BITESIZE | Avoid These 3 Foods to Boost Your Health Defences | Dr William Li #647
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Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite-size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 450 of the podcast with internationally renowned physician and best-selling author, Dr. William Lee. In this clip, he explains how the foods we eat could either support or weaken our body's natural defense systems and shares some simple, practical ways to make better choices every day. I think one of the greatest things about food and health is that it actually puts the agency of choice into our own individual hands.
And so we make our own choices. One of the interesting things that is very clear. is our body's health defenses, the five of them we talked about last time, our circulation, our stem cells, our healthy gut microbiome, the ability for our DNA to protect ourselves, our bodies from the environment, and also our immune system. These systems, for us to reach our health potential, we want to make sure that they are not squashed inadvertently. by foods that we have gotten used to eating.
And so let's talk a little about some of those foods that actually impair our health defenses. That's probably the best way of thinking about what to avoid. Now we know that added sugar is something that is very, that taxes the body's metabolism, right? So If you have a little bit of sugar in fruit, you know, from natural sugars, that's fine because you're getting a lot of other stuff in fruit as well that in fact helps your metabolism and helps your body's ability to be able to digest and metabolize uh fructose and glucose and use that fuel into your body.
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