Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them
Mon, 09 Dec 2024
This episode is brought to you by Levels, ARMRA, and Lumebox. Real foods are multitasking powerhouses packed with vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals that work together to support multiple systems in the body. Today’s guests highlight the top foods that can boost health, strengthen immunity, and reduce inflammation. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, we bring you a special compilation episode featuring Dhru's conversations with experts about the superpowers of foods and spices to boost health and longevity. Dr. William Li shares his favorite “grand slam” foods that support all key longevity and defense systems, helping to prevent cancer, cardiovascular disease, inflammation, and illness. Dr. Minich dives into the science of spices, explaining how they reduce the development of advanced glycation end (AGE) products in cooked foods. She also reveals the top spices and powerful synergistic combinations to enhance your meals. If you want to supercharge your meals, this episode is a must-listen! In this episode, Dhru and his guests dive into: Dr. William Li’s gland slammer foods and their power (01:57) DNA protection through superfoods (05:11) How to optimize coffee drinking (13:17) Food and medicine as tools in the toolbox (23:34) Advanced Glycation End products (AGE’s) (28:14) Spices that protect our body from AGE’s (34:18) The power of polyphenols in spices (36:00) Protective effects on the microbiome (37:36) Turmeric as the heavy hitter (41:08) Neuroprotective components of spices (48:30) Potent amount of spices regularly (52:50) Final thoughts (53:21) Also mentioned in this episode: The Top Foods to Prevent Disease and Repair DNA with Dr. William Li The 7 Anti-Aging Spices You Need To Eat! – Heal The Body & Stop Inflammation with Deanna Minich Link to Dr. Minich's Slides This episode is brought to you by Levels, ARMRA, and Lumebox. Right now, Levels is offering my listeners an additional 2 FREE months of the Levels annual Membership when you use my link, levels.link/DHRU. Make moves on your metabolic health with Levels today. Get 15% off your first order of Armra Colostrum at tryarmra.com/DHRU, or enter DHRU to get 15% off your first order. Lumebox is offering my community $260 off their FDA-registered portable Red Light device! That's over 40% off! Go to thelumebox.com/dhru and get your Red Light device. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are grand slammer foods and why are they important?
And maybe tease out a few of them and how they're so impactful.
Yeah, absolutely. So in my book, Eat to Beat Disease, I have a whole section called Exceptional Foods. And of course, you know, there's lots of things about individual foods that are amazing. But one of the most amazing properties is that there are certain foods that can really light up our body's health defenses.
We've got five health defenses, androgenesis, our circulation, our stem cells that help us regenerate from the inside out, our gut microbiome, healthy gut, healthy brain, healthy metabolism, our DNA, which protects us against the environment, and of course, our immune system. So those five You know, we can actually match one food with one system, but there are some foods that hit all five.
And that's really where the term grand slammer come from. So you don't even have to be a baseball fan to know that if you have one swing of the bat and you can knock it out of the park and drive everybody home, that's actually what I'm talking about.
So one of the things that I said on my Instagram is that like, I want people to be able to just benefit from getting like, I've already done all the heavy lifting and all the homework to, What are all the Grand Slammer foods? And I basically told you, go to the link at the bottom of my Instagram and you can download this list.
So it basically boils down into about a dozen and a half of foods that fit into fruit, vegetables, beverages, sweets, oils, seafood that actually hit the Grand Slammer category. So let's start with some of them that, you know, I think are important.
common right so apricots and blueberries they actually amazingly hit all five of your health defense system good for your circulation good for your immunity and and good for your gut health at the same time so if you wanted to kind of find the shortest distance between two lines The line being you at the supermarket and picking out one of the, you know, the whole selection of things.
And you just wanted to be able to activate your health as much as possible. If you picked up a box of blueberries, that would actually do it. So, you know, like in the fruits and vegetables, it's apricot, blueberries, cherries. Kiwi is one of my favorite fruits. And the reason I love kiwi is because, I mean, it's this sort of innocuous looking fruit.
You know, it sits on like your football in your house until it kind of shrivels sometimes if you don't eat it regularly. But if you cut it open, it's this gorgeous emerald green inside with this kind of starburst in the middle of it. And what I love about it, it's not very sweet. It's sweet, but not cloyingly sweet. It's not like one of my favorite things, like a juicy peach. It's not that sweet.
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Chapter 2: How can food protect our DNA?
60, 70, 80, 90 years, we pretty much run out of our materials to actually keep renewing ourselves. And as our cells age, net-net, we also age as well. That's why a kid looks at themselves in a mirror and basically just sees the same image, same youthful, chubby image with the cheeks and everything else.
When you're like in your teenage and your adolescence and your 20s, you're cut and buff, you want to look as good as you can. As you get older, you start noticing those lines and wrinkles and the gray hairs and the things that are like, wait a minute, that's not me. Well, actually, what you're seeing in the mirror is the reflection of yourselves wearing down.
Now, there's a lot of work about longevity of like, how do we slow down the aging process? Some people want to reverse the aging process. What I would tell you is that one of the triggers is our DNA needs to be able to protect itself better against the environment because our environment ages us. So what am I talking about?
We all know somebody who spent their adolescence and young adult life lying out on the beach. And then when they're in their 40s, man, they're like leather, right? And they look like their skin's pretty rough. That's aged skin, sun aging of skin, okay?
Now that's what we see in the extreme, but I can tell you the same thing is happening when you're stuck in traffic in Los Angeles on the I-10 and on a sunny day and the sun is coming in on a windshield or your arms out the window, you're still getting that damage. So how come we don't turn into leather every single time we get stuck in traffic or go out for a run?
It's because our DNA knows how to fix itself and reverse that damage that's occurring. we got our DNA actually experiences a problem about 10,000 times a day. And if we didn't fix ourselves, we'd be aging a lot faster than we already do. And so one of the tricks to slowing down aging is to help support our DNA's ability to fix itself from the environment.
And so this is the ability for DNA to block the incoming missiles from the environment ultraviolet radiation from the sky, radon from the ground, off-gassing from your carpet, from your, you know, that new car smell, all fumes coming in, smelling that gasoline at the pump, which is now rising in cost, right? Because everything's going on in the world. All that stuff actually damages our DNA.
Thank goodness. our health defenses, our DNA is one of our health defenses, can fix itself to prevent that problem. Now, if there's damage in the DNA, a pothole, so one is prevent the potholes, if there's a pothole, the DNA can actually fill it. as quickly as the damage occurred. And that's where foods can also be coming in helpful to help our DNA fix itself.
There was a study that she looked at kiwi, the fruit we just talked about, and they wanted to know like, if you had just one kiwi a day, would it help? How much would it help protect your DNA against incoming?
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Chapter 3: What role does coffee play in health?
Chapter 4: What are advanced glycation end products (AGEs)?
And so this is the ability for DNA to block the incoming missiles from the environment ultraviolet radiation from the sky, radon from the ground, off-gassing from your carpet, from your, you know, that new car smell, all fumes coming in, smelling that gasoline at the pump, which is now rising in cost, right? Because everything's going on in the world. All that stuff actually damages our DNA.
Thank goodness. our health defenses, our DNA is one of our health defenses, can fix itself to prevent that problem. Now, if there's damage in the DNA, a pothole, so one is prevent the potholes, if there's a pothole, the DNA can actually fill it. as quickly as the damage occurred. And that's where foods can also be coming in helpful to help our DNA fix itself.
There was a study that she looked at kiwi, the fruit we just talked about, and they wanted to know like, if you had just one kiwi a day, would it help? How much would it help protect your DNA against incoming?
And they actually found that one kiwi a day, give somebody a kiwi to eat a day, take their blood out, expose it to environmental damage like ultraviolet radiation or some other kind of toxic, noxious exposure. And one kiwi a day will protect your cells with the DNA by 60%. So it's like putting up a 60% shield. One kiwi, all right?
Vitamin C, other bioactives in the kiwi all help our DNA to do that. Now, if you ate three kiwis though, now not only are you shielding yourself against that damage, now the DNA is inspired, geared, triggered to fix itself. You can fix holes 60% faster. So one, you can actually raise a shield.
The second, you can actually put the construction crew to start to pave the road, repave those potholes as well. And there's a third thing that's really important for aging, to prevent cellular aging, right? So you want to prevent the damage, you want to fix the damage, and now you want to slow that fuse down. So that Mission Impossible fuse, when the mission is over, man, that cell's done.
It's old and it needs to be replaced. So you can actually slow down the burning of that fuse, which is really amazing. So that's slowing cellular aging. And if you multiply that by 40 trillion, now you're slowing your entire body's aging. And foods can actually do that too. One of my favorites is actually what I got right here. Coffee will actually help you do that.
It will slow down the burn rate of your DNA.
Well, on that note of coffee, by the way, it's fantastic information. Do you have any rules in your life to get the maximum benefits from coffee, but then also to mitigate any kind of downside that could be associated with having maybe either too much or having coffee at, let's say, not the right hour of the day? Just curious for yourself personally, again, There's so many benefits to coffee.
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Chapter 5: How do spices help reduce inflammation?
a greater risk of renal stones or kidney issues or just, there are some people who are hyper oxalate absorbers and they're hyper stone formers. It's just something to think about. I'm not saying that we need to not, I feel like I'm taking your beautiful message and now saying like, yes, but because these spices are powerful, we just have to look at all sides of them.
Well, we don't need to go to the extreme, which is you'll see sometimes people adding a tablespoon of these spices to multiple spices to a superfood smoothie. And if you're talking about oxalates, which can inhibit the absorption of calcium is one of the things that they do, but they can also form into these crystals, which then can contribute to kidney stones in some instances. Mm-hmm.
You have people sometimes making these superfood smoothies that are like an oxalate bomb, right? You have almond milk every single day, a ton of cacao, right? Kale. Putting a ton of kale, sometimes even like things like dandelion greens, which have like the highest amount of oxalate. So it's not to make anybody afraid, but really to go back to the central message,
This is about regularly using a potent enough amount of spices in your cooking. If you're just regularly using that, if you're using spices at every meal that you cook at home, just a little bit here and there, you're going to end up getting a lot of the benefits that are there. You don't need to mega dose these spices to get the benefits. Is that correct?
That is correct. And again, if we just go back to thinking in our mind's eye of a teaspoon, what does a teaspoon look like? You know, it's not a lot. It's about four to five grams. So just a little bit. And this is why I like spice blends. You know, you can make your own spice blends at home where you take turmeric and you put it together with ginger or maybe some black pepper.
So you don't have this high concentration of turmeric, but you're actually potentiating the turmeric by including some of those other spices.
You know, I love this idea that there are foods that are out there that can supercharge everything else you're up to. Yes, sleep is important. Yes, protein is important. Yes, all these other aspects of a healthy lifestyle, the right amount of omega-3s, the right amount of fiber, et cetera. All these things are helpful and...
There are foods that are out there that have an ancient wisdom inside of them. And you just heard from two incredible researchers that are out there sharing a little bit about some of the benefits that are there. Can you imagine when your diet is largely filled with whole foods and these incredible spices that Deanna talked about as well, what happens to every cell in your body?
Next time you're sitting down to eat, just remember that these spices, these grand slammer foods, they're not just food. They're actually information for your body. and they're telling your DNA and your cells and your mitochondria how to show up in this world. And my hope for you and the food that you eat is that it helps you to show up strong.
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