#56 Food as Medicine with Dr William Li
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is the truly inspirational Dr William W. Li, MD. 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, has impacted more than 50 million people worldwide, and covers more than 70 diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. His TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views. Dr. Li has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, CNN, and CNBC and has been featured in USA Today, TIME, The Atlantic, and O Magazine. Dr. Li is President and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation.
We talk about a range of topics from his latest book including the 5 defence systems of the body:
Your Microbes, stems cells, immune system , angiogenesis, your genes and how nutrition and lifestyle can positively influence them. As a food as medicine pioneer who started these conversations way before I even thought of The Doctor’s Kitchen, Dr Li has been a true inspiration of mine.
On this episode we talk about
- The microbiota, how certain foods can improve your body’s ability to regulate sugar
- What stem cells are and the different types of foods that can help promote regeneration
- The difference between pro and anti-angiogenesis and why both are helpful and harmful depending on the circumstance and how food can positively help with both.
- The benefits of food for the immune system support
- The utility of combining epidemiology, lab studies and human trials to determine which foods we should consume.
- The future of food prescriptions and how medicine could look in 10-15 years time
- The impact of food to positively impact the efficacy of medicine in the field of cancer, cardiology and neurology.
And definitely go and check out Dr William Li's book - 'Eat to Beat Disease - The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself' - it's a fascinating book and most certainly well worth a read.
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| 0:00.0 | What is the most important thing that you can do to get a doctor? |
| 0:06.0 | Precisely. That's exactly what I think the medical community needs to begin |
| 0:12.0 | uniting is to figure out how our diets and how food becomes a tool in the toolbox, |
| 0:19.0 | so that we don't become solely reliant on medications, surgery, and other |
| 0:26.0 | more traditional procedures, and we have a more truly patient-centered approach |
| 0:32.0 | that is more comprehensive. And I also believe very strongly that health care |
| 0:39.0 | is actually what happens to a patient between the visits that they have to a doctor's |
| 0:46.0 | office or a hospital. And so how do we address and amplify our understanding? |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi and this is the Doctor's Kitchen podcast, the show about food, |
| 0:58.0 | medicine, lifestyle, and how to improve your health today. And today I have |
| 1:04.0 | the pleasure of introducing Dr. William Lee, his internationally renowned |
| 1:09.0 | physician, scientist, and author of the New York Times Best Seller Eat To Beat |
| 1:14.0 | Disease. His groundbreaking work has led to the development of more than |
| 1:18.0 | 13 new medical drugs and has impacted more than 50 million people worldwide, |
| 1:24.0 | and covers more than 70 different diseases, including cancer, diabetes, |
| 1:28.0 | blindness, heart disease. And really he is one of the true pioneers of this |
| 1:33.0 | food as medicine movement that started way before I even started thinking about |
| 1:38.0 | the Doctor's Kitchen. And we talk a little bit about the star about how he, |
| 1:43.0 | along with my mum and a few other pioneers in this field, |
| 1:47.0 | were really the inspirations behind me even looking at the research. And his |
| 1:52.0 | talk, can we eat to staff cancer, which is on Ted, inside over 11 million views |
| 1:58.0 | and counting has appeared on a number of different new stations, CNN, CNBCs, |
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