Ayurveda for Obesity and Gut Health

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

A scientifically supported, Ayurvedic approach to weight management

• 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 successfully managed obesity for centuries—and by integrating it with modern medicine, you can develop a personalized, practical, and cost-effective approach to lose weight and keep it off.

Illustrating the “why-how-when” of weight gain and fat from an Ayurvedic understanding, backed up by modern science, Dr. Cardona-Sanclemente explains how Ayurveda addresses obesity based on gut health, metabolism, lymph, fascia, and the vagus nerve for physical and mental health. He shows how what is common to all is imbalance and Ayurveda’s core aim is to rebalance us and restore us to good health. He explores individual Ayurvedic body 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 the metabolism. He also provides self-assessments to help you determine your Ayurvedic body type.

Supported throughout by up-to-date clinical research on Ayurvedic medicine, this guide explains Ayurvedic concepts and practices through the lens of recent biomedical discoveries and shows how to apply this integration of ancient medicine and modern science to your own life for lasting management of obesity and gut health.

Résumé
A scientifically supported, Ayurvedic approach to weight management

Contenu

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