24: Eat to Beat Disease with Dr. William Li
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, Moran sits down with Dr. William Li, an internal medicine doctor, vascular biologist, and author of the book "Eat to Beat Disease." Dr Li always had an interest in food and diet lifestyles since he was young, and he studied the links between food, culture and the health of communities around the world for years. Dr Li looked to blood vessels to find common denominators within different diseases and has been involved in 41 FDA-approved medications for disease treatment from his studies.
The medical director for the Angiogenesis Foundation, Dr Li explains the way our body grows blood vessels, a central tenant to health. His research has shown that certain foods help our body overgrow blood vessels that could potentially cause diseases like cancer. Dr Li applies the "Food as Medicine Research" method to his work, talking about foods that activate our health defenses, and what to add to our body to build ourselves up. His personal mantra is to "love your food & love your health."
In this in-depth conversation, Dr Li discusses fasting & its relation to his research, his "grand slam" foods, what helps treat disease along with prevention, and the power of fiber.
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| 0:00.0 | angiogenesis. I'm saying that right? |
| 0:03.3 | Angiogenesis. |
| 0:04.3 | Angiogenesis. God, that one's tart tough for me. |
| 0:09.5 | Hello, everyone. I'm Morgan, co-founder of Primal Kitchen and host of the Primal Kitchen |
| 0:13.4 | podcast. Today, I'm honored to sit down with a world-renowned physician, scientist, speaker, |
| 0:18.6 | and author, Dr. William Lee. He's best known for his book, |
| 0:21.8 | Eat to Beat Disease, and his work leading the angiogenesis foundation. His groundbreaking work |
| 0:26.8 | has impacted more than 70 diseases, including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, |
| 0:31.6 | and obesity. Dr. Lee has a viral TED talk called Can We Eat to Starve Cancer, which has garnered more than 11 million |
| 0:38.6 | views. An author of over 100 scientific publications in leading journals, Dr. Lee has served on the |
| 0:44.2 | faculties of Harvard, Dartmouth, and Tufts University. Before we get started, a brief reminder that any |
| 0:49.0 | and all opinions and views shared by host and guests on this podcast are the speaker's own |
| 0:52.8 | and do not represent the view of Primal Kitchen or its affiliates or parent company. Hello, Dr. Lee. Welcome. |
| 0:59.4 | Hi, Morgan. Great to be on with you. Yeah, it's great to have you here. I have personally been |
| 1:04.2 | always just obsessed with research on how to prevent and treat cancer as it pertains to diet. So I'm |
| 1:09.8 | particularly interested to get into that. |
| 1:11.3 | But before we do, how did you, how did you get here? How did you know you wanted to be a physician |
| 1:16.3 | and then enter into this particular study? You know, I've always been interested in becoming a doctor. |
| 1:26.3 | But before I became a doctor, I actually was very interested in food. |
| 1:30.7 | And that intersection between food and health is something that interested me even when I was in college. |
| 1:38.1 | And, you know, and I was particularly fascinated by the Mediterranean and in Asia. |
| 1:45.2 | So I actually took a gap year before I went to medical school specifically to embed |
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