Ayurveda

Kapha people are usually full-bodied people with sweet looks and have rounded features. They usually have long, wavy and thick hair. They have a strong immune system and good endurance.

This dosha usually gets aggravated in the summer time and hence Pitta persons should focus on a diet that cools, is slightly heavy and a little dry.

During my internship at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, I had the opportunity to interact with Dr. Anand Dhruva.

The body has three ways of producing ATP: from creatine phosphate, anaerobic cellular respiration and aerobic cellular respiration. (Jenkins et all, 2007) At rest, the muscle fiber produce more ATP than is required by the body.

The human body has always fascinated me and as I have sat in the Anatomy and Physiology class the last few months, I have had several ‘aha’ moments.

Somebody in my Social Media Marketing class at UC Berkeley today asked me, ” How is yoga and ayurveda related?

I recently became a student at the Kerala Ayurveda Academy and world of ayurveda fascinates me so much so at this point that I spend endless hours at a time reading about the subject – something I would not do usually.