The Week of November 9th: Pitta Health Rx ---

For Pitta types, maybe this is what's happening: You're maintaining your summer workout intensity---the same classes, the same training schedule, the same competitive drive. And your joints hurt---not just sore, but inflamed. Hot, swollen, tender. Your knees, your hips, maybe your shoulders.

You're finishing your workouts feeling accomplished, feeling like you checked the box. But then you're irritable with your partner or your kids afterward. Someone asks you a simple question and you snap. Your child interrupts and you're short with them. You're efficient and productive but also sharp and reactive.

You thought exercise would help you manage stress. But it's actually making you more rigid and reactive with the people you love most.

In this week's Pitta Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi explain why fighting against your body's natural rhythm in fall builds inflammation that shows up as irritability---and why intense, competitive exercise is adding fire to fire.

This week, you'll get a cooling, softening movement prescription to prevent inflammation and symptoms associated with it.

Listen now to learn:

• Why Pitta types become most reactive with loved ones when they're overtraining---and how inflammation triggers irritability
• The type of movement that works for your body: cooling, non-competitive activity that opens rather than contracts
• Why less intensity is actually MORE benefit for Pitta in fall

Your Turn: Try the cooling, softening movement practice this week and notice what happens to your reactivity, your relationships, the quality of your connection. Tag @myarvasi on Instagram and share what shifted.

Week of November 2nd

For Pitta types, the time change makes you irritable and reactive. You wake up frustrated before your feet even hit the floor. When 5 p.m. darkness hits, your body wants to wind down but you still have so much to do, so you override that signal and push through. 

This is your Pitta system— running hot and intense— getting pushed further out of balance. 

In this week's Pitta Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi explain why fighting against your circadian rhythm builds inflammation that shows up as irritability— and give you an Evening Softening Practice to calm your reactivity.

Your prescription this week is to do your 20-Minute Evening Softening Practice between 4:30-6:30 p.m. daily— because softening your intensity and cooling your heat is what finally stops the reactivity that damages your relationships.

Listen now to learn:

• Why Pitta types become most reactive with the people they love when circadian rhythm is disrupted
• How fighting against your biology builds inflammation (IL-6, C-reactive protein) that shows up as irritability
• The Evening Softening Practice that interrupts the pushing, cools the heat, and creates space for connection

Your Turn: Do your Evening Softening Practice every evening this week. Notice what happens to your reactivity, your relationships, the quality of connection. Tag @myarvasi on Instagram and share what shifted.

Week of October 26th:

For Pitta types, your nervous system runs on maximum heat. You wake up ready to tackle the day but find yourself snapping at the people you love, efficient and productive but also sharp and reactive. This agitation shows up most in Love & Connection—you're irritable with your partner, short with your kids, competent but not present.

In this week's Pitta Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi go deeper into the Cooling Sheetali Breath practice from Week 1—teaching you the nuances that make it even more powerful at calming your overheated nervous system.

This week, practice Cooling Sheetali Breath for 3-5 minutes WITH your morning light—inhaling slowly through a curled tongue (or through your teeth), pausing, then exhaling through your nose for a longer count—because cooling your system before the heat builds is what finally stops the irritability and protects your Love & Connection.

Listen now to learn:

• Why Pitta's nervous system runs too hot—and how this creates the sharp, reactive pattern that damages your relationships
• How to refine your Cooling Sheetali Breath practice so it actually calms your agitated cortisol loop
• The common mistakes that keep Pitta types stuck in morning heat and irritability
• Why this practice WITH light changes everything for your Love & Connection

Your Turn: Try the refined Cooling Sheetali Breath practice this week and notice—is your irritability quieter? Can you respond instead of react? Tag @myarvasi on Instagram and share what shifted.

The Week of October 19th

For Pitta types, fall still carries summer's heat—and it shows up as acid reflux, inflamed skin breakouts, digestive irritation, and painful periods. Your estrobolome can't clear estrogen when inflammation is running high, and the wrong breakfast makes it worse.

In this week's Pitta Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi explain exactly why this matters and exactly what to eat to fix it.

This week, eat cooling oatmeal with almond milk, cardamom, cooked apple, blueberries, and almonds—plus a hard-boiled egg or protein powder—within 60-90 minutes of waking—because the right breakfast finally cools the acid reflux, inflamed skin, and painful periods that summer's heat left behind.

Listen now to learn:

• Your Pitta breakfast formula: cooling fiber + protein + healthy fats + cooling spices + antioxidants (within 60-90 minutes of waking)
• Why Pitta's inflammatory gut sends estrogen back into circulation—fueling PMS and skin flares
• Why fermented foods and acidic fruits make everything worse—and what to eat instead
• How adding protein stabilizes blood sugar and prevents the sharp irritability that comes when your intense metabolism crashes
• How this one meal restores your Cellular Health & Vitality

Your Turn: Make this week's breakfast, share a photo, and tag @myarvasi on Instagram.

The Week of October 12th

For Pitta types, fall mornings often start with heat that never cooled overnight. You go to bed on time, wake on schedule—but if your mind was still churning from yesterday, you wake irritable, tense, or with reflux. By mid-morning, you're sharp but reactive, focused but inflamed.

In this week's Pitta Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi explain why uncooled Pitta fire disrupts your cortisol curve—and how skipping hydration and eating the wrong foods first thing amplifies inflammation, skin flares, and PMS.

Listen now to learn:

• Why Pitta digestion needs cooling hydration and protein-rich fuel to steady cortisol
• How heat from the night before carries into your morning—spiking cortisol and dragging estrogen into chaos
• Why coffee before food turns drive into irritability and dims your natural radiance
• A 3-step cooling prescription to protect your Vitality & Cellular Health

Your Turn: Try this week's practice and notice—is your skin calmer? Is your irritability quieter? Tag @myarvasi on Instagram to share what shifted.

The Week of October 5th

For Pitta types, fall mornings often carry heat from the night before—leaving you irritable, restless, or foggy despite discipline around bedtime.

In this week’s Pitta Health Rx, Drs. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Tanmeet Sethi explain how leftover fire disrupts your cortisol awakening response, scattering focus and productivity—and how a simple cooling prescription resets clarity.

Listen now to learn:

• How uncooled Pitta heat carries into the morning
• Why the cortisol awakening response is your body’s natural “on” switch each morning
• A 3-step practice to cool, focus, and steady purpose

Your Turn: Cool your mornings. Try this week’s protocol, then share your reflection or tag @myarvasi on Instagram so we can highlight your progress.

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