The 7 Most Powerful Inflammation Fighting Foods | Cyrus Khambatta, PhD
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This is the stuff they never taught you in science class. Diabetes expert Cyrus Khambatta dives into the science of cellular energy, and how it impacts everything from inflammation and energy levels, to insulin resistance and chronic disease. He unpacks what mitochondria really are, why they matter, and how you can build more of them using food alone.
Plus -- Cyrus shares the even most powerful foods for fighting inflammation and improving cellular health (according to science)
If you’ve ever wondered how antioxidant-rich foods actually work, and where inflammation comes from, this is the science class you wish you had in school.
In this episode of The Exam Room, you’ll learn:
- What inflammation is and how it happens
- What free radicals are, where they come from and how to neutralize them
- The surprising connection between insulin resistance and mitochondrial health
- The 7 most powerful foods for reducing inflammation and improving cellular health
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | Science is the ultimate truth. |
| 0:08.0 | Yes. And what the science has shown over and over and over again is that it's really not that complicated. |
| 0:14.0 | It's not that complicated to live a healthy life. It's not that complicated to live with a low risk for chronic conditions, chronic disease. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah. The principles are very simple, but somehow we as human, complicated to live with a low risk for chronic conditions, chronic disease. |
| 0:20.9 | The principles are very simple, but somehow we as human beings just love to overcomplicate |
| 0:27.7 | things. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to the Exam Room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:34.5 | Hello. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:36.8 | Thank you so very much for watching and downloading in more than 150 countries around the world and making the exam room |
| 0:42.5 | one of the most consumed nutrition podcasts anywhere on the planet today. We happen to be in Cleveland, |
| 0:48.1 | Ohio at the National Health Association Conference. I happen to be sitting across the table from |
| 0:52.5 | a good friend of mine, a good friend of the show. |
| 0:55.5 | He is, he's just pretty much it. You're a man. Cyrus Campata. Welcome back, dude. That's the best introduction I think I've ever gotten. I don't know, like, what else to, I mean, you're just the dude, man. Here's that here. |
| 0:51.0 | Let me... |
| 0:52.0 | Can we dab it up? |
| 0:53.0 | There we go. |
| 0:54.0 | We're off to a good start here. |
| 0:55.0 | Yep. |
| 0:56.0 | I love it. |
| 0:57.0 | So what's new with you, Cyrus? Here's that here. Let me, can we do? There we go. We're off to a good start here. Yep, I love it. |
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