Dhru Purohit Show

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 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 s...

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...

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...

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 fee...

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 wri...

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...

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...

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...

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 w...

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,...

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 t...

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...

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...

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...

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 no...

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 r...

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/calor...

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 n...

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 o...

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 strugg...

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 pre...

This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Pendulum. Our food supply is dramatically less nutrient-rich than it has ever been, and it’s taking a toll on our health. A shocking 99 percent of Americans are nutrient deficient, including over 90 percent who are deficient in omega-3 fats and 50 percent who are deficient in magnesium. Add to that chronic stress and a heavily processed diet, and...

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and BiOptimizers. ​​Want to know a simple way to improve your insulin sensitivity, fasting insulin, and HbA1c that you can start doing today? Sit for one hour less per day—just one hour less! This is something anyone can do. I know that doesn’t sound like much, but according to a recent study, reducing sedentary time by just one hour per day can have...

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Pendulum. Most of us do not recognize the degree to which digestive problems can wreak havoc in the entire body, leading to allergies, arthritis, autoimmune disease, rashes, acne, chronic fatigue, mood disorders, autism, dementia, cancer, and more. So having a healthy gut means more than simply being free of annoyances like bloating or heartburn;...