The Truth About Your Metabolic Health with Dr. William Li, NYT Bestselling Author of Eat To Beat Your Diet

Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

Corinna Bellizzi

Personal Journals, Earth Sciences, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Dispelling the myths about fats and metabolism in relation to our diet, Dr. William W. Li joins Corinna Bellizzi in this episode. Dr. Li is an internationally renowned physician, scientist and author of the New York Times bestseller Eat to Beat Disease. Coming back to the show, he continues to give us a new way to think about our health through his new book, Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer. It’s an anti-diet book that will upend what you thought you knew about our health. So follow along and learn how you can elevate your health, improve your metabolism, and improve your health defenses. Don’t miss out!

Key takeaways from this episode:

02:35 Summarizing the 5 health defenses as outlined in NYT Bestselling Book: Eat To Beat Disease

04:44 Dispelling myths about fats: introducing white fat vs. brown fat

11:30 The four phases of metabolism: dispelling myths about age-related metabolic slow downs

19:30 How the body stores and uses fats, plus the stem cell connection

26:48 The impact of stress and lifestyle choices on our metabolism

30:09 The power of food choices and fasting to supercharge your metabolic health

33:58 How to activate brown fat to burn white fat and improve metabolism

40:13 Limit empty calories and consume more of the these for a healthy metabolism

47:00 A calorie is not a calorie and the importance of omega-3 to support a healthy metabolism

Guest Social Links:

Website: https://drwilliamli.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/drwilliamli

TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@drwilliamli

Prior Episodes featuring Interviews with Dr. William Li and his work with Eat To Beat Disease:

Eat To Beat Disease: Reimagining Our Healthcare Systems - https://caremorebebetter.com/eat-to-beat-disease-reimagining-our-healthcare-systems-with-william-w-li-md/
Eat To Beat Disease: How Your Body Can Heal Itself with The Right Nutrition - https://orlonutrition.com/blogs/podcast/eat-to-beat-disease-how-your-body-can-heal-itself-with-the-right-nutrition-with-dr-william-w-li-physician-and-nyt-bestselling-author
Dr. William Li's Eat to Beat Disease Course - 5 Health Defenses and 5 Health Surprises: https://orlonutrition.com/blogs/podcast/dr-william-lis-eat-to-beat-disease-course-5-health-defenses-and-5-surprises-part-1-of-4
Dr. William Li's Eat to Beat Disease Course - Part 2 of 4 - 10 Foods To Bolster Your 5 Health Defenses: https://orlonutrition.com/blogs/podcast/dr-william-lis-eat-to-beat-disease-course-10-foods-to-bolster-your-5-health-defenses-part-2-of-4
Dr. William Li's Eat to Beat Disease Course - Part 3 of 4 - Starve Disease and Regenerate Health - https://orlonutrition.com/blogs/podcast/starve-disease-and-regenerate-health-part-3-of-4-dr-william-lis-eat-to-beat-disease-course-review
Dr. William Li's Eat to Beat Disease Course - Part 4 of 4 - Tour A World of Health Food With Dr. William Li's 5 x 5 x 5 Everyday Framework: https://orlonutrition.com/blogs/podcast/tour-a-world-of-health-food-with-dr-william-lis-5x5x5-everyday-framework-part-4-of-4-eat-to-beat-disease-course-review

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0:00.0	When we kind of like get further in our life journey, life happens. We get busy, we get distracted,
0:06.5	we get stressed out, whether it's family stress, emotional stress, financial stress, work stress.
0:12.0	I mean, this is modern society we live in. All those things affect how we eat, the decision,
0:17.1	the choices we eat, how much we exercise, how physically active we are, how much sleep we
0:21.4	get. And stress itself, by the way, causes inflammation, which can actually impact our metabolism as
0:27.3	well. So not surprisingly, as we kind of get into our later years and kind of mid-life,
0:33.8	it's sort of a lifestyle issue that tends to sit on our metabolism, but that actually
0:41.1	gives us the agency to be able to deliberately look at those pieces of our life that we can improve.
0:47.1	Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact
0:53.2	of conscious companies and everyday heroes.
0:56.5	Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain.
1:01.7	You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today.
1:06.6	Here's your host, Karina Belizei.
1:11.2	Today I'm joined again by one of my very first guests on this show and one of my favorites
1:16.8	to date, Dr. William Lee.
1:18.8	He's here to talk about his new book, Eat to Beat Your Diet.
1:23.0	Dr. Lee is an internationally renowned physician, scientist, president, and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation.
1:31.3	In our first interview, we discussed his New York Times bestseller, Eat to Beat Disease,
1:36.1	the new science of how your body can heal itself.
1:39.3	He's back again today to discuss this very book,
1:43.2	Eat to Beat Your Diet, Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism,
1:46.8	and Live Longer. It will be out this March 21st, 2023. Now before we get started, I've got to
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