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Danica Patrick Pretty Intense Podcast

Dr. William Li - What You Need To Know To Prevent Cancer

Danica Patrick Pretty Intense Podcast

Jennifer Cawley

Danica Patrick, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Pretty Intense

4.6 • 995 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to The Pretty Intense Podcast. Our guest today is the hugely popular Dr. William Li, physician, scientist and author of “Eat to Beat Disease”. We are talking about his groundbreaking insights on how stress can be a catalyst for cancer development. Learn the science behind stress and its impact on your health. Dr. Li reveals how our emotional well-being directly impacts cellular health. Learn about powerful dietary choices that can transform your health and boost resilience. There is great power in nutrition for cancer prevention. Learn the right foods to enhance your health and reduce cancer risk. Don't miss out on this vital knowledge for a healthier future!

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0:00.0

I mean, you're asking some really, really deep questions. Let me just tell you that our American

0:04.5

health system has for decades been in need of an overall. As a medical doctor, most of us are

0:10.5

trained to treat disease, not prevent it, trained to write prescriptions. Diet and lifestyle

0:16.8

was all we had until the sort of the pharmaceutical revolution. I have been involved with

0:21.9

developing better cancer treatments, better treatments for diabetes. So I'm a believer in innovation

0:27.3

and advancement. This is where we're beginning to see true cures coming from. I've seen people

0:33.5

with stage four cancer go to stage zero. Brain cancer, endometrial cancer, my own mother, stage four to stage zero.

0:41.3

And the way that this is happening is by lighting up your immune system, allowing your own defenses to go to work.

0:46.3

Here's a shocking truth.

0:48.3

We are all forming cancers inside our body all the time.

0:52.3

What's the best diet to have if you are battling cancer? Hello,

0:57.5

good to see you. Thanks so much for coming on. I'm kind of like, I don't know if I'm Brian Johnson

1:03.4

level lab rat with myself, but I'm like, but I do love to lab rat myself. I've got a kit

1:10.6

just sitting off to my left for me to do in a little

1:15.1

bit of time after I've done some supplements. So anyway, you know, for me, I feel like it's like just

1:20.3

a pure fascination with the body and wanting to optimize and probably a little bit of being an

1:25.2

athlete. But why are you so passionate about health?

1:29.4

Well, I'm a physician, so my business is health. But, you know, as a medical doctor,

1:38.0

most of us are trained to treat disease, not prevent it, and most of us are trained to write prescriptions and do the more

1:47.8

standard medical interventions. Somewhere along the line, I would say in the last 50 years, 60 years,

1:54.5

we've actually lost touch with the fact that before pharmaceuticals, all we had was food

2:00.3

in our environment. Diet and lifestyle was what we all, all we had was food in our environment. Diet and lifestyle

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