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This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Vivobarefoot, and WHOOP.   Chances are, you’ve heard a lot of buzz about the ketogenic diet. This high-fat, low-carb approach to eating has become extremely popular in recent years for helping with everything from weight loss to cognition.   One cornerstone of the ketogenic diet is the idea that ketones are a powerful alternative fuel source for the...

This episode is brought to you by Pendulum and InsiderTracker. There’s a compound in coffee that can disrupt our metabolic health that most people aren’t aware of: cafestol. Cafestol is responsible for the oil in roasted coffee beans and is linked to high LDL cholesterol levels. Studies show that cafestol increases LDL cholesterol by suppressing LDL receptor activity and reducing the breakdown of...

This episode is brought to you by Pendulum and WHOOP. 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!  Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru talks wi...

This episode is brought to you by Pendulum and Birch. I’m currently reading a book called Sickening. It’s a no-holds-barred exposé on the lies and deceptions of Big Pharma. In the book Dr. John Abramson, a physician, Harvard faculty member, and the world’s most notable expert on the drug industry’s deceptive tactics, reveals how the financial interests of Big Pharma have become the main factor tha...

This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and InsideTracker. 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.  Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast...

This episode is brought to you by Vivobarefoot and Pendulum.   Poor metabolic health and blood sugar imbalances are the largest drivers of chronic disease. At least 50 percent of adults in the United States have abnormal blood sugar levels and/or insulin resistance. Research shows that of those with pre-diabetes, more than 84 percent do not know that they have it. A large contributor is a lack of...

This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox, InsideTracker, and WHOOP. 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 sympto...

This episode is brought to you by Pendulum. 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. But which one is best? And what does it all mean for our longevity, brain health, and overall wellness? Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru and Dr. Alan Goldhamer div...

This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and InsideTracker. We’re living in an extremely divisive time, where many people want to put a clear label on other people and topics. This makes it easier to file them under something we either agree or disagree with and takes the effort of thoughtfulness out of the process.  But this approach isn’t serving us well. It limits us from discovering common...

This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and Vivobarefoot. Welcome to the Big Idea of the Week! On today’s episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast, we are resharing a solo episode with Dhru where he talks about five common reasons why we say “I don’t know what I want!” and strategies to get around them. These reasons include: 1) We haven’t taken the time to slow down, cut out the distractions, and...

This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and InsideTracker. Seventy-four percent of products in the grocery store are spiked with some kind of sugar. The food industry has done this on purpose to keep you coming back for more.  Here’s the thing: The liver can innately process a small amount of sugar packaged in a real food, like a piece of whole fruit. But when it comes to large amounts in o...

This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and Vivobarefoot. People-pleasing looks like saying “yes” to everything or being the person who’s always there for anything that’s needed.   People-pleasing comes from codependency dynamics—where we gain our sense of self through what other people think of us. This usually means having no boundaries and neglecting our own needs in the process. On today’...

This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth 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...

This episode is brought to you by Pendulum. What do obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and Alzheimer’s disease all have in common? They all—along with a host of other diseases—involve a component of blood sugar dysregulation. Considering the rampant use of sugar and flour in our food supply, managing blood sugar is something we should all be thinking about if we...

This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, InsideTracker, and Eight Sleep. What if we thought about social media the same way we think about sugar? With this ancestral perspective, it might be easier to see the benefits we can gain from more time away from something that’s become so ingrained in our daily lives.  Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru talks to Cal Newport about this and so m...

This episode is brought to you by Vivobarefoot and Pendulum. When it comes to air pollution, most of our collective attention is focused on outdoor air quality, especially with wildfires and general pollution on the rise. But what if I told you that our indoor air can be anywhere from 200 to 500 percent more toxic than our outdoor air? And according to the EPA, it can even get up to 1,000 percent...

This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and InsideTracker. Researchers around the globe over the past decade have revealed 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? This week on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sat down with Dr. David Perlmutter to talk about how ur...

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This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, InsideTracker, and Eight Sleep. The United States spends an excess of $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries—yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks at 68th in the world. At the heart of the problem is Big Pharma, which funds most clinical trials and therefore controls the research agenda, wi...

This episode is brought to you by Pendulum and Vivobarefoot. Sometimes, a lot of big benefits can be found in quite a small package. Believe it or not, this is very true for broccoli sprouts.   In the world of nutrition, people have known for a long time that the sprouts of cruciferous vegetables and legumes are powerhouses of valuable nutrients. The secret to the health benefits of this remarkabl...

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Rupa Health. Most people are pretty confused when it comes to metabolic health. Fasting, macronutrient ratios, and blood glucose regulation are only a few of the topics that trip people up when it comes to managing a healthy weight and relationship to food. Naturally, I like to look to the latest research to find a clearer picture. And science ha...

This episode is brought to you by Pendulum. We’re constantly learning more and more about COVID-19. How it interacts with our immune systems, risk factors, and hospitalization and death rates are all topics that are extensively covered in the news.  But the origin of COVID is something that is much less talked about. Why does this even matter? Understanding COVID’s origin story is key in helping u...

This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep, InsideTracker, and BiOptimizers. We’ve all gone through phases where we feel lost or stuck. It might be that you don’t know how to reach a goal you already have in mind, or maybe you don’t even know what your next chapter looks like. The steps for figuring out your purpose are simpler than you might think, and you can even work through them solo. It j...

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Pendulum.  Magnesium participates in over 600 enzymatic reactions in the body—it’s used for so much, yet 60% of Americans aren’t getting enough of this key nutrient. So what’s the deal? Why is magnesium so essential? What makes us so deficient? What does deficiency look like? And, most importantly, what can we do to bring up our levels? Today on Th...

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and InsideTracker.  Feeling like crap has become pervasive. In fact, in 2018, the World Health Organization added “burnout” as a diagnosable medical condition. Today, more than 90 percent of US workers say they feel it’s difficult to wake up and they don’t have the will or a way to try. On top of that, one in five Americans has clinical anxiety. One in...