Ayurveda for Obesity and Gut Health

by L. Eduardo Cardona-Sanclemente

• ISBN13: 9781644114889
• ISBN10: 1644114887
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2025-01-07
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

A scientifically supported, Ayurvedic approach to weight management

• Explains how Ayurveda has understood and successfully managed obesity for centuries and how you can apply its insights to lose weight and keep it off

• Explores individual Ayurvedic body types, how wrong foods and wrong lifestyle affect each type, and how all these components coalesce with our unique metabolic rhythms in the process of weight management

• Presents several Ayurvedic body-mind protocols and suitable food intakes, detailing their effects on the gut, microbiota, and the gut-heart-brain axis as well as how they help rebalance metabolism at the tissular, cellular, and molecular levels

Managing excess weight and developing a healthier body can be extremely challenging. But, as Dr. Eduardo Cardona-Sanclemente reveals, ayurvedic medicine, the ancient Indian healing modality, has been used successfully to manage obesity for centuries. By integrating ayurveda with modern medicine, you can develop a personalized, practical, and cost-effective approach to lose weight—and keep it off.

Illustrating the "why-how-when" of weight gain and fat from an ayurvedic understanding, Dr. Cardona-Sanclemente explains how ayurveda addresses obesity. He discusses gut health, metabolism, lymph, fascia, and the vagus nerve for physical and mental health. He shows that what is common to all is imbalance, with ayurveda’s core aim being to rebalance us and restore us to good health. He explores individual ayurvedic body-mind types, how wrong foods and wrong lifestyles affect each type, and how all these components coalesce with our unique metabolic rhythms in the process of weight management. He presents several ayurvedic body-mind protocols and treatments, detailing suitable food intakes and their effects on the gut, microbiome, and the gut-heart-brain axis as well as how they help rebalance metabolism. He also provides self-evaluations to help you determine your ayurvedic body type.

Supported throughout by up-to-date clinical research on ayurvedic medicine and recent biomedical discoveries, this guide shows you how to integrate ancient medicine and modern science in your own life for lasting management of obesity and gut health.

Author Biography

Dr. L. Eduardo Cardona-Sanclemente, DSc, PhD, MSc, is a certified Ayurvedic doctor (NAMA) with a masters in Ayurvedic medicine from Middlesex University, London, and Doctor of Science in Physiopathology of Nutrition from the Sorbonne, France. The author of Ayurveda for Depression, he lives in both the United States and Europe.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. What Is Ayurveda?

1 The Basic Principles of Ayurveda

2 The Ayurvedic Medical Treatises of the Charaka Samhita
and Sushruta Samhita

How Ayurvedic Founders Provide Timeless Wisdom

3 Three Universal Body Energies
Vata, Pitta, and Kapha

Part II. Present-Day and Ancient Approaches
to Our Bodily Functions

4 Being Overweight as It Relates to the Gut
How the Body Becomes Imbalanced

5 Meda Dhatu
An Ayurvedic Perspective on Adipose/Fat Tissue

Part III. Ayurvedic Body-Mind Constitutions
Prakruti, Vikruti, and Manas Prakruti

6 Prakruti
Your Body’s Constitutional Characteristics

7 Vikruti
Your Current Abnormal State

8 Manas Prakruti
Foundations of a Healthy Brain-Body

Part IV. Participants That Are Fundamental to Life
The Unfolding Language of Our Gut

9 Your Gut and Body Regulations
An Ayurvedic View

10 The Microbiome
A Modern Understanding of the Gut

Part V. Main Structural and Functional Organs
Players in Your Bodily Imbalance

11 The Adipose Tissue
The Visibly Guilty Actor

12 The Fascia
The “Fascia-nating” Invisible Living Strings

13 The Lymphatics
The Hidden and Efficient Janitor

14 The Vagus Nerve
The Master of Ceremonies

Part VI. Making Ayurveda Work for You
Rebalance via Proper Food and Diet

15 Beyond Simply Eating Less
Acquiring an Ayurvedic Mastery of Food and Nutrition

16 Ayurveda and Diet
Dietary Advice for Your Rebalancing Journey

17 The Future of Ayurvedic Modalities in the
Age of Epidemic Imbalances
Visualizing the Whole Picture and Taking Action

Appendix 1: Self-Evaluations

Appendix 2: Food Recommendations for the Three Doshas

Appendix 3: Self-Massage of the Lymphatic System

Glossary of Sanskrit Terms

Resources

Notes

Bibliography

Index