Li - Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself

Molecular medicine has finally been joined by molecular nutrition! Human health care can now be truly transformed by integration of the two most powerful determinants of health and disease: the medicine we take and the food we eat. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Li has a distinguished career of contributing to stunning progress in our elucidation of the genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms determining our health and disease. This knowledge has enabled researchers and clinicians to unleash powerful, targeted medicines to prevent, eliminate, or control disease and ushered in the modern era of precision medicine. Medical science has long recognized that in addition to pharmaceuticals, diet also played a significant part in modulating our heath but we did not understand how and why. In EAT TO BEAT DISEASE, Dr. Li presents a scientifically rigorous and comprehensive exposition of the molecular nutrients contained in our diets and their relationship to prevention of disease and restoration of health, thereby providing for precision molecular nutrition. Its a truly historic compendium.

This book is extraordinary in the depth of its providing an elucidation of the unique micronutrient of an extensive variety of food and its specific interaction with cells and tissues of the body. For decades, we captured a primitive understanding of healthy foods and applied maxims like An apple a day keeps the doctor away. In this book, Dr. Li not only tells us why an apple has health benefits but even more importantly tells us which variety of apple is best!

This book is brilliantly written in a style that first explains the key mechanisms the body employs to maintain the health and integrity of our bodies when confronted by invading infections, a breakdown in genetic controls that can lead to cancer or the simple process of aging. Those principal mechanisms are angiogenesis, regeneration, the microbiome, DNA protection and immunity. Dr. Li then offers us detailed exposition of the molecular nutrients most effective in support of these mechanisms and the specific foods in which they are found in sufficient abundance. In effect this creates a precision dietary prescription, and the great pleasure and perhaps surprise is that the formulary is filled with things we like to eat!

Throughout the extensive exposition of the interaction between the micronutrients of various foods on the functions of the body, Dr. Li provides ample documentation with data derived from scientific experiments and well-conducted clinical research trials, but beyond sound nutritional prescriptions the latter portion of the book becomes quite practical with his presentation of his 5 x 5 x 5 plan that matches the condition to be addressed with the foods you like the best and the practical way to incorporate this kind of healthy eating into your life style.

In summary, EAT TO BEAT DISEASE is the best guide to using food to enhance heath that I am aware of for both professionals and the public. It is scientific, it is comprehensive, it links logic with prescription, and most important it is practical! It will not only transform the way you eatit will transform health care.

Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD, president, Samaritan Health Initiatives, former director of the National Cancer Institute, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration

A groundbreaking physician shares how we can use food to hack our natural defense systems and hard-wire ourselves for health.

Mehmet Oz, MD, host, The Dr. Oz Show

EAT TO BEAT DISEASE is a trailblazing book. Author, world-renowned physician, and medical scientist Dr. William Li explains how we have the power to help control our own health destiny by making decisions that help the body heal itself. Dr. Li describes how more than two hundred foods amplify our bodys defenses, which can result in beneficial health outcomes. EAT TO BEAT DISEASE is a must readI strongly endorse it.

Dean Ornish, MD, founder and president, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, clinical professor of medicine, University of California, San Francisco, author, UnDo It!

With EAT TO BEAT DISEASE, Dr. William Li tells us why your fork is your most powerful tool for health. This book reveals powerful new discoveries about how the body naturally resists disease through specific health defense systems. Dr. Li takes us on an epic journey, accompanied by scientific evidence, that shows us what we eat can activate these defenses. 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 well-being and vitality. I recommend that every health seeker should read this new classic and tell their friends and family all about it.