In today’s episode, you’ll learn a renowned doctor’s protocol to prevent disease, heal your body, burn fat, and feel better now.

You’ll get the exact steps to optimize your health, the 5 foods you should be eating every week, and the 3 foods you’ll never eat again after you listen to this episode.

Joining Mel today is Dr. William Li, MD. Dr. Li is a physician and scientist whose groundbreaking work on angiogenesis (the study of blood vessels) has impacted more than seventy diseases, including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity, and his foundation has educated 40,000 physicians.

He has also spent over 30 years researching the connection between food and health, and his findings that he is sharing with you today are nothing short of revolutionary.

Dr. Li will explain how you can rewire your metabolism, improve your overall health, and start feeling better by making simple and powerful changes to your diet.

In this episode, you will learn:

• The top 5 foods proven to burn fat and prevent disease.
• The 3 things you should never eat or drink.
• How to activate your body’s natural fat-burning system.
• The critical connection between your diet, metabolism, and health.
• The surprising role your body’s blood vessels play in burning fat and healing.
• How specific dietary changes can starve cancer and prevent chronic disease.
• Why your metabolism isn’t broken – it’s just waiting for the right fuel.

Dr. Li’s research and advice will change the way you think about food and your health.

All additional resources, including Dr. Li’s books and studies are linked on the podcast episode page.

If you liked this research-packed episode, you’ll love listening to this one next: Change Your Brain: #1 Neuroscientist’s Exercise Protocol for Peak Energy and Focus

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Take 7 minutes for yourself today.

These are 7 minutes for the next year that will start 2025 right.

In this special mini-episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, Mel has a message just for you: This year, you have the power.

You have the power to make this the best year of your life.

You have the power to take the leap, pursue your dreams, and create the change you’ve always wanted.

This is the year you take back control. You stop worrying about what others think, say, or do, and start focusing on YOU. Because here’s the truth: only you decide how to spend your time and energy. And when you direct them toward the right things, everything changes.

Start your year strong with this message from Mel.

If you liked this episode, your next listen should be this one: The Top Expert Advice of the Year: The Best of the Mel Robbins Podcast

Get Mel’s new bestselling book: “The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About”

For more resources, click here for the podcast episode page.

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Do you want to make 2025 your best year yet?

There are 7 questions to ask yourself that will help you:

• Step into 2025 with clarity about what you want & with a plan to make it happen
• Become inspired, energized, and in control again
• Learn & apply Mel's powerful, life-changing, science-backed, year-end ritual that she has done for over 20 years

In this episode, Mel will walk you through the 7 powerful questions, reveal her own answers, and guide you through how to answer them.

Your answers will show you what the very next steps are in your life, and help you confidently map out what you should focus on in the next 12 months.

This is the method Mel uses to set and achieve goals, and today, you’re getting the roadmap to the success, fulfillment, and happiness that you desire.

And if you’ve been a long-term listener of Mel and the podcast, you’ll recognize and love this method, as Mel invites you to reflect on and revisit how the past year went.

Fun, engaging, and deeply impactful, this episode will help you step into 2025 with purpose and momentum.

For more resources, click here for the podcast episode page.

If you liked this episode, your next listen should be this one: The Top Expert Advice of the Year: The Best of the Mel Robbins Podcast

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If there’s someone in your life you wish you were closer to, but it sometimes feels like there’s an unspoken tension between you, this episode is for you.

Today, Mel sits down with her oldest daughter, Sawyer, for a raw and transformative conversation about repairing relationships and closing the invisible distance that so many of us feel with the people we love most.

Together, they share the story of how writing The Let Them Theory healed their relationship and reveal three powerful tools that can help you do the same.

Whether it’s with a sibling, a parent, an adult child, or your partner, this conversation is a gift—one that will help you let go of resentment, show up differently, and create the deeper connection you’ve been longing for.

Get ready to finally have the relationship you’ve always wanted.

Get the book: “The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About”

For more resources, click here for the podcast episode page.

If you liked this personal episode, you’ll love this one, in which Mel and her husband Chris have a very candid conversation about their marriage of 28 years: How To Create Better Relationships: 6 Surprising Lessons From 28 Years Of Marriage

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This episode will change the way you think about every relationship in your life.

Today, Harvard’s Dr. Stuart Ablon is distilling 30 years of behavior change research into one hour.

Dr. Ablon is the Founder and Director of Think: Kids at Massachusetts General Hospital, which focuses on Collaborative Problem Solving. An award-winning psychologist, Dr. Ablon is also a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

After listening, you will have a completely new approach to dealing with difficult people, challenging kids, and family members.

In this candid and relatable conversation, Mel and Dr. Ablon bust through the most common parenting myths and offers a simple 3 step approach for transforming even the most frustrating dynamics.

This episode isn’t just about solving conflicts; it’s about creating a deeper understanding of others and fostering lasting change.

Whether you're a parent, partner, or simply navigating life’s challenges, this conversation is for you.

For more resources, including links to the studies mentioned in the episode, click here for the podcast episode page.

If you liked this episode, and want to create a peaceful connection with family, listen to to this episode next: The Simple Tool That Will Transform Your Family Dynamic

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Confidence is a skill, and today you are going to learn exactly how to build it.

Mel is one of the leading experts on the topic of confidence and is tapped regularly by the world’s top brands to teach their leaders how to be more confident.

And in today’s episode, Mel is giving you her step-by-step playbook, the same one that she teaches to leaders around the world, that you can use immediately.

Mel is offering the guide to believing in yourself (for real this time) in 5 simple steps.

If you have ever wanted to know how to increase your self-confidence and improve self-esteem, this is the episode for you. Whether you want to speak up at work, set boundaries, or stop doubting yourself, you need to hear this.

This is an encore episode with new and exciting insights from Mel at the top.

For more resources, including links to the studies mentioned in the episode, click here for the podcast episode page.

If you liked this episode, which was packed with coaching and simple tools to be more confident, you’ll love listening to this one next: How to Read Body Language to Get What You Want: 6 Simple Psychological Tricks to Be More Confident

Connect with Mel:

• Get Mel’s new book, The Let Them Theory
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