#59 - A Deep Dive into the Vital Factors for Maintaining an Alkaline pH
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By Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum
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#58 - Achieving Alkaline pH_ Why Your Diet is Only Half the Battle
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By Dr. Marinne Teitelbaum
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#57 Ayurveda and Dharma
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By Dr. Melina Takvorian-Mishra
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#56 Medicines' Side Effects
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Dr. Teitelbaum discusses the side effects of medicines used to treat common illnesses, which can, in the long run, create complications worse than the medical conditions they were intended to alleviate. The list includes natural treatment alternatives to substitute: Birth control pill Use of antibiotics to treat acne Use of antibiotics for ear infections in babies Medicines to strengthen the bones Antidepressants Acid reflux prescriptions Cholesterol drugs
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#55 Minerals and Metals in Ayurveda - Iron
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Even in these modern times of technology and scientific research, contemporary literature can hardly rival the abundant and detailed ancient texts of Ayurveda in matters that regard the effects of metals on human physiology. In this episode, Vaidya Mishra sheds light on a key metal, iron, and its effects on our body.
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#54 Marine Salt vs Soma Salt
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While we worry about pesticides, colorants, preservatives, and other harmful chemicals in our food, antibiotics and vaccines in meats, very few people are aware of the health-deteriorating effects of microplastics in table salt. As a result of decades of trash dumping in our oceans, plastic bottles, bags, and other manufactures shred into very tiny fragments that we end up ingesting with the salt. They are a well-known factor in sterility and many other disorders/illnesses in our physiology. An alternative to marine salt, the Himalayan salt, also referred to as pink salt, has always been...
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#53 Detoxification - PART 2
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The extraordinarily deep understanding of physiological processes revealed by Ayurveda points almost invariably to toxins as the underlying cause of diseases or the imbalances that, if not addressed early, will lead to them. This extraordinary live presentation by Dr. Teitelbaum covers in two parts all that is needed to know about such a crucial subject. Part 1 explains the four types of toxins as well as the vibrational and physical channels. Part 2 addresses the main organs of elimination, the seven tissues with their chain of transformation, and finally, the ayurvedic techniques to...
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#52 Detoxification - PART 1
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The extraordinarily deep understanding of physiological processes revealed by Ayurveda points almost invariably to toxins as the underlying cause of diseases or the imbalances that, if not addressed early, will lead to them. This extraordinary live presentation by Dr. Teitelbaum covers in two parts all that is needed to know about such a crucial subject. Part 1 explains the four types of toxins as well as the vibrational and physical channels. Part 2 addresses the main organs of elimination, the seven tissues with their chain of transformation, and finally, the ayurvedic techniques to...
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#51 The Significance of Navaratri
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Vaidya Mishra explains the meaning of the nine-day, devotional celebration of the Divine Mother that is known as Navaratri.
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#50 Oral Care
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In this episode, our Vaidya explains the principles of oral care in relation to the seven tissues recognized in Ayurveda, the harmful effects of acidity and sugar in the mouth, and how the medicinal herbs and plants of his formulations restore oral health. Additionally, basic concepts of tongue hygiene are introduced.
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What is Vat?
What is Pitt?
What is Kaph?
Vat is the more proper spelling of the dosha which is transliterated as Vata in the Western world and pronounced as "Wata". Since Sanskrit has no letters, its "alphabet" is rather a syllabary, much like the Japanese katakana and hiragana, where characters represent full syllables instead of consonantal or vocalic sounds that have to be combined to make syllables. When a Sanskrit syllable has no vowel at the end, a minuscule "A" sound is attached to it, and since Western alphabets don't know of these short or "half vowels" the transliterations frequently add a full "A" sound at the end. Furthermore, familiar words such as Yoga and Ayurveda are actually "Yog" and "Ayurved" in their original Sanskrit form, they just get a full "A" sound appended at the end.
Vat or Vata is one of the three ayurvedic doshas and is the dosha of people with a physiology that is marut-predominant. It is divided into the five sub-doshas listed below (spelled Western style) on which Vaidya Mishra elaborates in this episode covering the functions and the parts of the physical body that each of them governs:
1) Prana Vata
2) Udana Vata
3) Samana Vata
4) Apana Vata
5) Vyana Vata