Dhru Purohit

What are some examples of some of the ingredients or ways that ultra processed food is made that completely messes with that thermostat, the relationship that we have to those hormones and creates all this food noise that drowns everybody?

Are there examples of things that, you know, think about this audience here that's listening, especially on audio, generally people that are

pretty health aware and think of themselves as being healthy, even though that can mean a lot of different things, right?

You go to Times Square or Hollywood over here and you go to the average person, you say, are you healthy?

They're going to say, yeah, yeah, I only smoke one cigarette a day.

Everybody has a different definition of it.

But for the person that's listening to this podcast, it generally thinks like, hey, listen, I'm very intentional about stuff.

And also I want to lose weight.

I'm not obese, but I have maybe 30, 25, 20 pounds extra.

that I want to lose, what do you see that are some of the most common things that might be in their diet that they don't think of as being ultra-processed, but actually are ultra-processed?

Are there things in that category that people are eating?

And one of the great things about your book, and we have a link in the show notes for anybody that wants to check it out.

It's available everywhere books are sold.

You have, I think, 50-plus different tips inside of there.

You were talking about there's some people that are just naturally leaner.

Some societies...

a lot of Italians, a lot of the Asian communities that are out there.

You know, if you go to Japan, you very struggle to find an obese person unless they're American tourists.

That's there, which there's a lot of them right now.

There's things that these cultures and these individuals are doing