Optimal health comes from balanced og me and og me is just our digestive fire. It is our ability to digest and its function is directly correlated to the food that we eat as well as how and when we eat, which we discussed earlier in this course, our strength, health in life depend on our army. When I work with private clients, one of the first things we look at is their aadmi, their digestive higher. So, how many times a day they are having a ball movement and what that bowel movement looks like. Ideally, to have a sama aadmi or balanced aadmi. We should be having one to two bowel movements a day and that bowel movement should look like a ripe banana to achieve some aadmi or that balanced digestive fire we need to be eating a balanced diet That includes all six Rozes or all six tapes.

And in addition to these six tastes, other lifestyle choices, each dough show or body Constitution requires a particular diet. So the food required for each diet is based off of the elements each dosha hold. For example, if your body type tends to accumulate the element of air so you're more Vata dominant, you experience more bloating, gas and perhaps anxiety, you will want to avoid foods that also contain that element and consume foods that are heavier and more grounding in nature. Now keep in mind before we start talking about the Rozes and eating for each genosha that eating for just one particular doses not always going to work as we are all a combination of the three doses. Keeping a food journal and being truthful to yourself is your best option when discerning which foods are best for you. Foods and spices can also be medicine.

If you're looking to use diet to help with a particular ailment meeting with an ru Vedic counsellor or practitioner is your best op option for navigating the disease. Now the six case, the first case we're going to talk about is sweet and sweet helps to build the tissues in the body and increase strength. It nourishes the body in the senses, it improves circulation, and can strengthen the heart act as a mild laxative. Relief thirst and heartburn is cooling. And it's cooling bringing contentment and satisfaction to the mind and the body. Some examples of sweets in food it's not just sugar and sugar.

Chocolate but we can see it in wheat and rice, bananas, dates, maple syrup and mangoes, coconuts and beets. Sour. Sour is more hot and potency but cold to touch. It stimulates acidic secretions that Kindles our hunger helps digestion and can help reduce gas increase circulation. It works as an anticoagulant and it sharpens the senses. Some examples of sour foods are lemon, tomato, vinegar, pickled foods and fermented foods.

Salty, salty is penetrating and hot and potency which helps to strengthen Omni or our digestion and maintains electrolyte balance in the body. It acts as a laxative sedative, and it can help reduce stiffness and help to remove blockages within the body. It is calming to the nerves and reduces the side effects of different nervous disorders. Some examples of salty foods would be just salt in general, seafood, any type of seafood or sea vegetables, pungent, pungent improves our metabolism helps digestion and absorption. It reduces congestion, improve circulation, relieves pain and muscle tension. raises body temperature promotes sweating dispels gas and cleanses cleanses the blood and skin.

Some examples of pungent are ginger, garlic, onions and mustard. A stringent or stringent constricts the blood vessels lowers heart rate can help stop bleeding promotes healing As an anti diuretic, antibiotic and holds antibacterial properties, some examples of astringent foods are unripe bananas, green grapes, and cranberries. bitter, bitter reduces toxins within the body it promotes our ability to sense the other tastes. It Kindles hunger and is also good for digestion. It purifies our blood detoxifies the body acts as an antibiotic and antiseptic. It absorbs excess fat, oiliness fluids, it opens up channels, reduces body temperature and sharpens the mind.

It is also a well known liver tonic. Some examples of bitter foods are turmeric, raw leafy greens and coffee Now looking at each of Ru, Vedic body types or doshas, looking at their elements, those element qualities, along with the six taste or Roz's, we can start to get a better idea of what each of these body types need to maintain optimal health to cultivate balance. Looking at the Vata dosha, generally speaking, when we eat to balance Vata, which is the elements of air and space, we want to favor foods that are more warm in nature. So that might mean just cooking those foods, but also foods that have more of this warm, just quality to them. For example, cinnamon is very warming in nature. And we want to avoid cold as Air and Space hold the qualities of cold mobile Light and dry.

Which brings us to the food quality. We want to favor foods are bought to wants to favor foods that are moist, oily, grounding, nourishing and smooth and avoid foods that are more dry, rough and light in nature. The case that vato wants to favor our sweet, sour and salty again because these tastes are going to hold those qualities of moist, oily grounding, nourishing and smooth. Brought to wants to avoid pungent, bitter and astringent foods. The pizza dough chef pizza is firing water. Pizza wants to favor foods that are more cooling in nurture and avoid foods that are more warm or hot in nature.

Pizza wants to favor foods that are more dry, dense, mild grounding and nourishing, and as those will balance the qualities of pizza, which are more light, oily, hot and sharp. And then of course those are the qualities pizza wants to avoid. The taste pizza wants to favor our sweet, bitter and astringent and then Pitzer wants to avoid sour, salty and pungent. And lastly, the coffee kosha. Casa wants to favor foods that are more warm in nature and avoid foods that are more cool or cold. Coffee wants to favor foods that are light dry and rough and avoid foods that are more oily and smooth and heavy.

Coffee should favor the taste bitter, pungent and astringent and avoid the taste of sweet, sour and salty.