Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn fat, heal your metabolism, live longer

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Your body contains cells whose job is to constantly regenerate and repair your internal organs. These are your stem cells, also called progenitor cells. They have the amazing ability to morph into any type of cell depending on your body’s needs. You were born with 750 million of these progenitors that are stored in your bone marrow, skin, and fat. Throughout life, your stem cells are spurred into action when a damaged organ needs to be repaired or when it grows—like muscle or fat. This book is pretty easy to read once you get past the harsh truth with photos about your body. I'm definitely going to revist this book and incorporate the recommended foods into my diet. I will read his other book Eat To Beat Disease later this year. Dr. Li's first book - Eat to Beat Disease - changed my life and eating patterns. Now in Eat to Beat your Diet, he gives science-based information about metabolism. His information is fascinating. Also, the protocol is workable and recipes are enjoyable. While I can't find all of the food he recommends - no octopus in the Mountains of New Mexico - I don't know that I'd eat it even if it were available in our one grocery store! HOWEVER, there are so many things that are common foods readily available. The trip through the grocery aisles is so very helpful to see that even in the most remote places, we can find food that will help us beat our old diet habits in trade for new, more healthy ones.

Eat to Beat Your Diet’ by Dr. William Li is a valuable resource that debunks dieting myths, provides insightful reeducation, and offers practical guidance for achieving a healthier lifestyle. With its emphasis on understanding the impact of different foods on our bodies and the inclusion of delicious recipes, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to make informed dietary choices and prioritise their overall well-being. Mark Hyman, MD, Senior Advisor to the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, New York Times Bestselling Author of Young Forever

Fortunately, damaged DNA is capable of repairing itself. Without this health defense, you would not be here to read this book. You can dial up (or dial down) the strength of the repair mechanisms with the foods you eat. Foods like kiwifruit, carrots, beans, strawberries, and omega-3-rich seafood can boost DNA repair. Why? Our body is designed to fight disease, and we have underestimated how foods can be used to amplify this hidden power. Discover the new science of how the body heals itself. Learn how to identify the strategies and dosages for using food to transform your resilience and health in this informative and practical guide, Fat insulates you like a sweater when you are exposed to the cold, and it cushions and prevents your internal organs from rupturing if you take a fall. More surprising, science has revealed that fat itself is an actual organ. It releases hormones and chemical signals that control your brain, heart, immune system, and virtually all your body’s health systems. Fat is not to be feared but rather respected, although we do need to keep it under control. The Problem with Excess Fat When Dr. Li speaks, I don't just listen, I eat what he says because with his huge brain and ever-curious mind he has helped me understand that food isn't just something to fuel our days - it might just be fundamental to how many days we get to enjoy. Bono The diversity of bacteria in your gut is also important. As a general rule, the greater the diversity, the better your health. Lean individuals have a more diverse microbiome than people who are obese. What’s important is that you can influence your microbiome directly through the foods you eat. People who consume more plants in their diet have more diverse species of bacteria in their gut than those who shy away from fruits and vegetables.

It is increasingly clear that our body fat does far more than just tip the bathroom scale. Fat plays such an important role in the human body that it should best be considered an organ, not just tissue. No one explains the new science of metabolism better than physician and scientist Dr William Li. With his accessible style, Dr Li reveals surprising data and joyful discoveries that will teach us all how to “Eat to Beat Your Diet.” Dr. Li is rare among physicians in that he’s actually more interested in keeping you healthy than chasing your disease. In this excellent new book, he marshals in the best, up-to-date science in an engaging way. If you want to know what to eat and why, it’s all here!”

The fiery heat of chili pepper is due to its bioactives, capsaicin and capsinoids. Contrary to popular belief, the burning sensation does not come from the seeds. Instead, the spicy bioactives are mostly concentrated in the pithy white membrane called the “placenta” that holds the seeds. Recall from Chapter 4 that capsaicin and capsinoids wear multiple hats when it comes to your metabolism: they activate brown fat and trigger thermogenesis, burn down white fat, improve your blood sugars, and curb your appetite.” The best news, however, is that you don’t need drugs to cut off fat’s blood supply. This approach has been borrowed to study the effects of food because many foods contain natural chemicals that can cut off the blood supply to fat and shrink it. Green tea, for example, contains a bioactive compound called epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), which is a potent angiogenesis inhibitor. 3 Clinical studies have tested extracts from green tea and shown that people drinking them have reduced abdominal fat and waist circumference. 4 Researchers at Inha University in Korea examined 10,030 subjects in the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study and found that women who consumed four or more cups of green tea per week had a 44 percent decreased risk of abdominal obesity. 5 All this to say: Here’s how we can, not why we can’t”. I was first introduced to this way of thinking as a NASA engineer and astronaut. “Here’s how we can…” is the underlying approach to solving our most challenging problems both on and off our planet. In Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. William Li tells us how we all can use this approach (and the science!) to be our healthiest selves — by eating to beat our diets (and defeating all those reasons why we think we can’t)." More than one hundred foods can fortify your body’s angiogenesis defenses by either stimulating or inhibiting blood vessel growth. Beyond green tea, foods like turmeric, soybeans, ginseng, and broccoli all prevent unwanted blood vessels from supplying nourishment to cancer cells, and they suppress the growth of fat cells, too. 7 Other foods that support your angiogenesis defenses, such as fruit skins, barley, and even sea bass, can stimulate helpful new circulation for healing. Here’s the remarkable part: angiogenesis-inhibiting foods do not starve your organs, and angiogenesis-stimulating foods do not provoke cancer growth. Your body is designed so that when it comes to responding to healthy foods, it takes just what it needs, nothing more, nothing less. 8 The Regeneration System

He has pioneered over 40 FDA-approved interventions for various diseases and is a leading advocate of using food as medicine. Dr. Li’s accomplishments have been recognised worldwide, and he has collaborated with influential organisations and institutions, including the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organisation, and the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. William Li has always been ahead of the curve. Both the reliability of his evidence and his passion for serving the public are self-evident. He traverses the evidence from the lab to the store to his clinic with exceptional skill.” - T. COLIN CAMPBELL, PhD., Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell University T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell University; Co-editor, The China StudyYou are living with a chronic condition such as heart disease, diabetes or an autoimmune condition. PDF / EPUB File Name: Eat_to_Beat_Your_Diet_-_William_W_Li.pdf, Eat_to_Beat_Your_Diet_-_William_W_Li.epub In Part 3, readers receive coaching tips and a specific plan to embark on their own MediterAsian program. The plan is designed to establish and maintain a healthy metabolism throughout one’s life, offering flexibility and adaptability to accommodate individual needs and changes.

Dr. Li is rare among physicians in that he's actually more interested in keeping you healthy than chasing your disease. In this excellent new book, he marshals in the best, up-to-date science in an engaging way. If you want to know what to eat and why, it's all here! Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Blue Zones books Dr Li has written yet another phenomenal book that will become a critical resource for millions of people. Everybody needs to read this book and learn how food can protect and support our health whilst also improving metabolism, without having to succumb to restrictive dietary practices. Dr Li expertly discusses how food can be flavourful, enticing, delicious and healing through the lens of rigorous modern science and traditional culinary practices. It is a masterpiece of writing. Dr. Rupy Aujla, MBBS, BSc, MRCGP; Founder of 'The Doctor's Kitchen' The stem cells enter your bloodstream and circulate to the location where they are needed, then they home in to the organ, where they regenerate the tissue. This can occur literally anywhere in your body, such as your intestines, nerves, blood vessels, muscles, bones, liver, lungs, testes, ovaries, and even your heart and brain. Your blood cells and your immune system are constantly replenished by stem cells to keep them fresh and ready for action.Your DNA is a six-foot-long folded ribbon of genetic material coiled inside every single one of your 40 trillion cells (very similar to the number of bacteria in your body!). This ribbon contains your genetic code, the instructions for cells to make the proteins your body needs to stay alive. But less than 2 percent of your DNA is used to guide the creation of proteins. Most of your DNA is used to coordinate the inner workings of the two hundred different types of cells in your body to keep them functioning for health.