Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya is a practicing physician-scientist, assistant professor and author. A 2014 senior Fulbright Scholar, she is Clinical Asst Professor of Family Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. She has recently completed a mid-career PhD in Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University, India. She degrees in medicine from the universities of Harvard, Columbia and Pennsylvania. She tells Grin why the discovery of the ancient Hindu system of medicine, ayurveda, changed her life. And in the podcast along with this interview, she also talks about how ayurveda taught her not to fear cancer.