How to Use the Power of Mirror Neurons to Radically Transform Every Relationship in Your Life | This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and BiOptimizers . Connection is at the root of being human. We all want to feel connected to our tribe, we want to feel seen and heard, and we need to help others feel the same in order to have healthy relationships. I think most people would agree, this is an important thing to work on. What most people don’t want to hear, is that the work begins with get...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Avoid These Things If You Want a Healthier Brain | This episode is brought to you by BLUblox and Cozy Earth . The brain is capable of some incredible and life-altering changes. The hippocampus actually creates 700 new stem cells every single day, meaning the brain can regenerate, improve, and heal from traumatic injuries and other significant insults to function better than ever. We’re more successful at this when we know what the underlying causes of dysfunction are. The brain is one organ that...
Sep 23, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Hormonal Imbalances Can Ruin Your Life, Here’s How to Fix Them | This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and InsideTracker . Mainstream medicine often fails us when it comes to hormonal imbalances. Hormones aren’t commonly tested, even when there is a high likelihood of an issue (like cortisol in our overly stressed culture). Since there are so many hormones that can become dysregulated, presenting with a wide variety of symptoms, many of the symptoms are written off to aging and never addr...
Sep 16, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 34
3 Steps to Reverse Autoimmune Disease | This episode is brought to you by BLUblox and Paleovalley . In health and medicine, we must always be willing to look deeper. We can’t give up on looking for healing solutions just because we’ve always been told a disease is progressive and incurable. That’s one of the many reasons I’m so inspired by today’s guest on The Dhru Purohit Podcast . Dr. Terry Wahls received a diagnosis of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis and, instead of accepting a rapid...
Sep 09, 2021•2 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 32
How Poor Metabolic Health Allows Covid-19 to Hijack Our System | This episode is brought to you by HigherDOSE and BiOptimzers . When we think about Covid-19 and our health and well-being, there are many factors to consider. It’s not just about the general idea of immunity; we need to understand that multiple processes within the body can either make us more resilient against or more susceptible to this specific virus. Metabolic health is a big part of this. When we look at who is most vulnerable...
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 30
The Latest Science on the Link Between Cancer and Cell Phones | This episode is brought to you by BLUblox and Paleovalley . Technology has done amazing things for us. It keeps us connected and can provide invaluable information about our health, but it could also be hurting our health without our even realizing it. Electromagnetic frequencies, or EMFs, are actually all around us in the natural world, like the build up of electricity during a thunderstorm or the Earth’s magnetic field that animal...
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 28
How Leaky Gut is Making Us Sick and Driving Chronic Inflammation | This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and ButcherBox . Over the last seventy-five years, an array of serious, seemingly unrelated chronic illnesses—cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, autoimmune disorders, cancer, and brain disorders—have all been steadily rising, some at astonishing rates. While we’re living dramatically longer lives, many of us are suffering throughout them, creating a public health c...
Aug 19, 2021•1 hr 48 min•Season 2Ep. 26
The Root Cause of Alzheimer’s & How to Prevent It | This episode is brought to you by Birch Living and Paleovalley . Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most significant global health threats we face today. It is an ailment that, as our population ages, is forecasted to become a worldwide epidemic. Mainstream medicine would have us believe that it can’t be prevented, is untreatable, and progressive, with most patients not surviving beyond three to eleven years post-diagnosis. But that is all b...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Season 2Ep. 24
We live in a hyper-connected world, but more people are more disconnected than ever before. Why? It’s easier than ever to get out of sync with the natural rhythms of our energy and spend the majority of life in a fight-or-flight state. It’s partly because of technology and screen time and because of a lack of integrated movement throughout the day. It’s largely because people just don’t know how to connect and find flow—that optimal state of being where we are one with our body and the universe ...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Top Healthy Foods That Prevent & Treat Autoimmune Disease | This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers . Autoimmune diseases are a huge issue, affecting over 80 million Americans. They include type 1 diabetes, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, colitis, Crohn’s disease, and dozens of others, but they all have one thing in common—the body attacks itself. Conventional medicine uses pharmaceutical drugs to treat autoimmune disease but fails to answer one simple question: Why i...
Aug 05, 2021•1 hr 55 min•Season 2Ep. 22
The most common explanation for why exercise makes us happy is far too simplistic. The psychological effects of movement cannot be reduced to an endorphin rush. Physical activity influences many other brain chemicals, including those that give you energy, alleviate worry, and help you bond with others. It reduces inflammation in the brain, which over time can protect against depression, anxiety, and loneliness. Regular exercise also remodels the physical structure of your brain to make you more ...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Avoid These Risk Factors to Prevent Brain Inflammation | This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and Paleovalley . For a long time, brain fatigue and a lack of cognitive endurance were just considered a normal part of aging. These issues are actually symptoms of a much larger problem, though—neuroinflammation—and they aren’t inevitable. Our brains naturally create cellular debris as we age. A healthy brain with the right anti-inflammatory and antioxidant systems in place can clean up this d...
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Eat These Foods to Boost Brain Health & Reduce Inflammation | This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers . Food isn’t like medicine, it is medicine. What we eat is literally transformed into tissue throughout our bodies, creating this vessel that lets us live our lives. When it comes to nutrition and health, people often only think about improving their weight or heart health. But the brain should be one of our top focuses for a long happy life, and there are so many foods we can eat eve...
Jul 22, 2021•1 hr 59 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Should Kids Get a COVID-19 Vaccine? with Pediatrician | This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and BiOptimizers . COVID-19 has challenged us like never before. The past year has been full of uncertainties and we continue to face decisions around vaccines, a changing social landscape, and how to protect our families and maintain our quality of life. The best we can do is stay informed on the constantly evolving research and take into account our family’s unique needs. Parents of young child...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 48 min•Season 2Ep. 16
How To Prepare Our Bodies and Minds for The NEXT Pandemic | This episode is brought to you by BLUblox . Chronic diseases are the top risk factors for death and disability today. They’re also among the top risk factors for having worse outcomes from COVID-19. This implies that much of our risk for worse outcomes from this virus is a reflection of the choices we’ve made in the years and months leading up to the pandemic. In many ways, the stage was set for this pandemic long ago, because it’s not ...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Five Surprising Foods That Spike Blood Sugar and How to Make Them Healthier | This episode is brought to you by Birch Living . Interested in Levels Continuous Glucose Monitor? Join here: http://levels.link/dhru Obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and Alzheimer’s disease all have one big thing in common—they all involve a component of blood sugar dysregulation. So many other diseases do, too. Considering the rampant use of sugar and flour in our food supply, mana...
Jul 08, 2021•2 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Improve Your Focus, Energy, and Joy with This 4-Step Meditation Practice | This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers . We know that exercise and meditation help to boost our energy, concentration, and mood, but not many of us understand the power of combining both. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast , Dhru sits down with Todd McCullough to talk about his unique approach to fitness and his 4-step meditation practice, which is a great way for everyone to dedicate time for their body, mind, and...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 13
The Real Cause of Alzheimer’s and Dementia and How to Prevent Them | This episode is brought to you by BLUblox . A declining mind is one of the scariest things I can imagine. Left unchecked, I’ve seen the devastating effects this process can have on individuals and their families. But we now know there is so much that can be done to prevent and even reverse Alzheimer’s and dementia and save people from a foggy future. I know some of you may have had to reread that—yes, Alzheimer’s reversal is re...
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Reprogram Your Brain to Destroy Laziness and Improve Focus | This episode is brought to you by BLUblox . At one point or another, we’ve all felt stuck in a rut with feelings of laziness and fear. During these times it can be really hard to take a step back and wonder what’s happening in the body, as opposed to just the mind, but it’s the link between the two that can push us through it. Neurotransmitters have some incredible power over how we function. Dopamine is responsible for craving, motiva...
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 10
How Insulin Resistance Destroys Your Brain and Promotes Alzheimer’s and Cognitive Decline | This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker . Nearly six million individuals live with Alzheimer’s disease in the U.S., and the numbers continue to rise. After 30 years of encountering dead ends while addressing Alzheimer’s disease as a problem of brain plaques, researchers are looking at other contributing factors. There is a growing body of evidence that indicates a strong correlation between Alzhei...
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 46 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! On today’s episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru shares 7 tips for protecting your brain from harmful electromagnetic radiation. (1) Don’t plug your cell phone into the wall next to your bed when you sleep. Ideally, put it on the opposite side of the room. (2) Don’t leave anything else plugged in next to your head, bed or night stand. This includes an alarm clock, lamp, lights, or any other device that plugs into a wall. Anything plugged into a wall emits...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 7
A Functional Medicine Approach to Treating Crohn’s and Colitis | This episode is brought to you by Birch Living and InsideTracker . We see it all the time in Functional Medicine: when the gut isn’t functioning properly, the whole body suffers. For those struggling with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, the symptoms can be so severe that every day is painful and filled with uncertainty. Luckily, by taking away instigators (like gluten and dairy) and l...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 5
The Power of Hitting Rock Bottom and Where to Go Next | This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers . Throughout my years of soul-searching, meditating, and contemplating life, I’ve learned one really big lesson: we’re in control of our own experience and reality. Our mindset will dictate what we deem true and real, but as humans, our egos can creep in and blur the lines. We get lost between what we need to be our authentic selves and what society or other people say we need in order to be wo...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Is The Secret to Optimal Health in Your Spine? | This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and InsideTracker . Most people don’t realize how many problems throughout the body are directly related to spinal health. Because our nerves transmit signals from the brain to every other part of the body, when these signals are disrupted due to a subluxation in the spine the effects can go far beyond back pain. These subluxations, or misalignments of the vertebrae, can affect everything from your bl...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 54 min•Season 2Ep. 2
The Mind-Blowing Science of Starving Cancer with Food | This episode is brought to you by BLUblox and InsideTracker . Health is not simply the absence of disease. Health is an active state. Your body has within it five health defense systems: angiogenesis, stem cells, the microbiome, DNA protection, and immunity. These systems are responsible for maintaining our health and resisting the regular hazards we all face everyday as part of ordinary life—and they heal us when disease inflicts damage in...
May 27, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 1
How Mold and Environmental Toxins Damage Our Brain and Body | This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and InsideTracker . Toxic mold is more common than you may think. Mold exposure causes a variety of health problems like hormonal imbalances, brain fog, headaches, asthma, fatigue, insomnia, nausea, hair loss, and autoimmunity, to name a few. It all begins with a feeling that something is “off.” On today’s episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast , Dhru talks to Dr. Craig Tanio, the CEO and co...
May 24, 2021•1 hr 47 min
How to Tap into Your Gut Intuition and Tune Out Society’s Noise and Expectations | This episode is brought to you by Thrive Market and BiOptimizers . We’re all on our own paths of learning which inner voice to follow. There’s usually the one urging us to take the easy option, but there’s also the (often quieter) inner voice nudging us to stretch ourselves and take on a challenge. Have you ever felt a little scared but also excited about a new endeavor? That inner guide is trying to help you grow...
May 20, 2021•2 hr 16 min
Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! On today’s episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru talks to us about using boundaries to create more freedom, joy, and happiness. In this episode we dive into: -Boundaries when it comes to expectations -News, social media, and information overload -Creating time and space for the things we want to give love and attention to Also mentioned in this episode: -Dr. Rangan Chatterjee’s interview with Greg McKeown - https://drchatterjee.com/how-to-achieve-your-goa...
May 19, 2021•39 min
Regardless of what we want to accomplish, from growing your business, creating a great company culture, championing a social cause, or affecting your habits, we can’t do it alone. The people around you define your success (whatever that means for you) and they have the potential to change the course of your life. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast , Dhru talks to Jon Levy, a behavioral scientist best known for his work in influence, human connection, and decision making. Jon specializes in applyi...
May 17, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Hunt, Gather, Parent | This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Paleovalley . Having children of your own is sure to make you think about the way you were raised and question if you want to do things the same. It’s also sure to raise lots of questions about how your interactions with your child are impacting their development and your relationships. What we see as commonplace parenting here in the US is quite different than other parts of the world. Helicopter parenting takes away from...
May 13, 2021•1 hr 29 min
