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Many factors can lead to weight management issues. A wealth of well-referenced articles explore herbs, exercise, lifestyle, and behavior changes that may help balance weight naturally, as well as the impact of chronic mental and emotional stress on the body’s ability to maintain optimal weight. Please download our free Weight Balancing eBook to get your Ayurvedic guide to optimal weight.
Olive Oil: The Heart’s Best Friend Extra virgin olive oil is arguably the healthiest oil in the world. You would be hard pressed to find a study linking it to any health risks. In fact, one study aimed to see if olive oil was safe for folks already having cardiovascular concerns. This study followed over
Where do you eat? For decades I have been teaching and writing about the three pillars of the Ayurvedic diet: How you eat: calm, relaxed and not on the run. What you eat: whole foods, seasonal foods, body type foods. When you eat: bigger lunches and lighter suppers in sync with the body’s biological circadian
June 1, 2020 | 74 minutes, 52 secondsDownload In this podcast, Dr. John interviews Divya Alter, Ayurvedic chef, author of What to Eat for How You Feel: The New Ayurvedic Kitchen, and co-founder of the restaurant Divya’s Kitchen NYC. Dive Deeper Body Type Quiz 3-Season Diet Guides Fruit: Ayurvedic Food Combining Guidelines Cooking Part 1:
Why do our thyroids need our support? The thyroid is perhaps the most sensitive organ in the body, especially when it comes to the environment. To make matters worse, in America, we are dumping some four billion environmental pollutants into the environment each year.1 Today, an estimated 20 million Americans suffer from thyroid conditions. A shocking
Calorie Restriction is Natural Each Spring Every spring, our ancestors would be challenged to feed their families as Mother Nature delivers us from an abundance of food in the fall to an austere diet of greens, plump roots, and a scarcity of berries in the spring. Our gut microbes change from a predominance of carbohydrate-consuming
A healthy immune system isn’t always in high gear: it has the ability to go up and down in intensity in order to properly respond to an immune event. The balanced production of natural immunostimulants and immunosuppressants is called immunomodulation in Western medicine.
What Should We Eat? Diet wars keep raging as we humans try to solve one of our most controversial issues: what should we eat? In a recent study, a diet strikingly similar to what is suggested in Ayurveda has been found to dramatically lower risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke, the second leading cause of
Is Meat Really Back on the Menu? We’ve all heard we should stop eating meat, and also that we should eat more meat! What are we to believe? A controversial study suggesting new dietary guidelines around meat was recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine, suggesting there was low evidence that red meat or processed
Apparently, heart disease is on the rise! The Wall Street Journal analyzed rising rates of heart disease among middle-aged Americans (between 45 and 64), finding some of the healthiest places, like Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and Greeley, Colorado, saw some of the highest death rates from heart disease, with a rise of nearly 25% in 2015-2016, compared to 2010-11.1
The Calorie Theory One of the most common and accepted theories regarding weight loss is the calorie theory, in which your weight loss/gain is dependent on calorie intake versus expenditure. While this theory does make up a large piece of the weight loss pie, I wish it were that simple. The major flaw in this
Do You Know about Sugar Alcohols? Do you experience nagging digestive issues like bloating, gurgling, tummy aches, and occasional bouts of loose bowels? The culprit might not be wheat, dairy, nuts, seeds, beans, or other hard-to-digest foods. The problem might be that so-called healthy sweetener you’ve been using lately. No, I am not talking about
