Website design By BotEap.comIn this article, Gabriel Cousens shares about the types of doshas and how to learn which foods are best for you specifically. Gabriel Cousens is an author, holistic physician, and family therapist.

Website design By BotEap.comKevin: When you talk about the science of live foods, I find it vitally important to be able to compare scientific evidence to help influence other people. Where have you found holes that need to be filled?

Website design By BotEap.comGabriel: Well, I mean one hole was “there’s a diet for everyone.” From Gibbon’s point of view, the people who developed these diets are talking about a diet that works for them, and therefore it is “if it works for me, it must work for everyone.” So you have the mycosis diet for example. That’s interesting and it’s a good diet if you’re kapha because kapha people are people who tend to have a lot of mucus, but if you’re vata it’s a disaster because your body really needs to have a certain amount of mucus to balance itself. . So once we get the idea of ​​individualization, you start to appreciate how all these dietary advancements happen. Such and such one who has a particular, what we call dosha, develops it from that.

Website design By BotEap.comOK, here’s another example, back in the 60’s people used a lot of drugs. Well, what became really popular then? Macrobiotics, because macrobiotics is the best diet to balance vata: sweet, salty, acid. Sweet means grainy, salty, very important to balance vata, and sour. So those tastes that macrobiotics was the optimal diet. If it rises to the conditions, you see? So once we understand that diets apply to your constitutional type and the cultural imbalances that are going on, like drug use, it’s like, wow!

Website design By BotEap.comOf course we can balance vata with live foods very, very well once we understand what we are doing. Too easy. With vata foods you’re going to have a vata imbalance… I’m not explaining all these things… it’s just the idea. You need more fatty foods, you need slightly heavier foods, you have your low glycemic fruits, berries and cherries and you have your sprouted grains and it could be 100% live food to fully balance that. Bee pollen… there are different things that are really good. Your seed milks, nut milks, all of those, and your hydrated nuts and seeds, nuts and seeds. You’re going to balance that. There is no problem with that if you understand what you are doing. So we can use our living food to truly balance whatever condition a person has once we understand the other forces that are going on.

Website design By BotEap.comKevin: And with the different doshas is that… that’s probably not finite either? The different types of food…

Website design By BotEap.comGabriel: Well, there are nine basic doshas. Life is more complex than that. Even with nine you have variations with it. But nine is a lot and then we have the fast oxidizer, the slow oxidizer and the parasympathetic, sympathetic and on that spectrum some people can be frugivorous, you know?

Website design By BotEap.comIT’S OKAY. It depends on your constitutional type. A lot of people… high sugar is not so good these days. I don’t care if it’s fruit sugar or not, it really is associated with a variety of problems, obviously diabetes. You see diabetics go crazy if they eat a little fruit before they are cured. You can not do that. When you heal, you return to normal physiology, then you can eat low-glycemic cherries, berries, and citrus, but not until then. But there are some people who have the right constitution and what happens is that they metabolize sugar very slowly. The fast oxidizers are metabolized very quickly and you get these spikes, where the slow oxidizers… and again you have the spectrum. So there are a lot of diets out there. They have to apply to your medical condition and its type.

Website design By BotEap.comKevin: How does someone find out the type? What is the best way to do it?

Website design By BotEap.comGabriel: The simple approach is we have a 30 question quiz and you can go through it and add up and find out what it is. You could be 50/50, which means you’re right in the middle and we call it a mixed oxidizer, or you’re fast, that part is high, the other part is low.

Website design By BotEap.comBut basically, the reason we have 30 questions is that most people aren’t conscientious enough to understand what they’re doing. Really. So if you only had three questions “What kind of food do you like? Are you a person who really likes a lot of nuts and seeds, a lot of protein?” So you’re probably a fast oxidizer or you’re parasympathetic. The person who just has a buffet in front of you and only goes for the salad is most likely a slow oxidizer or a sympathizer. So the next question is, “What gives you the most energy at that moment and two hours later, how much energy do you have as a result of that?” So you can have, like a fast oxidizer, sugar and it goes up, but then it goes down, so we’re always looking at the mark two or three hours later. OK, you felt good then, that’s good. Now, how do you feel two or three hours later? Have you crashed or are you stable? The third thing is that the fast oxidizers, the parasympathetics, really need to eat more frequently, every two to three hours. Slow oxidizers, sympathetic, you eat six hours later, you may be hungry, you may not be hungry, because you’re moving much slower in terms of how you’re metabolizing. So that’s another clue.

Website design By BotEap.comThose are the three or four questions that more or less give you a clue.