The Everyday Toxins Accelerating Aging and Damaging Your Mitochondria and How to Protect Your Cells for a Longer, Healthier Life with Dr. Daria Mochly-Rosen

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Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by LMNT, Bon Charge, and Birch Living. When we think of mitochondria, we often think of them as the powerhouse of the cell, but they do so much more. Mitochondria are responsible for intricate functions like detoxification, immune defense, and cell signaling. Their health is directly tied to our overall health. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Dr. Daria Mochly-Rosen to discuss why protecting our mitochondria is essential for long-term health. Dr. Daria reveals the top insults that damage mitochondrial function, such as air pollution, pesticides, and chronic stress, and explains how they’re linked to conditions like Parkinson’s disease. She also shares her groundbreaking research on aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 and emphasizes why, in today’s world, our mitochondria are under constant attack, making it more important than ever to reduce these burdens on the body. Dr. Daria Mochly-Rosen is the George D. Smith professor for translational medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is passionate about turning scientific discoveries into real-world treatments and helping people make informed health choices. She has founded three biotech companies and created SPARK, a program that focuses on translating scientific innovations to benefit patients. Following the success of the program at Stanford, which led to the formation of over fifty biopharmaceutical companies, SPARK now operates in dozens of universities around the world. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Rosen dive into: What’s really hurting your mitochondria today (1:20) How air pollution, smoke and vaping chip away at your cells (2:40) The hidden danger of pesticides (9:00) Are we sensitive to electromagnetic frequencies? (17:55) Radiation’s surprising effect on your cells (22:45) The enzyme that could reveal your mitochondrial health (27:45) Should you worry about everyday radiation? (36:21) The control you do have over your health (41:51) Light, sleep, and mitochondria: the photobiomodulation link (42:46) Why chronic stress silently destroys mitochondria (47:16) The connection between mitochondria and aging (51:58) How exercise powers up your mitochondria (01:01:06) The secret of pairing endurance with strength (1:09:15) Fiber’s underrated role in mitochondrial health (1:14:21) Also mentioned in this episode: The Life Machines: How Taking Care of Your Mitochondria Can Transform Your Health For more on Dr. Rosen, follow her on LinkedIn or visit her Website. This episode is brought to you by LMNT, Bon Charge, and Birch Living. Right now, LMNT is offering my listeners a free sample pack with any purchase. Head over to drinkLMNT.com/dhru today. Right now, Bon Charge is offering my community 15% off. Just go to boncharge.com/DHRU and use code DHRU to save 15%. Birch is exclusively offering my community 27% off their Birch Living mattress—just head to birchliving.com/dhru 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	Dr. Darya Moschli Rosen, welcome to the podcast. It's a pleasure to have you here.
0:04.8	Thank you, Drew. It's wonderful to be here.
0:07.0	You know, I found your new book incredibly fascinating. And I'll tell you how I explain it to other people.
0:13.0	I think of you as a matchmaker, right? You know the term. Matchmaker, as somebody who might be putting two people together.
0:19.1	There's this beautiful matchmaking that you do in the book,
0:22.3	which is helping the lay person understand
0:25.6	why they are already in love with mitochondria.
0:31.1	They just don't know.
0:32.9	And I think that's the beauty of an incredible matchmaker
0:36.0	is they're setting up two people together. Obviously,
0:39.3	human and mitochondria are one and the same, but people don't know that they either should be in
0:45.2	love with mitochondria or could be in love with mitochondria. And here you are putting them together.
0:50.2	What do you think about that? I like your idea. I think actually the book started as a matchmaking between my husband and I
0:55.9	because I had to explain the signs to a layman.
0:59.5	And seeing how excited he is about what it is that mitochondria do for us,
1:05.9	got the spirit of the book to be more like this matchmaking that you mentioned,
1:13.5	explaining how this wonderful life machines are transforming our lives. I wonder if we might take a moment here to talk
1:19.7	about some of the top things that could be mitochondrial insults that you cover in the book. You
1:27.0	talked about one of the first items, which is there are examples, even throughout human
1:33.2	history, of people having exposure to poor air.
1:39.5	Now, in modern day society, we all know that smoking is bad, but smoking is one of the top things that
1:45.3	would be incredibly bad for your mitochondria. But take it a step further, air quality. So talk to us
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