Dhru Purohit Show
12 Foods and Spices with Incredible Benefits and the Fascinating Research Behind Them
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
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Hi everyone, Drew Proat here. You know, we all know that eating a healthy diet is key to our overall well-being. And there are also, in the context of an overall healthy diet, which includes getting the right amount of fiber, protein, exercise, sleep, etc., there are some foods that particularly have an amazing impact on our health, or it seems to be.
And I love this conversation because I love getting excited about the super foods that are out there. It makes me more excited to eat a whole food diet and to know that those foods are having an amazing impact on our health. That's what we're gonna be talking about today. 12 foods and spices with incredible benefits and the fascinating research behind them.
One of my guests on today's compilation episode, and the first guest today, is world-renowned physician, researcher, scientist, speaker, and author of Eat to Beat Disease, Dr. William Lee. And he refers to the foods that he covers in this first 12 group of foods as grand slammer foods.
In our conversation with William Lee, he shares the fascinating information about these foods that light up our health defense systems, protect against disease, we all want that, and even enhance DNA repair. Super fascinating. And
After this segment with Dr. William Lee, stay tuned because I also speak with Dr. Deanna Minnick, one of my dear friends, a nutrition researcher, educator, and functional medicine trained clinician with a unique approach to nutrition that combines physiology and psychology.
She's going to be chatting about something wild, which is the evidence-based spices that are out there that can supercharge your health. But before we get to Dr. Deanna Minnick, let's start off and listen in to my conversation with Dr. William Lee. Can you help us understand what are these grand slammer foods and why are they so powerful for our health?
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.
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