Micronutrient Deficiencies Through a Dosha Lens: B12, D3, and Iron in Ayurvedic Context
Constitutional assessment can be useful within Ayurveda, but it should not be used to predict a vitamin or mineral deficiency....
June 4, 2026
Biofilm Formation and Ama: Microbiology Meets Ayurvedic Toxin Theory
A 1998 National Institutes of Health research announcement stated that biofilms accounted for more than 80% of microbial infections in...
June 2, 2026
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Ayurvedic Practices: Convergence of Nervous System Healing
Stephen Porges introduced Polyvagal Theory in a 1995 paper, not in 1994. The theory proposed that different vagal pathways participate...
June 1, 2026
Gut Mucosal Barrier and Sleshma Kapha: Ayurvedic Strategies for Intestinal Lining Repair
Ayurveda and modern gastroenterology both attend to digestion, bowel function, inflammation, nourishment and tissue integrity, but their terms are not...
May 30, 2026
AMPK Activation and Ayurvedic Metabolism Herbs: Where Cellular Energy Science Meets Tradition
AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a central regulator of cellular energy balance and an important research target in metabolic disease....
May 29, 2026
Phytochemical Profiling of Ashwagandha: Withanolides, Alkaloids, and What Each Does
When a supplement company markets ashwagandha as “standardized to 5% withanolides,” it is making a claim about phytochemical content. But...
May 26, 2026
Computational Drug Discovery Using Ayurvedic Compound Libraries: A 2026 Review
Computational methods now give researchers practical ways to investigate the chemical complexity of Ayurvedic plants and formulas without experimentally testing...
May 17, 2026
Telomere Length and Rasayana Therapy: Can Ayurvedic Anti-Aging Herbs Slow Cellular Aging?
A 2017 paper did examine an Ayurvedic rasayana in relation to telomere biology, but a common online account of it...
May 2, 2026
Microbiome Diversity and Prakriti: Do Vata, Pitta, and Kapha Types Have Different Gut Flora?
A commonly repeated account says that researchers at Banaras Hindu University recruited 53 people, assigned their prakriti through three independent...
April 30, 2026
Epigenetics and Prakriti: How Your Dosha Constitution May Be Genetically Coded
Ayurvedic genomics investigates whether measurable biological variation is associated with prakriti, the constitutional classification described in Ayurveda. A 2015 genome-wide...
April 29, 2026