Dr. William Li On How To Protect Your Health: What To Eat, What To Avoid & The Daily Habits That Help Fight Disease & Slow Aging
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What is Dr. William Li’s background and why is he on the show?
Welcome to the Bostics, starring Lauren Bostik and Michael Bostik together. They are the Bostics. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of The Boss Six. It is a long awaited episode with someone who we admire very much, Dr. William Lee. We've been trying to make this happen from a scheduling perspective for a very long time. He is an internationally renowned physician, scientist, and New York Times bestselling author. 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. His TED talk, Can We Eat to Starve Cancer, has gone in more than 11 million views.
And he is also the president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation. And he's leading global initiatives on food and medicine. In this episode, we're talking about building resilient bodies, the power of healing, cancer prevention, food as medicine, cellular health, disease prevention, longevity, cellular aging, nutrition, preventative health takeaways. We cover a lot in this episode with an expert that we've been looking to have on the show for a very long time. With that, Dr. William Lee, welcome to the Bostics.
How are the gut and cancer and overcoming cancer related?
Well, most people don't appreciate the fact that our gut pretty much controls every aspect of our health, from our brain health, that's gut brain, to our heart health, to our metabolism, to our lipids, and to our body's ability to resist cancer. And so when I went to medical school X number of years ago, I can tell you that cancer. was something that suddenly appeared and was diagnosed when a patient um had some symptoms and went to the hospital or felt a lump. And uh we now know that cancer actually is a normal state. I'm gonna repeat that again. Cancer's normal. We all have cancer from the time we're children all the way until we are as old as we can get. People talk about longevity. And let me explain that to you because it makes people, it takes people back a little bit.
Our body is made of forty trillion cells. It's a lot of cells, more cells in our body than the stars in the sky in a clear night. And those cells have to divide so that they can reproduce themselves. So that's why we're still gonna be around tomorrow and that's why we're still here today compared to yesterday. Our cells are dividing, copying and pasting themselves. And if they make a mistake when they're copying, You create a mutation, an error of copying, and that's the beginning of a microscopic cancer. Now our body is amazing because it has these copy paste detectors. Let's call them a spell checker. So if I asked you to record Mary Had a Little Lamb, uh and write it down ten times, you'd get a perfect.
If I asked you to write it down ten a hundred times, you'd probably make a mistake. Spellchecker'd have to get it. Now, if you're the human body and you had to write that, copy that forty trillion times, Even after you ran a spell checker to fix the mistakes that'll result in microscopic cancers, do you know how many the spell checker is gonna miss on average every day? 10,000 mistakes are still gonna sneak through. So every single day in our lives, on average, we're carrying 10,000 mistakes that just happen because we're trying to copy ourselves. Each of those mistakes can turn into a microscopic cancer, and they just sit there, harmless. They never cause disease for the most part. Because our body is able to resist and defend our health against those cancer cells growing.
And our gut plays a role in that defense.
And so this may be a dumb question, but on that line of reasoning, are there things that we're doing to our bodies to increase the amount of mistakes that our body makes?
That is an amazingly insightful question. Oh. And the reason I'm saying that that's insightful is because you're now you're getting it. You're you're you're putting the pieces together. What can we do that might make mistakes? Well, look, um, every time you have a cellular stress, we call it an oxidative stress.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Dr. William Li’s background and why is he on the show?
0:01–5:42
2
How does the gut influence cancer risk and overall health?
5:42–11:21
3
What everyday exposures (microplastics, UV, alcohol) increase cellular mistakes?
11:21–17:31
4
Why are kiwis a simple daily food that supports DNA health and gut bacteria?
17:31–26:04
5
How should we clean produce to reduce pesticide residues?
26:04–30:48
6
What are the health benefits of green tea and how should it be prepared?
30:48–37:07
7
Is eating meat okay and what guidelines should we follow?
37:07–43:21
8
What are the top three actions listeners can take tomorrow for better health?
43:21–1:00:13
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