Dr. William Li, a physician and author who explores the intersection of food and health, shares groundbreaking insights on how nutrition can combat cancer. He explains the difference between eating for health versus eating to beat disease. Listeners will learn about the five defense systems for optimal health and the role of gut health in cancer survival. Dr. Li also tackles the debates around dairy and soy, offering evidence-based perspectives. Plus, discover essential foods and habits that can empower your health journey!
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Phytochemicals vs. Drugs
Certain phytochemicals outperform drugs on the same biological pathways.
Dr. William Li's research revealed this by testing food extracts alongside pharmaceuticals.
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Reversing Diseases with Diet
Dr. Hyman's patient reversed diabetes, heart failure, kidney disease, and obesity with diet.
This demonstrates the power of food as medicine, even in severe cases.
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Essential Beverages
Prioritize water, coffee, and tea for hydration and health benefits.
These beverages contain beneficial bioactives like polyphenols.
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In 'Eat to Beat Disease,' Dr. William Li presents a groundbreaking approach to health by highlighting the role of over 200 health-boosting foods in activating the body's natural defense systems. The book explains how these foods can support the body's five health defense systems: Angiogenesis, Regeneration, Microbiome, DNA Protection, and Immunity. It provides strategies for using food to transform health and prevent diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, and autoimmune diseases. Unlike traditional diet books, 'Eat to Beat Disease' focuses on adding healing foods to your meals rather than avoiding certain foods, making it a practical and life-changing guide to better health.
Young Forever
The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life
Mark Hyman
In *Young Forever*, Dr. Mark Hyman challenges readers to reimagine their biology, health, and the process of aging. The book explores the biological hallmarks of aging, their causes, and their consequences, and provides simple dietary, lifestyle, and emerging longevity strategies to overcome them. It covers topics such as turning on longevity switches, reducing inflammation, supporting the immune system, exercising, sleeping, and de-stressing for healthy aging, and features Dr. Hyman's Pegan Diet. The book aims to help readers increase their health span, prevent and reverse diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and dementia, and live a longer, healthier life.
Eat to Beat Your Diet
Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer
William Li
In 'Eat to Beat Your Diet', Dr. William Li introduces the new science of weight loss, revealing how healthy body fat can aid in weight loss, how metabolism at 60 can be similar to that at 20, and the benefits of yo-yo dieting and 8-hour fasting windows. The book emphasizes adding the right foods to your diet to activate fat-burning systems, reduce unhealthy body fat, and improve overall health. It includes a four-week meal plan, easy food swaps, shopping tips, and over a month of recipes. Dr. Li blends the science of molecular nutrition with Mediterranean and Asian food ways to provide a practical roadmap for long-term health and weight management.
Each bite of food we eat has the potential to modulate our genetics and impact every cell of the body—don’t you want those levers to be moving in the right direction? Eating for health is one thing, but eating to beat disease is an even more intentional step toward prevention and longevity. I was so excited to sit down with internationally renowned physician, scientist, and author Dr. William Li to discuss how we can leverage food to optimize every system of the body.
We dig into:
How Dr. Li got interested in “Food As Medicine” while developing cancer treatments
Why eating to beat disease is not the same as eating for health
What food would Dr. Li bring with him if he was going to be stuck on an island?
One thing Dr. Li knows everyone needs to do better
Is dairy good or bad?
What’s the deal with soy?
The 5 defense systems to support optimal health and Dr. Li’s 5 x 5 x 5 plan
We talk about this and so much more. I know you’ll love this conversation as much as I did!
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