According to Ayurveda, people can be broadly classified into three different constitutions which derive from genetics and early environment - Vata, Pitta and Kapha.
Kapha is the classic hypothyroid type, tendency to low energy, depression, slow digestion and susceptible to obesity and metabolic syndrome. But Kapha is also considered to have greater resistance to other diseases, and less problems with skin, hair and bone.
Thoughts on this? Are some differences in metabolism innate? Should we formulate our health goals with respect to our individual physiology rather than aspire to some universal idealized type?
Prakriti and its associations with metabolism, chronic diseases, and genotypes: Possibilities of new born screening and a lifetime of personalized prevention
Kapha is the classic hypothyroid type, tendency to low energy, depression, slow digestion and susceptible to obesity and metabolic syndrome. But Kapha is also considered to have greater resistance to other diseases, and less problems with skin, hair and bone.
Thoughts on this? Are some differences in metabolism innate? Should we formulate our health goals with respect to our individual physiology rather than aspire to some universal idealized type?
Prakriti and its associations with metabolism, chronic diseases, and genotypes: Possibilities of new born screening and a lifetime of personalized prevention
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