316: Dr. William Li - Is Your Diet Feeding Or Defeating Disease?
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Dr. William Li (IG: @drwilliamli) is a world-renowned physician, scientist, speaker, and author of Eat to Beat Disease – The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself. He is best known for leading the Angiogenesis Foundation.
Dr. Li's TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has been viewed more than 11 million times. He's an author of over 100 scientific publications in leading journals such as Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, and The Lancet.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The inspiration behind Dr. Li’s book “Eat to Beat Disease”
- Studying the Mediterranean Diet
- The 5 health defence systems
- The role of angiogenesis in cancer
- What is cancer?
- Helping prevent cancer by eating anti-angiogenic foods
- Drinking green tea to help prevent tumors
- Sources of omega-3 fatty acids
- Angiogenesis stimulating foods
- The process of regeneration
- Foods that stimulate stem cells
- Foods & lifestyle choices that injure stem cells
- Green tea vs. matcha green tea
- Foods that kill cancer stem cells
- Dr. Li's thoughts on stem cell injections
- Holobiont defined
- Balancing the microbiome
- Short chain fatty acids
- Oolong, black, and green teas improve gut bacteria
- Artificial sweeteners harm your microbiome
- Fiber is essential for your gut health
- Foods that protect telomeres
- Calm your immune system with vitamin C rich foods
- Immune boosting foods
- Exceptional foods
- How much should you eat?
- Dr. Li’s views on organic & non-GMO
- Don’t stress about food... enjoy what you eat
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| 0:00.0 | So there's no magic food, no magic pill, no super food out there. |
| 0:04.4 | We have the super body, and the foods that we feed it, actually, |
| 0:08.0 | our bodies will respond in ways that can help protect our health. Jesse Chap is here with Marnie Wasserman, and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:25.0 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:30.0 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, |
| 0:32.5 | fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:34.5 | And this week we are speaking with Dr. William Lee. |
| 0:37.5 | He's a world-renowned physician, scientist, speaker, |
| 0:40.5 | and author of Eat to Beat Disease, |
| 0:42.8 | the new science of how your body can heal itself. |
| 0:45.6 | He is best known for leading the Angiogenesis Foundation. |
| 0:49.0 | Dr. Lee's TED Talk, Can We Eat to Starve Cancer, |
| 0:51.8 | has been viewed more than 11 million times. |
| 0:54.7 | He's an author of over 100 scientific publications in leading journals such as Science, |
| 0:59.6 | the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Lancet. This is a super powerful episode showing the healing powers of food that you put into your body and how your body has the ability to heal itself. |
| 1:10.0 | And this is something that Jesse and I very much stand behind because we really believe in the power of good quality whole foods. |
| 1:18.0 | And this is definitely a great episode to share with colleagues, friends and family, so be sure to pass along this episode and so many |
| 1:26.2 | of our others. |
| 1:27.2 | So here's what we get into today. |
| 1:29.4 | The inspiration behind Dr. Lee's book, Eat To Beat Disease helping prevent cancer by eating anti-angiogenic foods, |
| 1:36.8 | foods that stimulates stem cells and foods and lifestyle choices that injure stem cells, |
| 1:41.9 | foods that protect your telomeres, immune boosting foods, |
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