William Li

Against allopathy Alternative medicine

Clinically unproven

Color therapy National Health Federation Reiki Phillip Day Buteyko method Cancer Free University

Woo-meisters

Cancer Control Society Ty Bollinger Doctor's Data Mike Lindell L. Ron Hubbard Evie Magazine v - t - e

Food is good to woo with.

Potentially edible! Food woo

Fabulous food!

Essene Gospel of Peace Jesus diet Life Extension Foundation Subway diet Errol Denton

Delectable diets!

Ephedrine Soy Bulletproof diet Lew Rockwell

Bodacious bods!

Bold and Determined The Golden One Carnivore diet v - t - e

William Li is a woomeister who claims that we can eat our way out of cancer and other diseases using a practice he calls "angiogenesis therapy."

Angiogenesis

Angiogenesis is how your body grows new blood vessels — it's a thing; look it up in your freshman physiology text. The woo comes in when Li argues that "angiogenesis therapy" promotes the growth of new blood vessels to "replenish the blood supply to chronic wounds to speed healing, and [prevent] unnecessary amputations."

In reality, angiogenesis can make you worse if you have metastatic (malignant) cancer. When a tumor metastasizes in a new area of the body, it starts tiny but sends out signals telling the surrounding tissue to grow new blood vessels so that it can feed. Without angiogenesis, the new tumor can't grow more than a pinhead. One cancer management therapy under serious study uses angiogenesis inhibitors such as thalidomide to prevent new blood vessels from forming.

External links

• The Angiogenesis Foundation
• Li gives a Ted Talk

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