#191 Eat to Charge Your Metabolism and Burn Fat with Dr William Li
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
There is biochemical beauty hidden within the colors, shapes, and diversity of the fruits and vegetables that line our grocery aisles and I hope after listening to today's podcast you’ll be inspired to explore even more of them!
Dr. William Li is back on the podcast, you will have heard myself and William on previous episodes where we explored the world of food as medicine. By eating foods that you already enjoy, like tomatoes, blueberries, sourdough bread, and dark chocolate your body activates its five health defense systems to fight cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative autoimmune diseases, and other debilitating conditions.
In William’s latest book, Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. Li introduces the surprising new science of weight loss, revealing healthy body fat can help you lose weight.
Today we talk about:
- Reframing fat, and why fat is essential for life
- Fat’s role in insulation, hormone production, fuel and thermogenesis
- The mechanism of how the bioactives in foods improve metabolism
- The foods that help with these actions from fruits, vegetables, spices and more
- Plus William’s research led approach to food
Remember you can watch the podcast on YouTube if you want to see Dr Li’s show and tell, plus subscribe to the channel whilst you\re there!
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| 0:00.0 | Dukedis kitchen |
| 0:02.7 | Restorpees health lifestyle |
| 0:05.4 | Every meal in which I can make a choice of something that's gonna light up my taste buds |
| 0:10.7 | light up my health and |
| 0:12.4 | Give me joy as well. So for me |
| 0:14.6 | I tell people that it's time to get off the bandwagon of these, you know, weight loss drugs |
| 0:18.9 | And it's time to rediscover the joy of food and for people like you and me Ruby where we're doctors |
| 0:24.5 | We know the signs. We also know how to cook |
| 0:27.4 | It's really time to lean forward into your food and you can love your health and love your metabolism and love your food all at the exact same time |
| 0:37.1 | Welcome to the doctor's kitchen podcast |
| 0:42.1 | To show about food lifestyle medicine and how to improve your health today |
| 0:49.5 | I'm Dr. Rupi your host. I'm a medical doctor. I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle |
| 0:57.1 | as medicine |
| 1:00.6 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life |
| 1:14.3 | Dr. William Lee is back on the podcast this week and I'm gonna start this week's episode with an excerpt from the latest book |
| 1:20.9 | Eat to beat your diet |
| 1:23.0 | Long before pharmaceuticals existed home cooks in all the civilizations along the Silk Road used food as medicine |
| 1:30.7 | Rosemary olive oil and licorice were known in the Mediterranean to be helpful |
| 1:34.7 | The ancient playbook for medicine day materiomedica was written by the first century Greek physician |
| 1:41.2 | Deosgarides who included sage, fennel and camomile among his list of more than 200 plant-based remedies |
| 1:48.6 | Traditional Chinese medicine is also based on food in fact the way you say take your medicine in China is |
| 1:57.0 | Chi Yao literally eat your medicine |
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