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Dhru Purohit

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Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And this was the first test that I did years ago.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

Like, it must have been 2012 when I first moved to Los Angeles.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And prior to that, I had chosen to go vegan for, like, I was vegan for eight years.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And I had felt great for, like, the first, like, six years.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And the last two years, I started to feel like, okay, I don't feel so great.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And the last year of that eight years, I was feeling like...

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

I don't feel like my brain is super sharp.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And I had just gotten into the world of meeting a lot of like functional medicine doctors and things.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And one of them was like, hey, you know what?

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

This is actually this really simple test.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

It's like 60 bucks, 99 bucks.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

It's called a mega quant test.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

Just look at your omega-3 levels in your body, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

You know, because you don't really convert all the...

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

from hemp and all these vegan sources.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And some people are better at converting, and some people are not good at converting, even if you're eating all these different plant foods.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

So I did it and I was so low on my, I think I was like on the percentile, if 8% is considered optimal, I think I was like three or 4%, somewhere around there, I was quite low.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And then after doing that test, that's when I made a decision, I'm gonna start eating fish.

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And when I did,

Dhru Purohit Show
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: The Science of Building a Stronger, Healthier Brain at Any Age with Dr. Majid Fotuhi

just me sharing my end of one story i felt like my brain started to turn on again i'm proud to say that the last test that i did i do take fish oil but i do eat a good amount of uh you know salmon sardines other things like that as part of my diet my last test that i did from a mega quant i was like 8.3 8.5 and my goal is obviously to maintain that over the years uh the study that i was mentioning was released by dem