Dhru Purohit Show
The Healthiest Foods To Burn Fat, Kill Disease & Slow Aging with Dr William Li
08 Jan 2025
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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A classic American breakfast. You have oatmeal, maybe a huge Starbucks latte with like 30, 50 grams of sugar inside of there. You have people eating some eggs. Generally seems to be healthy. Depends on who you pay attention to. Some people say it's the devil. Some people say it's healthy. and a glass of orange juice.
I'm actually curious from your point of view, is that actually a healthy way to start the day? And contrast that with you were recently in Greece working on your next book. How do some of the world's longest living people start their morning off?
So first of all, let me take you back to my original exposure to the Mediterranean. This is long before people were talking about the Mediterranean diet. Okay. I had Finished college before going to medical school. I was very interested in understanding food, culture and health. And so I did a gap year. I went over to Italy to learn about food.
It was my first exposure really to Europe way of life, you know, in a place where it eats Mediterranean cuisine. Right. And in culture. And then I went to Greece. which is a place I've come back to again and again. I'm fascinated by the elemental nature of the life in Greece. It's not fancy for the most part. It's very simple.
And this has actually given me an insight into healthy approaches to food because simplicity is,
is actually something that seems to be a recurrent theme in people who live long and live well you know and so you know i love the fact that you brought up this idea of like the typical breakfast where you know you're you're stacking the drive-through and you know we didn't even talk about like how you get your uh coffee you know with the with a pumpkin flavor and all the whipped cream and
And, you know, your convection oven, you know, ultra processed breakfast sandwich and all that other kind of stuff that, you know, we see this all the time. I'll tell you what I've seen. I've seen in some of the healthiest people that come from the healthy cultures, they live pretty simple lives.
A great example is the people I've known from Greece, for example, they start their breakfast with bread. basically a simple cup of coffee and maybe a piece of fruit. And that's it. It's really, really simple. All right. And maybe some Greek yogurt. All right. And not a lot of it, like a little tiny cup of it with some crushed pistachios, maybe a little bit of cut fruit into it. And that's it.
And I actually embarked upon that myself and found myself feeling so much better by not loading in calories and loading in additives and loading in all that other stuff. Listen, I grew up like most people who are probably watching or listening to this, you know, hey, it's really great to have a big thing, a big topping of whipped cream with like all these fancy things on it.
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