, but silver-lining, it means I am consuming less processed stuff as a result.

[@chandelie4]

You may have Crohn's disease or at the very least, an overgrowth of yeast. People with crohn's disease make antibodies to yeast and therefore have big immune system reactions to nutritional yeast. See Dr. Greger's video on the topic. I have Crohn's disease and therefore avoid it.

[@stephsmemo]

can you have a pinch? like he says? Or does that bother you?

[@robeson1070]

@@stephsmemo So, if it's a listed ingredient I get GI inflammation, lots of burping is the first sign and you can guess the rest over the course of a day. When I got and tried straight Nooch I was doubled over in pain within a few hours. Other trigger ingredients I have noticed (or, at least, am fairly certain of) are onion and possibly excessive pea protein, but yeast is well confirmed at this point.

[@jolarplays]

@@robeson1070 same here, nutritional yeast absolutely destroys my Gi, it’s something you have to test out, not for everyone especially those with Candida, IBS, IBD. Gregor actually did a video over this on how nutritional yeast with candida is linked with irritable bowel disease and IBS.

[@kiaharper7172]

ohhhhh I hate that for you! I use it everyday

[@rashie]

👍👍

[@anthonyromano8565]

I was sprinkling that stuff on everything, pasta, rice, vegetables. I probably don't have cancer now.

[@lorah3005]

👍

[@ritabutler1951]

Interesting that it may boost the immune system. I too throw nooch in a variety of dishes. Maybe I better put a sprinkle on something every day. In these days of COVID anything to boost the immune system.

[@KJSvitko]

Can you get too much Vitamin b12 if you add brewers yeast to food every day ?

[@madlenj.4644]

Are you kidding? 100g! do only have 18 mg...do the conclusion

[@janetg1691]

It boggles my mind on why nutritional yeast is not given daily to all cancer patients.

[@madlenj.4644]

anthony williams is totally against it..but i don´t know if his opinion is valuable and right regarding nutritional yeast. Would be happy if Dr Greger consider this and give his opinion. unfortunately he never answers comments so..may be in a extra video or in a short? And does anybody else know?

[@lonnieelliott6160]

There again, God provides simple remedies! Thank you for this video. The world needs information like this now as never before!

[@larryc1616]

It's not god but smart and educated scientists and doctors.

[@tuna9919]

Its the beer industry

[@dionysusnow]

Would that be Demeter or Dionysys?

[@G-rig6969]

God has nothing to do with it.

[@ginodumitru2529]

Do you have any testimony from one person at least who cure cancer with out doing chemotherapy and using just Nutritional yeast? Study after study but nothing realistic on those days

[@tnijoo5109]

Great question.

[@anaxa4883]

Nutritional yeast gives me acne on my neck and shoulders for some reason, so I stopped eating it.

[@tnijoo5109]

I wonder if it has Vitamin B12 in it. The fortified ones do. Sometimes vitamin B12 gives you acne. It’s better to get a natural organic nutritional yeast and take B12 separately. That’s my guess. I’m curious to know what caused it.

[@anaxa4883]

@@tnijoo5109 It was the Frontier Co-op nutritional yeast. Not fortified and no b12 in the ingredients or nutrition facts label. I have been 100% low-fat vegan for 10 years. I usually eat no more than 3-4 ingredients throughout any given day. It was very easy to narrow it down to the nutritional yeast.

[@tnijoo5109]

@@anaxa4883 thanks for replying! That’s really interesting. I really wonder what is in the yeast that causes acne. I hope someone reads these comments and has an answer!

[@anaxa4883]

@@tnijoo5109 My only guess is the Niacin flush caused by eating nutritional yeast dilates the pores and causes excess oil on the skin. Or toxic chemicals used to make nutritional yeast that they don't tell the public about.

[@tnijoo5109]

@@anaxa4883 oh interesting!! I wonder if that’s it!

[@misterx3188]

15 mg sounds ridiculous. I don't believe it.

[@tnijoo5109]

Yeah. Especially if he couldn’t find the study anywhere. I’m surprised he included that one.

[@misterx3188]

@@tnijoo5109 Nooch is still good. I'll eat it.

[@tnijoo5109]

@@misterx3188 true that. Same.

[@MrTugwit]

Beta glucan aside, what's wrong with placebo? There's apparently quite a bit of research showing positive effects of placebo. And that doesn't include the placebo-controlled trials. Does "not better than placebo" speak ill of a drug, or good of placebo?

[@tnijoo5109]

Hahaha. Very good point. Comparison to only a placebo is completely outdated. We need to know also the effects of doing nothing.

[@MartinMartinX]

PLEAS ! - talk again about new research in uterine fibroids ! Last video is 4 years old. Around 80% of women after 40 have them :/ Make new video pleas.

[@lawrenceforsley3411]

First one🤪