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Cynthia Thurlow

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Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

Again, it goes back to being a realist and probably twice a week I have protein powder. So I think it's important if you tolerate whey, that is going to be, whey is going to be a complete protein, really well tolerated, but you don't want 15 or 16 ingredients. It should really be

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

The whey protein may be like a clean sweetener if you tolerate stevia or monk fruit, or if you don't like it flavored, totally unflavored. But you definitely want to make sure it's a short ingredient list, preferably sourced by grass-fed cows. But if that's not doable, just keep the ingredient list short. Beef protein isolate is fine. It's just not a complete protein.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

The whey protein may be like a clean sweetener if you tolerate stevia or monk fruit, or if you don't like it flavored, totally unflavored. But you definitely want to make sure it's a short ingredient list, preferably sourced by grass-fed cows. But if that's not doable, just keep the ingredient list short. Beef protein isolate is fine. It's just not a complete protein.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

The whey protein may be like a clean sweetener if you tolerate stevia or monk fruit, or if you don't like it flavored, totally unflavored. But you definitely want to make sure it's a short ingredient list, preferably sourced by grass-fed cows. But if that's not doable, just keep the ingredient list short. Beef protein isolate is fine. It's just not a complete protein.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

So if that's something, and I do have some of that in my house, I'll just round it out with some essential amino acids. And then the plant-based, if you find one that you like, again, short ingredient list, tolerable. Sometimes some of the products I've tried have been, it's been more of a consistency. And for me, if it's chalky or gritty, it's hard for me to get it down.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

So if that's something, and I do have some of that in my house, I'll just round it out with some essential amino acids. And then the plant-based, if you find one that you like, again, short ingredient list, tolerable. Sometimes some of the products I've tried have been, it's been more of a consistency. And for me, if it's chalky or gritty, it's hard for me to get it down.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

So if that's something, and I do have some of that in my house, I'll just round it out with some essential amino acids. And then the plant-based, if you find one that you like, again, short ingredient list, tolerable. Sometimes some of the products I've tried have been, it's been more of a consistency. And for me, if it's chalky or gritty, it's hard for me to get it down.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

But I know that there are some good brands that are out there. I'm a realist. I think it's fine if you're having one a day. But sometimes I meet women that are having two a day. And I'm like, okay, we need to figure out how to get another meal into your diet. And if you're using that last ingredient, You know, that last bolus of protein just to buffer your protein intake. I think that's fine.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

But I know that there are some good brands that are out there. I'm a realist. I think it's fine if you're having one a day. But sometimes I meet women that are having two a day. And I'm like, okay, we need to figure out how to get another meal into your diet. And if you're using that last ingredient, You know, that last bolus of protein just to buffer your protein intake. I think that's fine.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

But I know that there are some good brands that are out there. I'm a realist. I think it's fine if you're having one a day. But sometimes I meet women that are having two a day. And I'm like, okay, we need to figure out how to get another meal into your diet. And if you're using that last ingredient, You know, that last bolus of protein just to buffer your protein intake. I think that's fine.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

But we ideally want to actually get the protein from real whole food sources. Again, ideally, like tomorrow I'm traveling. It might not be a day that I hit 100 grams of protein, but, you know, it might be a day I buffer it a little bit.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

But we ideally want to actually get the protein from real whole food sources. Again, ideally, like tomorrow I'm traveling. It might not be a day that I hit 100 grams of protein, but, you know, it might be a day I buffer it a little bit.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

But we ideally want to actually get the protein from real whole food sources. Again, ideally, like tomorrow I'm traveling. It might not be a day that I hit 100 grams of protein, but, you know, it might be a day I buffer it a little bit.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

I think it's a B or a C, meaning like I'll be totally transparent. I had a protein shake yesterday because there's just no way I was going to be able to buffer out that protein. And I think that's fine. You know, sometimes you're stuck with filtered water in a shaker bottle and that's what you got. But when I'm at home, I get a little more creative.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

I think it's a B or a C, meaning like I'll be totally transparent. I had a protein shake yesterday because there's just no way I was going to be able to buffer out that protein. And I think that's fine. You know, sometimes you're stuck with filtered water in a shaker bottle and that's what you got. But when I'm at home, I get a little more creative.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

I think it's a B or a C, meaning like I'll be totally transparent. I had a protein shake yesterday because there's just no way I was going to be able to buffer out that protein. And I think that's fine. You know, sometimes you're stuck with filtered water in a shaker bottle and that's what you got. But when I'm at home, I get a little more creative.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

You know, it's interesting. When I think about what is going to drive inflammation, oxidative stress, etc., it is probably more the processed food. And as a byproduct is cooked or is consumed with seed oils, it is probably more problematic.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

You know, it's interesting. When I think about what is going to drive inflammation, oxidative stress, etc., it is probably more the processed food. And as a byproduct is cooked or is consumed with seed oils, it is probably more problematic.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

You know, it's interesting. When I think about what is going to drive inflammation, oxidative stress, etc., it is probably more the processed food. And as a byproduct is cooked or is consumed with seed oils, it is probably more problematic.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Get Fit for Summer: Ranking the Best and Worst Health Trends of 2025 including Fasting, Creatine and Detox Diets with Cynthia Thurlow

Again, because we know that if you're consuming processed foods, you're consuming an additional 500,000 calories a day because your body doesn't register that you are full. So do I think seed oils are less than ideal? Of course. But with that being said, I think if we aim to consume less seed oils, it means we aim to consume less processed food.