#235 Alcohol, Coffee, Lectins, Organic food and Cooking Oils with Dr William Li MD
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Dr William Li, New York Times Bestselling author of Eat to Beat your Diet and Eat to Beat Disease, is back on the podcast today talking about everything to do with food as medicine.
We discuss a huge amount today, across a range of subjects including:
- Warning signs that people have too much sugar, refined carbohydrates in their diet
- Alcohol and whether there is any amount that is healthy in the diet
- Coffee and whether we should be drinking alternative sources of polyphenols
- Williams thoughts on the lectin debate and whether we should be avoiding high lectin foods
- Why and how food can burn specific types of fat
- Organic vs conventional produce
- Oils for cooking and the types of oils William prefers to use in his cooking and recipes
William W. Li, MD, is an internationally renowned physician and scientist. His research has led to the development of more than 30 new medical treatments that impact care for more than 70 diseases including diabetes, blindness, heart disease and obesity. He is also President and Medical Director of the Angiogenesis Foundation, and he is leading global initiatives on food as medicine.
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes Health Lifestyle. |
| 0:05.0 | You got your culinary mushrooms that you could cook with every day and enjoy them and eat. |
| 0:09.0 | Good sorts of dietary fiber, good for gut health, good for your metabolism. |
| 0:12.0 | Then there's, there are healing mushrooms. your metabolism, |
| 0:13.0 | then there's, there are healing mushrooms, |
| 0:15.4 | medicinal mushrooms. |
| 0:17.4 | Take a look, if you're gonna do your research on these, |
| 0:19.7 | take a look at their traditional medicinal uses. |
| 0:23.6 | You know, where they used for illnesses |
| 0:26.6 | that were characterized by hot versus cold, |
| 0:29.6 | you know, the Asian way of thinking about it. |
| 0:31.2 | Look at their uses in Ayurvedic medicine. They were not used on a daily basis to be |
| 0:36.4 | ground up in your pepper mill to actually put into your coffee or sprinkle on your |
| 0:45.0 | medicine cabinet, |
| 0:49.0 | medicine. By the way, you would not go into your medicine cabinet, |
| 0:50.0 | okay, and take a puddle of pills and open them up |
| 0:52.0 | and put them in a spice grinder and |
| 0:54.4 | sprinkle them on your on your salad either. So I would say be careful. |
| 1:02.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen Podcast, the show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, |
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