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The Importance of Mucus Membranes The lining of the intestines and respiratory tract is surprisingly LARGE. It could easily cover a tennis court if completely flattened out! Mucus can be a double-edged sword, as it provides both natural protection to these linings, but, in excess, can congest them. Lined with mucus-making cells, called mucus membranes,
How Much Screen Time Do You Get? Today in America, adults check their cell phones an average of 52 times a day and spend a whopping 9 hours in front of a blue light-emitting cell phone, tablet, or computer screen!1 LED blue light-emitting bulbs are on pace to replaced orange-hued incandescent bulbs worldwide, resulting in
Our Ancestors: Fruit + Famine Once upon a time, about 26 million years ago, apes in Africa lived in a flourishing tropical garden, where their next meal, likely some ancient version of a banana, was just a few feet away. They were mostly fruitarians, and they had a special enzyme that helped metabolize fruit as
Sleepy? According to Ayurveda, when your lifestyle is in sync with natural circadian rhythms, life can be but a dream, gently down the stream! When your lifestyle is out of sync with biological clocks, life can feel like a struggle—as if you are paddling upstream all day! When I teach at Ayurvedic colleges, I always
Seasonal Vitamin D Do you know how to optimize your vitamin D levels for every season? A growing body of knowledge shows that, at optimized levels, vitamin D functions as a hormone rather than a vitamin, with numerous notable effects on the body. Vitamin D Supports: Healthy immunity Healthy mood Targeted support for over 2,000
One-Minute Meditation with Bhastrika Yoga, including asana, pranayama (breathing), and meditation, became popular in the US in the 1960s and 70s when yogis from India were shown to be able to control aspects of their physiology that were previously thought to be involuntary.1 Based on these early Western studies, yoga has become a well-studied science,
Join me as I interview my daughter Devaki on the work she is doing with our favorite organization, The Mwebaza Foundation!
Ayurvedic Anatomy of Psychology According to Ayurveda, we feel emotional impressions in the emotional heart. This is called sadaka pitta—the aspect of pitta that feels everything. These impressions are then transported to the brain through the carrying channels of prana vata—the emotional aspect of vata. Emotional impressions felt by sadaka pitta are carried and written
December 3, 2019 | 49 minutes, 31 seconds Download Natural Healing By now, we’ve all heard of the healing properties of nature, like the healing magic of a walk through the woods! Ayurveda described the benefits of nature thousands of years ago. More recently, in the 1980s, a Japanese practice became popular called shinrin-yoku, which
Where to Find Vitamin C For humans, consuming vitamin C is essential because we cannot make our own, like other mammals do. Therefore, consuming enough vitamin C is a requirement for optimal health. In summer, the abundance of fruits and vegetables makes this pretty easy. But in winter, fresh vitamin C-rich foods are scarce. While
How is Your Nervous System? What are you doing to calm your nervous system? Keeping your cool on the inside may be more important than you think! A new study in one of the world’s most prestigious journals (Nature) may have just proven a fundamental Ayurvedic principle,1 showing that nervous system activity is linked to
