Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast, the weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.

Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast.

Alright, once in the last time your doctor prescribed you a bowl of leafy greens or a handful of mushrooms.

Well, unless you're my patient, probably never.

And that's unfortunate because the truth is food is the most powerful tool we have for optimizing our health.

And my guest today couldn't agree more.

I'm welcoming back Dr. William Lee, physician, scientist, and author of Eat to Beat Disease, the new science of how your body can heal itself.

In just a moment, Dr. Lee and I will reveal what most doctors miss when it comes to illness prevention, the shocking science behind nutrition and disease, and the health transforming foods everyone should be consuming on a daily basis.

So don't go away, we'll be right back.

Dr. Lee, it's great to have you back on the show.

So good to be back. Dr. Gundry, it's always a pleasure to speak with a fellow physician and scientist.

Well, most, as you know, most medical students are actually taught very little about nutrition.

At what point in your career did you actually realize how powerful food is when it comes to health?

You know, there's a backstory before I went to medical school. I did a gap year.

And this came out of my college inspiration where I studied biochemistry like so many other pre-meds.

But my passion was actually in history, specifically the Renaissance out of the Mediterranean, basin.

So I had learned about the golden age of discovery of arts and sciences, and I began to realize that in this crucible of culture came this incredible array of delicious foods that I've always enjoyed throughout my life.

So before going straight into the treadmill of medical school like we all wind up doing, I decided to do a gap year and I embedded myself.

I traveled to the Mediterranean. I lived there for a year.

And my specific project was actually study how food is integrated into the life of the people in Italy and the people of Greece.

And so this was long before people started to more broadly recognize the Mediterranean diet.

I was literally walking the walk long before people were talking the talk.

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