Gall Bladder Problems, High Blood Sugar, and EMF
This case history is an excellent example of what we do best: prevent disease. Most people in the Western world, especially America, are used to the medical model, which is to diagnose and treat disease. Modern medicine’s focus isn’t primarily on the prevention of the disease, but rather the diagnosing of disease and managing it with pharmaceuticals and/or surgical techniques.
In this case, (as well as many of the patients I see), the doctors were monitoring her blood sugar. It kept increasing over time. She was told once she became diabetic, they would put her on a pharmaceutical to lower the blood sugar. What should be done, and what we in fact did, was to identify the underlying imbalances which were allowing the blood sugar to go up. We addressed all those issues with dietary changes and herbs and her blood sugar automatically came back down into the normal range.
The same was true with her gall bladder. She presented with right upper quadrant pain (pain under the ribs on the right). She previously had her gall bladder checked and was told it was fine. However, again, standard western medical tests are usually designed to diagnose disease. She did not have a diseased gall bladder — luckily she had not progressed to that stage. However, the bile was too thick, like a sludge — this is an extremely common occurrence. The fat you eat is emulsified by the bile, but occasionally that bile can become too thick and not flow well out of the gall bladder backing up and creating pain in that area. So we thinned out her bile, cleaned her fat tissue and taught her which fats to favor and avoid in her diet. The pain went away quickly.
Because her bile was not flowing out of the gall bladder for quite some time, her fats were not able to be broken down into small enough particles to be absorbed out of the arteries and into the cells. Thus, her bloodwork revealed high cholesterol. The doctors put her on cholesterol-lowering medication. She was lucky in that it gave her too many side effects and she stopped it. The cholesterol medicine damages the liver (and the muscle and nerve tissue, creating problems in walking, neuropathies and dementia as it starves the brain of much-needed fat). But the bigger problem is that just taking a statin (cholesterol-lowering) drug does not address the underlying problem — the lack of bile flow which is making the cholesterol go up in the first place.
Now she is digesting her fats better, her brain function is better, her blood sugar has normalized and she feels great.
Perhaps the best part of all is that when she first came in, she was so sick from all of these issues she was considering quitting her job. She was reacting to EMF’s from her computer and cell phone — it created intense tingling down her arms. Once we addressed the EMF’s almost all of the tingling went away.
So she is back to work and now really understands how to eat correctly and maintain a good daily routine — and she understands the importance of addressing these issues early on so they don’t blossom into pathologies later in life.
Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum
g it in our kitchens add more agni to it, making it highly imbalancing to our physiology. This is why Vaidya underlines never cooking or heating honey. And this is why it is best to buy your honey raw – unprocessed, and unheated – to start with. When your cup of tea or chai masala tea is cool enough and ready to be sipped, you may add honey and mix it in.
recommended not consuming food that is older than 4 hours. 
adding to the slow-cooked meal and taking with you or giving to family members to take with them in thermoses. You can also prep vegetables the night before for next day’s dinner. It becomes a matter of being very structured. Sure, it requires sacrifice and attention, but nothing quite matches the joy and wellbeing of eating fresh meals rather than left-overs, even if they were prepared by you. Once your physiology gets used to eat freshly prepared meals daily, it will not want to eat anything older than 4 hours. You will feel the difference in your body as well – it will feel lighter, your mind will feel brighter, etc. Instead of cooking for 2-3 days ahead of time, you can spend time on the weekends baking some sweet and savory crackers and cookies that can be consumed in between meals to give you and your family time to hold until the next meal is prepared and ready to be consumed. The “traditional way of eating of Ayurveda,” as you phrase it, is what people are themselves re-discovering all over America, because of research findings confirming the benefits of freshly prepared meals. Like I said, it just takes organization and structuring, but it is worth all the effort. One does not have to be rich to buy the basic vegetables and/or meat or lentils. We are indeed fortunate in America, as fresh produce is available throughout the country. Buying organic is definitely preferable, and the price of organic produce has gone down, however, regular vegetables can be consumed when organic is not available. And freshly prepared non-organic vegetables are to be 
preferred over left-over organic cooked food. I think you get the point.
ith the first day of Spring. 
out to have a SVA break with delicious goodies made in-house. Thank you Daria for the lovely cookies, and thank you Vaidya for the delicious sprouted Mung salads, sweet and savory 
“poha” recipes, and so much more!
Attendees got to share news and views with each other as well as chat with Vaidya Mishra directly in a laid-back joyful atmosphere. If you were unable to attend and want to catch up on Vaidya Mishra’s talk, no worries, we have now posted it on his website and you may download it for free anytime HERE.
