Ayurveda Treatment for Metabolic Disorders

Simply put, Metabolic syndrome refers to a grouping of conditions that collectively raise risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and other serious health problems. Metabolic syndrome is also called insulin resistance syndrome. Commonly seen metabolic disorders include diabetes, hypercholesterolemia ,obesity and hypertension. While the causes for metabolic disorders may be partially be attributed to genetic predisposition, environmental factors such as sedentary lifestyle, Obesity, Smoking, alcohol intake also play a great part.

In Ayurveda metabolism is considered the function of Agni or digestive fire corelating to issues with digestion and absorption). In case of metabolic syndromes individual choices and environmental factors such as a sedentary lifestyle, consumption of excessive calories and oily food coupled with a lack of physical activity vitiates the Agni. All of these creates an imbalance of the doshas and leads to improper digestion and symptoms of the disease. Ayurveda provides a holistic and non-invasive alternative to for Metabolic syndrome treatments that combines medication, external therapies with dietary and lifestyle changes leading to sustainable remedy.