The BIGGEST LIES You’ve Been Told About Weight Loss & How To BURN BODY FAT | Dr. William Li
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On Today’s Episode:
You probably think that lowering your body fat is the healthy thing to do, and assume that gaining or carrying more body fat is unhealthy. Most of us would think that’s common sense at this point, but what if that’s all wrong?
In this episode expect to walk away shocked and a little befuddled:
– Get into the science of body fat and all the benefits you get from having adequate fat
– The appearance of how much or how little fat someone has is misleading
– Stop complicating food and exercise, don’t overeat, eat diverse foods, and enjoy eating
Dr. William Li is a Harvard trained medical doctor, researcher and the NY Times bestselling author of the books, Eat to Beat Disease and Eat to Beat Your Diet. Dr. Li’s work with the Angiogenesis Foundation has led to 40 FDA approved therapeutics and devices for treating disease.
Mixed messages and dated information have become accepted truths baked into our habits and reasoning. William Li promotes the simplicity of food, health, and our ability to beat disease with lifestyle.
“Healthcare happens at home, not in the doctor’s office.” -Dr. William Li
Check out his book, Eat to Beat Your Diet: https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Beat-Your-Diet-Activate/dp/1538753901
QUOTES:
“Being fat is a subjective statement, what I would actually say, […] is that body fat isn’t harmful in a normal level.”
“Just because you’re big doesn’t mean you’re tragically ill.”
“It’s not a slow metabolism that causes you to gain body fat and gain weight, it’s the other way around, extra body fat slows your metabolism.
“Having fat is good, having too much fat is bad.”
“Healthcare happens at home, not in the doctor’s office.”
“This is not a rich man’s folly to pursue that you can’t sustain, this is tapping back into our humanity.”
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@TomBilyeu
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
WARNING: I will never ask for your contact info in the comments section, that is someone impersonating me!
@europeangoddess4361
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
I used to like this channel but i had to stop watching it bc Tom appears to have some personal and mental health issues bc he used to be fat and was doing everything to lose his weight. His interrogation style and insecurities and wanting to show us that he is smart ass does not work out for me. I unsubscribed!!!👎👎👎
@StephenHolland8
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
In many ways this interview comes off as an interrogation. You can ask thought-provoking questions but at least let the Dr. answer.
@apriladkins606
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
I loved the storey about the tomatoes. ❤
@blackberry_700
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
This fucking guy interviewing Dr William Li is a damn bonehead he's a moron he's questions are annoying and disgusting he's like a fucking stupid child seeking a stupid answer from a renowned physician researcher scientist what a fucking waste of time Dr William Li spent to this idiot
@blackberry_700
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
I hate this fricking guy interviewing Dr William Li he's a bonehead very simple visceral fat (white fat) is bad regardless of body size this is the worst guy that interviewed Dr William Li
@blackberry_700
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
I hate this fricking guy interviewing Dr William Li he's a bonehead very simple visceral fat (white fat) is bad regardless of body size
@azdhan
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Great discussion I would only add and further related to this is the impact of ones “personal fat threshold” which is highly genetically and even ethnically variable. It is pretty much set in stone. It does in no way excuse not exercing and making healthier choices. If anything, it makes a much stronger case of greater weight to diet and exercise if you are so predisposed. You guys spoke to this in a round about way when you discussed NAFLD and visceral fat, but I believe it requires a lot more attention. To that end you and viewers can search You Tube Videos where Simon Hill(You Tube Channel The Proof) and Dr Gil Carvalho(Nutrition Made Simple) interview with Professor Roy Taylor, the world’s most reputable diabetologist and founding father and researcher into the concept of individual “personal fat threshold”
@azdhan
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
super interesting! Many thanks for sharing.
@محمدحسین-غ3ش1ف
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
❤❤❤
@arbiehill68
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Man those chairs look comfy! So my dad is 95 and just went into assisted living. It's a nice place with about 65 residents. Not one of them is overweight. I have heard that as you get older you lose your appetite. Maybe there's hope for me yet.
@terrymcnee3568
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
I love your scientific research. We the public NEED YOU. I must get back to exersise now im retired. I built houses for 50 years so never needed exercise program. only chiropractors. Your science gives ME and my happy gut biome a chance to stay off meds. at 73 onwards. I would like to be tested for visceral fat just to know. cheers
@arlettasloan6453
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Diverse plants can share the same proteins. Don't take my word for it, look it up! Cross-reactivity happens. I found that all the things I have high reactivity or absolute allergy too are cross-reactive with two different trees. One of which is the birch tree, which I was around a lot throughout my childhood and adult-life, including when they were burgeoning and I started to get sick when they were reddened in the springtime and I was too close to them. So, apparently, my body had a reaction to them, a lot and for a while, so that it started viewing all things with that same protein as a problem.
Quite a long time ago, i found out my problem with doing leg exercises is that I developed an allergic reaction that sounds unreal, but it's way too real. If I exercised the front of my thighs, I would get dizzy, nauseous, blurry eyed, maybe even black out a bit. It's an allergy to wheat, tomato and/or shrimp. They all have a protein that causes that specific allergen and it is the same exact protein in all of them. And, I was a person who seldom ate shrimp, but I made a lot of really good, full of vegetables, spaghetti.
I can't remember the name of the other tree right now. But, yeah… not the same plant families, not even all just plants, but there is a lot of cross-reactivity even with animals, fish, mold, and dust to plants eaten as food and/or which give out pollen. And, it can go any which way. You might be allergic to a grass, and it cause you to not be able to eat this land animal, this sea creature, and this small list of fruits, vegetables and nuts.
@gmo709
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
You definitely dont want more visceral fat though. Different types of fat, right?
@lindajones4849
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Hi Tom: Dr Robert Lustigs lectures clarify some of yourconcerns . There are people who are overweight and metabolically healthy if you look at their blood panels.According to Dr. Lustig about 20 percent of the overweight/ obese population is metabolically healthy. BUT about 40 percent of the thin population are metabolically unhealthy and dont realize it. I thought also that obesity caused diabetes but Lustig says it a marker for diabetes NOT the cause. Diabetics in India and China are mostly normal weight. Lustig says that you can gain about 22 lbs of subcutaneous fat and stay metabolically healthy. Its the visceral fat and esp liver fat that is dangerous. Careful though , even being moderately o erweight increases the risk of multiple cancers.
@LisaSpeaksTruth
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Dr. Li, Tom wasn’t throwing grenades, you had an intelligent, well-prepared interviewer asking deep and thoughtful questions for us all to gain clarity in this health and health care crisis. I have watched you both before and this interview was the first to make me a fan of you both. Clarity = understanding, not grenades. Kudos to you both!
@sscott65
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
I had to stop watching when Dr. Li said we need to eat sugar. Completely untrue. He should know better.
@craggnmore
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Ask -if you can halt it through diet? and safaeguard whatever function is remaining so a transplant is not required???
@iagroupmedia
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Amazing content Tom, so gratefull.
@Dangerous_Ride
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
How to get lean (less then 10% fat) and be healthy at the same time (having high testosterone as well, etc.)? That's the question I'd like you to ask your future guests that talk about food and exercise. Thank you
@alexi2460
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Love Dr Li.
@obamasgirl787
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
My metabolism is slow and I’m losing weight, I’m 58 yrs old.
@micheleporter865
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
I also am concerned WITH WHAT WE KNOW about the "receptor site" for absorption, issues of these fructose/ fruits.. reg. Or dried, w/o added sugar. Thus FRUCtoses COLLECTIVE capability of blocking the receptor site for the nutrients an providing only/primarily the Fruc tose to the HUMAN with ACTIVE CANCER???
@micheleporter865
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
You haven't explained the detrament of people with food allergies, an lectins are one's that "LIGHT UP" , On IGG, IGE, IGA, specific testing!
@PantoufleOG
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
What about 3 12oz cans of diet coke a day. I need someone to tell me the truth about what that’s doing to me! I don’t know because it depends on what I read/watch.
@MountainsBU
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Very good presentation Dr. Li.
@darksidesr7
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
I am impressed, great informations and sources ! Thanks ! i am from France and have mediterraneen diet, all you sai so true, Thanks Doc
@gibsongtr
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
The average lifespan of a sumo wrestler is 65. Mid 50s for an NFL lineman. There is nothing healthy about being over-fat. It's just that young athlete working out regularly can get away with it.
@2passportsandpostcards
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
I am a female in now what is considered to be my late 30s. I have gained about 35lbs since my late twenties and I can tell you all of my blood work has been 💯 on point for years. There is still a deregulation within my body (weight gain) if I don’t consistently feed my body whole, clean foods and moderately to intensely exercise. That would be JUST to maintain my weight. If I stop, I derail. It’s only now through so much knowledge I am gaining that I need to dial it in with fasting, microbiome fixing and other tools that I can get down (and stay down) at a weight I am comfortable at! Oh, and by the way, according to the BMI chart, I am technically considered obese for my height 😵💫
@mariawelling4194
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Junk food verses whole foods..common sense shoukd tell you eat what mother earth provides us with..
@samieramohamed2467
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Balance, the golden mean ( logics Aristotle).
@Jdpow3
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Interesting his example was "eaten by a shark," or "dropped in a volcano." Dropped in a volcano??
@dionisienatea3137
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
the SHOCKING, the BIGGEST, the SECRETS, the INSANE, the NIGHTMARE, EVERYTHING you need to know, DO this, WATCH OUT, they want you SICK, our TOXIC CULTURE….all this make me sick. For real.
@Lunatic_88
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
this guy wrote a book on how its ok to have normal amount of fat
@TOOTSWEET61
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
I have an Aunt who has been obese since her twenties, really obese not just moderate, and she is 82years old.
@lornahowerton1379
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Dr Li you are exactly right. I was a TOFI, I was thin on the outside and drank a ton of cokes. I ended up with Chronic Kidney Disease and Insulin Resistance.. I've been 4 yrs working on my my metabolic health through a low carb/ Fasting lifestyle. I listen to what you say about whole real food to benefit my body. I have normal kidneys now and my body composition has totally changed. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing your knowledge.
@lizkuisma238
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Learned so much. Thankyou Dr Li.
@touqirbutter9810
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
The Sumo restless are doing fine during their carier because they are very young. Generally they get retired by 30, and issues start after retirement, unless the reduce their size. Many of them get heart attack. So that example doesn’t help.
@semaaral2498
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
I have big women friends,
healthier blood tests, non block arteries then me😂
Amazing.
True..
I've lost my trust towards this Valuable Dr, don't know why .
Something odd he has done years ago,he knows it.
He was on a reality show & eaten chicken while he was advising us a plant diet🤗
But since listening to Dave Asprey yesterday, to his latest Podcast with you then changed my mind & left plant diet.
I've shrank after plant diet.
Last two years after our valuable Dr Sinclair's book.
Hope he finishes his experiences and tells us which diet is healthy for longevity.
But I put on weight by plant diet.
So back to my oldie but Goldi
white meat protein & some clean veggies diet
A little desert but will continue to prepare my desert from 1 packet of Silken tofu & 4 spoon of plant cacao walnut not pecan ,
Dr Gundry's lectins🙄 stopped me using them😅),
1 tsp protein powder from each kind as you like , more choco melt add in 🍨 may be a banana blend or some stevia or dates instead of sugar & some vegan choco chips on top . As you like
A little water add up & blend .
Voila🤷♀️ desert is ready. If you are alone make the half if the tofu but not sure how you gonna protect the rest of the unused tofu🤷♀️
Is silken Tofu is a clean product or full of chemicals?
If any one knows the answer will appreciate .
Thanks to Dr & Tom bilyeu.
I'm in their grandma age👵
Like lewis Howes , Chuck & Tom are my fave interviewer's.
God Bless🙏🌺
@vitobarca640
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
What happens to the extra fat cells when you loose weight? Do they shrink or your body get rid of them?
@shekatagani
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Injecting yourself with a drug to stop you from eating is sick! Unless you are so obese you need to reduce the food you eat to get to good health. If you do this just to loose weight It is a bad way!
@MrPopo-bd1ix
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
1:38:00 The lectins are in the skin and seeds of the tomato, not the WHOLE tomato. Tomatoes in Italy are de-seeded and de-skinned. Misinterpretation of Dr. Gundry's explanation of lectins.
Most lectins are in grain, even if you pressure cook them.
But Dr. Li does have an interesting point because the french and europeans have been eating bread forever yet are thin and healthy.
@ohthatshim
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Sumo wrestlers do die young. You keep inviting charlatans on your podcasts.
Here is how you challenge this clown: name 10. And throw him out if he cant name 10 sumo wrestlers who are 90
@owlhollow3992
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
thank you youtube for. leading me to that channel Awsome Host and incredible guest , an actual Doctor speaking up for a that kind of holistic point based on data .
@sarahellen5846
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
When you want to get famous by saying you can be fat and healthy, but don't have the science to back it up. Lol
@JREGreatestHits
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
So far, this just seems like its going to be delusional fuel for people with lifelong weight issues, a reason not to keep going. I love the podcast overall but this episode seems like a very short message hidden in a lot of unnecessary words. I may be missing the point but all I seem to be hearing is "some fat is good for you" over and over again without giving me any real reasons to truly get behind it. We get having some fat on you is good, we always have, but this is going to be taken out of context by SO many people and likely cause more overall damage. I haven't really been convinced of anything yet and I'm still undecided on whether I'll finish part 2/the last hour.
@sarahellen5846
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
FANTASTIC interview, Tom! Thank you for doing such a great job sifting through these claims and getting down to the actual science (or lack thereof) behind them. Did he include this "if you have too much fat it acts like cancer" discourse in his book? If not, it's a disservice to the readers.
@greyhnd001
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 am
Oils are 100 percent fat. I lost Dave's insanity
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