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86. Learn the Ancient Health Secrets - How Ayurvedic Wisdom Explains Today's Health Epidemics

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In this fascinating episode of the Learn or Be Learned podcast, host Shiva Dhanasekar delves into the ancient science of Ayurveda and its approach to achieving optimal wellness and preventing disease. As a student of Integrative Medicine, Shiva shares insights from his studies on how lifestyle factors like stress, diet, and meditation can restore balance in the body. Listeners will learn about the forgotten history of Indian medicine and its impact on modern health paradigms. Shiva also explores the connection between meditation, stress relief, and restoring our natural state of balance.


Summary

In this episode of Learn or Be Learned, host Shiva Dhanasekar discusses the principles of Ayurveda and its focus on preventative healthcare through lifestyle modifications. He shares how excessive stress can imbalance the body and lead to various health issues. Additionally, he explores the forgotten history of Indian medicine and its emphasis on restoring balance in the body. Through his studies in Integrative Medicine, Shiva aims to provide listeners with a more holistic understanding of health and wellness from an Eastern perspective.


5 Key Takeaways

  1. Stress is a major underlying cause of many health problems, both physical and mental. Implementing stress-reducing practices like meditation, yoga, and spending time in nature can help restore balance in the body.
  2. Ayurveda focuses on preventative healthcare through lifestyle modifications rather than just reactive treatment. Understanding one's individual constitution and balancing the doshas can support overall wellness.
  3. Exploring forgotten histories can provide new perspectives on health. Learning about the English Education Act that suppressed Eastern medical knowledge sheds light on modern paradigms and encourages questioning established views.


    4. Noteworthy Quotes

    1. "Stress is the leading cause of everything, from heart attacks to weight gain to mental, mental fog, everything, everything." - Shiva Dhanasekar [0:07:46]
    2. "I believe without the empowerment of this knowledge, we're going to be very lost in years to come." - Shiva Dhanasekar [0:07:46]
    3. "Our cultural evolution is far surpassing our biological evolution, which means we're having a larger and larger discrepancy between our primitive state and our higher conscious state." - Shiva Dhanasekar [0:00:32]
    4. "Alcohol, drugs, and other external factors produce stress on the body. Cinta, which is Sanskrit for stress reduces the urges in the body, or just being the vital essence of one's being the blissful state, the state of relaxed bliss, as you might call it." - Shiva Dhanasekar summarizing a text [0:00:32]
    5. "The Anxiety, stress and Coping an international journal featured a research paper that examined the stress, the effects of Transcendental Meditation on stress reduction, health and employee development." - Shiva Dhanasekar summarizing a research paper [0:00:32]


      6. Names, Materials, and Info Dropped in this Ep.

      • Healing the Gut, Mind, and Emotions by Dimple Jangda (book)
      • The Last Airbender (TV show)
      • Joe Rogan (an advocate of Magic Mind nootropic drink)


        • Timestamps

        (0:00) - Introduction 
        (0:07:46) - Health Problems' Root
        (0:17:46) - Magic mind Sponsor Review 
        (0:32:00) - Forgotten History
        (0:46:14) - Meditation Benefits
        (1:00:28) - Ayurveda Solutions


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