A deep dive on Ayurveda, a sophisticated system for health that's been refined over millennia.
Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya is a renowned NAMA-certified Ayurvedic Doctor, the bestselling author of Your Body Already Knows (2025), and international speaker/educator known for her modern approach to women's health and longevity.
In this episode we talk about:
- What Ayurveda actually is beyond TikTok trends
- How ancient Ayurvedic principles align with (and differ from) modern medicine
- How to brace yourself in the face of an imbalanced ecosystem
- The human tragedy of overoptimization
- The value of awe, fascination, and pattern-seeing as more effective than discipline or force
- The three codes of life
- The framework to come back into our own intelligence in the kindest way
- How modern life (especially electricity) disrupted our biological rhythm and created chronic imbalance
- The concept of balance and the Buddhist middle path as echoed in Ayurvedic texts
- The "inner climate" framework
- Practical tools for sleep, including concrete daily practices to offset "imbalances"
- The concept of agni (digestive fire) and how to support it
- A three tiered toolkit for self-regulation
- The perils of jumping into change
- Why cold drinks and excessive water can disrupt digestion
- Radical acceptance and gratitude
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