The Wisdom of the Immune System
As the seasons begin to change, conversations about the immune system seem to appear everywhere. Patients ask me what they should be taking to “boost”…
Origins
Uncertainty: The Space Between Knowing and Not Knowing
I have been thinking lately about uncertainty. Not the uncertainty of markets or weather or whether a flight will be delayed, but the much more…
Rethinking Cleansing: What Biology and Ayurveda Have Been Saying All Along
The word cleanse has become one of the most misrepresented terms in health. For some, it conjures images of green juices, starvation diets, and exaggerated…
Inflammation Isn’t the Enemy. It’s the Conversation We’re Misunderstanding.
The New York Times, The Atlantic, HHS leader RFK Jr: open social media, listen to a podcast, or walk down the supplement aisle, and you’ll…
The Longevity Problem: We’ve Forgotten to Ask What Life Is For
There is a word I’ve been wrestling with lately: longevity. It’s everywhere. Longevity medicine. Longevity supplements. Longevity clinics. Longevity influencers. We’ve become captivated by the…
Is the Cost of Health Your Time?
“I don’t have time.” It is perhaps the most common phrase I hear in clinical practice. I don’t have time to exercise. I don’t have…
Integrative Ayurvedic Medicine: A Philosophy of Practice
The longer I practice medicine, the less interested I become in fighting disease and the more interested I become in understanding why the body lost…
Beyond the Dosha Quiz: Understanding the Clinical Intelligence of Ayurveda
One of the first questions people ask when they encounter Ayurveda is: “What’s my dosha?” Within moments they’re handed a short online quiz and labeled…
What We Carry Home: The Path of Practice
I had the privilege of presenting online this week to the International Conference on Traditional Medicine and Integrative Health in Barcelona. Many practitioners, researchers, clinicians,…
From Recommendation to Reality: What Ayurveda Understands About Change
We talk about change as though it should be simple: Eat better. Reduce stress. Sleep more. Exercise. Cut back on alcohol. Stop the late-night snacking….