Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. The weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.

Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. Let's face it, we all wake up in the morning with morning breath. But before you reach for that bottle of mouthwash, or yes, even certain toothpaste consider this.

Almost all oral hygiene products on the market today are actually killing off the good bacteria of your oral microbiome, which can lead to some pretty serious health issues down the line.

Just because like your gut, it is absolutely crucial to preserve the good bacteria in your mouth. But that doesn't mean you can't have nice fresh smelling breath.

In fact, my guest today says there are plenty of ways to naturally improve your smile and your health. He's Punit Nanda, aka Dr. Fresh, an Ayurvedic practitioner and CEO of Guru Nanda, a wellness company that combines ancient healing wisdom with cutting edge technology.

And in just a minute, we're going to dive into all natural oral care alternatives you can use to support your overall well-being. So stick around, we'll be right back.

This guy is so important, so famous, and you've probably never heard of him, so please stay tuned.

Hey, thanks so much for joining us today. We've been talking off camera, and I've gotten to know you a bit. Can you share with everybody your background because it's fascinating.

And I think people understanding where you're from, what you went through, your success story, and how you live in the dream, or not live in the dream, I think is really important.

So go ahead.

So thank you for giving me the opportunity, Dr. Kandri. I actually am from New Delhi, India, originally. I grew up in a toothbrush manufacturing family, my father and my brothers make toothbrushes for a living.

Two brushes for multinational corporations, including the most famous names in the world. But like any Indian dad, my dad wanted me to study medicine and wanted me to, in India, it's either you've got to be an engineer or a doctor or something to kind of be a complete son.

So I went to school in India and Russia, and things were not really socio-economically right in Russia.

So I moved to the United States, and I started Dr. Fresh, the original company, which I sold early on in 2012.

And I'm a true American dream, living liver, or American, I lived American dream. I knew very quickly that if I want to be successful, I need to innovate and bring my products.

I innovated a lot of products I had, 58 patents in my old company, which I sold. And at that point, I thought at the end of 2010, approximately 2009, while I'd achieved a lot of success, I'd also messed up a lot of my body.

I forgot the basic principles of medicine. I was eating a lot of junk food at fast food restaurants. I was working 12, 14 hours, sitting down at my desk, not moving. I was drinking sodas. I thought this is the American way.

I kind of got influenced. I left what I grew up with, and I kind of overly got overly Americanized, like how somebody gets into something new, and they get overly Americanized.

So where I was literally at grown to over 200 pounds, I started on a lot of pharmaceutical medications, almost 14 pills a day, to treat every possible lifestyle disorder, you can get at a very early age in life.

And I one day woke up, and I had a wake up call, actually, which was an anxiety attack, which the doctor thought initially when I went to the ER, that it's a hot attack or something, and I was 39 at that time.

And that is when I realized one of my friends, all my friends, all my classmates or doctors, either in America or in India, and he said, do you know the king of Sudan? I said, no, I don't know. He said, if you don't know him, he spent all his life becoming the king.

And who the hell cares about you, you need to just take care of yourself, and go back to your roots.

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