Best ayurveda medicine books according to redditors
We found 86 Reddit comments discussing the best ayurveda medicine books. We ranked the 39 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 86 Reddit comments discussing the best ayurveda medicine books. We ranked the 39 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Seconding u/theUnmutual6's recommendations, in addition to u/BlueSmoke95's suggestion to check out Ann Moura's work. I would like to recommend Ellen Dugan's Natural Witchery and her related domestic witchery books. Ellen is a certified Master Gardener and incorporates plants into much of her work.
Some of my favorite plant books!
Plant Science:
Foraging & Field Guides:
Herbalism:
Ethnobotany:
I also encourage y'all to look into fungi as well. I work with both plants and fungi and I think they bring a fascinating and fulfilling aspect to my work. Plus, hunting for mushrooms is super fun! I can recommend field guide books for folks who are interested, they just tend to be very region-specific so I'm not going to list all of them here.
For general fungus reading I recommend the following:
There is a whole new branch of mental health treatment taught through qualified and well-trained yoga therapists who specialize in trauma. If you're interested in it, the current gold standard for trauma treatment is laid out in some books:
The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Koch, MD
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke-Harris, MD
Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body by David Emerson
Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression by Bo Forbes
It's becoming apparent that yoga is actually a massively useful tool in rooting out and treating trauma, which is often at the root of mental illness.
I get that you were making a comment about the way people tend to dismiss the pain of mental illness by saying "suck it up", but yoga therapy really is a great course of treatment.
Think about how breathing acts during bouts with anxiety or panic. Practicing yoga conditions and trains your body to slow down and bypass the trauma triggers and subsequent bodily response to keep you breathing instead of passing out or going into panic mode. And that's just one small benefit of practice.
Trauma is just now beginning to be understood by the greater medical community, and yoga with a trained therapist can make a world of difference.
Programs like this one are beginiing to help millions of people.
So the "get over it" part can go fuck itself, but if you suffer from anxiety, depression, or trauma-related mental illness, you really should keep hydrated and do yoga.
Trauma sensitive yoga resources
Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga
Trauma Recovery Yoga
I've never linked anything on Reddit because I've only posted a few things but for those of you who are interested in yoga geared toward trauma survivors these resources are a great starting point.
Absolutely have gone through this almost word for word. I am still in my "never wants sex with my partner" phase. Once in a blue moon, we'll have sex like twice in a day and then months will pass again before we do. In fact, pretty sure there was a year where we didn't have sex at all. It just is. Please be patient with yourself because I know it's hard. How can I not want sex with the love of my life? It's because my mind still doesn't "understand" that sex isn't violence.
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I recommend the book The Sexual Healing Journey. I recommend to read through it VERY SLOWLY as it includes real life case studies that include descriptions of sexual abuse/rape. However, my copy is full of sticky notes when I read something that resonates with me and makes me feel like I'm not crazy. Like --- why is it I can imagine having sex with a random person EASILY but a person I love and am emotionally close is not at all interesting? Rape. That's why.
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If you have the financial resources, I also recommend therapy. I suffer from PTSD so it is mandatory for me -- but it has been life saving.
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Further, there is a huge detachment that occurs between your mind/body when you experience extreme trauma. I often feel as if I've detached from my body and it's prevalent when my body is freaking out (throwing up, sweating, pacing), but my mind is completely calm. To repair that detachment, you have to find a safe way to get back into your body. Yoga is one such way. Check out Overcoming Trauma through Yoga. Dance, exercise, tai chi, whatever it is that allows you to be mindful of your body and your breath is key here. I'm still trying to have the motivation to do this as it's really been the hardest part for me, but I know the small amount I have done makes a difference.
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Lastly, trust yourself. There isn't a fixed formula for any of this, but it can be done. You're stronger than you know. Feel free to PM me if you wish!
I second u/All_Is_Coming as well, seeing as this is your first death be patient with yourself. There is no "right" or "wrong" way to process grief. If you're worried about it, you sound very normal to me. You may find that your yoga practice may drive you to tears in an emotional sense, it happens to me a lot actually. I assume this is pretty normal. Remember, we store our emotions in our bodies so when we use our bodies we release those feelings.
I recently read "Overcoming Trauma through Yoga" and found a lot of really useful information in there. Maybe you'll find it useful, too.
I've never read about there being a tolerance effect specifically for those two herbs, but in general even with herbs that are super safe for long term use, etc. it's always smart to take a break if you're not experiencing the same beneficial effects, to see if that's what's happening.
The list of herbs that aren't safe to use long term would be very long! I'd grab a couple of herbal medicine books for reference, this is a good one: The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism: Basic Doctrine, Energetics, and Classification, by Matthew Wood https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Traditional-Western-Herbalism-Classification/dp/1556435037/ref=sr_1_1
(Wood's Earthwise Vol 1 and 2 are also excellent resources.)
You can think of herbs on a spectrum, like:
Nourishing herbs like nettle, oatstraw, calendula, red clover, burdock, alfalfa (and many others) are like food, no more harmful to you than eating spinach every day. (Chamomile and lavender may fit into this category, or chamomile might be considered mildly sedating.)
The more stimulating or sedating an herb is, the more you want to pay attention to any potential negatives to long term use.
And of course some herbs are potentially poisonous, but may be good to use on a very limited basis when a strong and fast action is needed. Side effects are common with these herbs. Poke is an example -- it's an excellent herb for combating a strong infection or when you need a quick immune system boost, but you'd only want to take very small amounts (1-2 drops of tincture), and only for a short time period.
Pretty sure this is it.
Herbal Medicine Makers Handbook by James Green
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Buhner is GREAT! What protocol are you on?
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895949903/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Do you have a smartphone or an iPod Touch? If yes, get yourself one of the many 5k running apps. This is how I started a few years back after many failed starts, I found the app really kept me motivated. It'll start off very easy but don't be put off by that, stick with it and over time you'll build up your ability to run. Skip too many days and you can end up causing injuries.
If you want to improve muscle and lung performance then you should run hills, more hills, and then more hills! Running hills regularly is one of the best ways I've found to improve my speed and overall endurance. If you don't live near any hills at all then you could also try sprints or join a gym. But I would advise against any of this until you've completed a couch to 5k program.
Eat properly would be my next piece of advice. In the UK the Runner's World Complete Guide to Nutrition is a fairly good place to start for beginners, I'm sure there are many similar books out there since you're in Florida. This is the second change I made that had a noticeable impact on my running and general health. Remember food is a fuel, put higher quality fuel inside you (a wide variety of veg, fruit, nuts, pulses, etc, along with good quality meat) and your body will not only perform better but it'll also improve your muscles, skin, lungs, etc.
One last thing, people will say you don't really need to stretch and that stretching impedes running performance. If you live an active life and spend little time sitting down during the day then this may be true. But if you spend most days sitting and doing very little activity you must learn to stretch those muscles properly and most important you must warm up. But static stretching is not warming up, to warm up you may just need to do a 5 min walk, a short run, leg kicks or a short bike ride. Something to raise your heart rate and get your muscles into exercise mode.
Hope that helps. tldr version: 1) Use a couch to 5k program, 2) Run hills, 3) Eat well, 4) Warm up.
[edit] FWIW I also found The Runner's Body book useful when I was just starting. Once you get past all these points you'll find everything else you need to know naturally.
I've seen this book by James Green recommended quite a lot.
There are plenty of resources in this sub and others already. Poke around and you'll find what you need.
This is a good subreddit. Inactive albeit plenty of good resources available.
I've got two books that may be of interest to you. They are both books we are using in my herbal apprenticeship and very well written.
Michael's Moore's Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West
Matthew Wood's The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism
https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Trauma-through-Yoga-Reclaiming/dp/1556439695
Read Fat for Fuel. Explains everything perfectly.
In terms of a true materia medica, theres not really one you can just outright buy that I'm aware of. Most herbalists make their own. You can print off templates free from a google search, and then for each plant that you have/grow/easily forage/whatever, you'll write down what its good for, what recipes work for what situations, how to make each one, as you research and learn more about it. There are a few books you can buy to help you assemble that, I like a good plant ID book tailored to my region, something like this for the different kids of things you can make https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0895949903/?coliid=I2XLXE8ZPXBYMR&colid=1LERDA1TIBU8M&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it plus books if you want more info on specific info on herbs for colds, herbs for chronic illness, etc.
I keep my materia medica in a 3 ring binder, and am constantly adding to it. It's about ready for me to go thru and type out a few of the plants, while I'll continue to hand write notes as I learn more.
The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook is a great book, and I believe you can find a free pdf online.
You might like Lowen's books about bioenergetic analysis. For example. If you google it and find Elliot Hulse, try to keep in mind he doesn't represent the work very well as he isn't credentialed as a therapist or bioenergetic analyst and only had one year of training.
Ayurveda might indicate types of food/diet and practices relevant to your body type. Have you figured out your doshas? There are many pakriti quizzes online, including this one: https://www.banyanbotanicals.com/info/prakriti-quiz/
In case you don’t know your doshas, take the quiz more than once to make sure you get definitive results (and note that a tri-dosha result is more than likely not accurate...it is very rare...take the quiz again and adjust some of your answers).
Once you know your composition (primary and secondary doshas), start doing searches like “vata-pitta fall diet”, or “kapha-vata summer exercise” (or whatever your primary and secondary doshas are).
Dr Lad has a very well-known book about the basics of Ayurveda which also suggests practices and procedures for various types of ailments. You might consider picking up a copy: https://www.amazon.com/Ayurveda-Science-Healing-Practical-Guide/dp/0914955004/ref=nodl_ (sorry for the long links, I am on my phone)
Regarding pains in areas of the body, I started to consider that there were energetic, emotional issues, and/or traumas that were needing to be acknowledged and released. I had quite a few different types of sensations in my own body and found childhood trauma and issues that had been holed up there. I found a mindfulness meditation practice hugely beneficial to give me the tools to start to unlock these emotions which may have been influencing my physiology. I am not sure if Ayurveda speaks directly to this, but since Ayurveda is a body healing science, it may also have an energetic, emotional, spiritual component to it too. Additionally, I found therapy helpful to work through emotions I had avoided and parts of myself that had been exiled. I do not know if these concepts will resonate or if they apply.
Jack Kornfield’s audiobook version of Meditation for Beginners is stunning. https://www.amazon.com/Meditation-for-Beginners/dp/B01679X0JU
Finally...NONE OF THIS replaces oversight of medical professionals. I am not a doctor and I am not providing any medical advice nor direction for anyone.
Good luck on your journey inward! Do not forget that power to heal yourself comes from within. This must be balanced with science and medicine as well. We are spiritual beings in human bodies. Sometimes the only way out is through. It gets scary in there, but it is worth it.
Edit: wording
I have Prescription for Nutritional Healing and Staying Healthy with Nutrition which I'll use as references for basic nutrition. The second one comes off a bit too hippy-ish for me sometimes (they state one of the most important water-soluble vitamins is Vitamin L, aka 'love') however all-in-all it's a pretty solid resource for understanding the essentials. The book begins with a discussion on water, which I think is great as H2O is often left out.
I'm also particularly interested in sport nutrition, so I have also picked up Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook. I like glossing over the reference textbooks, then switching to Nancy's book to get her 'sports coach' perspective.
My pleasure :) since you already do yoga, also have a look at this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Trauma-Through-Yoga-Reclaiming/dp/1556439695/ref=mp_s_a_1_1 - it’s good. My favourite say is: if you’re tired, learn to rest, not to quit. Take care!
I like the idea of trying more natural methods to regulate hormones as well. A lot of our daily activities could be contributing to unbalanced hormones: the food we eat, lack of exercise, stressors in our lives... It just makes sense that whatever we input into our body affects how our body works.
I read this book when I was trying to get pregnant and it's got a lot of useful info, maybe give it a read: https://www.amazon.com/Balance-Your-Hormones-Life-Achieving-ebook/dp/B004ROT3WQ
I really like Prescription for Nutritional Healing, it's more like an encyclopedia.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1583334009/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8
You have a great idea here and I believe that if you reference this http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1583334009 you could provide more specific reasoning to why specific supplements are used. I found it a little vague with not giving more specifics. Have your write up on lysine be your basis for your descriptions of your other supplements. If you want feel free to PM me any questions.
There are bioenergetic exercises for body tensions.
Try Prescription For Natural Healing: A Practical A to Z Reference To Drug Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, & Food Supplements. This book covers nearly any illness you can think of, from Alcoholism to Zika Virus. Extremely thorough, it not only covers what supplements, vitamins, herbs, and minerals you should take, it also covers lifestyle changes and diet. This practically eliminated my anxiety (until I stopped following it's advice), it cured my acne, turned around my depression, and improved my ADHD. It's not a cure by any means as I unfortunately fell back to my old bad habits and lost the book. I will be purchasing it again soon though. I can't recommend it enough.
For a general overview of the history of traditional herbal medicine in the West, I recommend Barbara Griggs' book, Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine.
For traditional shamanic, magical use of herbal medicinal plants, I suggest you look into the Native American tradition(s). If you are looking for something in the area of psychedelics, I can recommend one book I liked: Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
For a bend towards energy medicine and the inner practice of herbalism, see Matthew Wood's books, for example The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism: Basic Doctrine, Energetics, and Classification.
Since all addiction is a form of medication for internal pain usually stemming from trauma of some sort i would recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Trauma-through-Yoga-Reclaiming/dp/1556439695
Pranayama is really good for me to keep off pot & cigarettes. Good luck!
I don't have a lot of natural flexibility. Probably more than you, OP, but still not a lot.
For legs I do the routine outlined in Yin Yoga and also in Insight Yoga, including the dragon pose and other hip stretches. Paul Grilley also has a good DVD on Yin Yoga.
My general method has been to read books and go from there. Toe touches are good in also helping you develop flexibility in your spine and back. Don't be discouraged if you are only able to do three or four stretches in a book. That is a good place to start. The components of the body are connected so as you continue to practice you'll become able to do more stretches. For instance by loosening your back muscles you'll be able to do that hip stretch you could never get before. Try to do the stretches that you feel a good stretch in and are for areas of your body you prioritize. Even if you do only two or three stretches a day that is a good place to start.
edit: Mth25 named some of the same poses I have found effective for stretching my legs and hips. Just try googling those to get an idea. There's a lot of similarity between the various teachers so it's just about matching what they teach with what you're capable of and feel a stretch in.
IANAD! Try my advice at your own risk.
This is my I'm-too-broke-to-go-to-the-doctor home medical care bible. I couldn't get along without it.
I developed a soft-tissue swelling/pain/irritation in my shoulder which I think is bursitis. I consulted my wonderful book and found that it recommends the same set of remedies for most of these types of joint problems.
For joint problems like bursitis and tennis elbow it recommends, among other things, a combination of Fish oil capsules (follow bottle instructions) Vitamin C, 1000 mg/day, and a supplement called Zyflamend, 2 capsules 2x day. I found it at my local healthfood store.
To that I added ibuprofen for inflamation. A doctor would prescribe 800 mg 3x day as that's the optimal dose to treat inflamation. Taking that much ibuprofen OTC can irritate your stomach though, so use your own judgement on that. I had speedy relief using this regimen. But of course everyone's different and may react differently.
The book recommends moist heat for pain, but I think that would exacerbate swelling. Ice may be better, 20 minutes at a time so you don't injure your skin. A bag of frozen peas is great for icing an injury.
The book also recommends you figure out what repetitive motion you're doing that caused the injury and stopping that activity. It also notes that you may see improvement - and pain relief - from immobilization of the joint.
Hope this helps!!
I'm a student (currently obtaining my masters in mental health, with a focus on trauma and crisis).
Having literature, such as this will greatly improve my electric knowledge base.
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you might find value in Rosemary Gladstar's books on medicinal herbs. There are a few that might be of interest to you. medicinal herbs for beginners, 175 herbal recipes for vibrant health, herbs for stress and anxiety, and family herbal are a few good ones to look into.
In the related listings I found several other great titles with good reviews on them. Among them, there was the herbal apothecary, the complete medicinal herbal, and the herbal medicine maker's handbook
I would also suggest James Wong, an ethnobotanist. He has a series that was on the bbc about using plants to make medicinal items. It was on youtube for a bit but is no longer there in its entirety. He does have a book on the series, though-
grow your own drugs. A sequel with more recipes can be found here- a year with james wong.
I also find that many sustainable living, foraging, and related sites tend to have good recipes you can sort through. here are a few of the ones i have saved.
mother earth news- make your own herbal teas
wolf college resources
https://arcadianabe.blogspot.ca/
http://www.eattheweeds.com/archive/
lastly, a basic google search for "herbal remedies" brought me a few websites that look promising.
mother earth news- herbs for ailments and wounds
botanical.com has a few resources for recipe and information about plants, but it is more limited than i would like.
the family herbalist looks very promising.
there are probably a ton more out there, but i hope that some of these or the terms they use can help you find what you are looking for.
To have fun while learning, try The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. I also like Prescription for Nutritional Healing for a reference.
I prefer to see studies backing claims. Maybe not everything below is relevant, but here are some places I like to read online, too: Examine.com, Stronger By Science (mostly strength training studies), Strength Sensei (Charles Poliquin is an Olympic strength coach and knowledgable in nutrition), Suppversity, ss.fitness
Don't let that stop you! A very large fraction of knee (and other joint) pain are that the wrong muscles are weak.
http://www.amazon.com/Athletes-Book-Home-Remedies-Injury-Prevention/dp/1609612345
Most knee pain that I and folks around me have had was resolved by some combination of front or side leg raises and squats.
Edit: Before I started running, I had a lot of knee pain and it was getting in the way of me doing short runs like this and skiing. After breaking down, I went to a doctor, the doc did some exams and found nothing fundamentally wrong with my knee. She prescribed physical therapy, I did the exercises and kept doing them after PT was over. Some time later some issues started coming back because I got lazy with the exercises (still running) and a friend pointed me at that book. The book somewhat has a recipe of "If this hurts, do that. If you want to prevent this from hurting, do this other thing". Totally totally worth it.
Oh! I used to live there when I first became a witch! Dedicated myself under a full moon in the month of Imbolc out on, believe it or not, a golf course near my house. Had to sneak out and jump a fence to do it. It was the only place that felt appropriately green enough; I had no respect for the desert back then.
Yeah you'll defiantly have to look into container gardening so you can move those little guys around into the shade. Maybe get something like.. cloth or something so their little roots don't wither up in the heat. We had luck growing Mediterranean herbs back when I was a kiddo, and I bet you could grow sacred datura. She's a well known witching herb that grows in deserts. There's a ton of varieties of sage that do well in that place too. And aloe vera ofc; gotta love those things. Weirdly, I bet mugwort will grow there. I am starting to suspect the only place mugwort won't grow it the literal vacuum of space. I totally think you can do it! Here, get this book. Everybody loves it.
I don't have a good answer for your question, but I'm able to self Diagnose and attempt to treat with home exercise using The Athlete's Book of Home Remedies by Jordan Metzl. Metzl is a doctor, so it isn't fake advice. Its just advice on how and what to strengthen to prevent and treat specific injury types. He also has information on when you should contact a doctor.
Its totally worth the $16. I've used it so often that some of the pages are starting to fall out and I've only had it for a few months! (on amazon http://www.amazon.com/Athletes-Book-Home-Remedies-Injury-Prevention/dp/1609612345/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348022956&sr=8-1&keywords=athletes+book+of+home+remedies)
https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Herbal-Dispensatory-Medicine-Making-Guide-ebook/dp/B01CMGW6EW
I purchased this and it has a LOAD of knowledge. It's excellent for all stages of herbalists. It takes some getting used to to read it and understand some of the meaning. But the authors do an excellent job at explanations and definitions in the beginning. It even has recipes.
This website has a little profile for each plant, you can search either the aliment or the herb. -https://herbpathy.com/. I love to read some of Susun Weeds articles, and she also has a radio show on blog talk that anyone can call to talk to her, she is more women centered in general, but has great information for everyone. http://www.susunweed.com/. Then, here are some books on the subject that can help you make your own herbal medicines- https://www.amazon.com/Male-Herbal-Definitive-Health-Care/dp/1580911757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510690404&sr=8-1&keywords=the+male+herbal
https://www.amazon.com/Herbal-Medicine-Makers-Handbook-Home-Manual/dp/0895949903/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 - I read this one, and its great.
https://www.amazon.com/Wise-Woman-Herbal-Childbearing-Year/dp/0961462000/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510690479&sr=1-3&keywords=the+wise+woman+herbal
For those of us who like to explore psychoactives there is this book- https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Psychoactive-Plants-Ethnopharmacology-Applications/dp/0892819782/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510690609&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=encycolpedia+of+psychoactives.
I sometimes get books through the public library its a great resource to check out various types books before buying them or if you can't afford to. Some herbs which I have explored, and like are: California Poppy wonderful for anxiety, sleep, and mild pain. Damiana slightly mood uplifting, and great for the reproductive organs, I don't know if it was this herb is entirely to blame for it but my cycle is way more regulated ever since drinking it. Echinacea for colds, and immune support. Skullcap for anxiety. Tumeric, Manjistha (Indian herbs), and pepper together for inflammation, and the blood/skin, black seed Oil, and of course kratom. I have been building my own little medicine cabinet piece by piece playing, and learning along the way. Enjoy! May you discover a new, and amazing journey.
My grad-school adviser held Dr. Robert Svoboda in high esteem, so I learned the basics from Prakriti: your Ayurvedic Constitution. Prakriti is Mother Nature - Goddess Nature Herself embodying all materiality. Prakriti's other half is PuruSa God or pure Spirit or pure non-material Being analogous to elements in Hegel and Heidegger.
The other is Svoboda's associate Dr. Vasant Lad. Good news! Looks like Dr. Lad recently published Ayruveda textbooks vols 1 2 and 3! Did not know that.
So Dr. Svoboda for easy and fun introduction (also could check out his other works on jyotish and Aghora - a type of left-hand esoteric yoga - very good, entertaining read) and Dr. Lad for more serious study. Dr. Lad has an Ayruvedic institute in NM offering some kind of credential if you get very interested. Good Luck!
> Probabilmente ti farà paura, ma io cerco di mangiare 1g di proteine per kg di peso corporeo
Anche io mangio circa quello però sto cercando di mettere qualche muscolo extra. In futuro ho intenzione di mangiare leggermente meno proteine. Poi in vecchiaia ho letto che ci vuole qualche proteina extra.
> e il resto delle calorie in grassi sani (olio di oliva, di cocco, noci, avocado, etc), limitando i carboidrati al massimo
Io mangio esattamente il contrario, carboidrati sani (cereali e legumi interi), limitando i grassi a quelli che ci sono nei semini. Ho anche comprato i flax seed (che ritengo dovrei mangiare tutti i giorni) ma non ho mai tempo di macinarli e sono in attesa di un frullatore nuovo per risolvere questo problema. Ogni tanto mi sono comprato le olive e me le sono mangiate con gusto anche se ho il sospetto che forse abbiano troppi grassi saturi. Ogni tanto mi mangio anche le noci che ho letto da qualche parte fanno bene. Devo comprare spaccanoci nuovo.
Ho indagato un pò su questo topic dei grassi vs carb e ti passo due link che ho trovato interessanti:
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-coconut-oil-clog-arteries/
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-atkins-diet/
L'autore è un vegano però come vedi è abbastanza onesto da riportare anche quei (pochi) studi che riportano risultati positivi sulle diete low carb. Sono andato anche a vedermi "fatty acid metabolism" su wikipedia però è tutto men che semplici specialmente se non sei un chimico!
Un altro interessante è questo che spiega come mai le piante non hanno molti grassi:
https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/55632/why-do-plants-store-energy-as-carbohydrates-and-not-as-fats
Quindi, ad oggi, la mia opinione è questa:
Le diete low carb high protein non funzionano, non c'è niente da fare. Il motivo per cui non funzionano è ovvio. Il corpo deve eliminare prodotti di scarto. Però comunque le proteine vegetali sembrano meglio di quelle animali.
Le diete high fat (più di 30% di fat), low carb (meno di 40% di carb) e con una dose non eccessiva di proteine (diciamo 1 grammo per kilo di peso) possono anche funzionare, pur non essendo affatto naturali, a patto che le sorgenti di grassi e di proteine siano vegetali. Probabilmente è nettamente meglio un frutto intero come l'avocado oppure l'oliva invece che olio di un tipo o di un altro. L'oliva secondo me è salutare. Anche le noci andrebbero mangiate, concordo su questo.
Quindi, l'immagine di insieme è questa, che l'uomo è effettivamente un animale al 90+% erbivoro, come dicono i vegano moderati (tipo Greger), e inoltre non ha bisogno di molte proteine (come dicono tutti i nutrizionisti competenti), però il suo meccanismo per utilizzare i "fatty acids" come fonte di energia non è affatto difettoso come si riteneva in passato. In passato si riteneva che i saturated fat fossero maligni semplicemente perché i saturated fat sono associati ai prodotti animali. In effetti ho letto da qualche parte che l'uomo è uno dei pochi animali che può far andare il cervello quasi interamente con i fatty acids. Quindi, riassumendo, probabilmente l'uomo è ragionevolmente efficiente nel bruciare i grassi perchè questo meccanismo comunque era troppo importante e necessario per fare migrazioni oppure per sopravviere alle carestie.
La dieta che stai facendo tu secondo me si può definire una carestia/migrazione simulata. E' solo simulata perché ovviamente aggiungi per via orale sempre nuovi grassi e nuove proteine ogni giorno!
Ritengo anche che forse una dieta come la tua può avere un utilizzo per prepararsi ad un qualche tipo di maratona dove non è consentito assumere cibo (carb) durante il tragitto. Un altro possibile utilizzo sensato potrebbe essere quello di gestire alcune malattie (alcuni cancri, alcuni tipi di diabete, epilessia).
Di certo non è una dieta che consiglierei ad una persona sana. Come mai una persona sana dovrebbe fare una dieta cosi estrema e restrittiva? Solo perchè va di moda, come fosse un taglio di capelli oppure un vestito?!
> Non sono sicuro di capire cosa intendi. Una volta che la "polvere" è miscelata con acqua e olii diventa altro, una matrice complessa, con alcuni componenti in soluzione altri in sospensione, le fibre solubili formano gel etc... Non molto diverso dal cibo normale dopo che è stato masticato e ingoiato.
Credo che nello stomaco arrivino comunque pezzettini di roba, non liquidi. Però non sono esperto. Intuitivamente non mi fido dei liquidi. Ho letto da qualche parte che gli oli liquidi vanno abbastanza direttamente nel sangue.
Hai provato a farti le analisi del sangue e osservare il colesterolo e tutto il resto? Come spiega il primo link, c'è molta variabilità tra gli individui. Dovresti verificare se sei una persona adatta alle diete high fat, oppure no.
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Primo P.S:
> Per questo motivo non sono contento della maggioranza di soylent in commercio: troppi carboidrati, poche proteine, troppi compromessi per accontentare tutti, come accenni anche tu.
Su questo siamo daccordo. Hanno scelto una via di compromesso. Tra i big, Huel sembra quello più vicino ai low carb, però è "Paleo"/"Zone" (high protein) invece che nettamente "High fat". Comunque come spiegano anche sul loro sito puoi aggiustarlo verso quello che vuoi abbastanza facilmente:
https://huel.com/blogs/news/low-carb-huel-two-hacks
Loro usano coconut oil, io ti consiglierei olio di oliva oppure anche olive intere.
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Secondo P.S:
Se mi consenti, ti do due consigli:
Tieni anche presente che alcune cellule (cervello, globuli rossi) hanno bisogno del glucosio per campare. In ogni caso, per tua fortuna, non c'è rischio di morire immediatamente a causa della mancanza di carb perché le proteine possono essere convertite in glucosio se c'è bisogno, e gli animali carnivori principalmente funzionano attraverso questo meccanismo. Se trovi un animale che utilizza principalmente i grassi, fammelo sapere.
La conversione da proteine a glucosio crea un sacco di prodotti di scarto e quindi è sconsigliabilissima. Per questo ti dico le diete high protein sono del tutto insensate. La produzioni di grassi dai carb pure crea dei prodotti di scarto e quindi è sconsigliata pure questa. Quindi anche i vegani che non sono a dieta dovrebbero mangiare abbastanza grassi. Quelli che sono a dieta possono provare a compare con i grassi che hanno in corpo.
La ketosis pure è sconsigliatissima. Ti consiglio davvero di mangiare qualche carb per essere sicuro di non andare in ketosis e per essere sicuro che il tuo corpo non bruci proteine per ottenere carb. E comunque, la frutta e verdura la devi mangiare comunque per i micronutrienti e pitochemicals, quindi rassegnati! ;)
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Terzo P.S:
Ti consiglio anche di verificare se sei "insulin resistant" oppure no. Credo sia sufficiente fare un pasto con abbastanza carb (che so, 40% carb, 40% fat e 20% proteine) e poi misurarti il glucosio nel sangue. Da quello che ho capito, già hai tutti gli strumenti necessari per fare questo? Sei diabetico?
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Quarto P.S:
Conosci qualche autore low-carb che mi puoi consigliare? Per adesso tutti i libri che trovo su amazon.com sembrano scritti da dei crank. Non voglio offendere nessuno però oggettivamente è cosi. Tutti consigliano high protein, prodotti animali e ketosis. Ti faccio alcuni esempi di libri che sembrano seri ma secondo me non lo sono affatto. Basta vedere con Amazon qualche pagina a caso per rendersi conto. Nella sostanza tutti sostengono che l'uomo è un animale carnivoro ma tutta la scienza nutrizionale dice esattamente il contrario.
Perfect Health Diet: Regain Health and Lose Weight by Eating the Way You Were Meant to Eat Hardcover – December 11, 2012
by Paul Jaminet Ph.D. (Author), Shou-Ching Jaminet Ph.D. (Author), Mark Sisson (Introduction)
https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Health-Diet/dp/B007USA6MM/
Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy Hardcover – May 16, 2017
by Dr. Joseph Mercola (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Fat-Fuel-Revolutionary-Combat-Increase/dp/1401953778/
The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable Paperback – May 19, 2011
by Stephen D. Phinney (Author), Jeff S. Volek (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0983490708/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I1CH3F17VHBPNZ
The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance Paperback – April 1, 2012
by Jeff S. Volek (Author), Stephen D. Phinney (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0983490716/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I3B55O32RBIIDW
The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat Paperback – December 7, 2010
by Loren Cordain (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Diet-Weight-Healthy-Designed/dp/0470913029/
https://www.amazon.com/Prescription-Nutritional-Healing-Fifth-Practical/dp/1583334009
https://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Healing-14th-Linda-Page-ebook/dp/B00C2DVK5W/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1550116554&sr=1-1&keywords=linda+page+healthy+healing
I started with this; https://www.amazon.com/Ayurveda-Science-Healing-Practical-Guide/dp/0914955004 and found it quite good for the basics. Plenty of books and info out there.
I had to take a nutrition prereq for college and loved it so much I got a nutrition minor. I love and kept all my books for it. And I have plenty supplemental books as well. Here are some of my favorites.
Science of Nutrition
Nutrition Through the Life Cycle
Nutritional Healing
Medical Nutrition Therapy
Really, there is zero difference. The reason for gaps between workouts is so that the muscle damage that occurred during your training can be repaired. Whether you're running or lifting weights or cycling or rowing etc the principles are all the same.
Your new speed/endurance/power/explosiveness is acquired in step 2, as you body responds to the training stimulus.
Also rest doesn't mean sitting on the couch. You could be at the gym doing some core/upper body work on your 'off' days.
I think this misconception that running is 'different' and that cross training is not required is the reason so many runners get injured.
EDIT: This is an incredible book on the science of running and the mechanisms of training - http://www.amazon.com/Runners-World-Body-Exercise-Stronger/dp/1605298611?ie=UTF8&tag=thesciofspo-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969
> Ok, so Mr. WittyOriginalName...you and Azdahak have a serious axe to grind apparently against Ayurveda. I noticed that nowhere in your post is there any mention of your actually having tried it for yourself though.
A great many things feel good. A great many things elicit a placebo or other response. This is why the scientific method is so helpful and has changed the course of history so very much in the last few centuries.
> First of all, you know nothing about Ayurveda from what I can tell. I have an Ayurvedic physician that I have been seeing for years now, and I've been using Ayurveda myself for far longer than that.
Cool! People rode horses for centuries to go hither and yon. Clearly horses and cars are just as good at getting people from here to there.
> Second of all, you say "science" is superior, and "we have the scientific method" and they didn't in the past. That's false. The scientific method is just empiricism in a nutshell.
No. And you may be a computer science researcher but computer science research doesn't employ the scientific method, with which you aren't familiar. To even present that you are a computer science researcher as though it imbues some air of authority regarding the scientific method is all the indication we need that you don't understand the latter. I may not be in research but I have bachelors in both comp sci and a field which does employ the scientific method... this also hardly makes me an expert but I know the difference between the two types of "science" well enough. The scientific method isn't just "measure stuff". It is precisely concerned with narrowing down EXACTLY what's causing an effect.
> But in reality, it is impossible to quantify the effect of food and herbs on the body.
Oh ok so how do you explain modern medicine then? How is it that we are now able to keep HIV positive people alive for decades for example? Are they rubbing oils on their feet? Eating herbs, with unknown concentrations of substances?
> There are thousands of different compounds in plants, and they interact in a synergistic fashion. That's why the effectiveness of vitamins when consumed in a whole food is almost always significantly higher than taking them in supplement form.
Point me to studies using large populations where this approach is more effective. Oh... that's awkward... Shouldn't there be an empirically quantifiable effect? Re vitamins in foods, why must it only be due to this synergy? Please point me to empirical data which clearly implicates this synergy in all cases, as opposed to simply activating metabolic processes activated by say fiber, or the act of eating itself. We do have some evidence that taking vitamins, and indeed many supplements with food slows down absorption and gets them around the body more. Perhaps you are aware that when you eat you increase bloodflow to the stomach, precisely to take those digested nutrients and spread them around the body.... among other things. Many drugs are more effective when taken with food.
This is exactly the problem with "empirical thinking" in the absence of controlled methods as employed in the execution of the scientific method: it's far too easy to make assumptions which seem to support ones world view. Especially when it is emotionally rewarding to support that worldview "Oh if I follow god/the universes will, I will live longer AND I get to believe that life is ultimately not meaningless?!?!!? Obviously the data points to that conclusion..." :-|
> The only way to observe what works and what doesn't is through generations of trial-and-error and observation, and that's all Ayurveda has done. It's accumulated wisdom.
Oh right that's why bloodletting persisted as a practice for so many centuries. That's why it was so hard to convince midwives to wash their hands before performing surgery. Accumulated wisdom.
> As I pointed out to Azdahak not too long ago, 80% of India uses Ayurveda in one way or another. The NIH spends about 1% of its budget on preventive medicine. Ayurveda is all about prevention. That's why it's called the science of longevity. Think about what you're saying here, because it's a very tall claim.
I mentioned in one of my posts ITT that western societies need to invest more in preventative medicine, and it is something I think most/all are working towards. The healthiest populations in the world rely primarily on western medicine AND preventative care.
People in the US, who isn't a top ranker, live about 12 years longer on average. How do we separate all the different factors? Is it parasitic diseases and the like from lack of sanitation which makes up the difference? Is it vaccines/antibiotics/anti-parasitics/chemotherapy/advanced surgical intervention/etc, which were created utilizing the principles of western medicine, as established and vetted via the scientific method? Is it a focus on preventative medicine (which we haven't even defined for the purposes of this conversation)? Should we wait generations to figure it out?
> You're essentially saying in characteristic skeptical ENTP fashion that for around 1500 years (that's how long Ayurveda has been codified, but it was probably being used for far longer than that simply as an oral tradition), every single generation was delusional and misguided in passing on what they knew to the next generation.
Not delusional. Ignorant. Ignorant as fuck. As I would have been were I not educated in the scientific method.
I was raised Jewish. In Judaism you aren't supposed to mix milk and meat. It turns out that using the same un coated dishes (wood/ceramic) for both breeds some serious super concentrations of life threatening bacteria. "God" told my people that mixing milk and meat was a bad idea. Now we know why and I can eat cheeseburgers afaic because that wisdom was trumped by actual understanding.
> I'm afraid that the burden of proof is on you to conclusively demonstrate that bioscience is more effective than Ayurveda in every respect.
No it really isn't. The cool thing about science is that things need to be "proven" to be accepted as true. It's not a contest of ideologies or traditions or national/cultural pride, or anything but "if you make a claim you have to prove it". As Ayurveda claims to heal people in various ways, every way that it claims to heal people needs to be proven. It also claims that bodies and medicine work along a theoretical framework which doesn't stand up to anything but the personal beliefs and claims of adherents and supporters. You are trying to make them equivalent but one system for understanding how shit works has proven to be far more effective. Western medicine grew out of that system. While there may be useful information and approaches in other systems, and while western medicine certainly doesn't have all the answers, the process for understanding the world (the sci method) is unarguably more effective.
> Do your homework. Do your research. It takes 8 years to become an Ayurvedic physician in India. It's very difficult to study the effectiveness of Ayurvedic therapies using RCTs. Science has only just begun to scratch the surface. Just because scam artists abound, especially here in America, does not mean you get to write off an entire body of knowledge as quackery.
It takes 8 years to learn all sorts of shit. What is an "RCT" by the way?
> Come back here when you know more.
Haha come back here when you can empirically prove that Ayurvedic therapies are more effective than science based approaches. Personally I'll go with whatever has the best evidence of efficacy. If you get cancer what are you going to go with?
> If you want to know what Ayurveda is really about, read this guy's book. He is one of the foremost western Sanskrit grammarians: https://www.amazon.com/Roots-Ayurveda-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140448241 And this is a good summary of the concept of physical constitutions to get you started: http://aysnyc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=202&Itemid=165
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine
My current favorite: [Donna Eden] (https://www.amazon.com/Energy-Medicine-Balancing-Energies-VitalityUpdated-ebook/dp/B0015DWNK6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504056038&sr=8-1&keywords=donna+eden+energy+medicine)
A quick search will yield many results
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1883725070/ref=cm_sw_r_oth_api_VScTAb9P6AH2K
Sure, you can research David Emerson who's involved at Kripalu, or there's Bessel van der Kolk who is a badass, you can listen to a great interview with him from the show On Being. There's also Stephen Levine.
Here's a Kripalu article that quotes van der Kolk.
And there's psychologists that talk a lot about somatic holding, or at least subconscious holding patterns. An easier read would be stuff from Daniel Siegel(I know it kinda looks like pop psych but it's actually pretty good), one of my favorite authors on trauma is Donald Kalsched, which is a bit more dense and more about work through talk psychotherapy. But often I find myself applying his concepts in yoga classes as a way to understand what's going on inside mentally/emotionally that's connected to my physical experience. Also sheds some light on how I relate to other students and the teacher.
Then there's the bodywork stuff, cranial sacral therapy or somatic body work but there's too much misinformation for me to guide you. All I can say is that I have a yoga teacher that also gives me bodywork sessions that supplement my yoga practice, and the inner growth I've experienced has been profound.
Out of all of this, if you're going to research anything I would highly suggest the van der Kolk interview, which you can download and listen to.
he wrote a book that is popular and have been reviewed by nutrition expert. https://www.amazon.com/Fat-Fuel-Revolutionary-Combat-Increase/dp/1401953778/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536110107&sr=8-1&keywords=fat+for+fuel+book+by+dr.+joseph+mercola&dpID=41l%252BGRxpdpL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
http://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-Manifesto-New-Paradigm-Wellness/dp/1583949372/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442353366&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=the+cannabismanifesto
I am just finishing this book. Great read that goes into detail on what you are looking for with references. I'll try to remember to add a few in tomorrow.
http://cannabismanifestobook.com/trailer/
From the writer and founder of one of the greatest dispensaries in the country.
Finally, the web site has a lot of material on the subject as well.
http://www.harborsidehealthcenter.com/
This book looks pretty good, but I'm not and expert.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/184819109X/ref=sxts_sxwds-puwylo_rv_3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
You probably will need a good book on Chakras - a lot of what's out there is New Age culturally appropriated crud.
This one isn't bad:
https://www.amazon.com/Chakras-Centers-Transformation-Harish-Johari/dp/0892817607/
Nah, that isn't it at all. This was a guy. I'm pretty sure it was a neurologist or something. /u/RyKel46 linked it here: http://www.amazon.com/Take-Off-Your-Glasses-See/dp/0517886049
Ok, so Mr. WittyOriginalName...you and Azdahak have a serious axe to grind apparently against Ayurveda. I noticed that nowhere in your post is there any mention of your actually having tried it for yourself though.
First of all, you know nothing about Ayurveda from what I can tell. I have an Ayurvedic physician that I have been seeing for years now, and I've been using Ayurveda myself for far longer than that.
Second of all, you say "science" is superior, and "we have the scientific method" and they didn't in the past. That's false. The scientific method is just empiricism in a nutshell. What you really mean to say is that we have reductionism and fancy instruments to analyze very small things. But in reality, it is impossible to quantify the effect of food and herbs on the body. I'm a computer science researcher, and this problem is intractable without quantum computing or some other paradigm shift in the field. There are thousands of different compounds in plants, and they interact in a synergistic fashion. That's why the effectiveness of vitamins when consumed in a whole food is almost always significantly higher than taking them in supplement form. The only way to observe what works and what doesn't is through generations of trial-and-error and observation, and that's all Ayurveda has done. It's accumulated wisdom.
As I pointed out to Azdahak not too long ago, 80% of India uses Ayurveda in one way or another. The NIH spends about 1% of its budget on preventive medicine. Ayurveda is all about prevention. That's why it's called the science of longevity. Think about what you're saying here, because it's a very tall claim. You're essentially saying in characteristic skeptical ENTP fashion that for around 1500 years (that's how long Ayurveda has been codified, but it was probably being used for far longer than that simply as an oral tradition), every single generation was delusional and misguided in passing on what they knew to the next generation. I'm afraid that the burden of proof is on you to conclusively demonstrate that bioscience is more effective than Ayurveda in every respect.
Do your homework. Do your research. It takes 8 years to become an Ayurvedic physician in India. It's very difficult to study the effectiveness of Ayurvedic therapies using RCTs. Science has only just begun to scratch the surface. Just because scam artists abound, especially here in America, does not mean you get to write off an entire body of knowledge as quackery. Come back here when you know more.
If you want to know what Ayurveda is really about, read this guy's book. He is one of the foremost western Sanskrit grammarians:
https://www.amazon.com/Roots-Ayurveda-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140448241
And this is a good summary of the concept of physical constitutions to get you started:
http://aysnyc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=202&Itemid=165
try the gerson therapy?
Boost your immune system to help with the fight.
https://www.amazon.com/Gerson-Therapy-Nutritional-Program-Illnesses/dp/1575666286/
https://www.amazon.com/Fasting-Eating-Health-Medical-Conquering/dp/031218719X?ie=UTF8&ref_=asap_bc
Do your own research and don't believe everything your doctor tells you - verify it for yourself.