Dr. William Li heads the Angiogenesis Foundation, a nonprofit that is re-conceptualizing global disease fighting, presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other
diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that
feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting
foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game.
Why you should listen
to him:
Many of society’s most devastating diseases -- cancer,
cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, to name a few -- share
a common denominator: faulty Angiogenesis, the body’s growth of new
capillary blood vessels. Given excessive or insufficient blood vessel
growth, serious health issues arise. While researching under Harvard
surgeon Judah Folkman, who pioneered the study of angiogenesis, Li
learned how angiogenesis-based medicine helps patients overcome numerous
diseases by restoring the balance of blood-vessel growth.
Li
co-founded the Angiogenesis Foundation in 1994. The foundation’s Project
ENABLE -- a global system that integrates patients, medical experts and
healthcare professionals -- democratizes the spread and implementation
of knowledge about angiogenesis-based medicines, diet and lifestyle.
Some 40,000 physicians have been educated on new treatments, ranging
from cancer care to wound care, by the foundation’s faculty of medical
experts, and they are bringing new, lifesaving and disease-preventing
techniques to people around the world.
"Imagine
that one medical advancement held the promise to conquer cancer,
perhaps within your lifetime … the potential to also end more than 70 of
life's most threatening conditions, affecting one billion people
worldwide. This is the promise of angiogenesis, the first medical
revolution of the 21st century." - Dr. William Li
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