235: How to Use Food As Medicine to Heal Your Body and Prevent Disease | William Li, MD

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Dr. William Li is President of The Angiogenesis Foundation, a world-renowned physician, research scientist currently studying the vascular impact of COVID-19, speaker (his TED Talk has over 11 million views), and NYT bestselling author of Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself. Full show notes: https://maxlugavere.com/podcast/235

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0:00.0	What up family, welcome to episode 235 of the Genius Life. Let's go.
0:18.0	What up everybody, how you doing? Hope all as well. My name is Max Lugovir, a filmmaker,
0:22.0	health and science journalist, an author of The New York Times best-selling book, Genius Foods,
0:25.1	The Genius Life, and my new cookbook, Genius Kitchen, is out now.
0:29.2	I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our choices, including what we eat,
0:32.8	and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel,
0:36.6	our health span, and risk for disease. This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state,
0:41.5	which I call living like a genius. Guys, on today's episode of the show, we welcome back Dr. William
0:48.4	Lee. Dr. Lee is a world-renowned physician, scientist, speaker, and author of Eat to Beat
0:55.0	Disease, the new science of how your body can heal itself. Dr. Lee is best known for leading the
1:00.8	Angiogenesis Foundation. His groundbreaking work has impacted more than 70 diseases, including
1:05.5	cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. His TED Talk, Can We Eat to Starve Cancer,
1:11.4	has garnered more than 11 million views, and he's appeared on Good Morning America, CNN,
1:16.0	MSNBC, NPR, and many more. Over the course of the next hour, we're going to talk about a topic that
1:22.7	both Dr. Lee and I are incredibly passionate about, and that is food as medicine. Is it truly
1:28.8	appropriate to liken food to medicine? And if so, how can we actually use food to heal the body?
1:35.3	Dr. Lee shares what he calls the five health defense systems, and how we can fortify these systems
1:40.1	to achieve and maintain optimal health. We also talk about the latest in cancer treatment,
1:45.3	including a therapy known as immunotherapy that Dr. Lee is super passionate about, and he's going
1:50.4	to detail what that's all about. We're going to talk about the gut microbiome, how to heal the gut,
1:55.5	the role that things like dietary fiber and probiotics play in gut health, and so much more.
2:01.4	I'm super excited for you guys to be here for this episode of the show. It is an illuminating one.
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