I am a certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor and have completed my training at the Narayana Ayurveda and Yoga Academy in Texas. One of my long-term goals is to promote and establish Ayurveda as an evidence-based health science globally. Along with my sister, I have started to create awareness about Ayurvedic practices in a scientific manner on our social media page. I have counseled a diverse patient population on sleep, diet, and lifestyles compatible with the standard medical care to manage anemia, sleep apnea, alopecia, memory, constipation, pain, etc., which are side effects of many cytotoxic therapies. Through this, I’ve gained a deeper appreciation of the basic factors like diet, yoga, and pranayama to maintain overall health. The counseling sessions not only give me joy and fulfillment to see people’s health improve but also promote an empathetic and urgent approach to research. I want to now spread the age-old wisdom of this preventative as well as therapeutic form of medicine on the platform of evidence and data.
“The early life “exposome”, which encompasses an individual’s diet, lifestyle, weight, environmental exposures, and microbiome has changed substantially in the last several decades. Factors like the Western diet and lifestyle may be contributing to the rise in early onset cancer.” -Harvard Gazette
Dr. Helen Langevin from Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard talks about the role of stretching on inflammation, cancer and fibrosis. She emphasizes the limitations of conventional medicine and of dismantling the body into separate systems and body parts. Connective tissue is a body-wide network that connects all the systems and parts of the body together, and therefore is important for the integrated functioning the whole body. Stretching and movement create mechanical forces that affect the connective tissue in different ways. Scientists are investigating mechanical forces at all levels of function, from cells to tissues to the body as a whole. e.g., Fibroblast-regulated matrix stiffness in cancer, matrix remodeling in acupuncture, yoga-based stretching therapies.