• Obese children
  NEW ORLEANS – Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound (...)
• Ayurvedic Nutition
  Preface to the Revised 2010 Edition
  It is now over ten years since my agent sold this manuscript for its first publication in 2001. The resulting first edition in July 2001 was in many ways extremely disappointing, even (...)
• Ayurvedic Medicine, Spa and Wellness
  Getting ripped off by the "therapist" or spa nearest you ? Find out if they know what they are doing. read the article here that will explain everything to (...)
• Ayurveda & Communication breakdown
  Communication breakdown is a current problem. The more communication means we have the less we communicate. As we expand in technology we regress in communications. Haven’t you noticed (...)
• genetic, diet & lifestyle
  genetics, diet & lifestyle
  There are several things, first it is important to be open about fears as the act of looking at them and speaking about them reduces their power. Second, the genetic disposition of (...)
• making ghee (video)
  a video on making ghee from Alex making ghee video - click here !
• Immunity, Ayurveda and Influenza A virus subtype H1N1
  Questions concerning the Flu A – Type H1N1 How does Ayurveda view influenza in general and the subtype H1N1 specifically ? According to Ayurveda the body’s first defense against (...)
• Current issues in the world
  Normally I do not list books which I have just read but I feel everyone should read the book I just finished today - Survival+ - a book that is more a commentary on the current social (...)
• Lower back pain syndromes in Ayurveda
  The Ayurvedic view of dosha causing different forms of the same problems can be illustrated by lower back pain.
• Is Cheese OK to eat in Ayurveda ?
  Student question : What about Prakriti Satmya and cheese ? We eat cheese since we are babies, so we do have the enzymes to digest it. But we have been told by an Indian Ayurvedic (...)
• Tamas in Dravyaguna
  Student question : How about herbs, for example Valerian ? You told us to antidote it with Centella or Calamus – but is it an antidote or does it just make the the tamasic effect milder, (...)
• Rajas and Tamas
  Student question : The best way to balance Tamas and Rajas is to avoid tamasic and rajasic lifestyle ? Like trying to be sattvic in lifestyle and eat sattvic food, isn’t there an (...)
• Satmya
  This concept in Ayurveda is sometimes called the law of adaptation or habituation.
• Sugar suppresses the immune system
  Question: "The consumption of 100 grams of sugar effectively suppresses the immune system for 6 to 7 hours." Is this true for all types of sugar (including honey), or just refined (...)
• New Website
  As you can see we have a new website, please be patient as we re-build the English site. I will be writing more and more on the blog as soon as we finish the transfer of all data onto (...)
• Seva means selfless service
  Seva is a great idea in that it is meant to indicate the service of humanity for no personal gain - mental or physical. In practice 99% of people who are "doing Seva" are doing it for (...)
• After childbirth - recovering normal health
  There is a typical kind of problem that manifests with women after childbirth. This syndrome gets more and more aggravated after each birth - this is all from my clinical observations: (...)
• Why is it bad to work?
  Well it isn’t really unless you over do it. Although it certainly feels bad to work this is mainly because we do not like what we do. Finding an enjoyable work, such as mattress testing, (...)
• Why is it bad to work at night?
  Why is it bad to work at night? Many artists or other people find it a good time to work. In answer to your questions: Basically when people work at night they cause Pitta and Vata (...)
• What is a Dosha really?
  Dear Atreya, Everybody, speaks and writes about the Dosha, with some details, their qualities, their location and others details. My question is: What is a Dosha really? Response from (...)

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