Eat to Beat Your Diet

Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer

By: William W Li MD

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

The pioneering physician scientist behind the New York Times bestseller Eat to Beat Disease reveals the science of eating your way to healthy weight loss.

In his first groundbreaking book, Dr. William Li explored the world of food as medicine. By eating foods that you already enjoy, like tomatoes, blueberries, sourdough bread, and dark chocolate, your body activates its five health defense systems to fight cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative autoimmune diseases, and other debilitating conditions.

Now in Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. Li introduces the surprising new science of weight loss, revealing healthy body fat can help you lose weight and have big impacts on your overall health. Eat to Beat Your Diet shows readers how adding the right foods to your diet can heal your metabolism, reduce unhealthy body fat, and result in the kind of weight loss that can increase your lifespan and help you thrive.

Both informative and practical, Dr. Li offers a four-week meal plan for food lovers; easy food swaps, shopping tips, and more than a month of crowd-pleasing recipes.

“In Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. William Li reveals the groundbreaking discovery that the best weight loss medicines in the world can be found in your refrigerator and pantry. Blending the science of molecular nutrition with the ancient food ways of the Mediterranean and Asian cultures, Dr. Li provides a delicious roadmap to harness the power of everyday foods to activate your fat burning systems and create long term health using the magic of your fork.” ―Mark Hyman, MD, Senior Advisor to the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, New York Times Bestselling Author of Young Forever

“Dr. William Li is a very trusted, valued dear friend. I am very excited about this book. My entire family are all fans of Dr. Will’s. This book takes on so much more for the reader. Dr. Will takes you on a tour of the grocery store, tells you all the foods you should be eating and all the data that backs that up, and 36 original recipes. Everything is incredibly researched and referenced. It’s such a great tool, as are all of Dr. Will’s books. Live long, live healthy.” ―Rachael Ray, American chef, TV personality, and author of Rachel Ray 50 and other cookbooks

Critic reviews

“A groundbreaking 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

"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

"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

"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

Great book, very interesting

Great book, very informative. I’m not seeing a PDF however, please update & add.

Eat to Beat Disease is also great. Both break down the science in a simple method.

I was hoping to hear the author narrate the book on this one since Dr William Li is engaging in the YouTube videos I’ve watched.

Loved this book

This book provides powerful knowledge about food and the choices we make! I’ve incorporated many of the changes into my life style and intend to add more!

Simple guidelines that are easy to follow

I love Dr. Li and his first book Eat to Beat Disease is one of my favorites of all time and goes in my game changer category of books. I enjoyed this book (though not as much as the first) and feel his plan is simple & easy to follow. I don’t agree with everything he said but I think most of it would work for most people. I would love to see him do a follow-up of Eat to beat disease with more research/updates with the newest science, especially his COVID research!

Best Information to staying healthy.

All you need is this book and Eat to beat disease to get and stay healthy

Metabolic MYTHS exposed!

Fantastic SCIENCE facts that Dr. Li explains in such a simple easy to follow book! I’m obsessed listened 3 times!!! Now doing it