Part Two: Dr. William Li on The Foods You Must Add to Your Diet to Heal Your Body, Stop Inflammation and Prevent Cancer

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Mayim Bialik

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We’re expanding to Substack! Visit bialikbreakdown.substack.com for all exciting details! World-renowned physician, scientist, and bestselling author of “Eat to Beat Your Diet,” Dr. William Li—global pioneer of the food as medicine movement—reveals jaw-dropping truths about how to heal your gut microbiome, prevent chronic disease, and reverse metabolic damage with science-backed nutrition. In this powerful deep-dive, Dr. Li unpacks how to activate your body’s five natural defense systems to fight disease using immune-boosting foods, anti-angiogenic ingredients, and metabolism-boosting meals that help your body naturally produce GLP-1 for sustainable weight loss without drugs. Discover why so many young people are suddenly getting cancer, the overlooked dangers in ultra-processed foods, the truth about sugar substitutes, and how everyday foods may secretly be harming your health. Dr. Li also breaks down what to eat for brain health, the gut-brain connection, improving ADHD symptoms with diet, and using functional foods to enhance longevity and cellular repair. From the rising risks of microplastics and E. coli to burning fat naturally with fat-fighting foods, Dr. Li explains why you—not the healthcare system—hold the true power to heal and thrive.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm I'm Biolic.
0:05.6	I'm Jonathan Cohen.
0:06.7	Welcome to part two of our interview with Dr. William W. Lee. He's an internationally
0:12.9	renowned physician. He's a scientist. He's the author of Eat to Beat Disease and Eat to Beat
0:18.2	Your Diet. He's done a ton of groundbreaking research that's led to the
0:23.1	development of more than 40 new medical treatments, including over a dozen specifically for
0:28.1	cancer. His TED Talk, Can We Eat to Starve? Cancer has more than 11 million views. He's an
0:34.8	incredible authority on all things diet, and he's all about empowering us to understand
0:41.9	what we should be eating, what we shouldn't be eating, what are the simple ways that we can take
0:46.9	control of our health, and what are the ways that we can actually tip the scales in terms of
0:52.7	how sick we get, how diet can support an immune
0:57.9	system, a gut-brain connection that facilitates the best way to fight disease. He says we're
1:03.7	encountering cancer all the time, but our bodies are designed to fight it off. What goes wrong and
1:08.9	what can we do to keep the system working well? We're
1:11.9	going to tackle that in part two of this episode. Also in part two, we get very specific the types of
1:16.9	foods to eat, what not to eat. He talks to us about the blue zones and what expands our health
1:22.8	span and our longevity. This is a fantastic second part that gets extremely practical in the ways in which we can
1:32.3	increase our natural defense systems to help us stay healthy.
1:37.3	Without further ado, here is the second part of our interview with Dr. Lee.
1:41.4	Break it down.
1:43.4	What are some of the foods that help metabolism?
1:47.7	Ah, okay.
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