L. Eduardo Cardona-Sanclemente

Ayurveda for Obesity and Gut Health (eBook, ePUB)

The Natural Way to Overcome Weight Imbalances for Your Body Type

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• Explains how Ayurveda has understood and successfully managed obesity for centuries and how you can apply its insights to lose weight and keep it off • Explores individual Ayurvedic body types, how wrong foods and wrong lifestyle affect each type, and how all these components coalesce with our unique metabolic rhythms in the process of weight management • Presents several Ayurvedic body-mind protocols and suitable food intakes, detailing their effects on the gut, microbiota, and the gut-heart-brain axis as well as how they help rebalance metabolism at the tissular, cellular, and molecular levels Managing excess weight and developing a healthier body can be extremely challenging. But, as Dr. Eduardo Cardona-Sanclemente reveals, ayurvedic medicine, the ancient Indian healing modality, has been used successfully to manage obesity for centuries. By integrating ayurveda with modern medicine, you can develop a personalized, practical, and cost-effective approach to lose weightand keep it off. Illustrating the "why-how-when" of weight gain and fat from an ayurvedic understanding, Dr. Cardona-Sanclemente explains how ayurveda addresses obesity. He discusses gut health, metabolism, lymph, fascia, and the vagus nerve for physical and mental health. He shows that what is common to all is imbalance, with ayurveda's core aim being to rebalance us and restore us to good health. He explores individual ayurvedic body-mind types, how wrong foods and wrong lifestyles affect each type, and how all these components coalesce with our unique metabolic rhythms in the process of weight management. He presents several ayurvedic body-mind protocols and treatments, detailing suitable food intakes and their effects on the gut, microbiome, and the gut-heart-brain axis as well as how they help rebalance metabolism. He also provides self-evaluations to help you determine your ayurvedic body type. Supported throughout by up-to-date clinical research on ayurvedic medicine and recent biomedical discoveries, this guide shows you how to integrate ancient medicine and modern science in your own life for lasting management of obesity and gut health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644114896
• Artikelnr.: 70726250

Autorenporträt

Dr. L. Eduardo Cardona-Sanclemente, DSc, PhD, MSc, is a certified ayurvedic doctor (NAMA, USA) with a master's in ayurvedic medicine from Middlesex University, London, with more than 2,000 hours of internships at ayurvedic hospitals in India. He holds a doctor of science in physiopathology of nutrition from Sorbonne University, France. The author of Ayurveda for Depression, he holds a private ayurvedic practice and lectures nationally and internationally. He lives in both the United States and Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. What Is Ayurveda?
1 The Basic Principles of Ayurveda
2 The Ayurvedic Medical Treatises of the Charaka Samhita
and Sushruta Samhita
How Ayurvedic Founders Provide Timeless Wisdom
3 Three Universal Body Energies
Vata, Pitta, and Kapha
Part II. Present-Day and Ancient Approaches
to Our Bodily Functions
4 Being Overweight as It Relates to the Gut
How the Body Becomes Imbalanced
5 Meda Dhatu
An Ayurvedic Perspective on Adipose/Fat Tissue
Part III. Ayurvedic Body-Mind Constitutions
Prakruti, Vikruti, and Manas Prakruti
6 Prakruti
Your Body’s Constitutional Characteristics
7 Vikruti
Your Current Abnormal State
8 Manas Prakruti
Foundations of a Healthy Brain-Body
Part IV. Participants That Are Fundamental to Life
The Unfolding Language of Our Gut
9 Your Gut and Body Regulations
An Ayurvedic View
10 The Microbiome
A Modern Understanding of the Gut
Part V. Main Structural and Functional Organs
Players in Your Bodily Imbalance
11 The Adipose Tissue
The Visibly Guilty Actor
12 The Fascia
The “Fascia-nating” Invisible Living Strings
13 The Lymphatics
The Hidden and Efficient Janitor
14 The Vagus Nerve
The Master of Ceremonies
Part VI. Making Ayurveda Work for You
Rebalance via Proper Food and Diet
15 Beyond Simply Eating Less
Acquiring an Ayurvedic Mastery of Food and Nutrition
16 Ayurveda and Diet
Dietary Advice for Your Rebalancing Journey
17 The Future of Ayurvedic Modalities in the
Age of Epidemic Imbalances
Visualizing the Whole Picture and Taking Action
Appendix 1: Self-Evaluations
Appendix 2: Food Recommendations for the Three Doshas
Appendix 3: Self-Massage of the Lymphatic System
Glossary of Sanskrit Terms
Resources
Notes
Bibliography
Index