524: The Top Foods to Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism & Live Longer | Dr. William Li
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/524drwilliamli
Dr. William Li (IG: @drwilliamli) is an internationally renowned physician, scientist and author of the New York Times bestseller “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.”
His groundbreaking work has led to the development of more than 30 new medical treatments and impacts care for more than 70 diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease and obesity.
Dr. Li's TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views.
His newest book, “Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer” will be released on March 21st.
Today, you’re going to learn all about specific foods that will help you lose weight, starting today!
In this episode, we discuss:
- The new science of metabolism
- Chili peppers activate brown fat
- Three hormones that are important for metabolism
- Foods that stimulate stem cells in body fat
- Brown fat is loaded with mitochondria
- Eat to Beat Your Diet is an anti-diet book
- The dangers of visceral fat
- Snoring could be a sign that you’re carrying around too much visceral fat
- The anti-angiogenic approach to burning body fat
- A healthy gut microbiome helps lower inflammation
- The best foods & drinks to help repair your gut microbiome
- The role of short-chain fatty acids in metabolism and weight loss
- Lactobacillus reuteri boosts your immune system
- Dietary sources of lactobacillus reuteri
- What is the omentum?
- A healthy metabolism leads to a longer life
- How to slow down aging
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Dr. William Li - Eat to Beat Disease (book)
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast. There's a path forward. Our operating system for our |
| 0:05.5 | metabolism is already hardwired into us. And if we actually just start tweaking it and respecting |
| 0:10.6 | what our body is capable of doing, maybe we can actually achieve these goals. We can achieve these |
| 0:15.8 | goals. You know, higher metabolism, less body fat, elevated health, without having to resort to |
| 0:22.8 | these extreme diets, which is why, by the way, I put in my book title, Eat to Beat Your Diet. It's |
| 0:28.4 | not a diet book. That's a trick title. It's actually an anti-diet book to show how our hard |
| 0:33.2 | wiring allows us to achieve health goals without having to go on a diet. |
| 0:42.1 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast episode 524. I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take |
| 0:47.9 | your health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health |
| 0:52.3 | and wellness leaders from around the world. This week I'm chatting with Dr. William Lee. Dr. Lee |
| 0:57.2 | is an internationally renowned physician, scientist, and author of the New York Times Specialist |
| 1:02.6 | Eat to Beat disease. The new science of how your body can heal itself. His groundbreaking work |
| 1:08.1 | has led to the development of more than 30 new medical treatments and impacts care for more than |
| 1:13.4 | 70 diseases, including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. His TED Talk |
| 1:20.6 | can we eat to starve cancer has garnered more than 11 million views. His newest book Eat to Beat |
| 1:26.4 | Your Diet. Burn fat, heal your metabolism and live longer, will be released on March 21st. |
| 1:32.6 | Today you're going to learn all about specific foods that will help you lose weight starting |
| 1:36.8 | today. Highlights of our conversation include the new science of metabolism. Chili peppers |
| 1:42.6 | activate brown fat, which is actually healthy fat. Snoring could be a sign that you're |
| 1:47.6 | caring around too much visceral fat, which is really unhealthy fat. And what is the momentum? |
| 1:53.0 | As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen, this full interviews available over on YouTube, |
| 1:58.0 | you can get there by going to UltimateHealthPodcast.com slash YouTube. Be sure and subscribe while |
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