A Doctor’s Anti-Diet Guide To Healthy Fat Levels + Honest Thoughts On Ozempic, Calorie Deficits, High-Protein Diets, & More With Dr. William Li

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Li shares the latest research on weight loss, the important distinction between white and brown fat, anti-inflammatory daily practice recommendations, healthy shopping tips, & so much more. the science behind why health and body size aren’t correlated the 4 reasons why body fat is so important to our health the best way to know if you have an optimal amount of fat the difference between white and brown fat + Dr. Li’s top tips for increasing brown fat (which benefits our metabolism to have more of!) Dr. Li’s top 3 tips for lowering inflammation levels the hidden cause of inflammation we all need to be aware of 3 foods you should incorporate into your diet for ideal metabolic health whether there’s any validity to “calories in, calories out” or counting calories Dr. Li’s opinion on Ozempic & other weight loss drugs and so much more! For more from Dr. Li, check out his new book Eat To Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer and head to his website www.drwilliamli.com. And listen to more of Dr. Li’s advice on his previous Healthier Together episodes: What To Eat For Longevity, Inflammation, Cancer Prevention, Alzheimer’s, Diabetes, & More with Dr. William Li and The Health Effects of Alcohol: Gut Health & Cancer with Dr. Robynne Chutkan & Dr. William Li. To join the Healthier Together Podcast Club Facebook group, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthiertogetherpodcast. This episode is sponsored by: Paleovalley: go to paleovalley.com/lizmoody for 15% off your order. Seed: go to seed.com/lizmoody and use code LIZMOODY for 25% off your first month. Reliefband: go to reliefband.com and use code HEALTHIER for 20% off plus free shipping. Ness: head to nesswell.com/liz for an extra 5,000 points when you apply for the Ness Card today. Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Healthier Together podcast.
0:05.0	I'm your host, Liz Moody, and I'm a best-selling author and long-time journalist.
0:09.0	This podcast is all about helping you live your healthiest, happiest life, whether we're
0:12.3	learning hacks for regulating our circadian rhythms, getting tips for how to invest our
0:16.3	money, or uncovering the latest research on managing anxiety.
0:20.8	And yes, those are all real episodes of any of those topics I'm good to, scroll on back
0:25.1	in the archives.
0:26.6	Today, I am so excited to welcome a repeat guest back to the podcast, Dr. William Lee.
0:32.6	Dr. Lee is an internationally renowned Harvard-trained medical doctor, researcher, and president
0:37.7	of the Angiogenesis Foundation.
0:40.1	His groundbreaking work has impacted more than 70 diseases, including cancers, diabetes,
0:45.5	blindness, and heart disease, and his TED Talk, can we eat to starve cancer, has been
0:49.8	viewed more than 11 million times.
0:52.8	His newest book, Eat to Beat Your Diet, is now available wherever books are sold.
0:58.3	This is an episode about fat, but it's really different than you often hear in the media.
1:03.7	One of my biggest takeaways for this episode is that fat is far less about our appearance
1:07.9	because as we get into in the conversation, the way that your body looks actually has little
1:11.9	to do with you having healthy fat levels, and also as I've always said, your body is
1:15.9	for living, not looking, and thinking about it more in the same way that you would think
1:20.3	about your hormones or your inflammation levels or your microbiome, all of which fat is
1:24.7	very, very connected to.
1:27.0	Dr. Lee gets into why our goal shouldn't be losing fat to look a certain way, but rather
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