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The Ultimate Health Podcast

534: Food as Medicine: Eat This to Heal the Body, Burn Fat & Starve Cancer! | Dr. William Li

The Ultimate Health Podcast

Jesse Chappus

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4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 345 minutes

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Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/534drwilliamli

Today you’re getting a deep dive with Dr. William Li (IG: @drwilliamli)!

Dr. Li 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 more than 11 million views.

His latest book is “Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer.”

Today you’ll learn how to melt fat, heal the body, fix your metabolism and starve cancer by adding specific foods into your healthy diet. We also discuss foods you'll want to avoid to optimize your health.

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Listen or watch Dr. William Li previously on TUHP (#316, #469, #506, #524, and #527)

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Use This Secret Method to Lose Weight for Good | Liz Josefsberg (#511)

Everything You’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong! | Tim Spector (#508)

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0:00.0

coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast.

0:02.4

So what I'm telling you is that 60 can be the new 20 if you follow your metabolism and it's

0:08.6

the problem of excess body fat that actually shuts down, sits on top of our metabolism.

0:14.8

So it's not that a slow metabolism causes us to grow body fat and gain weight.

0:19.6

It's the other way around.

0:21.2

Excess body fat actually suppresses our metabolism and that means the power is actually in our hands

0:28.1

to do something about it.

0:35.2

Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 534.

0:39.3

I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take your health to the next level.

0:43.0

Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the

0:47.2

world. Today you're going to get a deep dive with Dr. William Lee. Dr. Lee is an internationally

0:52.6

renowned physician, scientist and author of the New York Times Specialist Eat to Beat

0:57.5

Disease, the new science of how your body can heal itself. His groundbreaking work has led to

1:02.8

the development of more than 30 new medical treatments and impacts care for more than 70 diseases,

1:08.6

including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity.

1:13.9

Dr. Lee's TED Talk Can We Eat To Starve Cancer has more than 11 million views.

1:19.2

His latest book is Eat to Beat Your Diet, Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer.

1:25.1

Today you're going to learn how to melt fat, heal your body, fix your metabolism,

1:29.2

and starve cancer by adding specific foods into your healthy diet.

1:33.6

We also get into things from the other way around. Foods are going to want to avoid,

1:37.8

to optimize their health. As always, if you're somebody who prefers to watch versus listen,

1:43.0

this full episode is available over on YouTube. You can get there by going to

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