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Eat to Beat Disease

The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself

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Eat to Beat Disease

By: William W Li MD MD
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
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 Eat your way to better health with this New York Times bestseller on food's ability to help the body heal itself from cancer, dementia, and dozens of other avoidable diseases.

Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and 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 Eat to Beat Disease.

We have radically underestimated our body's power to transform and restore our health. Pioneering physician scientist, Dr. William Li, empowers readers by showing them the evidence behind over 200 health-boosting foods that can starve cancer, reduce your risk of dementia, and beat dozens of avoidable diseases. Eat to Beat Disease isn't about what foods to avoid, but rather is a life-changing guide to the hundreds of healing foods to add to your meals that support the body's defense systems, including:
  • Plums
  • Cinnamon
  • Jasmine tea
  • Red wine and beer
  • Black Beans
  • San Marzano tomatoes
  • Olive oil
  • Pacific oysters
  • Cheeses like Jarlsberg, Camembert and cheddar
  • Sourdough bread

The book's plan shows you how to integrate the foods you already love into any diet or health plan to activate your body's health defense systems-Angiogenesis, Regeneration, Microbiome, DNA Protection, and Immunity-to fight cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative autoimmune diseases, and other debilitating conditions.

Both informative and practical, Eat to Beat Disease explains the science of healing and prevention, the strategies for using food to actively transform health, and points the science of wellbeing and disease prevention in an exhilarating new direction. Alternative & Complementary Medicine Alzheimer's & Dementia Cancer Hygiene & Healthy Living Physical Illness & Disease Health Nutrition Healthy Diet Medicine Alzheimer's Disease

Critic Reviews

"A ground breaking physician shares how we can use food to hack our natural defense systems and hardwire ourselves for health."—-Mehmet Oz, MD, Host, The Dr. Oz Show
"Dr. William Li is a healthcare pioneer... Dr. Li helps our readers thrive by unpacking how the body's own systems respond to what we eat. His book will give practical tips for healthier living and empower readers with ways they can help their bodies fight disease."—Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, Thrive Global
"Finally! A book that tells us the truth about what we can eat to be healthy, based on real science, from a true expert. 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. When it comes to food and health, I'm so happy to have Dr. Li in my camp!"—-Cindy Crawford
"An ode to one of life's greatest pleasures and a convincing case for a healthy appetite. This book will entertain, educate, devour and then empower you. Dr. William Li teaches us that we have radically underestimated our own power to transform and restore our health. This is a fascinating story of the power of food, a reflection on what we mean by health, and practical tool with the 5x5x5 framework to make sure we are around to enjoy life's pleasures for as long as possible."—-Bono
"'We are what we eat' goes the old cliché, but it would be more accurate to say that 'we are what we extract from our food.' What if food is more than energy and more than nutrition but a form of medicine? In his ground-breaking book Eat to Beat Disease, Dr. William Li brings the discipline of clinical medical research to bear on a new analysis of the relationship between food and health. Piecing together the puzzle of the how the food we consume impacts how the human body functions and how it protects itself from disease, Dr. Li puts forward a new paradigm to explain this relationship: 'Food as Medicine.' Eat to Beat Disease heralds a revolution in thinking about how the food we eat dictates our health."—-The Edge, U2, Director, The Angiogenesis Foundation
"In a new ground-breaking study--Eat to Beat Disease--Dr. William W. Li provides the knowledge and tools to make better decisions what to eat every day. This easy-to-read book is not a diet book but help you better understand what you eat."—--The Washington Book Review
"Unlike so many books that turn people away from the foods they enjoy, Eat to Beat Disease shows us how the foods we love actually support our wellbeing and vitality. I recommend that every health seeker read this new classic, and tell their friends and family all about it."—-Mark Hyman, MD, Director, Cleveland Clinic Center
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I love Dr Li on his You Tubes. This book has so much science based knowledge, it lived up to my expectations. Fabulous. I just wish Dr Li read it himself

Fascinating, so educational

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I'm needing to improve my diet and my wife has cancer. William Li communicates new research well and have helped us change our eating habits for the better. His discussions on YouTube give good insight as well.

Life Changing

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Through knowledge of eating well you too can improve your well being immediately.
Easy to find food groups and easy to listen to this audio, you will become a better you.

A Better You, Improved and Stronger

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I loved all of it I’m so grateful I came across Dr William Li on UTube. He is so simple to understand and he uses food to not only help us beat disease but prevent it too. Highly recommend this book and his UTube talks about, thank you!

Food is medicine

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So disappointed it’s just an AI voice not Dr Ali’s - I’ve listened to a few chapters and I can’t listen to any more. Really annoyed he’s gone to AI for his business - happy to watch and listen to your free YouTube channel instead.
Ps I love your work but not this book sorry - just can’t get past the horrible no feeling or emotions with an AI voice reading g YOUR fabulous work!!

Horrible AI voice - can’t listen to it all

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I've read hundreds of nutrition books over the years and only bought this to find out if anything substantiated his reputation.
All I could find is a catchy title - promoting hope to those looking to reverse their disease.

The book drags on and on about research he choose - admittedly based on his own bias, In choosing from 280million scientific studies. He obviously hasn't discovered 'Functional medicine." Not a mention.

If you're looking to make a comeback from stage 4 anything, and quickly locate the path that Others choose and succeeded against all odds, start with the most popular read on Earth. How Not To Die. It contains the A-Z of illnesses cured with food, all of which is organic.

On that note, I watched the authors YouTube of a typical shopping trip to the grocery store
He choose and reccomended foods known to have mould, lectin, pesticides, fructose and preservatives. That said, a typical western grocery store is not selling wellness, and this bloke doesn't mention the contraindications of eating the very foods he reccomends.

Enough said. The content of this book does not live up to the title. Why(? We all need nutition to cure the root cause - and that entails every organ and then some, that supports our immune system. More importantly is to learn how to shop for healthy food specific to your needs and food sensitivities and as an overall preventative.

Perhaps his new book on nutition will be enlightening. Perhaps his bias will evolve.

Bad Advice Throughout - If You're Sick You'll Get Worse

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