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Think of this episode like a crash course in ancient wisdom. Our guest, Divya Alter, is the co-owner of Divya’s Kitchen, an Ayurvedic restaurant in NYC, and the author of “What to Eat for How You Feel: The New Ayurvedic Kitchen.”

Divya talks to Andrea about what Ayurveda is, the unique way it views food and how to dial it in for your body type.

Unlike many modern diets, Ayurveda’s core beliefs rest on only eating foods that are fresh (we’re looking at you, leftovers!) and paying close attention to food combining.

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Transcript:
Andrea Wien:
Welcome to the Microbiome Report powered by BIOHM Health. I am your host, Andrea Wien and today I'm joined by my good friend and Ayurvedic cooking teaching, Divya Alter. Divya is a certified nutritional consultant, educator and chef. She is the cofounder of Bhagavat Life, north America's first Ayurvedic chef certification program. She and her husband, Prentiss, also own Divya's Kitchen, an Ayurvedic restaurant in Manhattan. Divya is also the author of What To Eat For How You Feel: The New Ayurvedic Kitchen and she has a new cookbook on the horizon.

I'm a huge fan of looking to the past for answers to the common problems that ail us, which is why I am so fascinated and always have been by the topic of Ayurveda. Ayurveda is over 5000 years old and the lessons that have been shared and practiced for all of those centuries are now starting to be proven by science, which is so exciting to see. On this episode, I talk to Divya about the concept of Ayurveda as it relates to gut health and digestion. Divya defines some important terms for us and we chat about principles such as food combining and how to use spices to increase digestion, support immunity and fight disease.

This is a great intro episode on the properties and potential of Ayurveda, so I encourage you to listen in if you're on a healing journey or if you're just curious about how to make some of this ancient wisdom work for you. Like all restaurants, Divya's Kitchen in New York City has been hit hard by this pandemic, so I'm also excited to share that she's now selling packaged goods that are easy to make at home and still retain all of the nutrients that we discuss on the show. Those are now available nation wide and she's offering podcast listeners 15% off any purchase with the code BIOHM15. If you're at all interested in these foods, please consider supporting Divya and her team. I have linked to her website on the show notes page at BIOHMhealth.com/pages/podcast and again, BIOHM is B-I-O-H-M for both that code and the website. Now, without further ado, onto the show.

Divya, welcome to the show, it's so great to have you.

Divya Alter:
Thank you so much, Andrea, it's such a pleasure. I haven't seen you in a long time, but it's so nice to connect again.

Andrea Wien:
Yes, I agree and I'm so excited to talk about this topic because I think it's something that people may have heard about. The word Ayurveda is very popular right now but what that actually means and how to bring it into our life in a way that make sense can be a little bit difficult to understand and comprehend and you've really dedicated your career with your restaurant and your cooking school and everything else that you have going on, your cookbook, to making it accessible to people and really helping people to do it in a way that doesn't feel overbearing and is really joyful. We're so happy to have you on to talk about this.

To lay the framework for all of this, what is Ayurveda? I know that's a very big question, but when you think about Ayurveda, how do you describe it to people?

Divya Alter:
Yeah, of course, historically Ayurveda originated in India as the traditional medical science of India and it originated before Chinese medicine, Greek medicine and other ancient styles of medicine, so it's very old and the goal of Ayurveda is to help us life in harmony. So ayur means life and veda means knowledge or wisdom. So it's the knowledge, the science of life. One of the definitions of Ayurveda is that it teaches us what is good and what is bad for our life. You can also say what's good and what's bad for our health in terms of diet, routine, the environment we live in. What's interesting is that it's all different for all of us. Something that's good for me might not be good for you.

So, that's what I love about it, it's very personalized approach to health. It's not just one diet or one medicine fit all.

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