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

This is a very helpful book. Is goes into how the things we eat affect our body processes. It could get technical in a few chapters, but it showed how intricate our digestion and body functions can be. It helped me figure out some issues with myself and benefits of certain foods to heal and enhance :-)

Excellent read! I have altered our food plan to adjust for better choices in regards to health concerns. Thank you!

This is a GREAT diet book. It’s a very flexible diet approach, not restrictive at all. Dr. Li explains many nutritional concepts and how they work in our body in very easy to understand manner. The book explains clearly how metabolism works, why what we eat can contribute both to health and disease, how to optimize our immune system, ways to restore our health. He explains the biochemistry of food, their interaction and effects on our internal organs at the cellular level that is easy for lay people to understand.The book focuses on preventive measures that do not require sacrificing our food preferences. It does emphasize to eat the food we like in moderation. It approaches FOOD AS MEDICINE, and how food can promote angiogenesis which can have both positive and negative effects on our body, how regeneration via stem cells work in our body, how the microbiome in out gut defend for our health, how to protect our fragile DNA, how our immune system works, and ways we can do within our control to protect ourselves from cancer. I never understand how ‘mitochondria’ works until I read his books.It has list of foods that apply to the five concepts that impact our defense system and how food can be used to fight fat and protect from cancer: Angiogenesis, Regeneration, Microbiome, DNA protection, and Immunity. It shows readers how to plan their diet, and it has recipe ideas. Dr. Li introduces the “MediterAsian diet,” and why Standard American Diet promotes diseases.I highly recommend reading both of his books: Eat To Beat Disease and Eat To Beat Your Diet.Imagine when majority of us can use food as medicine, choose food wisely, eat in moderation, we will have prevented many preventable diseases that is costing our health system mega-billions, and jacking up our health insurance irredeemably, outrageously high! Dr. Li has made it easier to eat healthy and prevent illnesses. It’s not easy to change dietary habit, but Dr. Li’s diet approach is very flexible. And, we can certainly teach children how to eat healthy and prevent diseases that are within our control, and nurture healthier future generations.

This is a great book. I like the discussion and detailed charts of foods by each defense system. Much more helpful than the summary charts in the back of the book. I sort of like the food dose chapter although I prefer the measurement in weight of food per kilogram bodyweight, instead of one dose fits all. The Assess your Risks chapter was a learning experience (in a good way)! Very happy to see the copious Notes section. However, on page 107 and page 305, the author recommends three varieties of apple typically found in grocery stores, but without a reference. This means I cannot compare the Eat to Beat apple variety recommendation (with no reference), to another apple variety recommendation (with reference) I already have in a book primarily about produce nutrition. I am not trying to sell someone else's book in this review so I am not including the title. (I will tell you that, in addition to nutrition research on modern commercially available apples, there is also research on our locally available grocery store apple's wild ancestors. The wild apples are MUCH more nutritious than what is available in the produce section of your local food mart.) Yes I checked the references before and after the recommendation on page 107. I got referred to an earlier study, went there, did not see recommended varieties and gave up. I did not check any other food variety recommendation in Eat to Beat Disease. Anyhow, I am glad I bought Eat to Beat Disease and I have recommended it to friends and family.

Great info! Dr Li has really informative YouTube podcasts too

Guide to good health if your willing 😊

I found this book easy to read and informative. Eat to Beat disease teaches through the mechanics of health science, research and knowledge of DNA to develop a study that cannot only heal but prevent disease.

Dr. Li is WAY ahead of most of his medical peers and the info in his book is helpful. HOWEVER, the 25 immune-boosting recipes are - shall we say - DIFFICULT, if not IMPOSSIBLE, for those who don't live in big cities on the coasts.I may have been the first person in Kansas in the 60s to make "Curried Chicken from the Moroccan Embassy" from scratch. The recipes look good and sound good, but even I am totally intimidated and put off by the 1) combinations (I've learned a lot about food combining (chemistry) since college and these recipes don't consider wise food combining at all), and 2) the specificity of ingredients. I've lived in big cities with many ethnic groups, where I could get exotic ingredients, butnow I live in the MidWest. GUAVA? In Mid Missouri? Not just extra virgin olive oil, but GREEK EVO? Espelette pepper, not just PEPPER or even WHITE PEPPER, but Espelette pepper?!? - "a specific variety of chili pepper grown in the French Basque region".So I will continue to enjoy Dr. Li's videos and the book, but the recipes are "no way, Jose" for me. Those of you in NYC or LA or SF or Miama - GO for it! :)