After 20 years in my bedside clinical career, I felt the nagging sense, that I think most of us are feeling right now: that healthcare is seriously lacking. In my final semester, working towards my bachelor’s degree in Nursing, I heard a lecture on alternative modalities. One of the presenters gave a speech on Ayurveda. In that moment, I felt like this one lecture had all the answers to everything I had been asking all these years. If our bodies have all these amazing mechanisms to replenish cells, build new tissue, heal from wounds, produce neurotransmitters, and establish homeostasis why do these mechanisms seem to fail to keep us healthy?

How do we prevent obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney disease, and cancer? In that one presentation, I felt like it was a huge green lit-up sign pointing me to all of the answers. Soon after, through a series of events, that I can only credit to the prodding of the universe, I enrolled in a master’s program in Science in Ayurveda and Integrative medicine. It’s my hope that as I finish up my last semester, I can begin to share this knowledge with clients.

My background is primarily in Emergency and Critical care medicine for the past 12 years. I’ve taken care of hundreds of patients struggling with chronic disease management. My passion and mission have been looking for knowledge about how to prevent chronic disease. It turns out that 90% of chronic diseases are PREVENTABLE.

Ayurveda is a system of healthcare that has been around for thousands of years. It has been preaching what science is now just catching up to proving. Prevention is superior to reactive disease-based healthcare. Diet, sleep and lifestyle are the pillars to perfect health and Ayurveda is the original expert in all of them.