Namaste everyone! Welcome to Day 4 of my month of discussing diabetes and in Ayurveda we call this prameha. I hope those in the U.S.A. spent time with family and friends yesterday to celebrate our nation's Independence Day! I am sharing with you some initial signs of prameha or diabetes. In Ayurveda there are 6 stages of disease. In the initial stages of imbalance one will see signs of doshic imbalance. After that there will be more deep rooted signs of imbalance and if untre

According to Ayurveda these can be the causes of diabetes or prameha (Type 2): 1. Leading a sedentary life. This means that there is little to no movement in a person's daily life habits and a small amount of exercise practices. During the time when Ayurveda was coming together and practiced people were cultivating land, working outside or had mastered a craft and worked by hand as an artist. I suppose that in some cases there were people who didn't break a sweat doing work a

Let's talk about diabetes and the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda! According to Ayurvedic knowledge those children who are born with diabetes/prameha or acquire it at a young age is deemed as genetic/heriditary or sahaja and non-curable (asadhya). Other types of prameha caused by improper diet and lifestyle practices (Type 2) are both manageable (yapya) and curable (sadhya). The Sanskrit word prameha translates to excessive urine (a.k.a. polyuria) which is one of the warning signs

Namaste friends! Happy July <3 This month I will be posting daily about the autoimmune disorder diabetes. With any autoimmune disorder the body and some processes are not functioning as they should. Often times cells within the body turn against healthy cells causing depletion and disruption. The internal cell wisdom shifts and it doesn’t perform properly. There are many autoimmune disorders such as: psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, grave’s, hashimoto’s, arthritis, scl