A Culture of Well-being: A Natural Rhythms Podcast Dr. Anup Mulakaluri, ND

The heart, the central ticker of the human, is the most essential organ that allows life to inhabit the human body. For this reason, it’s the organ that gets most press and most attention with regards to research and treatment. And still the incidence of heart disease has only gone up in the past four decades since the Framingham studies that framed “Cholesterol” as the real problem and cause of heart disease. We have seen this rise because we have focused our attention on the wrong enemy. This series will address these controversies and offer real, natural alternatives for treatment for heart health.

For a long time, the physical function of the heart was thought to be limited to pumping blood through our blood vessels… This function ensures that every cell of the body get oxygen and nutrition; as well as, provides opportunity to get rid of waste and toxins from the cellular environment. In recent years, we have also learned much about the role of the heart in nervous system activity. Additionally, the heart is also considered to have emotional and spiritual functions. These cannot be understood through physiology; rather, a study of our language helps us to get a sense of these functions. The root of the word ‘courage’ is derived from the latin word for the heart, which is ‘cor’. Thus, the etimology of the word courage is to have “strength of heart” or “abundance of heart”. In our culture, we see the use of the phrases like “he or she has got heart” or we may hear “it takes heart” to get something done; this is describing the courageous quality of achieving something extraordinary. The heart is often recognized as central to our emotional experiences of love, generosity, compassion, and sympathy.


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Maintaining consistent routines is an essential part of living a healthy and balanced life. According to Ayurveda, routines are important for regulating the body and stimulating it to function optimally. This includes having a consistent sleeping and waking cycle, as well as eating meals at the same time each day. Having a consistent routine helps the body to prepare for the activities of the day, as well as to detoxify and rejuvenate itself.



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One of the many strengths of Ayurveda arises from it’s ability to individuate and customize recommendations for the individual person. In this way, each one of us is treated as unique and treated as a whole. Understanding the Ayurvedic body type or Ayurvedic constitution is a powerful tool. It is an essential requirement to adopt the principles of Ayurveda into your life.

Your Ayurvedic constitution varies based on the combination of elements that form your subtle body. These elements give rise doshas, Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, that govern the physical and functional manifestation of the body.

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Chyavanprash, has inspired legend for its health benefits… Insights from modern research truly proves its worth.

· Amla (Indian Gooseberry) provides the antioxidant backbone, protecting from degenerative inflammation and oxidation.

· Dashmoola (10 roots), along with cinnamon, cardamom and pippali, improve and protect lung function.

· Chyavanprash enhances function of the heart muscle, improving blood and nutritional flow to cells, with help of herbs like haritaki and vibhitaki.

· with aid of herbs like Ashwagandha, Shatavari, Gokshura, Bala, Chyavanprash also improves sexual vigor and vitality in men and women

· In Charak Samhita, it is described as “Paramukto Rasayana” – meaning it is the best rejuvenator and anti-aging medicines.

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Natural medicines from across the world seem to agree one thing: “Just as beauty is inherent in a flower, light is inherent in the Sun, healing is inherent in a human.” The Principles of Practice of Naturopathic medicine open with this acknowledgement:  “Vis Medicatrix Naturae”

This phrase states the importance of “healing power of nature” is inherent as an essential function of our physiology.

What does this mean?

Human beings are a part and product of Nature. Scientists from our ancient past saw this without the need for telescopes and microscopes. Instead, with power for observation they understood the patterns and rhythms of Nature. And recognized the effects these patterns and rhythms on our health. Based on these observations, they developed natural sciences of medicine that focused on disease prevention and healing through natural means of the body, mind, and spirit.

From a modern scientific perspective, we can say that we have evolved with nature over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. We didn’t evolve in hospitals or by using pharmaceuticals. We evolved to survive through the grace and abundance of natural resources that made up our living environment. These natural recourses are the myriads of vegetables, fruits, nuts, beans, grain, animal products, herbs, and spices; also, the Sun, air, water and earth in our surrounding.

With the aid of modern science, we are capable of understanding physiological imbalances that lead to disease and pain. The long evolutionary relationship with nature allows our body to readily use the medicinal compounds from foods and herbs as building blocks and signals; these restore health and balance to our physiology. Thus, food as medicine stimulates the healing power of Nature inherent in us.

A Culture of Wellbeing, is a culture that guides us to live in alignment with our nature. It supports our closeness with nature through means of foods, herbs and spices, and time in nature… Such a Culture of Wellbeing vitalizes our life force and creates a foundation for our Spiritual development.

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Doshas in our environment can influence physical dosha. Environmental effects on dosha are of two kinds. One, the objective experience of natural elements in any given environment (i.e. weather, season, animals, plants, etc.) Second, the subjective experience caused by human or artificial elements of our environment (i.e. lighting, aroma, furniture, memory or emotional connections, people, etc.) Either of these have the capacity to influence our physiological doshas, positively or negatively. Therefore, language of doshas creates a bridge for relating how the environmental experience might affect and change the physiological experience.

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Show notes on Daily practices by Dosha:


Kapha pre-dominates 6am-10am and 6pm-10pm 
Pitta pre-dominates 10am-2pm and 10pm-2am 
Vata pre-dominates 2am-6am and 2pm-6pm.


Waking by 5-6am, starting our day with spiritual practice and light exercise helps to ground the Vata dosha and causes energetic momentum to arise with the Kapha dosha. This gives the best yield of energy and high productivity for start of our day.
As Pitta (fire) is strongest at 12pm, heartiest meal of the day between the hours of 12-1pm is most efficiently digested. This gives additional boost of energy and keep momentum through 6pm.
As the Kapha hours start again by 6pm, metabolic activity starts to slow down and switch direction from outward focus to inward focus. We are invited to slow down and unwind for the day. Eating a relatively lighter meal by 7pm for additional energy.
Going to sleep by 9-10pm, gives 7-8 hours of rest and restoration.
Also, if we are resting, 10pm-2am Pitta-time promotes optimal daily detox for the body.
From 2am-6am, the Vata takes the toxins processed through the pitta-time and moves them to the channels of elimination. These are ideally removed through urinary and bowel elimination during the late Vata/early Kapha hours between 5-8am.