Why Food Is Better Than Medication To Treat Disease with Dr. William Li

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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I never get tired of saying it: real food heals. Food has the power to prevent and reverse disease, and the more we know about it, the more power we have to curate a targeted diet to help us reach our health goals. The catch is that we have to choose the right foods, the ones that elevate us, and simultaneously ditch the poor-quality ones that harm us. There are powerful compounds in foods—like curcumin, genistein, catechins, lycopene, resveratrol, quercetin—that have medicinal impacts on the body. That’s why I call the grocery store the drug store; we can literally eat our medicine at every meal. My guest this week on The Doctor’s Farmacy, Dr. William Li, is here to tell us all about eating to beat disease and making the idea that food is medicine second nature. You may also be surprised to find out that angiogenesis, or how the body forms blood vessels, is a common denominator in creating optimal health. William Li, MD, 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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. This is Dr. Mark Heimann and this is a place for conversations
0:08.7	that matter. And I believe that today's conversation is going to matter to all of you because
0:12.8	it's about how to beat disease through food. And today's guest is an extraordinary scientist,
0:18.8	physician, speaker author. He's a guy I met a number of years ago and I'm very impressed
0:24.6	with and recently had the privilege of listening to him at a milk and institute conference roundtable
0:30.7	on food, which brought together all the leaders in thinking about food and health and disease,
0:36.4	including food companies. And he gave a dissertation that was off the cuff that literally blew my mind.
0:43.5	And in that he elucidated the power of food in terms of treating disease. And he showed a slide
0:52.1	that I pretty much have been blazing in my mind, which showed the effect of drugs on various
1:00.0	biological systems through very fancy chemical analyses and in the effect of foods on the same
1:06.7	systems. And almost every time the food was more powerful than drugs. And really that's why I
1:14.3	wanted you here, Dr. Lee, because he's not only written this book, which I want you all to get,
1:19.6	called Eat to Beat Disease, the new science of how your body can heal itself. And this is
1:24.8	really the science of health. It's supposed to treat disease, which we all learned as doctors.
1:28.8	He's best known though for his work leading the Angiogenesis Foundation. Now, those of you
1:33.3	don't know what that is. This means how you grow new blood vessels. And particularly we focus on
1:38.0	around cancer because cancer needs new blood vessels to grow and they love to create new blood
1:42.5	vessels to feed themselves. And we don't want that to happen. So he's really done groundbreaking
1:46.7	work on this, but not only around cancer, but 70 other diseases are affected by Angiogenesis,
1:51.4	including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, obesity. He did an incredible TED Talk
1:56.7	called Can We Eat to Starve Cancer, which had 11 million views, which is impressive. He's been on
2:02.7	the odd show Martha Stewart, CNN, MSNBC, and PR Voice of America. He's been at the Vatican,
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