This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Pendulum . Autoimmune diseases are an increasing issue in our country, with over 80 million Americans dealing with some form or another. Type 1 diabetes, Hashimoto’s, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, colitis, and Crohn’s disease are just some of the more than 70 identified forms of autoimmunity that leave people feeling sick, lost, and powerless. Conventional treatment for autoimmune conditions gives little hope to those who are...
Sep 19, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 139
This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and Cozy Earth . Over 300 million people around the world experience depression. For the last half-century, the dominant explanation for depression has centered on serotonin. The basic idea is that low levels of brain serotonin or serotonin activity lead to symptoms of depression. But in the last several decades, a number of researchers have challenged the idea that serotonin plays a principal role, or even a major role, in depression. So, if it’s not...
Sep 15, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 138
This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and WHOOP . Our friendships and relationships are an integral part of who we are and how we evolve. Even though we don’t need each other to survive anymore, we do need each other to thrive. All of the best things in life come from connection, community, and relationships. So how do we make and keep friends in an era of distraction, burnout, and chaos, especially in a society that often prizes romantic love at the expense of other relationships? Toda...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 136
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and AirDoctor . Processed foods, sedentary lifestyles, and mixed messages about nutrition have completely disrupted our health, leading us to feel awful and long for better health. While it might seem complicated, identifying and turning around the unique offenders in your own life is simpler than you might think. On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Max Lugavere to talk about streamlining your health so you can get back to feeling great. M...
Sep 05, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 135
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Pendulum . We’ve all heard about the concept of heart rate, especially in terms of working out or how it can become elevated with stress. But did you know that heart rate variability is an important metric for understanding your level of health? Heart rate variability is actually a window into the dynamic shifts within the nervous system and how different things we do are interpreted in the body. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast , Dhru and Dr....
Sep 01, 2022•2 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 134
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Gut Food . When you think back to what you ate today, yesterday, three weeks ago, or even last year, how different is the food on your plate? Some people naturally include a wide range of diverse food when choosing their meals, but for many of us, it is easy to fall into a trap of eating the same foods day in and day out. But did you know that by not consuming a diverse range of foods, you are missing out on the potential for many health benefi...
Aug 29, 2022•47 min•Season 2Ep. 133
This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Birch Living . Are you ready for a super-simple tip that can help take your sleep health to the next level? Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast , I share how mouth taping can radically transform our sleep. I walk through the benefits of mouth taping, how it works, who should explore using it, and how you can get started doing it today. In this episode, we dive into: -How mouth breathing negatively impacts our health (2:10)-The central role nitric ...
Aug 25, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 132
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Gut Food . Researchers around the globe over the past decade have discovered that uric acid, previously thought of only in terms of gout, actually plays a central role in metabolic disorders. So, how is uric acid orchestrating this metabolic mayhem? On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Dr. David Perlmutter to talk about how uric acid plays a major role in fat storage, insulin resistance, and other metabolic and chronic degenerative dise...
Aug 22, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 131
This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and InsideTracker . We often think the mind is a creation of the brain or that the mind and the brain are one and the same. But when the brain is offline for a number of reasons, like illness or injury, the mind can sometimes still be very active. On today’s episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast , we are re-sharing my interview with Dr. Bruce Greyson about this phenomenon in the context of near-death experiences, or NDEs. Dr. Greyson shares some of the ...
Aug 18, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 130
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Paleovalley . It’s true: getting older is inevitable, and our chronological age can only move in one direction. But we also have a biological age, which scientists can measure by assessing how our genes are expressed through epigenetics. On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Dr. Kara Fitzgerald to talk about the exciting new research that shows our biological age can actually move in reverse and her groundbreaking clinical trial that pro...
Aug 15, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 129
This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Cozy Earth . 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, motivation, and pursuit. Adrenaline relates to ...
Aug 11, 2022•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 128
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Pendulum . Nearly six million individuals live with Alzheimer’s disease in the US, 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. On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Dr. Ben Bikman to talk about the growing body of evidence that indicates a strong correlation between Alzheimer’s disease ...
Aug 08, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 127
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Paleovalley . We create our own realities—it’s all in how we think about life. Do you ever notice how a growth mindset leads to opportunity and success, but a poverty mindset leaves you with nothing but wants and often spirals downward into an ongoing funk? We have to use our physical state to change our mental state, and vice versa. There’s a feedback loop between our bodies and brains, which is why mindset and behavior are so powerful for cre...
Aug 04, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 126
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Gut Food . 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 addressed. On today’s mini-episode, Dhru takes a deep dive into the top...
Aug 01, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 125
This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Pendulum . In an ideal world where soils are rich and air and water are pure, we would be able to get the vitamins and nutrients we need to optimally support and sustain a disease-free life through diet alone. However, I’ve learned for most, that's just not practical in our toxic, modern world. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast , Dhru sits down with Chris Kresser to talk about the increasing issue of nutritional deficiencies, how we got here, an...
Jul 28, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 124
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Paleovalley . An astonishing 70 percent of cancer is diet related. When it comes to treating cancer, conventional medicine is good at cutting it, burning it, and poisoning it, but many doctors fail to treat the root cause. Functional Medicine empowers patients and practitioners to optimize health by addressing the root causes of disease. The right diet is imperative in preventing cancer and during the healing process. This is in large part beca...
Jul 25, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 123
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Birch Living . While the term “superfood” carries a certain hype, some foods do earn that status. Food is medicine, and some foods are more powerful medicines than others! Food is the most powerful tool we have to create optimal health. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast , Dhru sits down with Mary Shenouda to talk about the top five superfoods that can level up your health. Mary Shenouda is a highly sought-after performance chef and specialist. ...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 122
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Gut Food . Most people don’t realize what kind of negative impact their favorite foods have on their blood sugar—and subsequently their entire body. The symptoms of blood sugar imbalances are everyday occurrences for most people—things like cravings, fatigue, acne, and moodiness—but they don’t have to be! On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Jessie Inchauspé, also known as the “Glucose Goddess,” to talk all about simple, realistic actio...
Jul 18, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 121
This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Cozy Earth . Sleep is one of our most basic human needs, and we’re constantly learning more about how it impacts human health. We’re also learning more about ways to improve it. Light exposure is a big one. From how often and when we experience natural sunlight to the screens and other forms of artificial light we’re exposed to now more than ever, our interaction with light has a dramatic effect on our sleep quality. Today on The Dhru Purohit Po...
Jul 14, 2022•2 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 120
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Paleovalley . We are the creator of our minds, bodies, and universe. Our experience of the world, our identity, and our physical reality are based on our learned perceptions. Today on the Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with spiritual leader Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to talk about how to break down false beliefs of our own experience in this life to end suffering and find infinite joy and possibility. They also talk about how things lik...
Jul 11, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 119
This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and Pendulum . When we talk about metabolic health, people often associate it with maintaining a healthy weight and having good energy levels. But did you know our metabolic health affects our sexual function and fertility, too? Our hormones hang in a delicate balance, and when blood sugar goes on a wild ride so does everything else. That means not only are we at risk of weight gain, mood swings, and energy crashes, but it increases the chances of ere...
Jul 07, 2022•2 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 118
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Gut Food . These days, we hear a lot about fasting. Intermittent fasting, time-restricted eating, and water fasting are just some of the many terms being thrown around in support of better health. Which one is best? What does it all mean for our longevity, brain health, and overall wellness? On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Dr. Pradip Jamnadas to talk about how fasting can troubleshoot our biology, boost our energy, and decrease our...
Jul 04, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 117
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and AquaTru . If you stopped and asked yourself whether you were living life according to your own core values or were instead trying to live up to someone else’s expectations, would you feel good about your answer? Far too often, we get caught up in all the “shoulds” of life—all the obligations and made-up stories of what qualifies as “success”—only to wake up one day and realize we really aren’t happy. Creating the life we want starts with taking...
Jun 30, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 116
This episode is brought to you by Pendulum and InsideTracker . The word “metabolism” gets tossed around quite a bit, usually in the context of weight loss. It’s important to realize that our metabolic health is so much more than that—it’s the way our 37 trillion cells create energy so that we can do all the things we want to do in life, big and small. With that in mind, it’s pretty alarming to note that nine of the 10 leading causes of death in the US are directly caused or worsened by poor bloo...
Jun 27, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 115
This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and InsideTracker . Many people think optimizing brain function is only for the elderly. But did you know that we can improve and protect our brain function and structure at any age? No matter how old you are, there are multiple ways to uplevel your brain and feel your best. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast , Dhru talks to Dr. Datis Kharrazian about reversing and preventing cognitive decline through actions that boost specific components of the bra...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 114
This episode is brought to you by Birch Living and Vivobarefoot . A calorie is a calorie, right? Wrong. This myth that refuses to die keeps people from getting and staying healthy, as well as losing weight and keeping it off. The current thinking is as long as we burn more calories than we consume, we will lose weight. But thinking that losing weight is all about energy balance or calories in/calories out vastly oversimplifies the truth. To make matters worse, the food industry and government ag...
Jun 20, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 113
This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and Pendulum . A lot of people have fear around meditation. They don’t want to sit alone with their thoughts, and many times people give up because they feel like they can’t turn off their minds. But meditation isn’t actually about what happens while you sit with your eyes closed, and it’s not about turning off your mind. It’s about mind- full -ness—the noticing of the ebb and flow of your thoughts—and the benefits you get throughout the rest of your ...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Season 2Ep. 112
This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and HigherDOSE . Skeletal muscle is a widely overlooked part of our metabolic health. From how well we control glucose and insulin to how well we age, skeletal muscle regulates many processes. One of the most important factors for how much muscle we create and retain is our protein intake, which has become a divisive topic in the nutrition world and one still hotly debated in some dietary camps. On today’s mini-episode, we are featuring key takeawa...
Jun 13, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 111
This episode is brought to you by Thrive Market and InsideTracker . Blood sugar is starting to get more of the attention it deserves in terms of optimizing metabolic health, but there’s one issue that often gets left out of the equation—anxiety. The way our blood sugar, insulin, and other hormones respond to sugar and starch wreaks havoc on our mental and emotional wellness. Yet most people struggling with anxiety and depression are given medications without any consideration of their diet and l...
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 110
This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and Vivobarefoot . Uric acid is a central player in metabolic mayhem. Despite its long association with gout and kidney stones, it’s involved in so much more—especially our metabolic disease epidemic. There are three things that raise our levels of uric acid: purines, alcohol, and fructose. The latter is the biggest challenge, due to its overwhelming presence in our Standard American Diet. That doesn’t mean all fruit is bad or even that all alcohol an...
Jun 06, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 109
