Eat to Beat Disease: The Body’s Five Defence Systems and the Foods that Could Save Your Life

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Kiwis are also Grand Slammers, and they're particularly great at protecting DNA, which can help slow cellular aging and reduce cancer risk.

nu mai este necesar de mentionat cat de nociva este carnea procesata, aceasta scurtand telomerii si generand substante chimice ce produc inflamatii, care pot crea stres oxidativ in celule si pot degrada ADN-ul.While we can’t always change external stressors such as kids, jobs and travel, we can take simple measures proven to make us calmer, less reactive and better.

For example, pain in the joints was described as being due to blood being contaminated and coagulated by phlegm and bile. Building on this groundbreaking work, Dr Li now brings us Eat to Beat Your Diet, a revolutionary, science-based approach to weight loss. Li makes the claim that red wine is one of the top anti-cancer foods, I have to take it with a grain of salt as I've seen other doctors say all alcohol is "bad," including red wine. He might add some capers, which pack a hefty dose of the antioxidant quercetin, which is anti-inflammatory and may help inhibit the growth of several types of cancer.Walnuts, yogurt, sauerkraut, beans, kiwis and cocoa encourage the growth of “healthy” bacteria in the gut. Fun fact: Li rose to fame in 2010 when his TedTalk on anti-angiogenic foods, Can We Eat To Starve Cancer?

Love especially the part about the Microbiome because it directly links to the disease I have, colitis ulcerosa.Li once again gives us a step-by-step guide on how to transform our bodies and our health for life-changing results that are lasting! William Li empowers readers by showing them the evidence behind over two hundred health-boosting foods that can stave off cancer, reduce your risk of dementia, and beat dozens of avoidable diseases. On the other hand, cancer stem cells can be killed with green tea, purple potatoes, walnuts, and extra-virgin olive oil. I go back and listen to the audio book just to remind myself how easy it is to make this lift altering changes!

While I had read many of the "tips" before from multiple sources, it was nice to have it all in one place. Revealing more than 200 foods that you can incorporate into your life today to help you live longer, Dr William Li proposes a simple 5 x 5 x 5 framework, inviting you to choose five foods and eat them five times a day, to fortify your five defence systems. They're a great source of vitamin K2 (also found in egg yolks and chicken thighs), which is not only heart-healthy but anti-angiogenic as well, meaning it helps slow the formation of blood vessels that promote tumor growth. Li's highly enjoyable and informative book spreads the word that achieving great health is within reach for all of us, using the very foods that we love. Overall, I learned a lot and will be making a concerted effort to incorporate more of the foods below into my diet on a routine basis.If you haven't yet seen Dr William Li doing his free podcasts, then you have missed out on lots of tips about eating well for hood health. Nutrients act within the complexity of the human system and isolating a nutrient to demonstrate efficacy may not be sufficient. This pioneering approach leads to a deeper understanding of the cellular mechanisms responsible for the health benefits of food, and generates the scientific, clinical, and population-based evidence paving a way toward disease prevention, better fitness, and faster recovery from illness. The first part of the book covers the five major health defense systems, how they function, and what happens when their internal balance is thrown off. Li’s groundbreaking work has impacted more than seventy diseases, including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity.