Digestion♣ Tired of yogurt, kombucha, and kefir? Then give these five foods a try to get more of the gut-boosting benefits of fermentation. If you haven’t added beneficial fermented foods to your diet—now is the time. Studies have shown that fermented foods like yogurt, kefir, and kombucha...
Read More♥ Struggling with stomach troubles? Use these tips and explore how to use Ayurveda for gas and bloating. I have a client who, until we started working together, assumed it was normal for men to pass gas throughout the day and feel bloated after every meal. She...
Read More♥ Improve your digestion and overall health by tending to the quality of your digestive fire—using alchemy. ↵ When it comes to dietary health, you are probably familiar with the axiom “You are what you eat.” To a large degree, this is true. It’s important that our diet...
Read MoreSuffering from acne? Ayurveda may have the answers you need to clear your skin. As I am in the final year of getting my Ayurvedic doctorate, it is deeply ingrained in me to constantly observe people’s bodies and the ways in which people discuss their health. I pay...
Read More• • • Do you have a simple plan to help you through the dark, sluggish days of winter? All significant successes in life are built from many small successes, so rather than pulling the blanket over your head on those bad hair days, try this...
Read More◊ With its trillions of microbes working to regulate the immune system, produce vitamins and hormones, and communicate with the brain, the gut may just be the best advice-giver around, if you know how to listen. As someone who struggled with at-times debilitating digestive issues for over...
Read More♠ Ever feel overheated, despite cool weather? Your Pitta dosha may have been aggravated. Have you ever felt heat in your body despite cold weather outside? Have you felt annoyed and agitated for seemingly no reason? Has your skin’s texture or quality changed after eating certain kinds...
Read More♠ While “six-pack abs” are touted as the ideal, a soft and flexible belly is, by design, more useful. We often get the message in our culture that our bellies should be small and hard. But part of a belly’s job is to be soft and wide,...
Read More◊ Chock-full of health benefits, this turmeric- and ginger-infused dressing will keep you healthy and tantalize your taste buds. It’s common knowledge that, when it comes to salad, it’s not the vegetables or even the crunchy add-ins that make or break the finished product—it’s the dressing. Fortunately, this dressing is...
Read More◊ Drinking warm lemon water before meals is just one way to avoid digestion problems. Occasional gut issues like constipation, diarrhea, bloating, and gas are really, really common. Part of this is due to stress. And for the 10 to 20 percent of people out there who have IBS,...
Read MoreIn addition to diet and medicine, yoga can help treat the overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is when good bacteria, which is supposed to be in one part of the intestines, migrates up to the wrong place (the small...
Read More↓ While “six-pack abs” are touted as the ideal, a soft and flexible belly is, by design, more useful. We often get the message in our culture that our bellies should be small and hard. But part of a belly’s job is to be soft and wide,...
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Problems digesting food may indicate tension in our relationships. The spiritual meaning of stomach pain is linked to how we absorb and digest the world around us. Stomach pain, also called belly pain, is incredibly common. A recent national survey by AbbVie found that 72 percent...
Read More↓ With its trillions of microbes working to regulate the immune system, produce vitamins and hormones, and communicate with the brain, the gut may just be the best advice-giver around, if you know how to listen. As someone who struggled with at-times debilitating digestive issues for over...
Read More↓ How do we remain healthy while successfully navigating a type-A lifestyle? I was on Park Avenue and 49th Street in Manhattan at around noon yesterday. Armies of well-dressed people crowded the sidewalks while getting lunch from food trucks and take-out establishments. As I admired their clothing,...
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