And what would be your approach to integrating the principles of Ayurveda into the modern urban lifestyle?
Well, I'm, um, great fan, and this is also experience, due to the experience which I made, a great fan of micro steps. When patients are coming to me, I go with them through their whole day, their lifestyle, and what they are doing, what their profession is, their whole social, their diet, of course their symptoms, their diseases, everything.
But what is very, very important is to not exaggerate what they should do. That, that you don't give them a program which would totally change their life. It's not possible because no one is able to do that. So, what I discuss with them, when I see what they are not doing right, what they could do very easily, what changes they could implement in their daily routine. Say maximum three things, maximum.
Three things maximum at one time. Perhaps only two, or perhaps even only one thing, but they can easily change. Easily. Focus is on easily. And then making it a habit. Exchange a bad habit to a good habit. Health-damaging to a health-promoting habit because we are only just habits.
Our whole life is just habits.
Sure.
So change the habits, but do it in micro steps. When you are eating a lot in the morning, then just change that. Having a light meal. When, when you go to bed every day at, at 1:00 at night, then just change it, and don't, do not say now you go to bed at 10:00. But you go at 12:30, then at 12:00, and then at 11:30, and then try to go back to 10:30, PM, and then go to bed.
And then make sure, when you sleep properly, perhaps you can, two days during the week, or three days, you go to bed even a little earlier, that you have enough sleep and wake up without an alarm clock.
And then you suddenly feel, you know, I feel much fresher, and it's good because it's so important. When you imagine our brain; it weighs about 2% of our whole body, 2%. But our brain is using up 25% of all the energy which we are consuming
during the day, 25% That means 2% of our body weight is consuming 25% of our energy. That means our brain cells, our neurons, they are having a very high metabolism, and that means they are producing a lot of metab- You know, I have to apologize for my English.
Your English is fine. It's absolutely correct, metabolites.
Metabolites. And these are toxic proteins. Toxic proteins. And every day, we are producing about seven grams, our brain, seven grams of toxic proteins And that makes, when we, sum it up over the whole year, two and a half kilos. Two and a half kilograms of toxic metabolites.
And that means about twice the amount which our brain weighs, itself. We are producing rubbish. And this rubbish, the brain has to eliminate, and this happens only in sleep. What happens in sleep, our brain cells, they are shrinking to about 60% of their volume, you know, in the waking state. And through that, you create, again, we have it here, the space in between. The space in between the brain cells. And then in the night, the cells, they are excreting these toxic metabolites in this space in between... it's actually called the glymphatic system, which has been only um, detected, detected about 15 years ago, at the University of Rochester.
And, um, now the, the cerebrospinal fluid is flooding the brain and excreting all this rubbish out of the brain, and bringing it into the lymphs in our neck region, and then it's eliminated through the liver and the kidneys.
And this happens only in the sleep. And therefore, it's so important, you know, when we are waking up and you feel really refreshed, it means that all these toxic substances are out. When you feel still dumb and cannot concentrate properly because no sleep, slept enough, that means all this stuff is still there.
I've heard the term, uh, I've heard the term brain ash in English. I think that's, that's this, this same, these toxic metabolites.
Yeah
Well, I'm, um, great fan, and this is also experience, due to the experience which I made, a great fan of micro steps. When patients are coming to me, I go with them through their whole day, their lifestyle, and what they are doing, what their profession is, their whole social, their diet, of course their symptoms, their diseases, everything.
But what is very, very important is to not exaggerate what they should do. That, that you don't give them a program which would totally change their life. It's not possible because no one is able to do that. So, what I discuss with them, when I see what they are not doing right, what they could do very easily, what changes they could implement in their daily routine. Say maximum three things, maximum.
Three things maximum at one time. Perhaps only two, or perhaps even only one thing, but they can easily change. Easily. Focus is on easily. And then making it a habit. Exchange a bad habit to a good habit. Health-damaging to a health-promoting habit because we are only just habits.
Our whole life is just habits.
Sure.
So change the habits, but do it in micro steps. When you are eating a lot in the morning, then just change that. Having a light meal. When, when you go to bed every day at, at 1:00 at night, then just change it, and don't, do not say now you go to bed at 10:00. But you go at 12:30, then at 12:00, and then at 11:30, and then try to go back to 10:30, PM, and then go to bed.
And then make sure, when you sleep properly, perhaps you can, two days during the week, or three days, you go to bed even a little earlier, that you have enough sleep and wake up without an alarm clock.
And then you suddenly feel, you know, I feel much fresher, and it's good because it's so important. When you imagine our brain; it weighs about 2% of our whole body, 2%. But our brain is using up 25% of all the energy which we are consuming
during the day, 25% That means 2% of our body weight is consuming 25% of our energy. That means our brain cells, our neurons, they are having a very high metabolism, and that means they are producing a lot of metab- You know, I have to apologize for my English.
Your English is fine. It's absolutely correct, metabolites.
Metabolites. And these are toxic proteins. Toxic proteins. And every day, we are producing about seven grams, our brain, seven grams of toxic proteins And that makes, when we, sum it up over the whole year, two and a half kilos. Two and a half kilograms of toxic metabolites.
And that means about twice the amount which our brain weighs, itself. We are producing rubbish. And this rubbish, the brain has to eliminate, and this happens only in sleep. What happens in sleep, our brain cells, they are shrinking to about 60% of their volume, you know, in the waking state. And through that, you create, again, we have it here, the space in between. The space in between the brain cells. And then in the night, the cells, they are excreting these toxic metabolites in this space in between... it's actually called the glymphatic system, which has been only um, detected, detected about 15 years ago, at the University of Rochester.
And, um, now the, the cerebrospinal fluid is flooding the brain and excreting all this rubbish out of the brain, and bringing it into the lymphs in our neck region, and then it's eliminated through the liver and the kidneys.
And this happens only in the sleep. And therefore, it's so important, you know, when we are waking up and you feel really refreshed, it means that all these toxic substances are out. When you feel still dumb and cannot concentrate properly because no sleep, slept enough, that means all this stuff is still there.
I've heard the term, uh, I've heard the term brain ash in English. I think that's, that's this, this same, these toxic metabolites.
Yeah
