How To Use Food As Medicine

Mar 7, 2022

Discover how the right foods can dramatically impact your health and longevity. Explore the healing potential of nutrition in reversing chronic diseases, emphasizing plant-based diets and phytochemicals. Uncover startling statistics on diet-related deaths and the need for nutrition education in medicine. Learn about the medicinal properties of various foods that boost immunity and enhance gut health. Plus, engage with the community on how to rethink food choices for a healthier future.

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ADVICE

Food as Information

Prioritize high-quality protein, fats, and carbs from whole foods over processed options.
Include diverse plant foods and consider regeneratively raised animal products for optimal nutrient intake.

INSIGHT

Phytochemicals' Impact

Phytochemicals, found in plants and some animal products, regulate bodily systems.
The Rockefeller Foundation is mapping how these 25,000 compounds impact our health.

INSIGHT

Seven Systems of Functional Medicine

The body functions as seven interconnected systems, not isolated organs.
Food choices directly impact the balance and health of each system.

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Paleovalley.

Globally, the rate of chronic disease is double the rate of infectious disease. The single most important thing you can do every day to reduce your risk of chronic disease and change your biology is choose the right foods. What you put on the end of your fork matters, as food works with all seven of our body systems for optimal function, and it contains phytochemicals critical to our evolution that helps us achieve optimal health.

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host Dhru Purohit about what foods will help you live longer and how food affects every single body function, and we even answer some questions from our community.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top-50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

The most important foods for longevity (4:45 / 1:30)
How food affects all the systems in your body (10:09 / 6:35)
The astounding amount of chronic disease and death attributed to food and diet (19:14 / 15:41)
Why the conventional medicine approach overlooks nutrition (21:42 / 18:03)
Questions from my community on bitter foods and avoiding cancer (30:19 / 26:53)

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