Understand the Deep-Rooted Causes of Poor Health, Overcome Roadblocks to an Energetic and Healthy Life And Discover the Ayurvedic Wisdom on Preventing and Managing Autoimmune Conditions
✓ Realize the biggest lifestyle change that can open the channel to an energetic, healthier you
✓ Use that discovery to build a formidable and dynamic immune system
✓ Learn about the 'leaky gut' and rewire the very pathways along which disease develops, even BEFORE symptoms manifest
✓ Explore the powerful concept of Integrative Medicine with an MD who changes lives daily
✓ Learn practical steps to effect a Systemic Overhaul with Ayurveda, so you look, act and feel energized right down to the cellular level!
✓ Help children, family members, friends and patients to discover true wellness: to eat, exercise and heal in rhythm with their unique, vibrant physiology
✓ Harness this powerful Ayurvedic approach to Ayurvedically manage 5 common autoimmune disorders
✓ Realize the biggest lifestyle change that can open the channel to an energetic, healthier you
✓ Use that discovery to build a formidable and dynamic immune system
✓ Learn about the 'leaky gut' and rewire the very pathways along which disease develops, even BEFORE symptoms manifest
✓ Explore the powerful concept of Integrative Medicine with an MD who changes lives daily
✓ Learn practical steps to effect a Systemic Overhaul with Ayurveda, so you look, act and feel energized right down to the cellular level!
✓ Help children, family members, friends and patients to discover true wellness: to eat, exercise and heal in rhythm with their unique, vibrant physiology
✓ Harness this powerful Ayurvedic approach to Ayurvedically manage 5 common autoimmune disorders
HOW, EXACTLY?
Ayurveda believes that to solve a problem, you first have to dig deep to reach its root cause, find the KEY that unlocks the puzzle. Otherwise, you will be stuck forever fighting with cyclical FALLOUTS AND SYMPTOMS. Like calling firefighters each time a fire breaks out in an old building.
Ancient, wise and holistic, Ayurveda neatly sidesteps all these reactive steps to circle back and prevent that blaze from igniting in the first place!
AYURVEDA’S ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS OF DISEASE LEADS US TO AN EYE-OPENING DISCOVERY
Energetics tell us our gut chakra is the seat of our strength, power and feeling – the very core of our being. That is why a “gut instinct” always feels right!
Ayurveda discovered early on, a fact which modern medicine has begun to understand only recently, that healing the gut or the gastrointestinal tract – corresponding to the gut chakra or the solar plexus – is the single biggest factor that will bring the rest of your being in harmony and balance.
And we aren’t just talking about healing easy-to-manage conditions: even your stubborn, chronic disorders such as thyroid problems, celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis and frustrating skin conditions can be managed if we heal an imbalanced or “leaky” gut.
You may be surprised to learn that the concept which makes Ayurvedic healing so effective is one followed by each path-breaking inventor and every successful business in the world. And that powerful concept is
Root Cause Analysis.
Ayurveda believes that to solve a problem, you first have to dig deep to reach its root cause, find the KEY that unlocks the puzzle. Otherwise, you will be stuck forever fighting with cyclical FALLOUTS AND SYMPTOMS. Like calling firefighters each time a fire breaks out in an old building.
We see this term everywhere these days, but what is a leaky gut?
Even modern allopathic medicine now agrees your gut is your BIGGEST immune system organ. When your digestive system works well, it metabolizes food and sends waste out of the body, keeping your immunity levels high. But in a permeable intestinal syndrome or leaky gut, undigested food or toxins, which we call ‘Ama’, begin to leak out of the gastrointestinal tract and enter the bloodstream. When these toxins start settling in particular organs, they disrupt that organ’s – and the entire body’s - normal functioning, leading to disease!
Since the gut is so important, healing it requires a systemic overhaul.
Holistic, organic and with its 360-degrees view of our physiology, Ayurveda tells us how to heal our digestive tract through incorporating lifestyle changes at every level and customized for every unique biology or prakruti. True healing takes in account every aspect of your being and every lifestyle factor to rewire the very physiological pathways along which disorders develop. It reverses pathogenesis – or progression of disease – in its most nascent stages to achieve your body’s optimal, energetic, balanced potential. Isn’t that a powerful model of hope for every person?
SO WHAT WOULD LIFE FEEL LIKE IF YOU EMBRACED AYURVEDIC HEALING AND RESTORED YOUR LEAKY GUT?
"It would feel WHOLE, HARMONIOUS AND RESTORED like it does for Robert Tompkins, a software engineer"...
- At 63, Robert feels youthful and energetic
- He is driven to live life to the fullest, perform his strenuous job and his yoga practice with balance
- Synergized in body and mind
- Suffused with that irreplaceable feeling of well-being
- Feels that life is a gift
A year ago, Robert found himself struggling to
- Hold a knife
- Tie his shoelaces
- Get out of his car to get to work
- He felt a 100 years old
- Suffered from stiff joints, anxiety, and pain
- Doctors had diagnosed him with Rheumatoid Arthritis and put him on heavy pills and shots.
On a recommendation, Robert decided to consult renowned integrative medicine specialist Dr Akil Palanisamy. Dr Akil designed an Ayurvedic healing program for Robert to follow, in conjunction to his allopathic treatment. In Robert’s own words, the program “turned his life around.”
On the program, he began to notice improvement in his condition and overall well-being. To the extent that when he went back to the rheumatologist he had initially consulted, the specialist was shocked to see the regression of disease and greatly reduced the initial dosage he had prescribed Robert. Most importantly, Robert feels filled with hope to take on the challenges of life in his coming years.
“There is no trade-off to how good I feel. When you think of how much you otherwise pay for healing such diseases, you realize Ayurveda is a gift. I would highly recommend Ayurveda to everyone. ”
- Robert Tompkins
HEALING EXPERIENCES LIKE HIS ARE LIVING PROOFS THAT AYURVEDA AND INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE CAN OPEN THE CHANNELS ALONG WHICH ENERGY FLOWS IN YOUR BODY AND...
- Reverse your chronic conditions if you have started showing symptoms
- And even more importantly, PREVENT these disorders from taking root in your body before symptoms manifest
And that’s because:
Ayurveda is a 5000-year old science with a revolutionary, modern perspective: it sees you as a whole, not a sum of your labelled parts. It wants to HEAL YOUR BODY, NOT JUST A DISEASE. Ayurveda dissects root causes, rather than pushing the brake pedal of drugs to mum symptoms.
But learning WHY pathogenesis happens or why cellular communication breaks down is just one piece of the puzzle. The other is to change lifestyle and behaviors so that the very pathways along which disease progresses are rewired.
To help you adopt these radical and paradigm-shifting changes in your life, the Ayurveda Experience brings to you:
AYURVEDA AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
Through this program, you will gain a whole new perspective on wellness, learn the six stages through which any disease progresses in the body and how to catch disease at a very early stage, even before symptoms become apparent so that you move through life with evolving energy, balance and bliss.
You will learn about the many practices and changes you can incorporate into your lifestyle to feel, act and even look better.
You will learn the detailed, comprehensive step-by-step management of five very common autoimmune disorders using Ayurvedic and yogic practices.
Not only that, this program is an eye-opening and intensive crash course in human physiology itself, because it has been authored by none other than Dr. Akil Palanisamy, the same doctor who designed the powerful healing journey you just read about.
Meet Dr. Akil
A pioneer in the world of integrative medicine, Dr. Akil is a Harvard-trained internal medicine specialist and an Ayurvedic practitioner.
Dr. Akil practices at The Institute for Health and Healing in San Francisco, one of the oldest centres for integrative medicine in the United States.
He has worked with thousands of patients to help them heal and recover from chronic diseases using dietary changes and nutritional supplements.
He blends his western medical training with holistic approaches including functional medicine and Ayurveda.
Patients the world over love him for the compassion, insight, holistic approach and in-depth knowledge he brings to his work, successfully treating a wide variety of serious health conditions including autoimmune diseases, digestive disorders, hormone imbalance, and stress-related illnesses.
IN ADDITION
- Dr. Akil studied Ayurveda in India at the Arya Vaidya Chikitsalayam in Coimbatore
- He did his residency training at Stanford University.
- He has a fellowship in integrative medicine with Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona.
- He is a speaker and community leader
- He has published multiple courses with The Ayurveda Experience focusing on The Paleo Diet, Brain Health, Thyroid Health, and Depression, Anxiety and Chronic Stress.
WHAT ARE AUTOIMMUNE CONDITIONS AND WHY DO WE CALL DR AKIL’S APPROACH TO HEALING THEM GROUNDBREAKING?
The simplest way to describe an autoimmune disease is that it occurs when the body’s immune system starts attacking a particular organ, causing it to malfunction. Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and irritable bowel syndrome are all auto-immune diseases. If we take type 1 Diabetes as an example, here the immune system is activated to destroy the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, leading to insulin deficit and the body’s inability to digest sugar. Similarly, in the case of rheumatoid arthritis, the immune system starts attacking the small joints of the hand, such as the wrist and the knuckles, leading to stiffness, joint pain and decreased flexibility.
If you google any of these conditions right now and visit conventional medical sites, you will see a disclaimer on each that these autoimmune disorders have no cure.
But the great news for us is we don’t need to restrict ourselves only to a conventional allopathic approach!
WHY DOES DR. AKIL’S APPROACH WORK?
Dr. Akil does not focus on suppressing symptoms of disease, which Western medicine often does, but on fixing the root cause of disease.
We are used to viewing wellness through the lens of symptom and treatment – we fall sick, we consume pills. But Ayurvedic and yogic sciences treat wellness as a way of life that transcends boundaries of the soul and mind, putting the entire machinery of your being into working rhythm, whether you show symptoms or not. Unlike the medicine most of us have grown up with, Ayurveda is proactive, not reactive.
And this brings us to another, very important question - Western medicine tells us there is no cure for autoimmune disease, that these are life-long conditions which will degenerate over time.
SO WHY DOES WESTERN MEDICINE GO SO WRONG IN TREATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES?
Dr Akil’s famous gas pedal analogy helps us answer this question. Think of the body as a car, with the immune system controlled by the gas pedal and the brake. Autoimmune disease occurs when the gas pedal is pressed all the way down to the floor and the immune system is out-of-control.
Western medications like steroids and methotrexate suppress the immune system by slamming on the brakes. But the gas pedal is still pressed, meaning that the underlying disease process is still active.
And this means that the disease resurfaces when you stop the medicines.
The Ayurvedic approach on the other hand, takes the foot off the gas pedal by removing the triggers for autoimmune activity.
This gives us an entirely new and exciting way of looking at how disease progresses and can be reversed.
1. INTRODUCTORY MODULE – DETERMINING AND ANALYZING THE ROOT CAUSE OF ILL-HEALTH
An interesting case study about the transformative power of Ayurveda
Why is it the nature of the body to heal itself
What is an autoimmune disease Learn about the Dhatus –
our various tissues or organs
How do energies interact to create our unique physiology – learn about Vata, Pitta and Kapha
Why are autoimmune diseases rising at an alarming rate globally
How does Ayurveda work to close this deficit and heal gracefully
What makes the Ayurvedic perspective on catching and healing a disease so distinct and effective
We are Energy: the five crucial elements of heat flow in the body
- The paramount importance of Agni or the digestive fire
- What happens when the Agni grows weak
- And what happens when toxins from your gut enter the bloodstream
- The fallout of breakdown in cellular communication
- The role your genes play in disease
- Why stress is the spark to the tinder of nascent disease
- Leaky Gut: the One Imbalance common to all pathways of autoimmune disease
- Hope begins when we begin to treat Agni imbalance and leaky gut syndrome.
PART 2. THE ROOT CAUSE LEADS US BACK TO THE SOLUTION: HEALING THE GUT AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
2.1 Dietary Changes to heal your leaky gut and restore your immune system
- Determining which elements dominate your prakruti or unique physiology
- Why the food you eat should be in-sync with your prakruti
- Learn which foods are unnatural for you and why you need to eliminate them NOW
2.2 Why Cleansing and Detoxification are Step Two of Healing
The role of toxins in blocking energy flow
Eliminating the toxins that have accumulated in your body for decades through:
Oil-pulling
The neti pot and Nasya
Abhyanga and the infused oils you ought to use
Sweating
Moving the rasa or lymph
Hydrotherapy
2.3 How to boost your immune system and strategies to keep disease away
Secret and powerful strategies to build a formidable immunity
Which rasayana or rejuvenating formula can kick-start your sluggish immune system
Supplements and food habits that harness your ojas or energy
Learn the right daily routine to balance your body’s rhythms and cycles
2.4 Going ga ga over ghee: The therapeutic use of ghee
How to make your own ghee
How to infuse key herbs and supplements into ghee
Herbs with antifungal, antiviral and antibacterial properties
Unique ghee recipes for your unique prakruti
2.5 The power of spices to heal physiological imbalances
- Incorporating spices for multiple health benefits
- The four disease-causing biochemical mechanisms and by-products of metabolism spices have been proven to reverse and neutralize
- Alpha spices you cannot omit from your diet
- Which oxygen product is bad for us and how spices can neutralize it
- How spices calm down chronic inflammation
- How spices fight the by-products of metabolism to lift energy levels and give you better skin
- Reversing the biochemistry of aging
- How excess of any kind is bad and how “sweet” energy must be balanced by spices
- Spice as medicine: the irreplaceable value of spices in healing the gut
