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  Happy Holidays! Another year has passed and here we are amidst the joy and chaos that this time of year always brings around. The holiday season usually symbolizes warmth, happiness and a true infectious spirit of giving and of gratitude...and lots of emotions. There's excitement about the holidays and new beginnings of the new year. But there is also this darker emotion, of anxiety over fears for the future as the year comes to an end. From an Ayurvedic perspective, if fear is present, it can increase the weightiness of our earthy Kapha and anxiety or any frustration with...

Eating is a creative act; it is the process of selecting raw material from the world that will eventually be turned into you. Tuning into your digestive health is the gateway to tuning into your overall health. Aside from the tell-tale signs of indigestion like gas, bloating, weight gain, and acid reflux, here are a few questions you can ask yourself to help monitor your digestive health and your system's ability to absorb and assimilate what you’re eating. 1. Do you feel energized after meals? 2. Are your burps clear and tasteless? 3. Does your tongue appear pink, and glossy...

The connection of mind, body and soul is crucial in our dwelling into our inner self. We all are always trying to find ways to increase our immunity. This key to health are basically the soldiers that form a fence of the cells and some other attributes which make the defensive line against invasion of the different disease causing bacteria or attributes. Usually these soldiers should be well aware about the friends and foes, because before attacking someone this knowledge of selectiveness is truly important to have. When these cells forget the difference, Autoimmune diseases occur. Here, these once defensive...

In Sanskrit, ashwagandha means "the smell of a horse", indicating that the herb holds the strength of a stallion, and has traditionally been prescribed in ancient Ayurveda to help people strengthen their immune system after an illness. The herb, also known as Withania somnifera, is native to the dry regions of India and it actually belongs to the same family as the tomato. Ashwagandha is a plump shrub with oval leaves and yellow flowers. It bears red fruit about the size of a raisin. But actually, it is the root, not the fruit, of the plant that is the prize...

"Leaky Gut Syndrome", otherwise known as "Intestinal Permeability", has been becoming a more popular diagnosis nowadays amongst many of us. So what exactly is it? Leaky Gut Syndrome isn't really taught in medical school, however the symptoms and signs are evident to lead to it. The gut is naturally permeable to very small molecules in order to absorb the vital nutrients your body needs. In fact, regulating intestinal permeability is one of the basic functions of the cells that line the intestinal wall. In sensitive people, gluten can cause the gut cells to release zonulin, a protein that can break...