Ep. 8 | The Principle of Ayurvedic Eating: Using Food as Medicine
They say you are what you eat and in Ayurveda, food is medicine. This week on The Healing Catalyst, Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh discusses the difference between the Western and Ayurvedic perspectives of food. She also covers the why, where, when and how much of eating for optimal health and ends the episode with a new tool for your self-healing toolkit: spices.
In Ayurveda, food is medicine. But it’s about much more than our Western quantitative perspective that focuses on the biochemistry of food—the calories, proteins, and carbs. The Ayurvedic perspective of food is qualitative—it’s all about the experience of food—the way it feels, tastes and acts.
This week on The Healing Catalyst, Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh is diving into The Principle of Ayurvedic Eating and how to use the diet for self-healing. She discusses the optimal times of day for meals, why it’s important to sit with your meal for at least 30 minutes, and how everyday cooking spices can act as medicine for your body. Listen to help change your relationship with food.
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Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh is an Ayurveda Wellness Expert on a mission to show how Ayurveda can be a health catalyst for achieving optimal wellness in modern life.
Over the two decades of her training, study, and research, Dr. Kumar-Singh has shared her expertise with Fortune 500 companies at elite undergraduate and graduate institutions and prestigious industry and medical conferences. She has been featured in the Huffington Post, goop, Thrive Global and mindbodygreen, and served as the co-lead facilitator of the Faculty Scholars Program in Integrative Healthcare at the OSHER Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern Medicine. Dr. Kumar-Singh is also the author of The Longevity Formula and The Health Catalyst.
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