Eat Your Way to Better PCOS: Dr. William Li's Food as Medicine Approach

The PCOS Podcast by A Cyster & Her Mister

PCOS Weight Loss

Health & Fitness:alternative Health, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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#278: Can the right foods help you take control of your PCOS symptoms? Dr. William W. Li, internationally renowned physician, scientist, and bestselling author of Eat to Beat Disease and Eat to Beat Your Diet, joins us to break down the science behind food as medicine for PCOS. Dr. Li has shaped medical treatments for diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and more, and today, he’s sharing how nutrition can transform metabolic health, balance hormones, and support fertility for women with PCOS. If you’re looking for a research-backed approach to using food as medicine for PCOS, this episode is for you! This episode is for you if:- You’ve struggled with insulin resistance & weight loss despite all the different diets you’ve tried- You want to learn the best foods to balance hormones & lower inflammation- You’re curious about what foods actually help with cravings, fertility, and long-term health Where to find our guest: website: https://drwilliamli.com/IG: https://www.instagram.com/drwilliamli/FB: https://www.facebook.com/drwilliamli/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drwilliamli Discover our new Berberine supplement here (https://ovafit.org/berberine-advanced/)! Download The Cysterhood App, the largest community of PCOS women learning to lose weight & reverse symptoms with daily meals & workouts designed for PCOS! What’s Your PCOS Type? - Take the quiz! Supplements for Women With PCOS (https://ovafit.org/metabolism-plus/) Berberine Advanced (https://ovafit.org/berberine-advanced/) Ovasitol: 15% OFF (https://ovafit.org/ovasitol/) Testosterone Relief Tea (https://ovafit.org/testosterone-relief-tea/) Tallene’s Fav PCOS friendly products (https://www.amazon.com/shop/pcos.weightloss?ref=ac_inf_tb_vh) CONNECT WITH US: Website (https://pcosweightloss.org/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/pcos.weightloss/) Tik Tok (https://www.tiktok.com/@pcos.weight.loss) Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/pcosweightloss/) While Tallene is a Registered Dietitian and Sirak a Personal Trainer, this podcast provides general information about PCOS. It is not meant to serve as fitness, nutrition or medical advice related to your individual needs. If you have questions, please talk to a medical professional. For our full privacy policy, please click on the following link: (bit.ly/PCOSPrivacyPolicy) Links included in this description may be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that we provide, we may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you! Thank you for supporting our channel so we can continue to provide you with free content each week!

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0:00.0	Insulin resistance, first for anybody watching or listening, the good news is that it's a reversible
0:05.3	situation, but you can reverse it. So that puts the power back into your own hands, as opposed to
0:10.5	saying, well, I don't know, I've got to let my doctor deal with it. Insular resistance is something
0:14.7	that our gut plays a huge role in keeping our tissues sensitive to insulin so that it can draw our muscles
0:23.6	and tissues can draw in blood sugar effectively from our bloodstream.
0:28.3	Doctor said you got peace, see a wish, now go on, girls, just lose some way
0:34.3	till I took the symptoms into my own hands and reversed them naturally?
0:40.3	So I became a dietitian and helped my sisters feel the best they've ever felt.
0:48.3	Take a step in my direction if you want to prove them wrong and take control of yourself join her sister and a mister
1:01.4	Thank you so much for joining us, Dr. Lee. It's such a pleasure to have you on the podcast.
1:06.8	It's a pleasure to be invited. Thank you. Of course. Of course. We've been watching all your videos and content and everywhere that you've been from CNN to Good Morning America.
1:16.4	It's an honor to have you on our podcast after all those special guests.
1:21.0	Well, it's a pleasure to be here.
1:22.2	And you guys cover a very, very important and complicated topic.
1:25.8	So I'm happy to weigh in.
1:28.1	Oh, absolutely. And it's really great to have a doctor like yourself on this podcast because
1:32.1	we always talk about, you know, finding the right doctor for women with PCS and finding a doctor
1:37.1	who can approach PCS, not just with only medicine, but also putting diet and nutrition into
1:42.6	perspective. Could you explain how food plays a role with a condition like PCOS, especially when it comes
1:49.2	to insulin resistance?
1:51.1	Well, it's a big topic because PCOS is not just one specific condition, but it's probably
1:59.3	the convergence of many different things that are
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