6 Ways Your Diet is Making You Look Older + The Power of Sauna and Cold Therapy to Keep Your Body Young

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Ollie and Lumebox. We all know inflammation can influence our risk of developing diseases, but did you know it also plays a role in premature aging? Today’s guest reveals powerful strategies to reduce inflammation, helping us age gracefully while keeping longevity at the forefront. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Dr. Susanna Søberg to explore six key factors linked to premature aging. Dr. Søberg explains how inflammation affects the aging process and shares practical lifestyle practices to combat "inflammaging." She dives into the benefits of hot and cold therapies, emphasizing the importance of building tolerance to sauna heat therapy, especially as we age. Additionally, she debunks popular social media myths about cold therapy and offers actionable tips for incorporating it into your routine. Dr. Susanna Søberg is one of the world’s leading researchers and experts in cold and heat therapy and functional breathing. She is also the founder of the Soeberg Institute, an online research-backed curriculum designed to help anyone optimize their stress management and performance for a healthier and happier life. Dr. Søberg obtained her PhD in metabolism at the University of Copenhagen, and her research has contributed to a deeper understanding of brown fat metabolism in adults. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Søberg dive into: The role of inflammation when it comes to aging (00:00:20) Sugar increases inflammaging (2:50) What shocks Dr. Søberg about the standard American diet (5:30) Trans fat hidden in foods and adequate protein intake (9:20) Alcohol consumption (21:00) The impact of hot, cold and contrast therapy on our health (29:45) Building your tolerance for sauna heat (45:45) Microplastic and toxin exposure (50:45) The importance of community and addressing loneliness (1:04:45) Why and how cold exposure can be beneficial (1:08:25) Myths and truths about when and how you should implement cold therapy (1:12:35) Trusting yourself and moderation (1:33:10) Also mentioned in this episode: Dr. Søberg's Newsletter Microplastics and Your Health-Huberman Lab Podcast Microplastics and Your Health-Dr. Rhonda Fitzpatrick Podcast For more on Dr. Søberg, follow her on Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and her Website. This episode is brought to you by Ollie and Lumebox. Want to give your dog the best in clean eating? Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your pet. Right now, Ollie is offering 60% off your first box of meals when you subscribe today! Just head to Ollie.com, use the code DHRU and you’ll get 60% off your first box of meals in your subscription. Lumebox is offering my community $260 off their FDA-approved portable Red Light device! That's over 40% off! Go to thelumebox.com/dhru and get your Red Light device. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So many people feel that they're premature aging, this idea of them looking older than they feel like they should, is all related to bad genetics.
0:13.2	But one of my favorite newsletters that you wrote was you talked about six things in particular that have strong evidence around them that are actually connected
0:22.9	to premature aging and getting older.
0:26.0	Essentially, you found that your diet done the wrong way could make you look older than
0:33.3	you need to look.
0:35.1	So I want to talk about some of those things, starting off with the first
0:38.0	big one, which you've written about multiple times, and it's the role of inflammation when
0:44.3	it comes to aging. Can you talk about that? Inflammation is exactly the root cause of actually
0:49.6	aging. You can modify this by doing different things in your life. So you have to think about your
0:55.0	lifestyle a lot. Inflammation happens no matter what. So we will all age. We cannot go backwards yet
1:00.8	at least. It might be in the future, but right now we can't. But we can slow it down. So less
1:07.2	inflammation means that we also age slower. If we can change that in our epigenetics, so this is about how we can make our genes healthier,
1:17.5	or we can make them a better function, then we can help our body to live longer, our cells
1:22.8	live longer.
1:23.9	So inflammation is actually this natural response in the body. We need to have inflammation because
1:30.1	it fights off viruses and it fights off all the bad things that comes to our bodies. We need
1:34.9	the inflammation process to happen. So it's natural. But we don't want it to be chronic. And when
1:39.9	it becomes chronic, it increases the risk of disease. So we want to have a balance in that.
1:45.4	So inflammation is healthy and natural, but we don't want it to be too much. And where it happens,
1:51.2	it's too much is when we, for example, speed up the process when we have on healthy diet.
1:57.6	And we're going to go into what is exactly that. But also how we behave.
2:03.5	So it could also be that we move less. So if we exercise or whatever we do. So our behavior can
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