Dhru Purohit
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Absolutely.
And there's a lot of things that play in.
You tend to be a lot of doctors, computer programmers, engineers, a lot of people who are sitting, they're not very active.
You know, my dad was pretty active, but I didn't grow up seeing a lot of... I didn't grow up seeing nobody in my community really regularly working out.
It was not a thing.
Instead, it was, you know...
how well can you do on your SATs and what's the best job and university you can get into.
And then I also understood that a lot of Indians also too, there's a higher risk of certain genetic aspects that are related to cardiovascular disease.
There's many people that are hyperproducers of cholesterol and might have familial hypercholesterolemia.
And then I found this to this other bucket, which I was a hyperabsorber.
of cholesterol.
These are people that tend to recirculate high level from what I understood from my cardiologist, cholesterol in their gut, and they have a harder time getting rid of it inside of the system.
And very simple tools can actually help with that.
And sometimes medication could be useful.
And I did end up deciding a few years ago to start on Zetia, a Zetamide, which made a huge difference in my ApoB.
I think I was hovering around like 160, you know, 170.
My highest, I think it was even like 180.
And being on-
just increasing my fiber content and going on Zetia and using a paper coffee filter.
This is a recent experiment that I've been using.