The Healthiest Foods To Burn Fat, Kill Disease & Slow Aging with Dr William Li

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Momentous, Birch Living, and Cozy Earth. The road to longevity doesn’t need to be complicated or rely on the latest gadgets and trends. Simple habits like eating wholesome foods, getting quality sleep, staying active, and engaging with your community can consistently nourish your body and mind for a long, healthy life. Today’s guest shares insights from his travels and research, revealing practical ways to incorporate these longevity secrets into our daily lives. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Dr. William Li to explore the top health-promoting foods Dr. Li has discovered during his travels. Dr. Li shares the latest research on the best breakfast choices to nourish, fuel, and heal your body, his approach to longevity, and the four key gut bacteria linked to long, healthy lives. He also reveals the foods that support these beneficial bacteria and boost collagen production and stresses the importance of reducing your toxin exposure. If you are looking for foods and habits that promote longevity, this episode is for you. Dr. William W. Li, MD, is an internationally renowned physician, scientist, and author of the New York Times bestsellers “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself” and “Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer.” His groundbreaking research has led to the development of more than 40 new medical treatments that impact care for more than 70 diseases, including diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. He is President and Medical Director of the Angiogenesis Foundation, and he is leading global initiatives on food as medicine. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Li dive into: Classic American breakfast versus breakfast in the Blue Zones (00:00:40) Coffee: one of the holy trinity beverages (3:44) The benefits of oats and bioactive (6:23) Processed versus ultra-processed foods (14:30) Never too late to change your operating system (24:05) Dr. Li’s approach to longevity (31:37) Gut microbiome in those who live long lives (52:27) Top foods that feed the four key bacteria associated with longevity (59:27) Releasing the hope molecule during exercise (1:06:00) The importance of self-reliance in judging what is right for you (1:14:30) Doubling down on the basics and key habits (1:17:15) Dr. Li’s thoughts on reducing toxins and microplastic exposure (1:20:27) Naturally boosting collagen in our diet (1:40:27) Exosomes and fatty acid profile (1:52:37) For more on Dr. Li, follow him on Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, YouTube, and his Website. This episode is brought to you by Momentous, Birch Living, and Cozy Earth. Optimize your energy and mental clarity with the purest form of creatine made by and used by the best. Go to livemomentous.com and enter promo code DHRU to get 20% off any order. To get 25% off your Birch Living mattress plus two free eco-rest pillows, head over to birchliving.com/dhru today. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com/dhru and use code DHRUP for any order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dr. William Lee, welcome back to the podcast. Always a pleasure to talk with you. And I feel like
0:04.8	today's episode is going to be a special one because I tend to get you right before your next
0:10.6	big book comes out. So I get a little bit of a tease, a sneak peek for me and my audience about
0:16.7	what you're writing about next. And I can't wait to hear all about it. So thank you for being here. Well, thanks for having me on and it is true. I love to actually just talk to you
0:26.3	about what I'm working on because what I write about is really actually what my research
0:30.9	is about. I write very authentically about whatever is I'm doing, what I'm actually interested
0:35.9	in. So. And we're going to get into that in today's conversation.
0:40.2	Great.
0:40.8	Okay. I want to start off with something.
0:43.3	You know, in America, we're very used to starting our morning off.
0:46.7	Let's say breakfast, where a classic American breakfast, you have oatmeal, maybe a huge
0:53.3	Starbucks latte with like 30, 50 grams of sugar inside of there.
0:58.5	You have people eating some eggs generally seems to be healthy.
1:02.4	Depends on who you pay attention to.
1:03.9	Some people say it's the devil.
1:05.0	Some people say it's healthy.
1:06.6	And a glass of orange juice.
1:08.5	I'm actually curious from your point of view, is that actually a healthy way to start the day?
1:12.5	And contrasts that with you were recently in Greece,
1:16.0	working on your next book.
1:17.0	How do some of the world's longest living people start their morning off?
1:20.7	So first of all, let me take you back to my original exposure to the Mediterranean.
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