How To Use Food As Medicine with Dr. William Li

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Humans have coevolved with food and its medicinal actions on our bodies, meaning we have actual cell receptors for specific food-derived molecules. So why aren’t doctors trained in how to use food as medicine? We’re taught all about using pharmaceuticals to affect our biology, but the power of food is left high and dry. I think this is a foundational area of medical training we need to change. That’s why I’m so excited to talk to one of my favorite people and thinkers in the world of food and medicine on this episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, Dr. William Li.

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. His TED Talk, Can We Eat to Starve Cancer? has garnered more than 11 million views, and he has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Martha Stewart Live, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Voice of America, and has presented at the Vatican’s Unite to Cure conference. 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):

Dr. Li’s journey to understanding the power of eating to beat disease (6:53 / 3:20)
How food can activate our body’s healing defense systems (15:56 / 13:11)
Why Dr. Li changed his mind about organic foods (20:44 / 17:23)
The benefits of nutritional diversity and eating “weird foods” (25:45 / 22:04)
Research showing how eating tree nuts benefited colorectal cancer patients (30:18 / 26:00)
Combining food and pharmaceutical drugs (34:06 / 30:31)
Prescribing food as medicine (44:01 / 39:37)
Reimagining our approach to Covid and long Covid (52:37 / 47:38)
Foods that lower inflammation and boost the immune system (55:22 / 51:50)
Three ways to start using food as medicine (1:09:46 / 1:04:49)

Find Dr. Li’s Eat To Beat Disease Masterclass at drwilliamli.com/masterclass and get a copy of his book, Eat To Beat Disease, at drwilliamli.com/book-li.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy. There are foods that actually can lower inflammation.
0:06.1	I mean simple foods, continue vitamin C, lower inflammation, you know, strawberries, guava, tomatoes, red bell peppers.
0:15.8	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark. I always say I want us to be 120, but I really only want to do that as long as I'm feeling great and
0:23.9	still able to do all the things I love. Aging well requires some mindfulness and intention, but that doesn't mean it has to be hard.
0:30.8	As I've done to the research on aging and how one thing becomes super clear, we have to take care of our mitochondria.
0:37.1	These are our cellular energy factories, and as we age and eat too much, or sit at our desk too much, or expose the toxins, our mitochondria deteriorate in our body's suffer.
0:47.1	I discovered this product called mitochondroupure from timeline nutrition that specifically regenerates mitochondria and supports cellular energy production.
0:55.1	Mitopera is the first and only clinically tested pure form of natural gut and tap light called Neurolithin A, comes from pomegranates, really cool actually.
1:04.9	That clears damaged mitochondria away from ourselves and supports the growth of new healthy mitochondria.
1:10.9	We can't directly get your Lithin A from foods because we need a gut bacteria to create a for us, and since most of us don't have a really healthy gut microbiome,
1:19.7	to actually get enough of your Lithin A out of food, mitochondria is a great solution.
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1:44.1	I've been using it for almost a year now and at 61, I feel stronger and more energized than ever.
1:49.1	Now something I get more and more excited about every year is personalized medicine.
1:53.3	Now when I began practicing functional medicine over 20 years ago, it was clear to me we have to look at how unique each body is.
2:00.5	Now with technology advancing in amazing ways, we can truly take that concept to the next level.
2:05.7	Like one of the tools that I recently discovered that can help us all do this from home is Inside Tracker.
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