I am at a conference about cancer. The people can, for the most part, be put into one of the following groups: speakers, health care professionals, cancer patients, or exhibitors. Many belong to more than one group, but they belong more to one group than the others. The tone is mostly up-beat, sometimes down, and at times just uncomfortable.  It’s somewhat easy to determine who belongs to which group.

The speakers are the most well dressed and have an entourage. Everyone gathers around them and asks questions including permission to have their picture taken with them as if they are famous because they belong to some well known cancer organization or cancer treatment center.

The doctors are busy and move from one place to another asking a few questions, getting their answers, and moving on. They seem to know the answer before they ask the question, but they ask anyway, as if to find ut if their answer is the same as that of the person they question. If it is not, it doesn’t seem to matter, because they feel they already have the best answer.

The exhibitors are over zealous while educating and/or spewing out their scripted pitches. And then there’s the patients. Some are “survivors”, some are just surviving, and some are confused and without a hope other than the hope to find something to put their hope in. The are looking for something to add to their regimen of cancer arsenal.

The exhibitors are the most entertaining. It seems most of them have “the cure” for cancer. They tell of there testimonies with a sincere belief that all everybody must have to beat this awful illness is a subscription to their super juice. I like the fact that most of these “cure all” vendors are selling phytonutrient based supplements; that is, that they come from fruits and vegetables. There is really no dispute that phytonutrients protect against cancer and can be tremendously beneficial in beating cancer. Every reputable doctor treating cancer will at the least tell his patients to eat less sugar and more servings of fruits and vegetables. But to proclaim that theirs is the best and that everyone with cancer should take the magic bullets they sell is just over the top and probably at the least breaks a few laws that are there to protect consumers. I also found it interesting that most “cancer cures” were multi-level marketed and most of the people selling them did not having any form of health care professional licenses.

Don’t get me wrong, this does not mean that I believe their products are without merit. It’s hard to find a phytonutrient formula without merit.  But there are certainly quality differences in the hundreds of various formulas.  Things I like to consider are when evaluating a phytonutrient supplement are:

1. Ingredients
2. Spectrum of Nutrients represented
3. Concentration of the Serving
4. Potency Based on Independent Lab Tests
There are other factors that I consider that may play a role in the evaluation of a product but are less important to me. They include taste, texture, ease of use (does it mix easily), and cost.  But from a health perspective, the bullet points above influences my evaluations of phytonutrient formulas the most. I’ll explore each of these points in greater detail another time. Check back to see when they are linked to greater details.

The cancer patients could also be separated into groups.  They had either beaten the disease and are maintaining their health, they are winning the battle, or they are losing the battle.  Those who won or are winning had healthy complexions and a certain peace about them. They were excited about the organic meals being served and regularly enjoyed diets that included lots of servings of fruits and vegetables and natural organic foods. As they went around taste testing many of the vendors phytoutrient formulas, they enjoyed their natural sugar free flavors with a smile and appreciation.  By the look on their faces, you would think they were eating healthy ice cream.  They seemed to be enjoying their lives with a perspective that most would be jealous of.

But those losing their battles did not have peace. They were usually over weight and had sickly complexions.  And oddly, it seemed they did not enjoy the smorgasbord of fruit and vegetable flavors. As they tasted the phytonutrient formulas, they often frowned resembling an infant biting into a lemon for the first time. They then say something like “ewwww, I could never eat this”  They would sometimes justify their position saying something like “besides, I already have enough things to take” as they shake their pill bottles latching on to them as if they held the keys to the kingdom. I discussed this with some of the vendors. They immediately agreed saying “I knowwwwwwwww… makes you wonder why they still have cancer”.  The thought being that maybe their diets are largely responsible for their conditions and that they aren’t consuming the healthy foods they need because of flavor.

If you are a cancer patient reading this and are offended reading this, you are probably in the last group! (and I just offended you more)  I am not suggesting you throw out your pill bottles and only eat vegetables, drink barley juice, and consume fruit and vegetable juice concentrations and powders the rest of your life. But I do suggest you truly evaluate your motivations and consider whether your taste preferences are sending bad signals and leading you to a premature end.  I do not believe that eating right is a guarantee to winning the battle or even to just prevent cancer. However, all the people with cancer that I know got there while eating lousy diets.  And all the people I know that beat the illness did it while simultaneously increasing their phytonutrient consumption tremendously. Some did it with their chemotherapies and some did it without. But I don’t know any to have done it apart from significant dietary changes.

In my home, we give our kids NanoGreens10 as soon as we start to introduce calories other than milk.  Before that, they get their nutrients from the greens through mothers milk.  But a couple weeks ago, we started feeding our youngest child non-milk calories and included NanoGreens10.  She was about 7 1/2 months of age.  She sips it through a straw.  We taught her to drink water at first through a coffee stir straw.  Once she learned to swallow and not inhale, we switched her to the greens.  Now she is used to a more normal size straw.  She can suck a whole meal and nanogreens through a straw in about a minute!  This makes feeding quick and cleanup minimal.

As far as how much to give them… I consider their body weight.  An adult serving is 12 grams.  For easy math, lets consider an adult to be 120 lbs.  That comes to about 1 gram of greens for every 10 lbs.  So my 7 year old gets about 1/2 scoop (6 grams) for his 58 lbs of lean mass.  My 4 year old gets 1/3 scoop (4 grams) for his 38 lbs of athleticism.  My 2 year old gets about 1/4 scoop (3 grams) for his nearly 30 lbs.  of cute muffins.  And my infant gets to share some with mom and dad… because if we don’t share she gets all pouty!

So that’s it.  Check the videos tab for a YouTube video showing her ‘Miss give me mine moment’ for my greens!

-Dr. Michael Haley

Fruits
Acerola Cherry
Apple
Bilberry
Blackberry
Blueberry
Cranberry
Elderberry
Lemon
Lemon Peel
Mango
Peach
Pomegranate
Raspberry
Tart Cherry

Vegetables
Beet
Broccoli
Brussels Sprout
Cabbage (Japanese, fermented)
Carrot
Kale
Leek
Spinach
Sweet Potato
Tomato

Grasses
Barley Grass Juice Powder
Quinoa Sprout

Grains
Oat Beta Glucan
Rice Bran Soluble

Algaes
Atlantic Kelp (Laminaria Digitata)
Spirulina
Chlorella (Japanese soft shell)
Dunaliella salina (natural Carotenoids)

Herbs
Aloe Vera Whole Leaf
Artichoke Extract
Cinnamon Blend
Cinnamon Extract
Cinnamon Bark Powder
Grape Seed Extract
Green Tea – decaffeinated
Green Tea Extract
Isoquercitin/Rutin 50/50
Marigold
Milk Thistle
Parsley
Pine Bark Extract
Polygonum Cuspidatum
Raspberry Extract
Stevia
White Tea – decaffeinated

Plant Based Enzymes
Alpha Amylase
Bromelain
Cellulase
Galactosidase
Glucoamylase
Hemicellulase
Lipase
Papain
Protease

Other
Lecithin (non GMO)
Plant -based natural flavors
Phospholipids
Lipid Esters
Citric Acid

Superfood Solution

NanoGreens 10, NanoPro PRP, and NanOmega 3 together make the “Superfood Solution”.  Today’s diets are plagued with diminishing nutrient calories.  The soils are depleted, the air and water is polluted, and all foods are affected.  Food grown today can not match the quality of food grown just a couple hundred hundred years ago.  Super foods like NanoGreens, NanoPro, and NanOmega are concentrated foods sources with as much of the empty calories removed.  NanoGreens10 has the antioxidant power from plants equal to more than 10 servings of fruits and vegetables.  NanoPro PRP is a whey protein  base with colostrum and proline rich polypeptides.  NanOmega 3 is your vegan source of omega 3 fatty acids including DHA.  Together, these provide a very complete and nutrient dense meal replacement or “superfood solution”.

NanoGreens10

NanoGreens10 is a combination of more than 40 of the planets best plant foods. It includes fruits, vegetables, tea leaves, barley grass juice, and even algae. It is a full spectrum phytonutrient source. That is, the full spectrum of plant colors is well represented; an indication of the variety of phytonutrients in the mix. At only 50 calories and an ORAC score around 8,000, it is a world class phytonutrient formula.

NanoPro PRP

Colostrum is mother natures way of giving a new born a jump start in life. It is the most concentrated zoonutrient food on the planet. Colostrum is jam packed with immune factors, growth factors, and proline rich polypeptides that are vital in the early days of life. This same superfood has also been shown to have health benefits throughout the lifespan. Immune factors are just that, beneficial to our immune system. Growth factors are beneficial for tissue repair and regeneration. PRP’s are also known as “info peptides” and “immune modulators”. They are responsible for normal development of immunologic function. They have anti viral, anti allergy, and anti inflammatory benefits.

NanOmega 3

Most Americans have grown up on processed foods high in omega 6 poly unsatuated fatty acids. These omega 6 fatty acids are used in our body’s inflammatory system. The natural balance to omega 6’s is Omega 3 PUFA’s. A healthy omega 6 to omega 3 ratio is about 2 to1. It is estimated that the average American diet has a ratio of 18 to 1. This problem can be balance by better food choices and supplementation with omega 3’s. Fish oil has been used for the past several years as a source of omega 3 PUFA’s. NanOmega 3 is a tasty vegan source of these omega 3 PUFA’s.