Whole foods: Principals For Preventing Ageing and Rejuvenating Your Body (CHAPTER 1 Whole foods)

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Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Not Enabled Word Wise: Enabled Amazon Best Sellers Rank: Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. A well-balanced Ayurvedic diet would always have the six tastes sad rasas , which in turn plays a role in homeostasis. Excessive intake of one or the other rasas can tilt the equilibrium leading to a health problem.

As an example excessive intake of sweet tasting foods can lead to obesity, pungent tasting foods to acidity, etc. Also, dosa imbalances in the body can be countered using materials with specific tastes. In jvara fever , there is an aggravation of pitta dosa and is countered by bitter tasting drugs that pacify pitta like Andrographis paniculata or Azadirachta indica 5. The four main tastes recognized in modern bioscience are sweet, sour, salty, and bitter Conventional bioscience does not recognize pharmacological attributes to tastes.

Only in the last decade, there have been studies showing the possibility of a correlation between taste and pharmacology.

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They speculate that the number of distinguishable tastes formed by the permutation-combination of the six tastes is more than enough to distinguish the molecular shapes binding to all enzyme active sites in the body. However, in , Shallenberger rejected the role of taste in any enzymatic reaction because he says that unlike in enzyme reaction there is no change in the substrate during taste perception.

Palmer 58 looks at taste as a chemical inducer of signal transduction by binding to G-protein-coupled receptors GPCRS and proposes taste signaling as an amenable tool to the methods of pharmacology. The review by Rath et al. The next paradigm in drug discovery is touted to be network pharmacology. Designer drugs with exclusively selective ligands to avoid side effects may become a thing of the past because a growing body of knowledge in the post-genomic biology era is revealing that drug action cannot be simplified to one drug—one target—one disease theory as understood earlier.

It is more complex than a simple lock and key mechanism. Traditional medicine-based polyherbal formulations have been studied using -omics technologies and proposed as new strategies in drug discovery instead of single molecule-based drugs to tackle disease complexity 62 , In a recent publication, the method and concept of network pharmacology were extended to the analysis of a classical Ayurvedic formulation to understand the rationale and putative synergistic actions of ingredients in a traditional formulation Ayurvedic theories and practices on health, food, and nutrition are quite different from those of biomedicine and modern nutrition.

Rasayana in particular is an area worth exploring for new ways of rejuvenation and anti-aging.

Introduction

Healthcare costs are a major concern to the government exchequers of both developing and developed countries. Knowledge as to how to manage health at an individual level can help bring down sky rocketing healthcare costs through providing wellness. The Ayurvedic principles and practices can potentially become relevant for designing an integrated health care strategy.

Concepts in Ayurveda, such as the rasa of a material being an indicator of its action on the body, are new to biomedicine and the modern nutritional sciences and can provide practical ways to create balanced diets. Two main observations emerged from an analysis of published literature particularly from India on the bridging efforts.

There have been more articles hypothesizing correlation of certain Ayurvedic concepts with biomedical entities than actual scientific studies to illustrate the correlation. To state that this approach can only help look at parts of Ayurveda and not the whole is commonplace. However, there is no denying that this is most needed and that this active interest taken by biomedical scientists in Ayurveda will create new knowledge Valiathan [eminent cardiologist, medical scientist and a learned scholar of Ayurveda] In recent years, there have been concerted research efforts to understand Ayurvedic principles, such as prakriti , dosa , and agni using modern scientific tools.

These trans-disciplinary bridging efforts have no doubt helped correlate certain reduced aspects of Ayurveda with existing biomedical entities. However, they have not been able to capture the holism of Ayurveda. It is not clear whether the holistic knowledge of Ayurveda was assembled by putting together pieces of data and information gained over a period of time like is done in Systems Biology approach or whether there was an altogether different method adopted to perceive holism.

Therefore, interpreting or validating the complex holistic principles, such as the five fundamental elements and the three bio-effector concepts three humors or tridosas , of Ayurveda can be quite a challenge using the same methods and tools that look at cells and atoms. This may end up like the five blind men trying to interpret an elephant by feeling different parts of the elephant.

However, the post-modern scientific perspectives and methodologies in systems biology, pharmaco- and nutri-genomics, personalized medicine, chaos theory, ecological human being, etc. Recreating Ayurvedic methodologies may hold the clue to understand Ayurveda holistically. This is of course not easy and would require a deeper engagement with Ayurveda.

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UP has contributed the introductory section, sections on the traditional knowledge aspects, and part of the bridging transdisciplinary research section and conclusion. PV has contributed to the introduction section and has written the transdisciplinary research and the concluding sections. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

The authors wish to thank Dr. Subrahmanya and Balasubramani for the corrections and comments. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. Journal List Front Public Health v. Published online Mar Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer. This article was submitted to Environmental Health, a section of the journal Frontiers in Public Health.

Received Sep 16; Accepted Mar The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author s or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Ayurveda, a traditional system of medicine that originated over three millennia ago in the South Asian region, offers extensive insights about food and health based on certain unique conceptual as well as theoretical positions.

Ayurveda, food and health, ayurbiology, system biology, trans-disciplinary research. Introduction Ayurveda is one of the oldest healthcare systems that evolved in the Indian Subcontinent. Open in a separate window. Ahara, a Pillar of Life Ahara is one of the three pillars of life according to Ayurveda; the other two being sleep and regulated sexual life. Food Can Alter Moods Another interesting taxonomy of foods is based on their effect on psychological dispositions of individuals.

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Proper Metabolism is Key to Good Health The energy that drives metabolic processes in the body is called agni , which also has an important effect on health. Food and Physiological Processes and Actions In Ayurveda, food has been classified based on morphological features and their corresponding physiological actions. Incompatible Foods Viruddha Ahara and Processes Yet another distinctive feature of Ayurveda is its understanding of incompatibilities of food materials and processing. Wholesome and Unwholesome Food Pathya and Apathya Several examples are provided in Ayurvedic texts in terms of wholesome supplements, pathya and apathya.

Table 1 Epistemological comparison of modern biomedicine and Ayurveda. Bridging Trans-Disciplinary Research There have been several ethnobotanical explorations into Indian health knowledge systems by many western and Indian enthusiasts. Mainstream Ayurveda Research Drug discovery, quality standardization, pharmacological, and clinical validation of the safety and efficacy of medicines have been the mainstream focus areas of Ayurveda research.

Research into Ayurvedic Concepts It was being increasingly recognized by Ayurveda scholars and Ayurveda-Science enthusiasts that not much was being done to unravel the concepts in Ayurveda 27 , Ontology and Theories Ontology is a systematic account of existence. Table 2 Glossary of Ayurvedic terms. They are emesis, purgation, medicated enemas, oil enema, and nasal medication Panchamahabhuta Five elements viz. Prakriti and Ayurgenomics Ayurveda has a unique way of classifying humans, which is used in the clinical management of health and disease. Rasayana Rasayana is a branch of Ayurveda that deals with methods to enhance quality of life and extend lifespan.

Network Pharmacology and Ayurvedic Network Pharmacology The next paradigm in drug discovery is touted to be network pharmacology.

Conclusion Ayurvedic theories and practices on health, food, and nutrition are quite different from those of biomedicine and modern nutrition. Author Contributions UP has contributed the introductory section, sections on the traditional knowledge aspects, and part of the bridging transdisciplinary research section and conclusion. Conflict of Interest Statement The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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