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The Broken Brain podcast will help you take your brain health to the next level and teach you how to live your best life! Listen as host and serial entrepreneur Dhru Purohit interviews the top experts in the field of neuroplasticity, epigenetics, biohacking, mindfulness and functional medicine. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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#195: 5 Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking with Dr. Caroline Leaf
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Toxic thoughts, depression, anxiety—our mental mess is frequently aggravated by a chaotic world and sustained by an inability to manage our runaway thoughts. While we can’t control the events and circumstances of life, we can learn to control our reactions, which help us deal with and manage the many challenges we face and will face in our life. So…
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#194: Could This Simple Hack Reduce Anxiety and Panic Attacks? with Dr. Kristen Allott
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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health issue in the US, with approximately 42 million people affected. Next to depression, anxiety is one of the leading sources of unhappiness, life dissatisfaction, and human suffering. On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host Dhru talks to Dr. Kristen Allott, a naturopathic physician, national speake…
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Is Processed Food Making People Angry? (Minisode #24)
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When it comes down to what we’re made of, it’s all about food. What we eat provides the building blocks that make up the entire body, which means, unfortunately, most of us are made out of junk. Our poor food choices gravely impact our brain health resulting in behaviors that leave us more lonely, anxious, depressed, illness prone, and overweight t…
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#193: Why Inner Work is THE Missing Link to Your Health with Dr. Mary Pardee
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As people interested in health, we often tackle every major concern or follow every wellness trend—diet, exercise, gut health, oral health, and the list goes on—before we realize how important inner mental and emotional work is as well. When we’re willing to get quiet with ourselves and go deeper, that work pays off for not just our mindset, but ev…
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Can Dogs Be a Prescription for Better Health? (Minisode #23)
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We spend countless hours training our dogs, but how often do we consider what they have to teach us? Dogs teach us so many important life lessons. They teach us about gratitude, love and compassion, being present, and so much more. When humans bring a dog into their lives, they are most often looking for a companion; what they may not realize is th…
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#192: Breaking Free of Old Habits, Addiction, and Past Traumas with Dr. Gabor Maté
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It’s part of the human condition to run away from pain. Most of us have habits that we acquired as a way to cope with painful childhood experiences or traumas, which unfortunately don’t serve us as adults. These habits can manifest as addiction in a wide variety of forms, from substance abuse to overworking. If you feel a sense of deep guilt, witho…
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#191: How to Avoid Being Mentally Lazy and Demonizing the "Other"
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Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit talks to us about how to avoid being mentally lazy and demonizing others. In this episode, Dhru shares three big ideas on how to step into radical understanding: (1) Jump to understanding (2) Question before adoption (3) Check and own your bias Also mention…
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Sugar Is Making Us Fat, Tired, and Sick (Minisode #22)
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Most of us hear the term “metabolic health” and think it only applies to our ability to burn food and manage our weight. And while those are certainly big pieces of metabolic health, it also impacts everything from our cardiovascular health to cognition, mood, infertility, and so much more. That’s because our metabolism is actually our body’s abili…
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#190: The Goddess’ Guide to Hormonal Health with Dr. Stephanie Estima
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A woman’s hormonal landscape changes dramatically throughout her life. Because of this unique biology, understanding her menstrual cycle and its rhythm can be incredibly useful for optimizing productivity, weight, sex drive, energy, and mood. On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host Dhru talks to Dr. Stephanie Estima, an expert in female metabolis…
For hundreds of years, cancer has been portrayed as a foreign invader we’ve been powerless to stop, but our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline, but the “War on Cancer” has hardly been won…
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#189: How to Live on Purpose with Antonio Neves
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Do you ever find yourself just going along on autopilot, not stopping to think what you’re doing or why you’re doing it? Do you ever forget why you agreed to a meeting or project, or wonder how you got to where you are in life right now? On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host Dhru talks to Antonio Neves, an internationally recognized leadership …
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#188: Ask Dhru Anything: Switching Your Career, Tips for Brain Fog, and Supporting Your Immune System
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In this new Q&A series, Dhru takes live questions from his community. For a chance to speak with Dhru during a future Ask Dhru Q&A, text your question to 302-200-5643 using the hashtag #AskDhru. Topics covered in this episode include: -Dhru’s favorite question to ask (4:58) -Plant-based vs. animal-based protein (9:37) -Oil pulling and cavities (17:…
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The Functional Medicine Approach to Heart Disease
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We often think of aging as synonymous with decline. We believe that having memory loss, becoming slow and less agile, experiencing joint pain and stiffness, increasing diseases, and need for medications are all viewed as ‘normal’ as we age. The truth is, becoming overweight, sick, and slow are NOT inevitable. We need to reframe how we view aging. T…
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#187: A Masterclass on Fasting with Dave Asprey
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These days, we hear a lot about fasting. Intermittent fasting, time-restricted eating, and water fasting are just some of the many terms being thrown around in support of better health. Which one is best? What does it all mean for our longevity, brain health, and overall wellness? On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host Dhru talks to Dave Asprey,…
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#186: 5 Simple (But Powerful) Reminders for 2021
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Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit shares 5 powerful quotes to help you set the right intention for 2021 or build on the intention that you’ve already set: 1)“The news, unfortunately, is designed to be the lowest common denominator of the human experience.” - Michael Bernard Beckwith 2)“What…
We often think of aging as synonymous with decline. We believe that having memory loss, becoming slow and less agile, experiencing joint pain and stiffness, increasing diseases, and need for medications are all viewed as ‘normal’ as we age. The truth is, becoming overweight, sick, and slow are NOT inevitable. We need to reframe how we view aging. T…
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#185: Build Your Brain and Burn Fat with Shawn Stevenson
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Food is complicated. It's a key controller of our state of health or disease. It's a social centerpiece for the most important moments of our lives. It's the building blocks that creates our brain, enabling us to have thoughts, feelings, and emotions. It's the very stuff that makes up our bodies and what we see looking back at us in the mirror. Foo…
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#184: How to Stop Holding Back and Step Into Your Purpose
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Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit talks about how to stop holding back and step into your purpose. From the beginning of time people have questioned their place on the planet. Our ancestors stared up at the same stars, and asked themselves the same questions we ask ourselves today. Do I mat…
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Navigating the Postpartum Experience (Minisode #20)
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Did you know that the postpartum hormone drop is considered the single largest sudden hormone change in the shortest amount of time—and it has a tremendous impact on the brain? With such a dramatic drop in hormone levels, it’s no surprise that 1 in 7 women struggle with postpartum depression and anxiety after giving birth. On today’s mini-episode, …
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#183: The Neuroscience of Peak Performance with Steven Kotler
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What does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to shatter our limitations, exceed our expectations, and turn our biggest dreams into reality? On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host Dhru talks to Steven Kotler, one of the world’s leading experts on peak performance. Steven is an author, an award-winning journalist, and the foun…
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#182: 2 Ways to Catch and Stop Self-Sabotage
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Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! Jerry Colonna, an executive coach for CEO’s and leaders, asks us to reflect on an important question when it comes to taking responsibility for our lives, “How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want?”. On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit talks to us about this que…
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The Transformative Effects of Self-Compassion (Minisode #19)
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We each possess an extraordinary power to realize our greatest potential and live the life we want. Dhru’s guest on today’s mini-episode, Dr. James Doty, is living proof of that. Having grown up in an environment of poverty and neglect, Dr. Doty was 12 years old when he walked into a magic shop and met an extraordinary woman, named Ruth who introdu…
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#181: Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100 with Marta Zaraska
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When we think about health, we usually think about diet and exercise. We think about the things we are doing for our physical body to promote wellness, but what about the things we can’t see? Relationships are a big one. And we now know that loneliness and social isolation are as dangerous for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day! That’s an in…
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#180: The Power of Quitting and Letting Go
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Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit talks about the power of quitting and letting go. When’s the right time to let go of something? A relationship, a project, an investment? Seasoned investors have this great question for determining whether or not they should hold onto an investment. The que…
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How to Get Better, Deeper, and More Impactful Sleep (Minisode #18)
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We all know the importance of getting enough sleep, though many of us scrape by with as little as possible. It turns out that sleep can make or break your ability to lose weight, age slowly, prevent cancer, and perform at a high level. When your sleep suffers, you suffer major consequences far beyond the dark circles under your eyes. On today’s min…
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#179: The New Mind-Blowing Science of Breathing with James Nestor
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There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing, yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with serious consequences. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance, rejuvenate internal organs, halt snoring,…
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#178: 7 Tough Things That Make You a Better Human
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Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit talks to us about the 7 tough things that make us better humans: (1) Saying no to “exciting” but wrong opportunities (2) Deciding not to gossip about other people (3) Having the humility to say sorry or repair even when it’s not 100% your fault (4) Having t…
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30 Days to Discovering Your Purpose (Minisode #17)
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Do you feel lost or as if something is missing in your life? Maybe you want to make a bigger difference in the world than you feel you are, but you aren't sure how. From the beginning of time people have questioned their place on Earth. Our ancestors stared up at the same stars, and asked themselves the same questions we ask ourselves today. Do I m…
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#177: This is How You Age Well with Dr. Frank Lipman
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When it comes to longevity, the goal isn’t just to live as long as possible. The true objective is to live as vibrantly and energetically as possible, for as long as possible. So how exactly do we do this? On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host Dhru talks to Dr. Frank Lipman, a vocal pioneer of integrative and Functional Medicine, or what he cal…
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#176: Drop Your Expectations, Step Into Peace
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Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! Expectations are stories we tell ourselves about a situation. They are what we want or are attached to happening in life. They can be big or small, but what everyone knows, including you and me, even though we can forget sometimes, is that having a lot of expectations on any other person, situation, or even your…
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#175: Diagnosing Society: Getting to The Root of Our Mental Health Epidemic with Dr. Omid Naim
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Our mental health heavily influences our quality of life, so it makes sense that mental health, just like physical health, needs to be taken care of and maintained. One way that it can be maintained is through finding a sense of community, however, the way we are living today in Western society has created a big problem of loneliness. 60% of Americ…
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#174: What If It’s Not Depression with Dr. Achina Stein
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More than 60 million Americans are affected by mental health issues every year. While the conventional medicine approach focuses on balancing neurotransmitters in the brain through medication, the Functional Medicine approach is to look for the root cause. There’s a saying in Functional Medicine, “fire in the gut, fire in the brain.” If you have in…
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#173: Gratitude Hack Workshop with Dhru Purohit
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Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit shares a simple gratitude practice to help supercharge and accelerate our goals and dreams. At the end of the year many of us set New Year's resolutions or an intention for how we want the next year to go. Dhru shares that he sees an interesting pattern as …
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#172: How to Prevent Cavities Using an Ancestral Diet with Dr. Steven Lin
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The biggest misconception when it comes to tooth decay is that it’s an infection of harmful bacteria, in large part from eating sugar, but it’s not. Tooth decay actually results when the body doesn’t have adequate fat-soluble vitamins, which causes an imbalance of the oral microbiome. On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host Dhru talks to Dr. Stev…
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#171: All Things Covid: Vitamin D, Masks and More with Chris Kresser
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All Things Covid: Vitamin D, Masks and More with Chris Kresser As humans, we often fall into black and white thinking. It can be easy to let the constant waterfall of media information and social snippets wash over us without stopping to think of the full context. In this age of COVID-19, though, it’s more important than ever to pause and look at w…
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The Most Common Underlying Causes of Acne (Minisode #16)
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Our skin is a reflection of what’s going on with our health beneath the surface. Acne and other skin problems are signals that something is off in our body. Conventional medicine deals with symptoms, so their solutions for acne include lathering on potions and lotions, popping and pricking pimples, and taking antibiotics or strong liver-damaging me…
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#170: How Out of Control Blood Sugar Can Cause Belly Fat, Brain Fog, and Chronic Disease
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Most of us hear the term “metabolic health” and think it only applies to our ability to burn food and manage our weight. And while those are certainly big pieces of metabolic health, it also impacts everything from our cardiovascular health to cognition, mood, infertility, and so much more. That’s because our metabolism is actually our body’s abili…
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3 Tips on Supercharging Your Morning Routine (Minisode #15)
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How do you start your day? Do you jolt awake at the sound of your alarm, or do you mindfully ease into the morning with a healthy meal, exercise, and setting goals for what you plan to accomplish? Your morning can set the tone for your entire day. It can mean the difference between a productive day or a sluggish one, having a powerful ripple effect…
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#169: The New Science of Why We Get Cancer with Dr. Jason Fung
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Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline, but the “War on Cancer” has hardly been won. On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host Dhru talks to Dr. Jason Fung, a physician, author, and resea…
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#168: How to Get Better at Trusting Your Gut Intuition
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Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit talks to us about how to trust our gut and get better at listening to our intuition. He shares three big ideas on this topic: (1) Practice listening - our intuition doesn’t just speak to us in life’s big events, it speaks to us in life’s small events too. L…
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#167: EMDR: A Powerful Therapy for Healing Trauma with Dr. Stephen Dansiger
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EMDR therapy, which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing has been proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders, by resolving unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain. Our brains have a natural way to recover from traumatic memories a…
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#166: Are Root Canals Dangerous? with Dr. Rouzita Rashtian, DDS
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Root canals have become ubiquitous—almost 60 million are performed each year in the United States. “You need a root canal‟ is now almost as common as hearing “you need a filling.” It is the only treatment protocol available to retain a tooth that is diseased. Yet, just how safe are root canals? And, what is the science behind there being a non-toxi…
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#165: How to Become Better at Focusing with Dr. Pedram Shojai
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In our unpredictable and continually changing world, we are constantly in a state of figuring out how to create a happy life, which means tending to the needs of our health, career, family and friends, passions, and desires. Unfortunately, time never seems to be on our side, and, if anything, often it seems out of our control. But what if it wasn't…
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#164: Monsanto's World of Deception, Greed, and Glyphosate with Carey Gillam
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Known as Monsanto's Roundup by consumers, and as glyphosate by scientists, the world's most popular weed killer is used everywhere from backyard gardens to golf courses to millions of acres of farmland. It's the pesticide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it’s in the air we breathe, our water, our soil, and even found increasingly in ou…
Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week! On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit, talks to us about creating an “avoid list”, and how it can help you achieve your goals and dreams. We're all familiar with a to-do list. But most of us have never heard about an “avoid list." The thing to understand about avoiding things or avoidance is th…
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#162: Becoming a Food Advocate in Your Own Kitchen with Vani Hari
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We live in a world where our food is making us sick, tired, and overweight. Big Food brands design their packaged products to be addictive, so we over consume unhealthy ingredients, including cheap additives that are banned in other countries. Product labels are deceiving, hiding risky chemicals that contaminate our food and tout approval from orga…
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#161: 9 Things We Do That Hold Us Back from Our Goals & Dreams with Dhru Purohit
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In a culture that’s obsessed with adding things in (we want more, more, more), we can forget how powerful removing things can be. We need to take away that which is preventing us from reaching our goals in order to truly move forward. On this week’s episode of The Broken Brain Podcast, Dhru talks about nine things he commonly sees people doing that…
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#160: Getting to the Root of Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Dr. Soyona Rafatjah
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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a widely-diagnosed, yet often misunderstood condition that affects approximately 60 million Americans. IBS is characterized by abdominal pain, discomfort, and changes in bowel habits, and is diagnosed when IBD or celiac disease have been ruled out. In other words, IBS is a “diagnosis of exclusion.” The range of sym…
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#159: The Science of Yoga with Eddie Stern
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Yoga, in its original form, was created as a science for liberation. In modern times, it is used by many for improving physical and mental health, helping us become more productive at work, more caring in relationships, and more responsible contributors to society and inhabitants of this planet. If yoga does accomplish all that—and many practitione…
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The Secret Formula for Making Habits Stick (Minisode #14)
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How many times have you attempted to start working out consistently, eat more veggies, or incorporate something new into your routine, but struggled to make it stick? Changing an old habit or creating a new one can be challenging, but when we use science to understand the secrets to lasting behavior change, it’s clear there are ways to overcome the…
