Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy
10 Mar 2025
This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth, One Skin, and Ollie. Environmental toxins are everywhere in our modern world—yet most remain untested for their long-term health effects or combined impact. With exposure at an all-time high, understanding how to minimize risk is more important than ever. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, we’re bringing you a special compilation episode featuring Dhru’s conversations with top experts on the toxins we encounter daily—and how to protect ourselves and our children. In this episode, our guests share practical strategies to reduce exposure and safeguard long-term health. Beth Lambert explores the growing epidemic of childhood disease linked to toxin exposure. She shares her personal journey of healing her children, the insights she uncovered along the way, the key factors affecting gut health, and how small changes can lead to big results. Dr. Joel breaks down the major drivers behind this rise, including ultra-processed foods and environmental toxins. He also introduces his SEEDS protocol—a holistic approach focused on both prevention and treatment. Beth Lambert is an Author, educator, and former healthcare consultant. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Documenting Hope, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that focuses on root-cause healing solutions for children’s chronic health and developmental issues. She has monitored and documented the escalating rates of childhood chronic conditions for 15 years. Dr. Joel Warsh is a Board-Certified Pediatrician in Los Angeles, California who specializes in Parenting, Wellness and Integrative Medicine. He completed his Pediatric Medicine training at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) and worked in private practice in Beverly Hills before founding his current practice, Integrative Pediatrics and Medicine Studio City, in 2018. In this episode, Dhru and his guests dive into: The role of the gut microbiome in detoxification (01:40) Multigenerational changes to environmental toxins and changes to our food systems (11:40) Simple decisions that impact our overall health (22:54) Toxins in our everyday products and how to minimize exposure (25:59) What to prioritize to reduce toxic exposure, filtering water, and organic food (28:34) Toxins and the correlation between heavy metal exposure and Autism (35:44) Avoiding heavy metal exposure, testing, and diversity in food sources (38:19) Dr. Joel’s SEEDS protocol (44:21) Dhru’s Final Thoughts (51:34) Also mentioned: Full episode with Beth Lambert Full episode with Dr. Joel G. Warsh Parenting at Your Child's Pace: The Integrative Pediatrician’s Guide to the First Three Years Dr. Yvonne Burkart Episode: Toxicologist Reveals the Top Sources of Hidden Toxins We’re Being Exposed to Daily This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth, One Skin, and Ollie. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com/dhru and use code DHRUP. Right now, One Skin is offering my community 15% off; just go to oneskin.co and use coupon code DHRU to save 15% and give your skin the scientifically proven, gentle care it deserves. Want to give your dog the best in clean eating? Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your pet. Right now, Ollie is offering 60% off your first box of meals when you subscribe today! Just head to Ollie.com, use the code DHRU and you’ll get 60% off your first box of meals in your subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hi everyone, Drew Proat here. It's no secret that we're exposed to many toxins in our daily lives that are negatively impacting our health and our children's health in particular in a myriad of ways. In fact, 80,000 toxic chemicals have been released into our environment since the dawn of the industrial revolution.
And only very few of those chemicals have been tested for their long-term impact on human health. And definitely the vast majority have not been tested for their impact together on human health. But we can't freak out about this. There are many steps, simple steps that we can take every single day to minimize the effects of our toxic exposure to protect and heal the health of our families.
So on today's episode, I talk with two experts on how to do exactly that. First up, we have Beth Lambert. She's an author, educator, nonprofit director, and former healthcare consultant. She's also the founder and executive director of Documenting Hope, a 501c3 nonprofit organization focusing on root cause healing solutions for children's chronic health and developmental issues.
Also, in addition to Beth, I chat with a friend of mine, Dr. Joel Warsh. He's a board certified pediatrician in Los Angeles, and he specializes in parenting, wellness, and integrative medicine. Let's dive right in, starting with my conversation with Beth Lambert, which I really enjoyed, by the way.
And in this snippet, she details the changes that she made in her own household to address her children's health issues. And she also discusses the vital role that our gut microbiome plays when it comes to how our body handles toxic exposure.
The gut bacteria are so profoundly important for every function in our body from making neurotransmitters to regulating the immune system to determining whether we're reactive to our environment or not. And they help us detoxify. So I learned that my kids had imbalances in gut bacteria and I dove right into their gut
but kind of became a little bit nerdy and obsessed by it because it's so cool what these microorganisms do for our body and how much it's within our control because a big part of our microbiome, it can be regulated by the food that goes in every day. And as a parent, even if you're not super resourced, you can to some degree control how that microbiome shapes up by food and through food.
So I would say our family was eating pretty standard, healthy American diet. So like I thought that was, you know, you ate whole wheat products and, you know, we ate organic, some of our stuff, but not maybe everything. We ate maybe a lot of pasta in our house, which I thought was healthy because that was sort of an idea, a narrative that's out there.
And, you know, my kids eat fruits and vegetables, but I found that the standard American diet There's the ultra processed version of the standard American diet. And even the healthy version of the standard American diet is not what human beings evolved to eat over millennia. So, you know, the human body has evolved. If you think about going back to our ancestral roots,
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