469: What to Eat to Starve Cancer & Heal the Body | Dr. William Li
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/drwilliamli469
Dr. William Li (IG: @drwilliamli) is a physician, scientist, president & medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation, and author of Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.
Our conversation explains how to integrate the foods you already love to fight cancer, autoimmune disease, and other debilitating conditions.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What is angiogenesis + why is it important?
- We all get microscopic cancers forming in our bodies
- Food is medicine
- Eating dietary fiber during immunotherapy improves cancer survival rate
- How to build a healthy gut microbiome
- Grand slammer foods that activate all 5 health defense systems
- Consuming lycopene from tomatoes is anti-angiogenic
- Dr. Li focuses on foods that have shown human benefits through science
- Soy does not cause breast cancer + why it’s actually beneficial
- Men shouldn't fear soy
- Foods that stimulate regeneration through stem cells
- Stem cell therapy is still being refined
- Specific foods that kill cancer stem cells
- Foods that lower inflammation
- Whole foods first + when supplements may be helpful
- Choosing from 200+ foods that activate your health defenses
- Dr. Li’s motto is “love your food to love your health”
- Specific foods that boost immunity
- What are telomeres + foods that slow down cellular aging
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Dr. William Li - Eat to Beat Disease (book)
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Listen to Dr. William Li previously on TUHP (episode #316)
Eat to Beat Disease Online Course
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast, |
| 0:02.4 | foods as medicine is really a metaphor that unlike medicines that we only give to people when they're sick, |
| 0:11.2 | foods are a kind of medicine that we can take all day long when we're healthy and in fact they |
| 0:15.5 | help us stay healthy. They're the medicines we take when we don't so that we don't need a prescription medicine. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast episode 469. I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take |
| 0:32.8 | your health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and |
| 0:37.2 | wellness leaders from around the world. This week Dr. William Lee is back on the show. Dr. Lee |
| 0:42.3 | is a physician, scientist, president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation |
| 0:47.7 | and author of Eat to Beat disease. The new science of how your body can heal itself. |
| 0:52.6 | Our conversation explains how to integrate the foods you already love to fight cancer, |
| 0:57.2 | autoimmune diseases and other debilitating conditions. Highlights include specific foods that kill |
| 1:03.2 | cancer stem cells, foods that lower inflammation, whole foods first plus when supplements may be |
| 1:09.5 | helpful, specific foods that boost immunity, and what are telomeres and foods that slow down cellular |
| 1:16.5 | aging. As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen, this full interview is available over on |
| 1:21.1 | YouTube. You can get there by going to ultimatehealthpodcast.com slash YouTube. Be sure and subscribe |
| 1:26.5 | while you're there so you don't miss any of the action. If when you get to the end of this |
| 1:29.8 | conversation, you take a lot of way, you leave it feeling inspired. The best thing you can do to |
| 1:34.6 | help this show continue to grow and share it with somebody in your life and help them along their |
| 1:38.4 | health journey. Thank you ahead of time. Without further ado, here we go with Dr. William Lee. Dr. |
| 1:44.7 | Lee, the great thing about your book and the information you spread is that when we're talking about |
| 1:49.6 | foods and these foods that we can implement to fight or prevent disease, there's no wallet for |
| 1:56.0 | people. They can implement what they're going to learn today right away, which is just awesome. |
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