With this book, Dr. Li does all the heavy lifting - weeding through the confusion about food - providing us with the tools to manage how and what we consume metabolically, and in so doing provides us with the promise of a healthy mind and body. Bradley Cooper The problem comes when your diet causes your preadipocytes to become overly active and create too many fat cells. Too much fat disrupts your hormones, so your preadipocytes need to be reined in. Foods such as blueberries, goji berries, and turmeric have restraining power over preadipocytes, taming them so that they do not create too many new fat cells. 10 Offers practical tips and a comprehensive list of foods that can positively impact metabolism and promote weight loss. Body fat contains at least 15 hormones that instruct other organs, including the brain, on what to do. These hormones influence the health of one's brain, immune system, gut, circulation, muscles, reproductive system, and especially one's metabolism. While fat is vital to the body's ability to function, most people's problem is having excess fat.

Your DNA is a defense system that protects your genetic code against the damage that can be wreaked by everyday exposures, including ultraviolet radiation from the sun; radon from the ground; microplastics in your drinking water; and chemicals released by wall paint, carpets, and furniture. These environmental forces create highly reactive atoms known as free radicals. These atoms behave like rogue samurai warriors slashing at your DNA. Left unrepaired, the damaged DNA can create mutations that lead to abnormal cells and, ultimately, to cancer. Figure 1.1. Fat removed during surgery for morbid obesity in a dish and growing new blood vessels. (Source: Image courtesy of Dr. Silvia Corvera, University of Massachusetts.) Figure 1.2. Result of ASC injection after spinal cord injury. (Source: Graphic by Diana Saville, adapted from M. Bydon, A. B. Dietz, et al., “CELLTOP Clinical Trial,” Mayo Clinic Proceedings 95, no. 2 [2020]: 406-414.) In his first groundbreaking book, Dr. William Li explored the world of food as medicine. By eatingfoods that you already enjoy, like tomatoes,blueberries, sourdough bread, and dark chocolateyour body activates itsfive health defense systems to fight cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative autoimmune diseases, and other debilitating conditions. In the often-crazy world of nutrition and diet books, it’s rare to have a real physician-scientist as your guide. Dr. Li lays out the compelling new science for the potential harms – and healing powers – of body fat, and how the foods we eat are powerful tools that can transform our fat into friend or foe. Eat to Beat Your Diet contains a wealth of actionable advice on how to eat better, improve our metabolic health, and enjoy the journey.”William W Li, MD is a renowned physician, scientist, and bestselling author known for his groundbreaking work in angiogenesis. 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!”

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 BUETTNERVery interesting read, but what it boils down to is just learning to eat healthy, real foods, fresh food. In his first groundbreaking book, Dr. William Li explored the world of food as medicine. By eating foods you already enjoy, like tomatoes, blueberries, sourdough bread, and dark chocolate, your body activates its five health defense systems to fight cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative autoimmune diseases, and other debilitating conditions. EAT TO BEAT DISEASE will completely change the way you think about your body and the choices you make when you grocery shop, cook for your family, or dine out. Read this book from cover to cover if you want to be on top of your game for health, beauty, and fitness, from the inside out.” We’ve known for centuries that eating less will help you lose weight, but the unexpected good news is that we’ve now identified certain foods that when eaten can help burn away excess fat. These foods improve your metabolism, which is vital to your health. You read that correctly: eating the right foods can actively promote fat loss and improve your metabolism. Even better, many of the same foods improve your body’s health defenses, too. A triple win. Whether you have a large body or a small one, excess body fat grows… like a cancer. Just like a tumor, fat needs a blood supply to nourish its mass. To grow larger and become dangerous, growing fatty tissue must take on an ever-increasing blood supply by recruiting new blood vessels through a process called angiogenesis—just like a cancer does. Tumors are angiogenesis-dependent, and so is burgeoning fat.

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 In Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. William Li reveals the groundbreaking discovery that the best weight loss medicines in the world can be found in your refrigerator and pantry. Blending the science of molecular nutrition with the ancient food ways of the Mediterranean and Asian cultures, Dr. Li provides a delicious roadmap to harness the power of everyday foods to activate your fat burning systems and create long term health using the magic of your fork.” - MARK HYMAN, MD Deprivation and restriction are the old, failed ways of weight loss. The new model for metabolic health is to Eat To Beat Your Diet by enjoying an abundance of delicious, metabolism-supporting foods. Lose the fads and find the facts. Grab this book and get started today!”— Will Bulsiewicz, MD, New York Times-bestselling author of Fiber Fueled Remarkably, many foods can trigger regeneration in organs without adding more body fat. In fact, some foods can cause regenerative healing at the same time as they inhibit preadipocytes from creating more fat. Mushrooms, barley, cacao, omega-3-containing foods, and coffee and tea have been shown to coax more stem cells to be released into the bloodstream to promote regeneration, but, as you’ll soon learn, these are also foods that fight fat. 13 The Microbiome System

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Dean Ornish, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, and multiple New York Times’ bestselling author.” The first section of the book explains the science underlying fat and metabolism. The second section provides a broad compilation of recent nutrition research explaining why the author focused on specific foods. And the last section outlines his plan for readers to implement his advice. One of the most sought-after experts in the field of functional medicine shares her proven four-step program to treat, reverse, and prevent autoimmune conditions and repair your immune system.

This was full of useful information that was easy to understand and implement into to our everyday living. It has a lot of informative information to take in, so I suggest reading it slowly and taking lots of notes along the way. 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)." Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Blue Zones books Another type of epigenetic change, called methylation, is associated with lowering body mass. In methylation, the function of a gene is changed by a chemical structure, called a methyl group, which is inserted right into your DNA. The effect is like jamming a screwdriver into a conveyor belt. It halts the manufacturing of certain proteins that cause belly fat to grow and that disrupt your metabolism.

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The foods we are now eating taste wonderful, our overall feeling of health has vastly improved, and we are both losing weight. I have only 5-6 more pounds to go to reach my ideal weight. (I am finally off processed sugar and it was painless.) About the Author William W. Li, MD, is an internationally renowned Harvard-trained medical doctor, researcher, and president and a founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation. His groundbreaking work has impacted more than seventy diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. His TED Talk, "Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?" has garnered more than eleven million views, and he has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Martha Stewart Live, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Voice of America, and has presented at the Vatican's Unite to Cure conference.