297: COVID, T-cells & vascular health: What you need to know today | William Li, M.D.

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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William Li, M.D.: “We can now begin to test people who didn't have access to COVID testing earlier on to see if the photograph of the coronavirus is there, and that nails whether or not you've been infected.” Li, an internationally renowned physician and vascular biologist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to really know if you've ever had COVID, plus: *The link between COVID and vascular health* *How to eat your way to better blood flow* *What we know about COVID long-haul symptoms today* *Why T-cell tests may be more accurate than antibody tests* *How to self-assess your circulation & enhance it* Referenced in the episode: - The Angiogenesis Foundation website. - Li's book, Eat To Beat Disease. - Study from Germany showing 70% of people recovered from COVID have evidence for long-term heart damage. - Study showing soy food consumption associated with decreased risk of death in breast cancer survivors. - Small study showing those who were vaccinated had improvement in more long COVID symptoms. - T-cell test designed by Adaptive Biotechnologies, T-detect. - Li's Eat To Beat Disease Course with code mindbodygreen for a discount. Don't forget to submit your questions for our special 300th episode of the mindbodygreen podcast. We want to hear from our smart, curious, passionate listeners: Visit mindbodygreen.com/300 to contribute to this special interview and be entered into a giveaway of one of our MBG classes. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:43.6	performance is not guaranteed. Dr. William Lee is an internationally renowned physician,
0:51.2	scientist and author of the New York Times bestseller Eat to Beat disease. The new science of
0:56.6	how your body can heal itself. His groundbreaking work has led to the development of more than 30
1:01.8	new medical treatments and impacts care for more than 70 diseases, including cancer, diabetes,
1:07.2	blindness, heart disease, and obesity. He's also president and medical director of the Angiogenesis
1:13.5	Foundation, where he's actively researching everything from COVID-19 and its impact on our
1:18.8	vascular health to our T cells, which I am obsessed with. Fasten your seat belts. This is an incredible
1:25.3	show. Dr. Lee, welcome. Thanks very much. It's a pleasure to be here. So it's so great to have you
1:35.3	here. And for all of our listeners, I got a time stamp this interview because the world is changing
1:41.9	pretty fast, specifically with COVID-19. So for everyone listening, we're talking at March 26th
1:48.5	at about 11 a.m. And so with that said, let's start with your work at the Angiogenesis Foundation
1:57.5	and specifically your focus on COVID-19 and the vascular system.
2:04.0	Yeah. Well, so first of all, I'm an internal medicine doctor and I'm also a research scientist.
2:09.2	I'm a vascular biologist. And together, that actually is what I use to run the Angiogenesis
2:15.9	Foundation. And I started in this field called Angiogenesis, which is a fancy word, angio,
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