If you're a Vata-Pitta type, Thanksgiving week hits you from two directions at once– -anxiety and anger simultaneously.

You're worried that when stress hits, you're going to feel both spinning with worry AND hot with irritation. Someone changes the plan again and you feel anxious about the chaos but also frustrated that no one's being efficient. You'll be caught between wanting to control everything and feeling scattered about everything.

Because here's what's probably already happening: Your mind is racing about logistics and what could go wrong— that's your Vata side. But simultaneously, you're irritated. Someone's not thinking things through and your jaw clenches. Your chest tightens. You want to say something sharp— that's your Pitta side. So you're anxious AND angry at the same time. Worried AND critical. Your breath gets fast and shallow, your thoughts race, but you also feel hot. Your face flushes. Your body temperature rises.

And November's cold, dry, windy, chaotic energy is triggering your Vata anxiety— that scattered, can't-think-straight feeling. But when your Vata anxiety spikes, it heats your Pitta side. The more anxious you get, the more irritated you become. The racing thoughts fuel the anger. It's like wind fanning flames.

In this week's Vata-Pitta Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi explain why Vata-Pitta types experience both anxiety and irritation simultaneously, and why you need both cooling and calming.

This week, you'll get a specific 3-5 minute practice that combines cooling breath with a cool environment— addressing both the mental spiral and the inflammatory heat at the same time.

Listen now to learn:

• Why Vata-Pitta types experience racing thoughts AND rising anger when triggered and how the season amplifies both
• The cooling breath technique that lowers body temperature while calming anxiety
• Why cooling breath reduces inflammatory markers that fuel irritability while extended exhales calm racing thoughts

Hormonal changes affect your nervous system, and the right support makes all the difference. Dr. Kumar-Singh and Dr. Sethi have curated the Hormonal Health Prescription Toolkit with physician-selected products and protocols specifically designed to support your stress hormones and inflammatory pathways through perimenopause and menopause. Learn more at myarvasi.com.

The Week of November 16th: Vata-Pitta Health Rx

If you're a Vata-Pitta type, Thanksgiving week kicks off the holiday season— and with all the parties, family celebrations, and rich foods ahead, your digestion faces a specific challenge.

You're worried that the rich holiday meal will trigger either heartburn and acidity, or bloating and gas— or somehow both at the same time. You know from experience that when stress hits, your gut becomes reactive. And holiday gatherings bring stress.

Because here's what's probably happening already: Some days you have strong digestive fire and you're ravenous, you can eat a lot, you digest quickly. Other days, especially when you're stressed or busy, your gut becomes reactive. Heartburn. Gas. Bloating. Loose stools. It goes from one extreme to the other. This is the Vata-Pitta pattern: heat plus irregularity. Pitta creates inflammation and acidity. Vata creates dryness and erratic motility.

And November's cold, dry, windy weather is amplifying both the Vata irregularity and the Pitta heat in your system. Your gut is becoming more inflamed AND more unpredictable. If you don't address this now with the right strategy, Thanksgiving and the holiday meals ahead will trigger days of digestive chaos.

In this week's Vata-Pitta Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi explain why Vata-Pitta digestion swings between extremes, and why you need both gentle activation and cooling protection.

This week, you'll get a specific digestive protocol that includes a balancing morning tea to stabilize your system daily, a second cup of warm tea before big meals for gentle activation without triggering heat, and gentle movement after eating.

Listen now to learn:

• Why Vata-Pitta digestion swings between strong fire and reactive inflammation and how fall weather makes this worse
• The exact tea blend to drink every morning that balances your system without creating excess heat
• Why you need a second cup of warm (not hot) tea before Thanksgiving dinner instead of heating spices that would inflame your Pitta
• How gentle walking after meals supports motility without overheating your system
• When and how to use cooling aloe to immediately calm heartburn and acid reflux

Hormonal changes affect your digestion, and the right support makes all the difference. Dr. Kumar-Singh and Dr. Sethi have curated the Hormonal Health Prescription Toolkit with physician-selected products and protocols specifically designed to support your gut, hormones, and metabolism through perimenopause and menopause. Learn more at myarvasi.com.

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

For Vata-Pitta types, maybe this is what's happening: You push through your intense workout---your HIIT class, your hard run, your competitive class where you're trying to keep up---and afterward, you feel wired and hot. Your body temperature is elevated, you're flushed, and your mind is racing, but not in a productive way. It's more agitated. More reactive.

Your joints ache AND they feel inflamed. There's heat in them---hot, swollen, tender. You have trouble cooling down after workouts---you're still sweating 20 minutes later, still feeling overheated. And your competitive drive pushes you to go hard, but your body isn't recovering. You wake up the next day sore, stiff, and irritable all over again.

You thought intense exercise would burn off the stress. But you're actually running both fast and hot---and burning yourself up from the inside.

In this week's Vata-Pitta Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi explain why your high-intensity, competitive exercise is creating internal friction---overstimulating your Vata nervous system while inflaming your Pitta tissues.

This week, you'll get a structured but cooling movement prescription that engages without inflaming.

Listen now to learn:

• Why Vata-Pitta types run both fast and hot---and why intense exercise makes you both anxious and irritable
• The type of movement that works for your body: moderate intensity with structure in cool or neutral environments
• Why non-competitive practices satisfy your need for achievement without stoking inflammatory fire

Your Turn: Try the structured, cooling movement practice this week and notice what happens to your body temperature, your racing thoughts, your irritability. Tag @myarvasi on Instagram and share what shifted.

Week of November 2nd

For Vata-Pitta types, the time change creates agitated energy— restless and reactive at the same time. You wake up with your mind already racing, but with heat behind those thoughts. Frustration. Irritation. When 5 p.m. darkness hits, you feel restless yet reactive. At night, your mind won't turn off AND your body feels too hot.

This is your Vata-Pitta nervous system— running both fast and hot— getting knocked further out of balance.

In this week's Vata-Pitta Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi explain why the time change amplifies both your scattered Vata energy and your inflammatory Pitta heat— and give you an Evening Cooling Practice to help you adjust quickly.

Your prescription this week is to do your 15-Minute Evening Cooling Practice between 4:30-6:30 p.m. daily— because cooling and slowing your fast, hot system is what finally calms both the anxiety and the reactivity.

Listen now to learn:

• Why Vata-Pitta types experience both scattered anxiety AND inflammatory reactivity with the time change
• How circadian disruption increases inflammatory markers (IL-6, C-reactive protein) that make you both anxious and irritable
• The Evening Cooling Practice that slows your fast energy and cools your hot energy simultaneously

Your Turn: Do your Evening Cooling Practice every evening this week. Notice what happens to your body temperature, your thoughts, that agitated feeling. Tag @myarvasi on Instagram and share what shifted.

Week of October 26th:

For Vata–Pitta types, your nervous system runs too fast and too hot. You wake up with racing thoughts that quickly turn into irritability, your mind won't stop spinning but you also feel heat building underneath. This agitation shows up most in your Mind & Mood—overthinking everything, snapping at people, unable to calm down.

In this week's Vata–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 agitated nervous system.

This week, practice Cooling Sheetali Breath for 3-5 minutes WITH your morning light—inhaling slowly through a curled tongue (or pursed lips), pausing, then exhaling through your nose—because cooling and slowing your overheated, racing system is what finally calms both the anxiety and the irritability and protects your Mind & Mood.

Listen now to learn:

• Why Vata–Pitta's nervous system runs too fast and too hot—and how this creates the anxious-then-irritable pattern you experience
• How to refine your Cooling Sheetali Breath practice so it actually calms your agitated cortisol loop
• The common mistakes that keep Vata–Pitta types stuck in morning agitation
• Why this practice WITH light changes everything for your Mind & Mood

Your Turn: Try the refined Cooling Sheetali Breath practice this week and notice—do your racing thoughts slow down? Is your body cooler? Tag @myarvasi on Instagram and share what shifted.

The Week of October 19th

For Vata–Pitta types, fall brings constipation that alternates with urgency, bloating mixed with sharp discomfort, skin that's both inflamed and unpredictable, and anxiety that turns into irritability. Your estrobolome is misfiring—and you're caught between Vata's dryness and Pitta's heat.

In this week's Vata–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 warm oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, fennel, cooked apple, and ghee—plus a hard-boiled egg or protein powder—within 60-75 minutes of waking—because the right breakfast finally balances the constipation, skin flares, and anxiety-turned-irritability that you can't shake.

Listen now to learn:

• Your Vata–Pitta breakfast formula: gentle fiber + protein + healthy fats + balancing spices + grounding sweetness (within 60-75 minutes of waking)
• Why your gut pattern sends estrogen back into circulation—fueling anxiety and skin inflammation
• Why rough fiber or heating foods make everything worse—and what to eat instead
• How adding protein stabilizes blood sugar and prevents the wired-then-depleted pattern
• How this one meal steadies your Body & Strength

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

The Week of October 12th

For Vata–Pitta types, fall mornings often start fast and burn out faster. You wake with fire and clarity, skip water and breakfast because you're "not hungry yet," grab coffee, and plow through your to-do list—until mid-morning when focus tanks, patience thins, and the energy you started with crashes hard.

In this week's Vata–Pitta Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi explain why skipping hydration and eating before your digestion is ready sends cortisol surging—and then crashing—taking your productivity and mood with it.

Listen now to learn:

• Why Vata–Pitta mornings need steady fuel to prevent the spike-and-crash pattern
• How skipping water and delaying breakfast overstimulates cortisol and drags estrogen off-balance
• Why coffee before food turns your morning clarity into mid-morning depletion
• A 3-step prescription to fuel focus, cool intensity, and sustain your Work & Purpose

Your Turn: Try this week's practice and notice—do you still crash by 10 a.m., or does your energy stay steady? Tag @myarvasi on Instagram to share what changed.

The Week of October 5th

For Vata–Pitta types, fall can feel like gas and brakes pressed at the same time: restless at night, overstimulated in the morning, and drained by midday.

In this week’s Vata–Pitta Health Rx, Drs. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Tanmeet Sethi reveal how inconsistent sleep and Pitta drive destabilize your cortisol awakening response—and how one evidence-backed practice cools fire, steadies wind, and restores strength.

Listen now to learn:

• How fall overstimulates the Vata–Pitta pattern
• Why the cortisol awakening response is your body’s natural “on” switch each morning
• A 3-step prescription with light, breath, and rhythm to calm and steady energy

Your Turn: Balance your energy. Try this week’s practice, then post your reflection or tag @myarvasi on Instagram so we can celebrate with you.

Welcome to the Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi—Finally, medicine that fits you.

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