“We can actually change the expression of genes—tumor suppressing genes, tumor activating genes—by what we eat, what we put into our bodies. So, even if you've been dealt a bad genetic deck, you can still reshuffle it with diet.”

Interview in the documentary-film What the Health by Kip Andersen (2017).

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American physician, author, and vegan health activist 1972

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