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Amazing Benefits of Sleeping on Your Left Side

Have you ever wondered to what extent the two sides of your body mirror each other? It is very common for me to have a patient tell me that they have all their issues on just one side of the body. A...

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The Cellulite Secret of Oranges

Average reading time: 1 minute and 31 seconds I am fascinated at the origins of many Ayurvedic medicines. One that always intrigued me was the notion that the white part, or the pith, of the orange or...

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Does Weak Digestion Sabotage Mental Health?

Average Reading Time: 5 minutes and 49 seconds Article at a Glance Take my quiz below to see if weak digestion is decreasing your body’s ability to handle stress, assimilate nutrients and process...

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Gallbladder Health: Food and Recipes

Average Reading Time: 3 minutes and 30 seconds Gallbladder (GB) symptoms are often hard to diagnose because they are often caused by the liver which is an organ that never complains. AS a result of 60...

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What To Do About Hidden Arsenic In Food

Average Reading Time: 2 minutes and 37 seconds Arsenic, which is a silent killer, has become a heavy metal concern as of late with high levels showing up in supplies of rice and apple juice. While...

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Cleanse Toxins & Emotions Right Out Of Your Fat

Average Reading Time: 2 minutes and 32 seconds Every season can be a perfect time to cleanse toxins from the deep tissues of the body as well as to give the body a deep emotional cleanse. Though spring...

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Top Ten Reasons to Cleanse with Ghee

Average Reading Time: 6 minutes, and 22 seconds An Ayurvedic cleanse would not be an Ayurvedic cleanse if it did not call for the ingestion of melted ghee. Aside from being surprised by this seemingly...

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The Truth About Oil Pulling

Average Reading Time: 3 minutes and 16 seconds Oil pulling… have you tried it yet? Oil pulling is the ancient, time-tested practice of swishing herbalized sesame and coconut oil in the mouth for 10-15...

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Detox Wisdom Backed By Science

While many detoxification programs seem to make up for the lack of research to back up their claims with great packaging, testimonials and marketing, this does not mean that all detoxification programs...

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7 Easy Hacks to Curb Winter Weight Gain

As summer winds down, a common question from many of my patients is, “How do I avoid those extra pounds every fall and winter?” Our ancestors seemed to have a different perspective… Each fall, they...

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10 Ayurvedic Tips to Prevent Seasonal Allergies

Ayurveda refers to spring as the kapha season. Kapha literally means “to stick together.” For many, kapha season is also allergy season. The snow begins to melt and rain becomes more frequent,...

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Detox Your Dioxins

Dioxins are very dangerous environmental pollutants that linger at unsafe levels in many of the foods we eat—they even sneak into healthy diets! These toxic dioxins or POPs (persistent organic...

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Ayurvedic Intermittent Fasting

The feast of fall is always followed by the famine of spring. Fall’s harvest is rich in sugars from fruit and starchy carbs from root veggies and grains. The excess fuel from this high-sugar, high-carb...

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Good Mood Food: Ayurvedic BDNF + Serotonin Boosters

Are you worried about what you’ve done to your brain over the years? For decades, our understanding of brain chemistry was that we are all gifted with a certain number of brain cells at birth and if...

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Free Video Training | Critical Strategy for How to Detox Your Body Naturally

I’m so excited to share this free video training series with you, packed with information about how to detox your body effectively and naturally. Registration opens today, Jan, 29, 2019. Click here to...

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The New Super Ghee: 500% More Potent

You’ve probably heard that grass-fed is better than grain-fed when it comes to meat and dairy products. Well, the differences might amaze you! Cows grazing in grass pastures with no supplemental feed...

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Best Ways to Detox your Brain

Did you know that your brain has its own lymphatic system (called glymphatics) and that there are easy ways to keep it running smoothly? I have written numerous articles on the newly discovered...

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Spring Cleansing for Optimal Health

Every spring, nature makes some dramatic shifts as part of its New Year strategy for optimal health. After a long winter of heavy, hard-to-digest proteins and fats, we have likely packed on some needed...

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How to Remove Toxins from Fat Cells

Have you ever wondered how and why our bodies store toxins? Actually, we are all designed to continuously and naturally remove toxins from our bodies, but sometimes this natural process is interrupted...

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How to Rid Your Body of Pesticides

How much difference does going organic really make? In a pilot study by the Swedish Environmental Research Institute, scientists set out to discover the effects of eating only organic food. They wanted...

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Spring Cleansing for the Body, Mind + Soul

The most powerful cycle in nature is the seasons, which motivate birds to fly south, whales to migrate and leaves to fall. Each time the season changes is an opportunity to reset digestion and...

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Benefits of Kitchari: The Complete Protein Superfood

Above all other Indian meals, kitchari is considered beneficial for spiritual growth, intestinal repair, and rejuvenation. It’s an Ayurvedic detox food, but in my house, as in many around the world,...

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Ayurvedic Weight Loss Tips: Spring Edition

While spring is a great time to lose those extra holiday pounds, it is also a time that we can easily gain weight. Let me explain so that we can all become successful springtime fat burners. The post...

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Spring Elimination Diet: Nature’s New Year’s Resolution

Have you ever wondered why so many religions have fasting holidays in the spring? While Lent, Ramadan, and Passover encourage fasting or calorie restriction, Mother Nature is encouraging the same. When...

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Spring Stuffiness? Try Aller-Rest!

According to Ayurveda, spring (March-June) is kapha season. Kapha literally means “to stick together.” It’s a muddy, wet, rainy time of year, where the earth is holding onto more water­­—nature's...

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Boost Lymph for Healthy Blood Sugar

A slew of health concerns can be caused by blood sugar levels. Educating yourself about the ways in which blood sugar affects you is crucial to balancing these levels. Conditions associated with...

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Ayurveda 201: Six Weeks to Transformation & Bliss Through Ayurvedic Psychology

For 26 years, I administered Ayurvedic panchakarma detox retreats, guiding thousands of patients through the mental and emotional transformation that Ayurveda requires for optimal health and longevity,...

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Kaya Kalpa: Key to Autophagy + Stem Cell Regeneration

The world may not need another cleanse, but the cleanse I’m introducing to you is not new—in fact, it is thousands of years old: perhaps the oldest Ayurvedic detox of all! There is one catch: this...

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Turmeric Boosts Gallbladder Function by 50%

Turmeric has been time-tested and well-studied (boasting over 5600 scientific citations!) to be a powerful agent for optimal health. It is perhaps most well-known for its support of the liver, and as...

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Occasional Migraines? Relief by Body Type

Ever experienced a migraine? It can be a debilitating experience, and, frustratingly, sometimes its onset a total mystery. I have investigated the Western science and the Ayurvedic perspective to get...

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Inhibit Intestinal Biofilm with Neem, The Village Pharmacy

What are biofilms? Biofilms are naturally-occurring bacterial colonies in both humans and the environment. They are basically slimy, glue-like, protective sheaths that bacterial organisms form around...

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Your Gallbladder Needs Fat! But How Much?

Gallbladder removal is the most common elective abdominal surgery in America. Gallstones, just one reason the gallbladder fails, affect 10-15% of Americans, or 20-25 million people. More importantly,...

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Best Herbs to Cleanse the Lymphatic System

What is Lymph + What are Some Herbs for Lymph? The lymphatic system, the largest circulatory system in the body, has been under-investigated for years, due difficulty in measuring its flow. The good...

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Activate Stem Cells with Amalaki + Brahmi

Cellular Rejuvenation + Longevity Cellular rejuvenation and longevity have been a fundamental branch of Ayurvedic study (called rasayana) for thousands of years. Therapeutic rasayanas are plant-,...

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Cleansing vs Fasting: Risks + Benefits

Cleansing vs Fasting Summary Decades of research has found that a low- or no-fat diet or prolonged fasting can cause the gallbladder to not contract fully, leaving concentrated bile to form sludge and...

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Ayurvedic Weight Loss Guide: Fall Edition

End-of-Summer Weight Gain Have you noticed yourself starting to gain a few pounds of winter weight already? At summer’s end, nature dishes out a series of influences best described as a perfect storm...

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Clean the Air + Fight Stress with Tulsi

The Taj Mahal’s Air Pollution Solution We’re all aware that air pollution poses health risks, but few of us realize what a global threat air pollution actually is. According to the World Health...

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Cleanse Emotional Trauma with Ayurveda

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...

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8 Foods for Gallbladder Sludge

What is Bile Sludge? Gallbladder removal surgery (cholecystectomy) is the number one elective abdominal surgery in America today, but problems may begin years before manifestation of biliary sludge,...

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The Domino Effect of Neglecting your Lymphatic System

There is a stark contrast between how little attention is given to lymph in the West and how highly it is revered in Ayurveda. The lymphatic system is considered one of the seven body tissues in...

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The Ayurvedic Understanding of Superbugs

Beware of the Superbugs! Untreatable superbugs are not science fiction—they are very real. Every year, some two million people get sick and about 23,000 die from a superbug, according to the CDC. A...

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097: Detox Physical + Mental Ama

February 25, 2020 | 48 minutes, 53 secondsDownload Ayurvedic Detox According to Ayurveda, the lymphatic system should be evaluated first, as it is the largest and arguably most important circulatory...

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How to Detox Digestive + Emotional Ama (Toxins) Ayurvedically

Detox Physical + Mental Ama Sadly, a recent survey found 74% of Americans experience digestive health concerns.1 Are you one of them? Digestive concerns may be more important that you think. Ayurveda...

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How to Detox Pesticides + Chemicals

Detox Chemicals + Pesticides Now Do you ever wonder how much chemicals and pesticides you’re exposed to? In 2018, about 76 million tons of pollution were emitted into the US atmosphere, according to...

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098: Functional Breathing with Patrick McKeown

In this podcast, Dr. John interviews Patrick McKeown, auther of Oxygen Advantage and founder of the Buteyko Clinic. Learn about the benefits of nasal breathing! The post 098: Functional Breathing with...

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Triphala: Ancient Herbs for Modern Immune Systems

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...

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095: Emotional Trauma Cleansing with Kaya Kalpa

January 7, 2020 | 50 minutes, 14 secondsDownload Dive Deeper Kaya Kalpa Stem Cell Cleanse Learn more about Stem Cells Learn more about Autophagy Learn more about Fasting and Intermittent The post 095:...

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3 Ayurvedic Superfoods for Summer, Fall + Pitta Balancing

Article At-A-Glance: At the end of summer, especially if you are a hot (pitta) body type, your body will potentially overheat or dry out. Take this dosha quiz to find out your The post 3 Ayurvedic...

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French Lentil Kitchari

Recipe adapted from The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook by Kate O’Donnell. Description Serves 6 This is a hearty, fiber-rich kitchari, seasoned with the cozy, satisfying tastes of tamari and ajwain...

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Goodbye 2020, Hello New Year: Clear Toxic Emotions and Habits with our 4-Day...

This simple detox program will help you process the stress of last year and clear the path for a more grounded 2021. The post Goodbye 2020, Hello New Year: Clear Toxic Emotions and Habits with our...

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