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Ep 3. Ayurveda and The "C" Word with Narayana Commerford
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Cleansing from a western fad perspective is pure diet culture BS. But in Ayurveda the "C" word takes on a somewhat different, multifaceted meaning. This can be both problematic and refreshing depending on your perspective.
SHOW NOTES:
SHOW NOTES:
- How Ayurveda didn’t accompany yoga to the west, and the effects of this on contemporary yoga practice
- Different spiritual practices (e.g. Vipassana, Tantra) are not suited to everyone
- Everything can be medicine or harmful, depending on context
- Your constitution informs the medicine you need
- Diet culture vs. the introspective curiosity inherent to Ayurveda
- Ojas, or vitality: is your “cleanse” giving you that?
- Cleanses are effective at short-term weight loss, but not effective at long-term weight loss
- Keeping digestion healthy is key in Ayurveda
- Cleanses and fasting can disrupt agni and metabolism, and aggravate vata
- The Magic Bullet Syndrome: cleanses won’t fix the lifestyle problems causing your health issues in the first place
- Nara’s experience with chronic fatigue, discovering how stressful dieting was on his body, and how he recovered
Post-interview solo:
- Navigating the touchy issue of Ayurvedic “cleansing” amidst the sea of diet culture and accusations of pseudo-science
- The differences between a juice cleanse, and pancha karma or “cleansing” in the traditional Ayurvedic sense
- Where I feel a few days of kitchari might be appropriate, and where it definitely would not be appropriate
- Hardcore cleanses in Ayurveda
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