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There are antiangiogenic treatments that are FDA approved, and if you're a cancer patient, or working for one or advocating for one, you should ask about them.

We call this antiangiogenic therapy, and it's completely different from chemotherapy, because it selectively aims at the blood vessels that are feeding the cancers.

And the bottom curve is the weight of a normal mouse.

So I went back to the biology of angiogenesis, and started thinking

And you can see that the halo of blood flow disappears after treatment.

Stop the treatment, it gains the weight back.

But starting in 2004, when antiangiogenic therapies first became available, you can see that there has been a 70 to 100 percent improvement in survival for people with kidney cancer, multiple myeloma, colorectal cancer, and gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

Imagine if we could create the world's first rating system, in which we could score foods according to their antiangiogenic, cancer preventative properties.

And in these situations, angiogenesis is out of balance.

Get a trauma surgeon and a vascular surgeon.

His veterinarian only gave him three months to live.

In other words, we can't create supermodel mice.

We've got to be able to make the rapid diagnostics quickly.

In effect, when we give cancer patients antiangiogenic therapy here, an experimental drug for a glioma, which is a type of brain tumor you can see that there are dramatic changes that occur when the tumor is being starved.

Therefore, when a tumor comes into skeletal muscle tissue, it can't get a blood supply, and can't grow.

So the body has the ability to regulate the amount of blood vessels that are present at any given time.

What about other structures?

It had already spread to his lymph nodes, so we used an antiangiogenic skin cream for the lip, and the oral cocktail, so we could treat from the inside as well as the outside.

There's a new gene technology...

And this turns out to be one of our most important defense mechanisms against cancer.

This inhibits abnormal angiogenesis, by 60 percent.

Here's a woman with a breast cancer, being treated with the antiangiogenic drug called Avastin, which is FDA approved.

And this realization is allowing us to re conceptualize the way that we actually approach these diseases, by controlling angiogenesis.

And when angiogenesis is out of balance, a myriad of diseases result.

The active ingredient is resveratrol, it's also found in red wine.

Now, I've shown you a bunch of lab data, and so the real question is

And we're now studying the role of a healthy diet with Dean Ornish at UCSF and Tufts University the role of this healthy diet on markers of angiogenesis that we can find in the bloodstream.

And we can then tubularize this scaffold.

legs without circulation, death from stroke, nerve damage.

Bureaucratic problems.

Because it turns out that adipose tissue fat is highly angiogenesis dependent.

Fresh blood.

In the last decade there's been an explosion of use of bone marrow stem cells to treat the patient's other diseases such as heart disease, vascular disease, orthopedics, tissue engineering, even in neurology to treat Parkinson's and diabetes.

So this suggests that maybe if there is an anti angiogenic factor in skeletal muscle or perhaps even more, an angiogenic routing factor, so it can actually direct where the blood vessels grow this could be a potential future therapy for cancer.

Blood flows through blood vessels.

It's gonna be going initially through a giant vessel.

And the capsules in her blood stream.

In fact, if you actually block angiogenesis and prevent blood vessels from ever reaching cancer cells, tumors simply can't grow up.

What could we be adding to our diet that's naturally antiangiogenic, and that could boost the body's defense system, and beat back those blood vessels that are feeding cancers?

But what we now know, is that for a number of diseases, there are defects in the system, where the body can't prune back extra blood vessels, or can't grow enough new ones in the right place at the right time.

If you'll recall, prior to that time, no matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.

Now, we know that tomatoes are a good source of lycopene, and lycopene is antiangiogenic.

Blood runs in the veins.

P.T. said they couldn't handle the antibiotics, so the chief put him back on your service.