How To Upgrade Your Metabolism with Dr. William Li
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
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Many people think of metabolism as one specific system in the body, when in fact it’s the sum of many different processes that are serving other vital roles for us as well. Our bodies are not closed systems, so our environment, social networks, diet, hormones, microbiome, genetics, and more, all influence how well our metabolism works, or how well we can extract energy from our food. I’m so happy to sit down with my good friend Dr. William Li to talk about what metabolism really means, why the old way of thinking about metabolism hasn’t helped us, and how to make positive impacts on our metabolism at any age.
Dr. William Li is a world-renowned physician, scientist, speaker, and author of Eat to Beat Disease - The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself. He is best known for leading the Angiogenesis Foundation. His groundbreaking work has impacted more than 70 diseases, including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. An author of over 100 scientific publications in leading journals such as Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and more, Dr. Li has served on the faculties of Harvard, Tufts, and Dartmouth Medical School.
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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):
- Shifting away from the idea that eating less and exercising more is the key to weight loss (4:51 / 2:12)
- How calories affect metabolism (13:14 / 11:25)
- Research measuring the four phases of metabolism as we age (16:07 / 13:36)
- What is metabolism? (24:03 / 21:26)
- Common myths about metabolism (28:35 / 24:37)
- Supporting the gut microbiome to raise metabolism and promote health (36:18 / 32:03)
- Foods that mimic caloric restriction (40:27 / 36:10)
- Our body’s ability to reverse disease (52:59 / 46:21)
- Reducing stress in a doomscrolling society (54:07 / 49:30)
- How to restore health to your metabolism (56:03/ 51:56)
Mentioned in this episode
Perspective: Obesity—an unexplained epidemic
Competing paradigms of obesity pathogenesis: energy balance versus carbohydrate-insulin models
Daily energy expenditure through the human life course
Get a copy of Dr. Li’s book, Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself, here and check out his Masterclass with Dr. William Li here.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy when we actually feed ourselves good quality calories |
| 0:07.3 | And we actually do the things that we're supposed to which is say physically active and get good quality sleep and actually lower your stress |
| 0:14.4 | All of these things converge to really help our metabolism actually right size itself |
| 0:22.7 | Hey, we wanted to doctor Mark now |
| 0:24.6 | I know a lot of the listeners of this podcast are functional medicine practitioners like I am and I actually love the |
| 0:29.9 | Community of support that we built together over the years |
| 0:31.9 | I also know that as functional medicine practitioners we need the right information to be able to form an optimal health plan for our patients |
| 0:39.2 | And as you know a big part of understanding what forms of support each individual needs is done through testing |
| 0:45.2 | Looking at hormones organic acids nutrient levels inflammatory factors gut bacteria is so much more |
| 0:51.3 | You help us find the most effective path to optimize health and reverse disease and that means we're usually ordering multiple tests for each patient for multiple labs |
| 0:59.1 | Now I'm sure maybe you can relate to how time consuming this process is and how it all feels like a lot to keep track of for both you and your patients |
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| 1:54.4 | I don't think there's anything better than waking up feeling super-rested relaxed and energized |
| 1:58.8 | When we get high quality sleep, that's the norm. Without it our simple day-to-day tasks can seem |
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