Top 5 Herbs to Stabilize Energy and Nourish your Adrenals
Fatigue and a feeling of tiredness are extremely common here in the US. Without realizing it, many of us go through our days self-medicating our adrenal exhaustion with caffeine, nicotine from cigarettes or vaping, sugar, energy drinks, or other stimulants. Stimulants like these often overtly attempt to drive the adrenals to make energy that they […]
How to Release Unwanted Emotions with Ayurveda
According to Ayurveda, digestive toxins, environmental toxins, and even toxic emotions are stored in the body’s fat cells, and the purpose of seasonal cleansing was not only to flush toxins out of the body, but to also free the body and mind of lingering, unwanted emotions. The late Neuroscientist, Dr. Candace Pert Ph.D., called “The […]
How Reducing Meat Consumption Can Solve Our Global Water Crisis
In March of 2018, the United Nations published a report in association with the World Bank that said 40 percent of the world’s population is affected by water scarcity. After two years of research, they came to these conclusions: (1) 700 million people are at risk of being geographically displaced by 2030. More than 2 […]
10 Compelling Reasons to Not Skip Breakfast
While breakfast is one of the easiest meals to skip, missing it has powerful repercussions on your circadian clock. Breakfast and a dose of morning sunlight set your circadian rhythms in motion for the day. For breakfast, I like to gather some seasonal greens from my garden and blend them with flax and chia seeds […]
Why You Don’t Need Probiotics Long-Term
While the understanding of our own microbiology is still in its infancy, there are a few science-backed takeaways that do make sense. Basically, there are two types of supplemental beneficial bacteria strains (probiotics): transient and colonizing. Transient strains do not adhere to the intestinal wall and are only effective as long as you keep taking […]
How Ayurveda Activates Herbs for Maximum Results
According to Ayurveda, herbal formulations can be “activated” in certain ways to boost their bio-availability and effectiveness. Herbal formulas using whole, organically-grown herbs of good quality, combined with other herbs to enhance their intelligence, and taken in-season can provide a combination of nutritional benefit, probiotic support, and a needed therapeutic impact. In this article, I […]
Episode 62: Resolving Emotional Eating – An Interview with Marc David, Institute for the Psychology of Eating Founder
Airs here Monday, November 5th @ 5:30pm Mountain Time (4:30pm Pacific, 6:30pm Central, 7:30 Eastern) Register here to receive an email reminder at showtime + podcast notes! Podcasts with LifeSpa’s Dr. John Douillard, DC, CAP and guests are dynamic, hour-long lectures and interviews on a wide array of topics blending the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda […]
Increase Ojas & Vitality with these Potassium-Rich Foods
Ayurveda refers to one’s vigor, immunity, strength, and happiness as “ojas,” and says that a lack of ojas manifests as tiredness, sadness, immune concerns, cold hands and feet, cognitive and memory issues. As I continue my mission here on LifeSpa.com, I’ve found that ojas is a true example of how we can use the ancient […]
Cancer Linked to Cellular Memory Loss
The Vedic saying, “Aham Bramasmi,” which means, “I am the Universe,”* in English is a concept that astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson said is the greatest gift that astrophysics has given to our culture in the 20th century. His exact words were, “Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us.” Greek philosophers […]
Episode 61: What We Can Learn From Cancer Cells – An Interview with Zach Bush, M.D.
Ayurveda describes the cause of cancer as a loss of cellular memory, where cells have forgotten how to function as a part of the whole. Stressed cancer cells cannot survive very long being isolated from the whole, so they start dividing rapidly, attempting outrace the body’s programmed cell death for such rogue cells. Restoring cellular […]
