Transform Your Health Naturally: Dr. Shivani Gupta’s Ayurvedic Revitalization Secrets

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very excited about this conversation I'm so excited to have you here Dr Shani gupa we were talking offline and we've

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been talking for like 15 minutes offline I'm like this is all great stuff I want to just start recording um so yeah I

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mean I I think just to start by sharing who you are and what your work is and

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again I started sharing some of my personal stuff and I'm like fresh off a call with my nutritionist about my GI map but I have been learning so much

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post miscarriage about overall health gut health infl inflammation I've

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discovered I have not one but two autoimmun and I just I always want to

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give these resources to my audience because there are so many women that

Introduction to Ayurveda

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either you know have infertility issues or are egg freezing and I think there's just so much to be done to set ourselves

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up for Success like the the things that I've learned now and impatient sort of in you know can get that more in a

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little bit but impatience did not serve me well in my journey but if I had known all the things I know now I would have

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taken 3 months to do all of these things and then done a transfer so I'm so excited to have you here welcome to

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quiet the clock and if you can just start by sharing you and about yourself and and the incredible work that you do

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sure so I am from Houston Texas and I was born into a family that lived here in the US but had just come from India

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my parents had just immigrated so grew up in Two Worlds would go to India every year live with my grandparents and my

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cousins and visit there and live here and I bring that up because I lived in Two Worlds like two different worlds if

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you look at how everyone does everything in India and how they do it here anytime I was here and I'd catch a cold and all

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the things I'd catch because I felt like I did not have an immune system growing up we would just run to the drugstore

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back then it was echards and we'd pick up whatever it was and pediatrician would just write a script for antibiotics and You' just take it and

Ayurvedic Healing Journey

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when you went to to India the my grandma would just open the cabinet she'd be like okay we're going to take some turmeric we're going to take some ginger

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we're going to make you'll be fine in a few days sleep rest so it's just a whole

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different approach like the spice cabinet was the drugstore in India versus the drugstore here and so I

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always thought like who's right what's right and growing up finally by the time I reached College I had such

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catastrophic health issues really bedridden couldn't keep anything down

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couldn't understand why everyone else gets to go out and have fun in life and I'm stuck and so it was in that moment I

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realized I have to build my own immune system because whatever anyone else is telling me is not working and I have to

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what were people telling you like were you going to doctors and what were they were they diagnosing you with something

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were you taking medication there were no diagnoses every time I had a problem they were like

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here's your antibiotics you'll be fine do want to take some birth control um you have functional hypoglycemia

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you you're presenting like you're diabetic but you're not like we don't know what to do with you and I wish we

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had known more about naturopathic or functional medicine back then we just didn't and so finally when I was in

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India once and catastrophically sick I told my parents you know what we're in the land of ayurveda and yoga and I

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think ayurveda might have some answers we're going on a journey and they were like okay so they took me on my quest

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and I went to all the gurus of ayurva and immersed myself in that wisdom I

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healed myself healed my gut got all better and then I was like why why is I

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already not marketable like why is it that in the US we don't know it we don't apply it like there must be something

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here where these people aren't explaining it right for those people over there back where I live and so that

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became my mission is like how do I distill ivic knowledge in a bite-sized way that people will use and then how do

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I take their tools and make them less stinky and hard to eat and do and bring them into the so we can apply them to

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ourselves and that's been my work since College literally wow and amazing like I

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just think yeah the power of healing yourself is can be so important because especially in in my fraility journey and

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others sometimes you know I think I'm feeling like there's two camps that there's like the medical doctors and

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then there's you know functional medicine and naturopaths and acupuncture and the the I don't know the

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amount of I don't knows or we don't know or there's no answer or like don't worry about that is really disheartening and

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and frustrating so I think it's amazing that you went on this Quest and you found your own answers and you you

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healed yourself so I don't know much about this so if you can share what what

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this actually is would be amazing sure so Iva is an entire system of medicine

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health and healing from India that's over 5,000 years old and it encompasses

Ayurveda's Circadian Rhythm

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different pillars of health so we have detoxification and annual detoxes that

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really really are like the oil change you must do to have then we have circadian rhythm the

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circadian clock is from ayurveda We're hearing it talked about a lot but it originally originates in ayurveda and

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teaches us how to live in rhythm with nature as opposed to being out of sync with nature because a lot of times why

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our body isn't fight or flight and always stressed and not doing the natural things we wanted to do is

Annual Detox and Health Preparation

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because we're not on Nature's clock we're creating a synthetic clock that defies okay as you're listen these

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things out maybe we can go through like what is each one like what I'm so

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curious I'm like taking notes right now um what does an annual detox look like and I love how you put that like an oil

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change because when I was growing up my dad that's like the one thing like when my sister I started driving like be H us

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get the oil change because the Will D and actually had that happen to friend so I love that analogy of like it's the

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oil change so what does that look like an annual detox so when I was getting ready to have kids I was about 29 years

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old and I had been married for about 5 years and I knew that in Irv that we teach

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that the body is a vessel and it's so important to prepare this vessel to be so healthy so vibrant so strong that

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when you give birth and have this child and potentially breastfeed you're not going to give the baby everything and be

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left with nothing and by that I had worked so hard on my health I was like I'm not letting some baby everything out

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I'm gonna go in so ready that I'll come out perfectly awesome and ready to do my life the way it was which we all get

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that Reckoning after kids I did this bunch of karma detox in

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India there's a place called jindel naturopathy Institute it was in um naturopathic Institute in Bangalore we

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have places like that in the United States we have Maharishi we have um the Irv The Institute by Dr Lad so we have

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institutes in the US where you can go and immerse and do buncha Karma and bunch of karma is like this profound

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detox in India it's a little rough when they do it because they're doing everything as like a medical treatment

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so it's enemas it's colonics it's every orifice of your body will be releasing

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everything you've probably ever stored or consumed from up here and down there

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and everywhere and they're going to massage you and they're going to really like just get your fat cells in your

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body to relieve and release everything and everything gets so cleaned out you

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come out of there feeling like a new person oh my God I'm listening to you I'm like that sounds amazing I'm like I need to I need to look up these places

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ASAP yeah and so just taking the time to detox and sometimes when you're not ready for the ivic version I've taken my

Health Benefits of Detoxing

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family to places like hypocrates hypocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach I've taken my own family for three

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weeks just so we would decrease inflammation get gut health clean and

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cleared out and allow the body to heal itself because the body is self-healing

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mechanism the problem is we have so much interference so many environmental toxins so many outside factors

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pesticides poor watery poor water poor air everything's kind of like int invading intruding yeah body is like I'm

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not releasing anything until you set me up for Success now now you mentioned you would

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take your family for three weeks but like how long would someone is it have to be a three- week event or you know I

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think compliance is always better than Perfection so one two or three weeks whatever you can do is worth it just do

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it yeah know it's so funny because I was sharing with you Offline that I had just

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got off this call with my nutritionist and we gone through my GI map and then I had a little bit of time in between that

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and and meeting with you and I called Rob my partner and I'm like I'm just so overwhelmed like and the stress and all

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the things and all these changes I'm making and he's like you need to take a break and now I'm like I'm going to go

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take a week and go detox yeah that's the best investment when I when my family and I went went cuz my mom has been a

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diabetic on insulin for over 30 years and I really whenever I take her to these things we reverse her diabetes

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back to like wow Baseline diabetes you get such a profound result and I thought

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this is the best way to Vacation like we think of vacationing as like let's go drink and hang and eat in these

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beautiful places but what if we just made ourselves beautiful from the inside instead well and often times when

Living in Rhythm with Nature

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they're vacations like other kinds of vacations you come back from those vacations meting vacations correct or

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needing to detox so yeah exactly yeah sorry there's like a hopefully they can

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drown that out there's like a weed whacker out there right now can you hear that I can God it's right outside my

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window they they could probably do something with that um okay and then the next one you mentioned was being in

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rhythm with nature and how do you how does one do that so the circadian clock

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is a concept where nature the sun rises we're supposed to rise with the sun

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we're suppos to run through our day the way we're going to being more active in the morning getting our best work done

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by about 2 o'clock on that clock um in ayurva we teach something called the doas which I'll get into but say that 10

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to two on that circadian clock is the most important time to eat your biggest meal absorb all your best nutrients um

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get all your focused work done after two kind of take a break and then evening time settled down like wind down towards

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that bedtime cuz 10:00 you have a melatonin release and you want to harness that to really sleep well and

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10: to 2 10: p.m. to 2: am. is the best time to sleep and it's double as important to sleep at that time compared

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to all the other hours in the night so sleeping at 10 is really key you're using your melatonin release you're

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going to really clean and clear we call it btha time of day so it's your time to clear out all the inflammation support

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the lymphatic system and clearing out to heal and rejuvenate and yes you are supposed to sleep your six to eight

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hours so keep sleeping um but that's the most important part of the clock and so the goal there is adjust your day adjust

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your schedule to support yourself instead of doing things like caffeinate and push through and jam through and

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collapse at the end of the day because when we're constantly defying the body's natural

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Rhythm we're not going to win and so sometimes I think of that as treat yourself like an athlete an athlete goes

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at it but has recovery and so you deserve the recovery because you need it

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after the level of work that you're doing so where can you build that into your schedule more it's so interesting

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listening you share all of these things because I think about you know the guests that I've had on and the

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demographic and where these women live and it's you know very high- performing

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type a super ambitious super successful women living in places like Manhattan or

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LA and it is like so hustle culture and so like

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caffeinated like you said and grinding and like definitely not going to bed by 10:00 probably going out at 10: p.m. or

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having dinner at 10 p.m. so it's just interesting to hear really how we should be living versus how we're actually

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living true and it can sound kind of impossible if that's the schedule on

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like I'm in a phase of my life right now where my company is growing and scaling and 3x in and you're like wait I love

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the success and it goes extremely against my ivic rhythm to travel to conferences and speak at medical

Balancing Work and Self-Care

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conferences and run and so that's why I take the athlete analogy more seriously now if I'm going to be on camera for

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five hours a day I'm taking an hour to or 45 minutes to walk in nature I'm

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taking my time where I dial it back and recover and then if I do have a dinner to go to okay fine but really limiting

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the alcohol inflammatory foods and trying to remember that most nights can I do finish dinner by 7 finish all

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activities and work by 8 get self-care in the house wrapped up by 9 and then really wind down for bed by

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10 so much harder to achieve now that the company's grown um but if we don't

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which is amazing congratulations on that thank you but if you don't do it you're going to pay a price and I can see the

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price I can see that I'm more inflamed you see it in weight gain you see it in brain function and those are your tells

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your signs from the body hey guts off health is off you got to re you know you got to reel it back of

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it okay so yeah I know and and and I've shared with you and I've shared on here

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like I have made all these changes and it can be overwhelming but I think I'm trying to strike a balance of because it

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can be so rigid and it could feel like you can't have fun or live your life but it sounds like you can find a balance

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there and that maybe if it's like a majority of the time you're in Rhythm or you're detoxing that you know there can

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be room for for fun and maybe a drink or a later night absolutely and I customize

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that to people I do calls with people all the time and I'll customize three four what about three days on four days

Understanding Doshas

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off five days on two days off like how can you make your weekend so nourishing

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that it balances your 100 m hour pace of your week um really kind of Repro programming our own mind around what is

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fun because to me fun now is like epic self-care radical self-care feeling good

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not being hung over exactly okay what else so we have yeah

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annual detox being in rhythm with nature what are some other tools number three would be your DOA so in ayurva we teach

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about the five elements we teach so much about nature and using the elements we have everyone take what's called a DOA

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quiz and the DOA quiz lets you know if you are a Vata a paa or a GAA and those

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three represent different body types different Tendencies different traits and once you know your DOA you can

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actually leverage it you can switch how you eat when you eat how you sleep how

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you how you do self-care really and address your own body to balance yourself so vaa is more air and wind so

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that's your person who's more like a tornado they're like an Energizer Bunny they're thin and wiry they're never at

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rest they have a tendency towards anxiety disturb sleep disturb gut health so VA gets its own protocol of how to

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balance itself interesting then there's B people the btha people are more fiery

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this is someone whose medium body tends to have early graying in their hair tends to get hangry spit the people I'm

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one tend to run inflamed we tend to explode on the people around us if we're not supported and keeping ourselves cool

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and calm and so knowing can be very important because then you can balance yourself and that's fire and water and

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then gaffa is Earth Earth with water and The Gua people are more solid big boned

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they have a slower metabolism they're very one thing at a time curly um oily

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hair rounder feates and so guffa needs support in getting up and moving to get that metabolism moving for the day and

Balancing Doshas

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not catching colds or having too much mucus and and drainage stuff and then they need supported support and

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balancing so that they honor their body type and all the things that come with that wow I just think how amazing it is

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to know like to would it be to know those things because I think sometimes we can hold these narratives as like something is wrong with us right or why

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if you're if you're the last NOA that you said like you know I can't get out of bed I'm so lazy or all these things

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but no like this is we just need to understand this and then support it in the right way exactly and that's the

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thing a lot of guas come to me and they're like why why does society think I'm lazy I'm just me and I'm like don't worry let's talk about it let's talk

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about how much you're going to accomplish before you sit down for the day and then you just cannot get up and

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it's important to know if you're imbalanced so what if you were a b and then your life your um like let's say

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someone passes away you become nurture or you have a kid and that puts you into that nurturing mode sometimes we get

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shoved into a guffa imbalance and we need to walk our way back towards being

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our original DOA to feel like ourselves in our body yeah I think that's that's everything

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with you know and mainly we talk about we talk a lot about like egg freezing but you were sharing stories with me and and Milestones about people you know

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close in your life that like this podcast and this content would relate to is like when we go through these

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processes we don't feel in our like we don't feel comfortable in our body our

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body doesn't feel like our own or even maybe if you're not going through egg freezing I think again I'm learning so

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much about inflammation and gut that had no idea and I thought I was living a

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relatively healthy life and I mean to be quite honest I don't think I would have gone down this road if I haven't you

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know been experiencing fertility issues so I can't imagine how many women

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because I think again our time demographic I think again type a very healthy like they're drinking the green

Gut Health and Ayurveda

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juice they're going to all the boutique like workout classes and we think we're doing all these healthy things but then

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not realizing all the ways maybe we're living at a rhythm or all the things that are happening like in our gut or in

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our body true and Iva has such a big focus on gut health we teach gut health

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as meaning the gut digestive fire and that fire is to be honored like a campfire so every morning you light that

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campfire up and you have certain practices then you manage that through the day with food no snacking and we

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have certain ways to eat and certain ways to prepare the food so it's actually nutrient dense and nutritious

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which we're lacking a lot of nowadays and then at night settle that campfire down you can go to sleep and and move

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into the next process which is healing and repairing overnight but I do have some stories I have um one person close

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to me who did egg freezing and afterwards she felt so out of balance with her body she's a p and she always

Drilling Down into Ayurveda

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feels more guffa through this journey because you have weight gain in this process and a lot things like that and

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so I had her do an ayurvedic detox and then she got back into alignment and now feels like on purpose with her energy

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back the way she wanted and feeling the way she needs to in her body as she goes on to the next steps in her IVF journey

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I have another woman who reached out to me who did six rounds of IVF and still wasn't able to conceive had already gone

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to functional medicine thought she had fixed everything and then heard about me we did a session and I was like we've

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got to fix gut we've got to do some deeper work here and now she's pregnant with the baby and I'm so elated I'm like

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yes of course sometimes it's really weird tiny things and you need the right

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practitioner to go drill down and investigate into like what is the one thing that is the problem here and then

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sometimes it is bigger like I see a lot of women where we think we're being healthy because we're doing our best and

Ayurveda vs. Functional Medicine

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because we don't have the right toolkit in modern day Society we're we're almost

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like chasing our tail and so even I myself fall in that trap sometimes and I'm like you know ayurveda just use the

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ayurvedic toolkit it'll get you there um and so that that process of detox

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aligning to your circadian rhythm knowing and balancing your DOA fixing gut health and then I like using super

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spices and herbs can get you into the right flow and then then we're more set

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up for Success amazing how does this yeah cuz this is all new to me but how

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how much does this different from say like functional medicine or working with like a dietitian or hormone specialist

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like what sets aeda apart from that you know from what I've seen our dietitians

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people who are nutrition look at the world through their lens you have a problem and we fix it with food when you

Functional Medicine and Ayurveda Integration

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go to functional medicine there's a huge variety of types of practitioners sometimes you have to go to one finish

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your work with them and then move on to the next level and the next level based on the level of Health you want so like

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I'm already on my second and third functional medicine dock where I'm like all right let's work on the next thing let's do my genetic testing and and

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that's more for optimization once you fix the the building block issues that you might have going on in gut and

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things like that but in functional medicine I find they investigators they're using a toolkit um

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of diagnostic testing to try to discern and understand what's wrong with you and then they're going to put you on different protocols that you do for

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periods of time to win at that problem whatever deficiencies you have whatever

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imbalances you have if it's heavy metal mold gut you know blood work vitamin mineral deficiencies all those issues

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they'll address them but the problem is once you're done you're going to recreate the exact same problem if you

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haven't learned a new lifestyle right my's going to show those deficiencies for life if I finish the protocol and

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then I'm done and I haven't changed how I eat when I eat how I absorb it all

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those different things so that's where I think functional medicine needs to Bridge and meet ayurveda so that

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ayurveda can take over teaching the lifestyle that holds all those results that we

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want I love that yeah and I think we can be so solution focused that we do just want

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like attack the problem and fix it and I know I can speak for myself but probably a lot of women listening is you want to

Fertility and Lifestyle Changes

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fix the problem so you can get a successful retrieval or successful transfer or successful pregnancy so it's

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like I I'm not looking at that I'm trying to really look at it of like these are Lifestyle Changes this is over

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about overall health like sort of the bigger meaning and purpose of all this is that I am awake to my health now but

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I think when you women are like you know hyperfocused on the egg freezing or the fertility it's like I'm going to do all

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the things I'm going to do it for three months and it could be really easy to slip back into Old Habits sure and when

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you're on the clock you know you want the solution fast and so I'm a big believer in like let's let's tackle it

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with the things that work the fastest let's put the fires out and so that's why I'm so passionate about turmeric and

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adaptogens like let's just put it out and now that we have now we can talk about lifestyle because otherwise you're

Ayurveda and Fertility

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asking a lot from someone if someone's in pain you're not going to say oh let's go eat an anti-inflammatory diet we're

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going to say let's get you out of pain first and then let's go adjust all the things that will be the building blocks

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to get you this result without a supplement or without a tool yeah have you and I know you've already mentioned

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some cases but do you see a lot of women coming to you for fertility or or egg freezing and you know would you make

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their say someone's looking to freeze their eggs would you recommend a protocol for a certain amount of months

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before doing that to optimize outcome I mean in IR that we love more time rather

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than less unfortunately nowadays the only time people find ayurva is like when you're at the last door possible

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then you find ayurva which is why my whole mission is to share it I love this I think this is like we need all of this

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information you know it's been so I opening through my own journey and doing this podcast how little as women we know

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even just about egg freezing and our fertility and now that I'm diving into all these other things so little we know about our health and like these these

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things with in us are got inflammation autoimmune that's affecting fertility so I love that you're putting this out here

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and and unfortunately I'm F I'm at the last door is when I'm finding it yeah

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but I built my own little team I have a Doctor Who's like a doctor house he's like he is an MD functional medicine

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doctor he's been very powerful in helping my clients discern like what's that one thing that one button that we

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had to push and now that's why one of my pregnant my clients got pregnant and then I have a health coach who's

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phenomenal and so she's able to support with how do we maintain a healthier pregnancy this pregnancy that we've

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invested so much time and money and into so we can keep it so we're we're a little three-part team right now who are

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working well with a few people on their metabolic Health on their gut health on on the whole system so that the few

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women I do have in my little little practice right now are doing well most people come to me for gut inflammation

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and that kind of thing but I actually love the topic of pregnancy and fertility because when I started my

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whole journey into ayurveda it was to write books on ayurvedic pregnancy and I

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wrote one called the conscious pregnancy years ago it feels very 101 to me now

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but when my editor was editing my book she's like you should have called this irva for fertility everything you could

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have done beforehand and I said yeah I just don't want to make them feel bad so I broke primers and you could do it

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through your pregnancy or get that wisdom beforehand but I'm very passionate about

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in this lifetime continuing that work because I think Iva and fertility is a

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area that's not being discussed but could give people so much um time saving

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and Savings in the pain and the heartache on that journey and money sa I mean the pain for sure 100 but money

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saving I know you mentioned you know someone that went six times I mean that's that's a very expensive journey

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and I've learned you know so many journeys of since since my miscarriage like five six times before then finding

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this one thing that medical doctors didn't check for that could have like safeguarded them from like multiple

Challenges in Fertility Journeys

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miscarriages I personally went to a reproductive immunologist to learn more about um the high thyroid antibodies and

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the guy was like don't worry about it don't stress it come back to me if you have another miscarriage and I'm like

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how is that the answer like I want to know what's happening in my body I want to know what's going on I want to know if this is a reason I I Mis and I think

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it's I I love that you're doing the work that you're doing and that we're making it more accessible for women to hear

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about this stuff before it's for five six failed transfers or three miscarriages yeah and that's a lot to

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take a toll on the body as well you know the body is going through huge fluctuations at that point and so I

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think it's even more important if you're going through that Journey that this investment in gut health investment in

28:23

managing your inflammation and all that's happening because you're you're really pushing a lot into the body at

Autoimmunity and Inflammation

28:28

that time yeah oh my gosh yeah the the mental motional stress and weight of it

28:33

the hormones the injections all of it all of it I want to talk a little bit about yeah autoimmunity and and

28:40

inflammation I I have my own interest of course but how would you know without I

28:46

I was even saying to my nutritionist that like and I think I was saying to this before you and I hit record was I

28:51

would have known none of these things if I wasn't going through this fertility journey and so on this podcast we talk a

28:56

lot about going to get your fertility checked right at least getting get checked and what can women do to learn

29:02

whether or not they are inflamed or whether or not they do have an autoimmune prior to it being you know

29:08

looking into it as a result of of fertility you know in our regular checkups with our primary care we're

29:15

supposed to get those answers we're supposed to get tested for these kinds of things the problem is a lot of

29:21

doctors aren't testing us at the level that we need and it's just not part of the daily protocols and when you're

29:26

younger or a woman things don't present the same way and so I'm finding that right now autoimmunity is exploding we

29:33

need more answers if you can go to functional medicine I very much would go to functional medicine because they take

29:39

the Deep dives into your stool test your blood work your food intolerances the foods you're eating that are horribly

29:46

inflaming you like some people can't eat turmeric they can't eat ginger they

29:51

can't eat broccol you think those things are are healthy for you my nutritionist had said to me to stay away from because

29:57

of the co toxic copper toxicity to stay away from kale and spinach and you're

30:03

like like those are I eat that a lot and those are supposed to be healthy but for me with the high toxicity it's not right

30:10

so if your body is giving you answers like swelling uh fevers these are

30:15

inflammatory um signs from the body gut disrupted brain fog frequent headaches

30:21

if your body's always feeling fatigued these are signs from your body that you're inflamed and so it's so important

30:26

to go to the doctor and say hey I think I'm inflamed something is wrong I don't understand um and or go to functional

30:33

medicine even chiropractors acupuncturist a lot of them are practicing functional medicine as well

30:39

um but also just take a DOA quiz and and talk like understand for yourself how to

30:44

bring yourself into balance and I find that too is a powerful way to just get yourself back to your Center and

30:51

wholeness and nourished feeling and from there you can kind of go further but

30:57

autoimmunity is is very much prevalent right now and I think it's important everyone goes to their doctor goes to

31:03

their rheumatologist gets tested gets their numbers and sometimes why do you think it's why do you think autoimmunity

31:08

is like exploding I think it's multifactorial uh water quality skin care products and the

31:16

toxins in there cleaning products air quality mold exposure heavy metal

31:21

exposure um the environmental toxic burden on the body right now is just too much male and female so we're seeing

31:28

huge impacts into fertility um and I think it's only going to get worse we're going to watch the next couple decades

31:33

it get much much worse um that is so scary yeah I look at fertility as an

31:40

investment that you should make on your newborn before they're born and that's how I looked at it with my kids my kids

31:46

are 10 and 13 when I had my kid I had already pre-planned no nothing that like

31:53

down to the diapers down to the Fabrics down to the cleaning products like reduce the toxic burden on this little

31:59

human because they're already coming into a toxic world yeah oh my God I know that's one

32:05

of the things that I did too after my miscarriage was a complete like overhaul of of all my products my son's products

32:11

our kitchen cookware everything yeah exactly and in Irv that we teach a lot

32:17

about how to eat which involves don't use the microwave you know baking and cooking the food eating more balanced

32:23

nourishing meals we teach something called the savic diet and the saic diet is this very yogic diet that is balanced

32:31

it's an omnivore diet not these very onrack diets that are so restrictive and

32:37

then we don't have the gut microbiome and diversity that we need to maintain a

32:42

healthy body wow where can someone do the quiz I

32:48

have the quiz on my website at okay we'll have to link that in the show notes because I I want to do that I'm sure everyone listening is going to want

Healing Autoimmunity

32:54

to do the quiz it's fun it's like any personality quiz you're like oh what's my sign what's my this so it's it's very

33:01

Illuminating and then you can take it further and understand what your DOA was at Birth what your DOA is now and then

33:08

the goal is to bring you back to your original DOA birth oh my gosh I'm so curious about that in terms of the

33:15

autoimmunity are some of them some can be can some be healed or some kind of

33:22

you will live with them or if you make certain lifestyle changes you can reverse them

33:28

in iyura we believe you can heal from everything I love that yeah the body

33:34

wants to be healed if the body is battling with itself we have to go figure out why and then undo the things

33:40

that are causing the body to battle with itself like I had leaky gut I and I was like wow thank you for finally giving me

33:46

my answer of why I was like this and then whenever I get a diagnosis like that I'm like thank you for the answer

33:52

I'm going to go over there and go find my own Solutions I don't need yours thanks and I took that answer and I

33:57

created my own protocol I used ghee which is iation of gut it's medicinal

34:03

it's so healing I used turmeric I used Ginger I used all my anti-inflammatory stuff out of ayurva I used my detox

34:10

self-care that you can do every day so it's not hard once you build a lifestyle

34:15

that's your Rhythm and then all you have to do is maintain the Rhythm and you come off the Rhythm you'll feel it

34:21

because it's not going to feel good and you'll just get back on the Rhythm and that's my goal is let me show you how to live on a different Rhythm that Det

34:27

detoxes you every day lets you feel whole and nourished every day Builds an anchor points for self-care and then

34:34

you're golden like you you've created a rhythm to win at your health yeah and I think that's such an amazing way to look

34:40

at it like once you sort of learn these new ways and then it's being in Rhythm so it's so easy because I think and I

Daily Detox Recommendations

34:46

kind of didn't all at once Panic all at once Panic through everything at the wall so it's been a little bit

34:52

overwhelming but I think I am starting to find my rhythm and I think that's re a reassuring message to to people out

34:58

there that it doesn't have to be so hard and I also think when you start to see the results of that work like you it

35:06

really keeps you motivated to to stay in it true very true you mentioned what are

35:12

some besides the food and the ginger and what are some other daily detox recommendations you make so in ayurveda

35:19

we have something called theia and that's the 12 self-care rituals that we can do every single day one of them is

35:25

using a copper tongue scraper and your case maybe not copper but I know are there I actually saw that on your

35:31

Instagram I know I was like I need that but is there ones that are not copper yeah you can use steel they're steel

35:37

scrapers steel tongue scrapers um but you can take a tongue scraper every morning and you just have it stacked

35:43

this right on top of brushing your teeth and you gently scrape the tongue seven to 14 times you might have to rinse it

35:49

off a few times because there's this white film that forms on our tongue that's called Amma and Amma is all the

35:57

toxic residue and buildup that exists in our bodies and ayva teaches us that just

36:02

like on the feet in reflexology all the organs of the body are reflected on our feet that's why you have to be careful

36:07

with who presses on your feet all the organs of the body are reflected on the tongue and so what you're doing is

36:13

you're gently massaging and detoxing all of your organs by scraping your tongue

36:18

you're also clearing your um taste buds so they work better so you'll actually taste your food and be satiated earlier

36:24

and you'll be cleaning up your oral microbiome which is part of your gut microbiome and so it's so important that

36:30

because gut microbiome starts up here we are keeping the oral microbiome healthy

36:35

and so tongue scraping followed by oil pulling which if you can't do both just do the tongue scraping but if on the

36:41

weekend or anytime you have time for oil pulling oil pulling is an ayur the CIT where you take organic food grade oil

36:48

take about two tablespoons so it can be coconut oil we love cesame oil the most but you can use your olive oil from your

36:54

kitchen you put it in the mouth and keep it there for five to 20 minutes what I like yeah what I like about this one for

37:01

my busy women is you can multitask so you can take your shower you can make your coffee you can get dressed as long

37:07

as you're not trying to talk to your children you can be oil pulling while you're waiting and um then as you go

37:14

along all you have to do is swish it around the mouth move it around your gums and spit it out not in your sink

37:19

your toilet or your shower make sure you spit it in the trash so you don't clog the pipes of the home but what this is

37:25

going to do is it's going to collect all the bacteria in the mouth and all the harmful bacteria put it all into that

37:31

oil and remove it so again it's so supportive of oral microbiome and we know gut microbiome is key to all health

37:39

and it's detoxing so and those are easy things to do those are really easy things to the tongue scraper you buy

37:45

once and the oil is pretty much nothing so it's like almost free health habits so that by the time you do go to do that

37:50

big old detox you're going to show up and be like oh there's not much to do I'm already cleaned up oh my gosh this

37:56

is so fast it's it's just interesting and maybe you know I'm linked to the game and more people know about this stuff but the

38:02

these are simple little things that can make such a big difference in our overall health and I just feel like it's

38:08

not front and center I think we're just so you know it's so engrained T us to go

38:14

to the doctor and like you're saying this to when you grew up being here and then you know in India and just like go

38:19

and get the script and take the medication or take the antibiotic there's a whole debate now on on birth

38:24

control and how you know whether that's good for us or not yeah just this is the stuff we grew up

38:30

knowing to be the right way to take care of ourselves and you know adding on top

38:36

of that we know Women's Health right now is not studied as well as Men's Health we know that all the testing that was

38:42

done even on menopause and a lot of things wasn't done on women at the level

Women's Health and Intuition

38:47

it needed to be so I kind of look at Women's Health right now as you know what we're in the wild wild west you

38:53

have been saying you have answers I no longer trust a lot of those answers but I know that ancient wisdom is tried un

39:00

true I know an is timeless I know that women have innate wisdom we have

39:06

intuitive wisdom and so if we can just tune into that we will get the answers

39:11

we need to do what's right for us because we're so bioindividual and so so

39:16

much of my work is let me give you the toolkit and the toolkit's actually going to sharpen your intuition and your

39:22

intuition will constantly tell you which tool you need next like I learned recently that I do this all day I'm on

39:29

camera and teaching so in between I literally get in bed and have tea for five minutes chill out

39:36

decompress I can come back on but the recovery is as important as the action

39:42

and so I teach just intuitively my body will tell me you know what you need water you know what actually today you

Tuning into Ourselves

39:48

need that adapt aent tea you know what you need a snack with healthy fat or you need chocolate you're a f and you're

39:55

going on too many cylinders and you need to slow this down and sugar will calm down anxiety so that's why so many

40:01

people are sugar addicted wow so if you know that Q you're like okay well I know I'm asking

40:06

for it I know I'm reaching for it I'll just have two dark chocolates and that's okay so it's just interesting when you

40:12

understand yourself you are your own Sovereign Advocate and you can dictate

40:20

this plan yeah above I think that's what yeah I think that's what's missing is

40:26

the the sort of tuning into ourselves and I think a lot of that is the function of just like we're a hustle

40:33

culture we're moving very quickly I think sometimes it can and I can speak for myself sometimes it could be hard to

40:39

give ourselves permission to take that break or slow down or we jam-pack our schedules like this was literally the

Intuition and Efficient Path to Health

40:45

conversation I was having with Rob before I got on here and giving ourselves that time to be intuitive and

40:51

to tune in and and I think that coupled with these type of conversations and the

40:57

you know your platform and sharing more information being equipped to go to doctors and say hey like I run the

41:04

thyroid panel or let's do another saing ultra sound like something is you know and having to be our own Advocate and

41:12

really having that intuition to then have the voice to to push for these things absolutely because in the end

41:19

it's that intuition that's going to win your intuition knows best it's your body it's your cells that are screaming

Lifestyle Transformation and Fertility

41:24

answers we're just not hearing them and our job is just to learn how to hear them and then we can direct this path to

41:32

get us to the goal faster so it's more efficient it's easier and we'll get to the result we want that's how I

41:38

feel yeah and yeah easier sooner less expensive um and then creating a

41:45

Lifestyles that would just transform your health forever past fertility past egg freezing past having

41:53

children true very true and you know this is that beginning part like we're

41:59

talking about fertility which is a huge part of it and then there's pregnancy and how to maintain that really healthy

42:05

pregnancy that you just did all this work building and I think like you said you're getting all this knowledge that

42:12

will all apply for that pregnancy to keep the healthy pregnancy and then post

42:17

for us to recover and and get back to our lives the way we want to requires that same level of stamina and endurance

42:24

and health that we build at the beginning yeah yeah yeah and I think

42:29

yeah it's bigger than the problem solving like identify the problem fix it and move on it's like thinking more big

42:35

picture more holistically of like just how do you support your health period to have Optimal Health to live a life where

42:41

you feel good and healthy and you're not dragging ass through the day or feeling like crap yeah I think this is I'm so

42:48

incredibly fascinated by all of this work and I'm so incredibly fascinated about all the ways that we can have

42:54

within our control to heal our body and think this conversation and the conversations you're having and and the

43:00

messages you're putting out is so helpful and reassuring to women because I think what's happening is a lot of

43:06

women are getting that I don't know I don't know what's wrong let's just go back and do another cycle of egg

43:12

freezing like okay we thought you were going to get this many eggs and you only got this many eggs and why and I just think you are equipping women with more

43:21

answers and more ways to look at what's happening in their body that might be you know causing results that are not

Depletion and Stress in Women

43:29

ideal absolutely and and my sister always makes fun of me she's like you're so fertile and I was like well I just

43:36

live the ayurvedic lifestyle I was like it's the whole point of the ayurvedic lifestyle is for the woman to be so

43:41

whole and nourished and that I think is what leads us to having that level of

43:48

fertility vibrancy energy everything that we want to have that's why I love

43:53

teaching it I think we all deserve to feel amazing and vibrant in and I think in so many ways we're so

44:00

depleted we're so depleted in so many ways and emotionally and you know again

44:05

a h of culture nothing is ever good enough there's more to be done someone else is doing this and I have to do this

44:11

and especially the demographic of women that we speak to is there is a lot of comparison of like I am 34 and I didn't

44:18

meet my partner yet or I'm 30 you know this this is my AG is 37 and I'm freezing my eggs I don't know if I'm

44:23

going to be a mother and and that pressure of like the timelines and you know I think it leaves us in this like

44:29

hyper state of hyper vigilance hyper stress total depletion and just thinking

44:35

about ways we can you know counteract that absolutely yeah it's it's a big

44:43

journey and I wish our modern day society would keep sending the message

44:49

instead of hustle culture which impacts all of us of some balance in between

44:55

because I think there's like like the Homestead life versus this like gr I've

45:01

been following stuff on that that looks great but also so over that's like 10 jobs in one I feel like to live life

45:06

like yeah well that's what's so hard is that there's a convenience to other ways of living right like a fast food or

45:14

quick smoothie or you know we're always in such a rush and I think in myself included you know before diving into all

45:20

this stuff I would like be in between sessions and I would like make a shake or just like toast a bagel and you know

Self-care and Intuition

45:27

getting no nutritious value and so I think convenience is sometimes the priority

45:33

but then it's not allowing us to you know make good choices for oursel and you know Rob and I obviously had a long

45:39

conversation before this call we were talking about a lot of things and I was saying the cooking takes a lot of time

45:44

you know and like I'm not I said I'm not just like popping a bagel in the toaster I'm like getting the pan out and putting

45:50

the coconut oil and then you know the meat and all and it's like lots of stuff to wash and so it's just so

45:57

but can staying connected to the why I'm doing all those things is so important yeah and find ways to make it easier the

46:03

meal prepping the buying things washed and ready like as much as you can sometimes all my salads come in from the

46:09

store ready like I go to Sprouts and I love their prepared salads so that's what I eat I just break it into two and

46:15

I eat one every other day and so sometimes it's just like how do I get the level of nutrition I want but at the

46:21

convenience I need while it nutrient dense and another favorite uh self care

46:27

tool I have thinking about what you were just saying I teach something called tea time is me time where every single day a

46:33

couple times a day because I'm literally on business calls and working from the minute I wake up email text social it's

46:41

all up all day now I laugh at how much my phone blows up upon waking and I'm like you know I wish for these days I

46:47

wish for the days when my business would do this so I'm not going to complain but oh my God and so tea time is me time is

46:54

my habit where I just tune into myself and I ask myself how are you feeling how are you doing have you set up today so

47:00

you're going to get to eat is there anything this week you need to cancel or move so you survive yeah and my brain

47:07

will be like you know what you can't do all that on Saturday you'll die cancel cancel that and it's it's your own

47:14

intuition just needing enough space to give you an answer and so I use as my QE

Empowerment through Saying No

47:20

five times a day I have a cup of tea and I'm always like okay and then I I get

47:25

really powerful ANS on what to change and what to adjust and then

47:31

that at the end of the day yeah so interesting like the cancellation or or

47:37

saying no I've worked with so many of my clients on that it's just like looking at the calendar and like because everyone's over scheduled and and

47:43

looking at where you can say no to something can be really really like the saying no is saying yes to yourself is

47:49

what I would say to my my clients right exactly yeah well please please please

47:54

tell everybody where they can find you where they can take the qu where they can maybe reach out to you and and do a consultation or potentially work with

48:01

you sure so my website is my name Shani g.com sh sh i v ni GTA and my quiz my

48:09

quiz my cookbook my guides they're all there on that site I have Instagram at

48:14

dr. Shani gupa and I'm on all the social and then I have a podcast fusionary Health podcast where I interview doctors

48:21

and practitioners and everyone in the space to show us how we can shift our health amazing amazing I appreciate you

48:27

being here so much I appreciate everything that you shared with the audience today thank you thank you thanks for having

48:33

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48:39

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48:45

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