This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Colima Salt.Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline, but the “war on cancer” has hardly been won.On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Dr. Jason Fung to talk about a revolutionary new understanding of cancer—what it is, how it manifests, and why it is so challenging to treat. They discuss the “seed and soil” analogy of cancer and how the seed of cancer may exist in all of us, but the power to change the soil is in our hands. They also talk about how hyperinsulinemia may enable the development of cancer, and how we can build soil that offers cancer a hostile environment as opposed to a fertile one.Dr. Fung is a physician, author, and researcher. His groundbreaking science-based books about diabetes and obesity, The Diabetes Code, The Obesity Code, and The Complete Guide to Fasting, have sold over one million copies and challenged the conventional wisdom that diabetics should be treated with insulin. His latest book is The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery. Dr. Fung is also the cofounder of The Fasting Method, a program to help people lose weight and reverse type 2 diabetes naturally with fasting. His work on fasting has been cited by CNN, Time, The Atlantic, Forbes, the Toronto Star, and many other media outlets.  In this episode we dive into: -What is cancer? -The “seed and soil” analogy of cancer -The biggest drivers of cancer -What feeds cancer cells  -What you can do today to minimize your risk of cancer  Listen to the full episode here. For more on Dr. Fung, follow him on Instagram @DrJasonFung, Twitter @DrJasonFung, and through his website thefastingmethod.com. Get his book, The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery, here.This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Colima Salt.​​InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself.Right now, you can get a bag of Ava Jane’s Kitchen Colima Sea Salt for free—just pay for shipping and handling. Just head on over to dhrusalt.com and try Colima Sea Salt for free today! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Cozy Earth.Are you suffering from chronic fatigue, anxiety, or digestive or autoimmune issues? Or are you seeking a simple way to level up your health with a food that is easy to integrate into your everyday routine? Look no further than to adaptogens: nutrient-dense superfoods that have been clinically proven to help support your body's immunity and gut health, boost brain activity and focus, aid with stress and mood, and so much more! Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru talks to Tero Isokauppila about the power of adaptogens and how to start integrating them into your routine for better health. Tero Isokauppila is an expert in all things related to nutrition, health, and wellness and is the founder of Four Sigmatic—a functional foods company. He is the author of two bestselling books: Healing Mushrooms, an educational cookbook, and Santa Sold Shrooms, a children's book for adults about the magical origins of Santa Claus, as well as his newly released book, Healing Adaptogens: The Definitive Guide to Using Super Herbs and Mushrooms for Your Body’s Restoration, Defense, and Performance.In this episode, we dive into:  -The top three adaptogens for brain health and focus (1:44)-The history of adaptogens and how they have been used throughout traditional cultures (7:30)-How to incorporate adaptogens into your daily routine (11:03)-Functional mushrooms vs adaptogens (15:18)-How adaptogens work in the body (16:18)-The benefits of tulsi and ashwagandha (20:15)-How reishi and ashwagandha improve sleep quality (27:28)-Adaptogens and caffeine intake (38:24) -Psychedelics and microdosing (53:20)-Pregnancy and adaptogens (1:13:55)For more on Tero Isokauppila, follow him on Instagram @iamtero, Facebook @foursigmatic, Twitter @foursigmatic, YouTube @foursigmatic, and through his website, us.foursigmatic.com. Get his book, Healing Adaptogens, here. This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Cozy Earth.​​InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself.Cozy Earth are the most comfortable, temperature-regulating, and nontoxic sheets on the market. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code DHRU.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and InsideTracker.The number-one reason people visit the doctor is problems with the gut. Not only do gut issues impair gut function, making life miserable, but they also are a contributing factor to many serious conditions such as cancer, heart disease, autoimmune disease, diabetes, and more.On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Dr. Mary Pardee to talk about the gut-immune connection, mindful eating, why it’s so important to chew our food properly, and the benefits of an elimination diet.Dr. Pardee is a naturopathic medical doctor and a certified Functional Medicine doctor who specializes in integrative gastroenterology and hormone balancing in Los Angeles, California. She is the founder of MODRNmed, a telemedicine and virtual wellness company that provides medical and health services to clients from the comfort of their homes. For those who cannot work one-on-one with a MODRNmed practitioner, Dr. Mary also created a gut-health course that dives into the most common gut-related complaints and natural solutions to start healing.  In this episode we dive into: -The gut-immune connection-The first place you should start if you have gut issues -The benefits of walking right after a meal-How an elimination diet can help you get to the root cause of food intolerances-The importance of fiber for our gut health and how much we should consume daily  Listen to the full episode here.For more on Dr. Mary Pardee, follow her on Instagram @Dr.MaryPardee, Facebook @ModrnMed, and through her website, modrnmed.com. This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and InsideTracker.ButcherBox has a variety of different boxes, and you can choose your box and frequency. For a limited time, you can sign up today and get two pounds of ground beef free for a whole year by going to butcherbox.com/dhru.InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and WHOOP.Many of the problems we face today, from climate change to work anxiety, are the result of short-term thinking. We are constantly bombarded by notifications and “breaking news” that overwhelm our central nervous systems, forcing us to react in the moment and ultimately disconnecting us from what truly matters. But there is a solution. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru talks to Ari Wallach about how we face challenges that require us to think beyond our individual life spans to the impact we have on future generations. They discuss how we can become the ancestors the future needs through an applied mindset Ari calls Longpath that implements shifts in thinking, decision-making, and behavior that move our society and species toward future-consciousness. Ari Wallach is a futurist and social systems strategist. He is the founder and Executive Director of Longpath Labs, an initiative focused on bringing long-term thinking and coordinated behavior to the individual, organizational, and societal realms in order to ensure humanity flourishes on an ecologically thriving planet Earth for centuries to come. In this episode, we dive into:  -Why we’re so driven by short-term behavior and thinking (2:05)-How short-term thinking gets us into trouble (4:10)-What is driving our short-term thinking (7:27)-The principles of the Longpath perspective (15:10)-How the world is getting better, not worse (20:30)-Why we’re hardwired for negativity bias and how to move past it (30:55)-Transgenerational empathy (42:19)-Why it’s important to start with the past when creating change (54:15)-Dhru’s gratitude practice (1:05:46)-Steps people can take today to shift their thinking towards a Longpath perspective (1:33:24)For more on Ari Wallach, follow him on Instagram @ariw, Facebook @ariwallach, Twitter @ariw, and through his website, longpath.org. Get his book, Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs, here. This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and WHOOP.Magnesium Breakthrough really stands out from the other magnesium supplements out there. BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off, so just head over to magbreakthrough.com/dhru with code DHRU10.WHOOP is a personalized digital fitness tracker and health coaching platform that monitors your physiology 24/7 and provides personalized recommendations based on what your body needs. For me, it's been a game-changer to optimize my sleep and improve my fitness, performance, and overall health. To get yours, go to join.whoop.com and get 15% off your membership with code DHRU15. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Birch Living.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 is progressive, with most patients not surviving beyond 3–11 years post-diagnosis. But that is all being challenged by the work of Dr. Dale Bredesen. On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Dr. Bredesen to discuss his groundbreaking work that can give hope and many more years of a happy, healthy life to millions of people. Dr. Bredesen is internationally recognized as an expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The End of Alzheimer's, The End of Alzheimer's Program, and his latest book, The First Survivors of Alzheimer's: How Patients Recovered Life and Hope in Their Own Words. He has held faculty positions at UC San Francisco, UCLA, and the University of California San Diego. He directed the Program on Aging at the Burnham Institute before coming to the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in 1998 as its founding president and CEO. He is currently a professor at UCLA.In this episode we dive into: -Evidence that early Alzheimer's can be reversed-What actually drives neurodegeneration-Insults in the brain that contribute to Alzheimer's-Red flags to pay attention to when it comes to cognitive decline-Cognoscopy test for cognitive decline Listen to the full episode here. For more on Dr. Bredesen, follow him on Instagram @drdalebredesen, Facebook @drdalebredesen, Twitter @drdalebredesen, and through his website, apollohealthco.com. Get his book, The First Survivors of Alzheimer’s: How Patients Recovered Life and Hope in Their Own Words, here.This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Birch Living.InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself.The Birch Mattress by Helix is made out of organic latex, organic cotton, New Zealand wool, and American steel springs. To get $200 off your Birch Living mattress plus two free eco-rest pillows, head over to birchliving.com/dhru. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and WHOOP.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.Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with his good friend Antonio Neves, and they both share their top five quotes to help anyone who is feeling stuck or needs a perspective shift to finally make progress on the things they care about most.Antonio Neves is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and speaker known for helping people get unstuck and make their next move with confidence. He is the founder of Allies of Growth, an international private membership community that helps married professionals with kids springboard their career, money, health, relationships, and more, and hosts The Antonio Neves Show podcast.In this episode, we dive into:  -How reading and associating yourself with smarter people creates momentum (4:43)-Not judging yourself and your circumstances when times get hard (13:21)-Being disciplined and accountable to the things you need to do daily to make your goals a reality (21:57)-Reducing the noise around you so you can hear your inner voice (30:22)-Why fear is a true indicator that you are moving in the right direction (37:56)-Demanding the best of yourself (42:34)-Understanding that you don’t have to have it all figured out and going with the flow (49:52)-Being open to differing opinions (55:43)-Letting go of things and people that weigh you down in order to achieve your goals (1:04:13)-Taking personal responsibility (1:16:04)  For more on Antonio Neves, follow him on Instagram @theantonioneves, YouTube @theantonioneves, and through his website, theantonioneves.com. Get his book, Stop Living On Autopilot, here. Apply for Dhru's Executive Assistant position here.This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and WHOOP.InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself.WHOOP is a personalized digital fitness tracker and health coaching platform that monitors your physiology 24/7 and provides personalized recommendations based on what your body needs. For me, it's been a game-changer to optimize my sleep and improve my fitness, performance, and overall health. To get yours, go to join.whoop.com and get 15% off your membership with code DHRU15. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and AquaTru.How many times have you had a voice in your head telling you to doubt your deepest desires and goals? I know we’ve all been there. That voice is a real drag and can be pretty earth shattering if we let it take hold.Luckily, we can train ourselves to overcome it and instead achieve our deepest dreams and goals to design the life we truly want. Our guest on this week’s mini-episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Marie Forleo, is here to tell us how. Marie Forelo is a born-and-raised Jersey girl who started out with nothing more than passion, a laptop, and a dream. Marie Forleo has created a socially conscious digital empire that inspires millions across the globe. Named by Oprah as a thought leader for the next generation, she’s the star of the award-winning show MarieTV, with over 50 million views, and host of The Marie Forleo Podcast, with more than 10 million downloads. Marie runs the acclaimed business training program, B-School, and has taught entrepreneurs, artists, and multi-passionate go-getters from all walks of life how to dream big and back it up with daily action to create results.  In this episode we dive into: -How to change the beliefs that hold you back-The three rules of the Everything is Figureoutable philosophy -The two destructive thoughts that will derail you from new opportunities-How to shift your mindset around failure-Why you should start before you're ready-How to reframe your thinking around excuses Listen to the full episode here. ​For more on Marie Forleo, follow her on Instagram @marieforleo, Facebook @marieforleo, Twitter @marieforleo, and through her website, marieforleo.com. You can order her book, Everything is Figureoutable, here. This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and AquaTru.InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself.AquaTru is the primary water filter I use at home and in my office. Right now, they are offering my community an amazing deal. Get $150 off your filter at drhyman.com/filter today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Birch Living.How is it possible that, in a culture so obsessed with wellness, we’re dealing with more chronic disease, mental illness, and addiction than ever before?Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru talks to Dr. Gabor Maté about his new book, The Myth of Normal, and our crisis of separation, disconnection, and loneliness. They discuss the link between addiction, our profit-driven culture, and trauma and the first steps we can take toward health and healing.Dr. Maté is a renowned speaker and bestselling author and is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics, including addiction, stress, and childhood development. Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It and has coauthored Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. His latest book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture, was just released.In this episode, we dive into:  -What we’ve gotten used to in our toxic culture and the consequences of it (2:31)-How society shapes our mind (11:37)-The crisis of separation we’re living in and how it has played a key role in our toxic culture (17:25)-The role genes play in human health and behavior (32:41)-Gabor’s childhood trauma and the impact it’s had on his life (36:43)-Understanding trauma and how it shapes the way we live, the way we love, and the way we make sense of the world (44:04)-What society is getting from living in this toxic culture (51:11)-Why women suffer from more anxiety, depression, and autoimmune disease than men (1:07:27)-Personality traits and coping mechanisms (1:14:01)-Psychedelics and healing (1:18:18)For more on Dr. Maté, follow him on Instagram @gabormatemd, Facebook @drgabormate, Twitter @drgabormate, YouTube @drgabormate, and through his website, drgabormate.com. Get his book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture, here. This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Birch Living.Magnesium Breakthrough really stands out from the other magnesium supplements out there. BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off, so just head over to magbreakthrough.com/dhru with code DHRU10.The Birch Mattress by Helix is made out of organic latex, organic cotton, New Zealand wool, and American steel springs. To get $200 off your Birch Living mattress plus two free eco-rest pillows, head over to birchliving.com/dhru.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 suffering because conventional medicine treats these diseases as lifelong illnesses that often require medication to manage symptoms. Through the lens of Functional Medicine, though, we’re able to see things differently; we’re able to see there are many underlying factors that contribute to autoimmune disease that can vary from person to person even for the same disease.Food, of course, plays a huge role in how our immune system functions. I’m not talking about “immune-boosting” foods to avoid a cold; I’m talking about the molecular makeup of foods that can exacerbate your condition due to the immune response they elicit. I’m also talking about anti-inflammatory foods that provide the right nutritional ingredients for healing. On today’s mini-episode, Dhru has a fascinating talk with Dr. Elroy Vojdani about leveraging food choices on an extremely personalized level to treat autoimmunity. Dr. Vojdani is the founder of Regenera Medical, a boutique Functional Medicine practice in Los Angeles, California. He has coauthored over 20 articles in the scientific literature and continues to play an integral role in research related to autoimmune, neurodegenerative, and autoinflammatory conditions. He is also the author of When Food Bites Back: Taking Control of Autoimmune Disease.In this episode we dive into: -Why there is an explosion of autoimmune disease-The connection between food and autoimmune diseases-Foods that damage the gut lining-Modern wheat vs. native wheat-The three stages of autoimmunity-How to prevent and treat autoimmune conditions Listen to the full episode here.For more on Dr. Vojdani, visit his website, regeneramedical.com, and get his book, When Food Bites Back, here. This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Pendulum.InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself.Pendulum is the first company to figure out how to harness the amazing benefits of Akkermansia in a probiotic capsule. To receive 20% off your first purchase of Pendulum’s Akkermansia probiotic supplement, go to Pendulumlife.com and use code DHRU20.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 a serotonin issue, what is it?Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru and Dr. Austin Perlmutter talk about why serotonin may not explain depression, but research on other brain pathways may provide answers such as neuroplasticity, our hormones, metabolic health, gut health, and the immune connection to the brain. They also discuss how there is a lot we can do through our lifestyle choices to help prevent and even manage depression.Dr. Perlmutter is a board-certified internal medicine physician and expert on how environmental influences affect our mental and brain health. He is a coauthor of the New York Times and international bestseller Brain Wash, which he wrote with his father Dr. David Perlmutter, and he hosts the Get The STUCK Out podcast. He currently serves as the Senior Director of Science and Clinical Innovation at Big Bold Health, where he is running an IRB-approved pilot trial exploring the effects of polyphenols on epigenetic expression.In this episode, we dive into:  -The top drivers of depression (1:42)-The connection between neuroinflammation and depression (9:30)-How our immune system influences our brain function (11:49)-What governs our brain state and how we make decisions (16:04)-The top causes of inflammation (17:31)-How exposure to particulate matter impacts our brain function (36:21)-The top foods for brain health (44:15) -Why depression is not a serotonin issue (50:37)-Myths about serotonin (56:47) -What you can do to improve your brain health (1:16:22)Also mentioned in this episode: -Dr. Mark Hyman’s Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat Pancake RecipeFor more on Dr. Perlmutter, follow him on Instagram @draustinperlmutter, Facebook @draustinnperlmutter, and through his website austinperlmutter.com. This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and Cozy Earth.ButcherBox has a variety of different boxes, and you can choose your box and frequency. For a limited time, you can sign up today and get 2lbs of ground beef free for a whole year by going to butcherbox.com/dhru.Cozy Earth are the most comfortable, temperature regulating, and nontoxic sheets on the market. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code DHRU.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices