Foods and Habits That Quietly Destroy Your Brain and The Antioxidants and Supplements That Protect It

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Branch Basics and BetterWild. As we get older, protecting brain health becomes more important than ever, and it’s becoming increasingly clear how powerfully everyday inputs shape the brain, often long before any cognitive symptoms appear. The good news is that simple, daily choices can have a massive impact on brain resilience and long-term cognitive strength. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, we’re revisiting one of our most talked-about moments with Dr. Datis Kharrazian. He breaks down the top foods that may accelerate early brain aging, including why seed oils are a growing concern. Dr. Kharrazian and Dhru also explore the connection between leaky gut and brain health, as well as the conditions linked to both. Plus, he shares his top supplement recommendations to support brain health and help prevent cognitive decline. Dr. Datis Kharrazian is a clinical research scientist, an academic professor, and a Functional Medicine healthcare provider. He is an associate clinical professor at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, and a researcher at the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Kharrazian dive into: The everyday foods quietly accelerating brain aging (2:02) Why seed oil consumption deserves a second look (4:50) Leaky gut, leaky brain: the connection most people miss (10:52) Why glutathione matters for calming brain inflammation (14:22) Dr. Kharrazian’s top supplement picks for brain health (22:47) Final takeaways you’ll want to remember (29:49) Also mentioned: Full episode with Dr. Datis Kharrazian Try This: The Power of Glutathione Glutathione: Your Most Important Defense This episode is brought to you by Branch Basics and BetterWild. Right now, Branch Basics is offering 15% off the Premium Starter Kit; just go to branchbasics.com and use the coupon code DHRU. Transform your space, transform your health, start with Branch Basics today. Right now, BetterWild is offering my listeners up to 40% off at BetterWild.com/DHRU. Support your dog’s digestion and allergy defense system today. Sign up for Dhru’s Try This Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, Drew Prode here.
0:01.4	You know, the older that I get, the more and more passionate I am about the topic of brain health.
0:05.8	And the more and more appreciation I have for how strongly certain inputs influence the brain.
0:11.4	Often, long before we ever notice any cognitive symptoms.
0:16.0	The good news is that simple, everyday choices that we make that we're all doing can have a massive impact on the
0:22.9	strength and resilience of our brains. That's why I want to share this highlighted segment
0:26.9	for my conversation with Dr. Dates-Korazian. Now, these moments that we feature here, and this is one of
0:32.6	them, they're taking key sections of a previous interview and they're highlighting them. We're
0:37.0	highlighting them. We're highlighting them.
0:37.7	We're putting the spotlight on them. Something really profound, a strong distinction that will
0:41.5	help you walk away with a better understanding of health. And in today's conversation with Dates,
0:45.5	and I'll tell you a little bit about him in a second, we're talking about the foods that fuel
0:50.1	early brain aging for some people. Why certain proteins can trigger brain inflammation if you're sensitive to them and how that
0:56.3	becomes more common after the age of 40.
0:58.7	We also talk about the link between leaky gut and leaky brain, something that's part of
1:02.9	the emerging science that's out there.
1:04.3	And we discuss some of the most powerful protective tools, including glutathione, NAC, and
1:09.2	fish oil.
1:09.7	I'm a huge fan of all these things.
1:12.0	And this episode is full of practical science-backed levers from Detis that we can use to start pulling at any
1:18.4	age to protect the brain, pulling those levers to protect the brain, reduce inflammation,
1:23.4	and get more clarity and resilience. Now, really quickly, before we jump in to this featured moment,
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