Speaker 1: Hey fam, Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2: Today on the bright Side, it's a Wellness Wednesday, and
Speaker 2: we're tapping into a three thousand year old holistic approach
Speaker 2: to finding harmony and balance with your mind, body, and spirit.
Speaker 2: We're talking about are Euveda today with dietitian, plant based
Speaker 2: cook and New York Times best selling author Roddy Devlukia.
Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, October sixteenth. I'm Danielle Robe.
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Speaker 3: Today's Wellness Wednesday is presented by Coliguard.
Speaker 2: So today we're diving into the world of Ariuveda with
Speaker 2: Roddy dev Lukia. She's a clinical dietitian, a podcast host,
Speaker 2: and the author of the New York Times best selling
Speaker 2: cookbook Joyful. I also personally love her social media. She's
Speaker 2: a happy person to follow, and she has a degree
Speaker 2: at are Euveda Health Counseling from the California Call of
Speaker 2: Our Youveda. So Today's she's here to share how we
Speaker 2: can apply our Euveda principles to our everyday lives.
Speaker 1: Especially when it comes to our diets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this conversation with Roddy has us wondering what if
Speaker 3: the key to our well being lies not in our
Speaker 3: latest microtrend, airwon smoothie or infrared device, but what if
Speaker 3: it lies in the ancient wisdom of Ayrveda, a holistic
Speaker 3: approach to health and wellness that began in India more
Speaker 3: than three thousand years ago. It's based on the idea
Speaker 3: that each person has certain life forces or doshas, and
Speaker 3: that everything, every element in the universe is connected. So
Speaker 3: that means an imbalance in one area can affect another,
Speaker 3: and when the imbalance goes unchecked, disease and illness can arise.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 2: It's basic practices are designed to promote harmony within nature
Speaker 2: and prevent illness in our bodies. So in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: what does that mean? Ayrveda taps into seasonal foods and recipes.
Speaker 2: It speaks to the importance of eating and the time
Speaker 2: of day and the healing power of the spices that
Speaker 2: we add to our foods.
Speaker 3: Well, let's get spicy with Roddy dev Lukia. Welcome to
Speaker 3: the bright side.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be on.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Well, we're really excited to dive into our Euvedic nutrition
Speaker 2: and the benefits of an r Euvedic lifestyle. So to
Speaker 2: kick things off, if nobody's ever heard of that term,
Speaker 2: can you define our euveda?
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, So ira means life or longevity and
Speaker 4: veda means knowledge and so essentially it's the essence and
Speaker 4: all the knowledge that you need to just live a vibrant, abundant,
Speaker 4: beautiful life. It originates in India, but it's something that
Speaker 4: is all the principles are just relevant to every single human,
Speaker 4: like it's not specific to culture or type of person,
Speaker 4: and it's just a universal health language that is really magical.
Speaker 1: What do you think are the guiding principles of our Juveder?
Speaker 4: The one thing I absolutely fell in love with when
Speaker 4: I first started studying Iveda was that every single person
Speaker 4: is unique. And I think that is one of the
Speaker 4: key principles. That it's not one size fits all. What
Speaker 4: you will eat will be different to what I eat,
Speaker 4: What will nourish you will be different to what nourishes me.
Speaker 4: And in Western culture that's not true. Whereas the advice
Speaker 4: that's given in I reda. Not only is it specific
Speaker 4: to the person, it's actually helping you to understand your
Speaker 4: body better. And so I say, the second principle that
Speaker 4: I love about Irada is that you have to know
Speaker 4: your body like it's not you go to somebody and
Speaker 4: they will tell you how to fix yourself. Irata teaches
Speaker 4: you how to look at the science the symptoms of
Speaker 4: your own body and help you understand every part of you,
Speaker 4: from your hair, your skin, to your digestion to your mood.
Speaker 4: And I say, the third one at the top of
Speaker 4: my head is it's not just about what you're eating
Speaker 4: or what you're thinking, it's every single thing. Irather incorporates
Speaker 4: every single part of life, every single thing that comes
Speaker 4: into your sens is like what you're hearing, what you're seeing,
Speaker 4: what you're touching, who you're around, the energy that you feel.
Speaker 4: It's not just one thing that will fix everything. It's like,
Speaker 4: how can I change my internal and external environment to
Speaker 4: really create optimal health.
Speaker 3: When did you first start studying and living in aervedic lifestyle.
Speaker 4: So, I actually grew up in an Indian house, and
Speaker 4: so you know, I was born into a vegetarian family.
Speaker 4: I don't even know my grandma, my great grandma, her grandma.
Speaker 4: Everyone's been vegetarian as far as I know. There was
Speaker 4: also about an energetic composition of what we're eating and
Speaker 4: how it affects our body. Or if I was unwell
Speaker 4: or if I got cut on my leg, my mom
Speaker 4: would like make up a teamwic paste and like stick
Speaker 4: it on my leg instead of putting on a plaster.
Speaker 4: And so, you know, I didn't realize it was iraveda
Speaker 4: at the time. It wasn't a you know, a term
Speaker 4: that I grew up hearing about. When I was in
Speaker 4: New York, so I would have been five, six, seven
Speaker 4: years ago. I just was feeling quite lost about what
Speaker 4: I wanted to do in my life. I studied nutrition
Speaker 4: to be a dietitian in the UK, but when I
Speaker 4: got to New York, I actual couldn't use any of
Speaker 4: that because I was on a spouse visa and so
Speaker 4: I was like, what can I do? And so there
Speaker 4: was a yoga teacher training, so I did that, and
Speaker 4: then I met this iravadic teacher called Divia. She has
Speaker 4: a restaurant in New York called Divia's Kit. It's a
Speaker 4: full irratic restaurant. It's amazing, and she was teaching irateic
Speaker 4: principles irdy cooking, and I was like, I have nothing
Speaker 4: to do with my life. Can I just follow you
Speaker 4: around and just learn whatever and be your sidekick? So
Speaker 4: I actually am such a biginners still an iveda like
Speaker 4: I did my irabated Health Council degree with California College
Speaker 4: of Aravada, But I would say I learned the basics
Speaker 4: that you could possibly learn about Aravada, and I feel
Speaker 4: like I've just skimmed the surface.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's ancient, so the philosophy goes just so deep.
Speaker 2: What do you think are the wellness benefits that we
Speaker 2: can gain from following in our euveadic lifestyle.
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot more presence in your life.
Speaker 4: Like for me, when I started learning about how I
Speaker 4: can tune back into my body, you become more present
Speaker 4: in every moment, and so it really teaches you not
Speaker 4: just presence with other people, but presence with your own body,
Speaker 4: whether it is through your mindfulness practices in the morning,
Speaker 4: whether it's through eating something and noticing the different feelings
Speaker 4: that you should have. Is just making my body feel heated?
Speaker 4: Is it feeling cooling? Is it feeling heavy, is it
Speaker 4: feeling light? Like really tuning into what am I doing
Speaker 4: and how is it affecting my body, even if you're
Speaker 4: doing it for nothing else except for being present in
Speaker 4: your body and tuning back into it. I think that's
Speaker 4: an incredible health benefit because I know so many people
Speaker 4: and me included, I was I could go through life
Speaker 4: where I wasn't noticing aches and pains, I wasn't noticing
Speaker 4: why I was getting skinishues, I wasn't noticing why my
Speaker 4: hair was falling out, and I was just like, Oh,
Speaker 4: it's just vitamin Let me just add more vitamins into
Speaker 4: my life, let me add this. And obviously sometimes it
Speaker 4: is that, but there's also so many other elements. So
Speaker 4: definitely presence in your body and then being able to
Speaker 4: curate your entire environment around you. So, for example, me
Speaker 4: and my husband have completely different body types. And that's
Speaker 4: really how Aravada distinguishes between people. It's a unique composition
Speaker 4: of elements in your body. So the elements earth, water, fire, air,
Speaker 4: and ether, and so it says in Aravader that we
Speaker 4: are all a composition. We have all of them in us,
Speaker 4: but all in different quantities. Not one person has the
Speaker 4: same makeup as another. So now I know, when I'm
Speaker 4: cooking for myself, I can cook the same meal, but
Speaker 4: I have to use different spices for both of us.
Speaker 4: I have to use a different amount of truly for
Speaker 4: both of us depending on the weather. I need to
Speaker 4: include the different types of oils or spices depending on
Speaker 4: when I'm cooking, whether it's winter, summer. Awesome, and so
Speaker 4: it allows you to be more specific to the smaller
Speaker 4: changes in your body.
Speaker 3: We've got to take a quick break, but we'll be
Speaker 3: right back with Roddy dev Lukia and we're back to
Speaker 3: Wellness Wednesday with Roddy dev Lukia. I'd love to get
Speaker 3: more specific with you about food and how broader aervevic
Speaker 3: principles show up in the ways that we eat, because
Speaker 3: you're also a clinical dietician and nutritionists.
Speaker 4: As you mentioned, I studied that when I was at
Speaker 4: university and it was amazing because I got to learn
Speaker 4: the body from a Western perspective, and that was really useful.
Speaker 4: You know, I worked in a hospital for a couple
Speaker 4: of years when I was using the things that I've
Speaker 4: learned there, but I always felt like something was like
Speaker 4: somewhat missing because I wasn't the biggest fan of how
Speaker 4: there was just a framework that you have to follow
Speaker 4: for every single person, even if it didn't make sense
Speaker 4: to each individual. But in terms of food, we go
Speaker 4: just live in nature. We are part of it, and
Speaker 4: I think that's something that we often forget, where when
Speaker 4: the seasons are changing outside of us, we also need
Speaker 4: to change what we're putting inside our body. And so
Speaker 4: one simple thing is eating seasonally. That is an irate
Speaker 4: principle too, to make sure that we're eating food that
Speaker 4: has grown in the soil that we are living on.
Speaker 4: And so farmers markets like going and getting the fresh
Speaker 4: bodies from the places that you are living in rather
Speaker 4: than a lot of the times now in stores you
Speaker 4: can get anything and everything from all around the world,
Speaker 4: which is great, but it really does kind of disrupt
Speaker 4: our own internal environment by doing that. So definitely eating
Speaker 4: seasonally and then spices are a huge part of irata.
Speaker 4: There's one blend which is like the Queen of blends
Speaker 4: and iradors called CCF coriander, humen and funnel seeds, and
Speaker 4: you can grind them up, use them in your curries
Speaker 4: and lentils and whatever you're making. Each spice has different properties,
Speaker 4: but overall they help to stimulate your digestion. But also
Speaker 4: they do so many things energy focus and it's definitely
Speaker 4: my first line whenever I'm feeling under the weather.
Speaker 2: So one thing that jumps out to me immediately is
Speaker 2: that you say that different foods have different flow states
Speaker 2: and energies. I've actually never heard of that in terms
Speaker 2: of food. What is a flow state? In regards to food, every.
Speaker 4: Single thing has a specific energy state. There's three different kinds.
Speaker 4: We call them the modes of nature. And so there
Speaker 4: is satvik which is mode of goodness, rightstick which is
Speaker 4: a mode of passion, and thumbsick, which is mode of ignorance.
Speaker 4: And so these three modes, everything can fit into that,
Speaker 4: whether it's music you're listening to, the foods that you're
Speaker 4: eat saying, they all create a specific energy inside of us.
Speaker 4: Even if you think about if you're listening to aggressive music,
Speaker 4: that would be considered mode of ignorance, and how do
Speaker 4: you feel. You feel angry, you feel agitated, And in
Speaker 4: the same way, if you're listening to to their meditative music,
Speaker 4: it's in the mode of goodness. It makes you feel
Speaker 4: elevated and uplifted. So let's apply that to then food
Speaker 4: mode of goodness. Foods are the foods with the most
Speaker 4: amount of prana. Parana means vitality, what brings the most
Speaker 4: amount of vitality nutrients into your body. Imagine the freshest
Speaker 4: fruit that's picked from a trade, that has the most
Speaker 4: amount of vitality from it. It's in its most purest form.
Speaker 4: That's everything from fresh fruits, virtuals. Everything that you know
Speaker 4: is good for you essentially is in the mode of
Speaker 4: goodness mode of ignorance. Foods, those would be the foods
Speaker 4: that essentially make you feel heavy energetically in your mind
Speaker 4: and your body. So that would be things like anything
Speaker 4: that doesn't have life left in it. They make you
Speaker 4: feel heavy, lithagic, They make you feel foggy, and your
Speaker 4: digestion feels unstable when you eat them, whether it's process
Speaker 4: things that have stayed in the can for too long,
Speaker 4: deep fried foods where all the nutrients have been taken
Speaker 4: out of it, something that's stale, leftovers in your fridge
Speaker 4: for too long. And then in iromid, it also considers
Speaker 4: most meat or anything that is animal derived in that
Speaker 4: way in the mode of ignorance, purely because there is
Speaker 4: no life left in that and the mode of passion
Speaker 4: foods are the ones that are in the middle that
Speaker 4: don't necessarily harm you, but they do stimulate you and
Speaker 4: maybe make you a bit too like on edge. So
Speaker 4: that's things like caffeine. If you eat a lot of
Speaker 4: spicy foods, and by spice, I mean like chili spice,
Speaker 4: then having too much spice can cause inflammation in the body.
Speaker 4: And so funnily enough, onion and garlic, which are obviously
Speaker 4: very commonly used, they sit in the mode of passion
Speaker 4: category because they actually cause a lot of blood flow
Speaker 4: in the body. They also stimulate, can cause inflammation when
Speaker 4: eaten in excess, and they recommend that when you're practicing meditation,
Speaker 4: it's recommended not to have a diet with onion and
Speaker 4: garlic in it because it also agucates the mind. When
Speaker 4: I learn this, like ten years ago, I stopped cooking
Speaker 4: with onion garlic. Searchingly, my cookbook actually has no onion
Speaker 4: garlic in it. People don't really know that, but all
Speaker 4: the recipes are onion garlic free. If you think about
Speaker 4: anything in life, like garlic and onion have incredible medicinal properties.
Speaker 4: Back in the day, they were used as medicine. They
Speaker 4: have so much potency. The problem is, just like with
Speaker 4: night shades, like with tomatoes and pepper, you end up
Speaker 4: making it the base of everything, and then instead of
Speaker 4: having the positive effect, it end up having a negative effect.
Speaker 4: So tomatoes are actually fine in small quantities, but now
Speaker 4: it's the base of everything that's what's causing most people's
Speaker 4: acid reflux inflammation in the body. Whenever anybody has any
Speaker 4: kind of IBS symptoms. Even as a dietician, one of
Speaker 4: the first line things was take out anything which is
Speaker 4: in the food maps, which is onion, garlic, tomatoes, and
Speaker 4: so there's so many things that actually are wonderful and
Speaker 4: smaller quantities, but we just end up having excess of
Speaker 4: them and then they cause irritation to the girl.
Speaker 3: This reminds me of a book I was gifted after
Speaker 3: I gave birth called The First Forty Days. It's a
Speaker 3: postpartum recipe book and guide for new moms based on
Speaker 3: the teachings of Chinese medicine, and it suggests that warm
Speaker 3: foods are really what the womb needs in order to heal.
Speaker 3: What do iervedic principles say about digestion healing and the
Speaker 3: temperature of our foods.
Speaker 4: When you're eating the warmed foods versus raw foods. If
Speaker 4: you think about it, it's more that raw foods if
Speaker 4: your digestion is already weak, which, by the way, when
Speaker 4: you've given birth, usually your body's gone into almost like
Speaker 4: a shock mode. Everything is a little bit weaker. Your
Speaker 4: body's focusing on healing. Your gut is already trying to
Speaker 4: heal itself, and so raw foods actually are much more
Speaker 4: difficult to digest for your gut than cooked foods. It's
Speaker 4: essentially thinking you've done a bit of the digestion outside
Speaker 4: of your body, and you're bringing foods and your body
Speaker 4: has to do way less work. And so one of
Speaker 4: the things I Rada recommends if you do find that
Speaker 4: you're getting ill a lot or you've got gut issues,
Speaker 4: is do a cleans of kitchery. Kitcheny is like rice, lentils, veggies,
Speaker 4: all cooked down really well with spices, and essentially says
Speaker 4: when you have a mono dyet where you're just eating
Speaker 4: the same thing for three days in a row, it's
Speaker 4: actually almost sometimes better than a fasting diet because you're
Speaker 4: giving your gut the ability to exercise and to be
Speaker 4: able to use the muscles, but at the same time,
Speaker 4: you're allowing your gut to rest because it's not time
Speaker 4: to do as much work because everything is already cooked down.
Speaker 4: And then the spices are enhancing the digestion.
Speaker 1: Right now, are you?
Speaker 2: Veda teachers that when we eat is just as important
Speaker 2: as what we eat. So in the practice, the day
Speaker 2: is broken down into four hour periods. I'd love to
Speaker 2: go through those togethers starting in the morning.
Speaker 4: It's three phases really, but they duplicate around the clock.
Speaker 4: So viveta is two am to six am. Idia. You're
Speaker 4: not eating during that period. It's governed by air and ether.
Speaker 4: That's the creative zone, so that's when you're getting the
Speaker 4: most amount of dreams. It's also the time that they
Speaker 4: say you feel the most connects to God, and so
Speaker 4: what they recommend is waking up in this time period
Speaker 4: is when your sleeper is usually at its lightest and
Speaker 4: having your meditation start from like five am. Like I
Speaker 4: normally wait cup around five five thirty, and my meditation
Speaker 4: practice is so different during that time than it is
Speaker 4: if I did it at nine ten am or during
Speaker 4: the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the distractions just increase, I think as the day goes.
Speaker 4: On exactly six to ten in the morning, it's tougher,
Speaker 4: which is why they say that you should try and
Speaker 4: wake up before the sun rises, because as soon as
Speaker 4: the sun rises, which is the six am to ten am,
Speaker 4: your mind starts to become active. And so really using
Speaker 4: that period to do your energetic work, which is getting
Speaker 4: your workout and going for a walk. Your body's already
Speaker 4: stimulated because as soon as the sun comes out, you
Speaker 4: still the sun's energy is go, go, go. And then
Speaker 4: the pita time, so pitter is ten am to two pm.
Speaker 4: Pitter is governed by fire. Now, fire, if you think
Speaker 4: about it, is when you have the most amount of energy.
Speaker 4: So when the sun is at its highest, it's when
Speaker 4: your digestion is its strongest. So I radly recommends having
Speaker 4: your largest meal, heaviest carbohydrate load like all of that
Speaker 4: in the afternoon, and then at night you have a
Speaker 4: light and meal before you sleep. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 4: you've seen so many studies about eating three hours before
Speaker 4: you sleep, making sure that your gut is able to
Speaker 4: rest when you're sleeping, Otherwise you're not really sleeping, like
Speaker 4: you're not really resting if your guts still working. So
Speaker 4: the six pm to ten pm zone. Six pm to
Speaker 4: ten pm is essentially kafer is governed by earth and water.
Speaker 4: It's heavy stagnant energy. That is when your body actually
Speaker 4: wants to sleep. That's essentially the cycle, and then it
Speaker 4: repeats through the day again where those energies keep continue
Speaker 4: going around. The next window, which is the ten to
Speaker 4: two am, which is the pit of time, which is energetic.
Speaker 4: That's really the time period that our body needs to
Speaker 4: do all the processing at night. It also is the
Speaker 4: time that we process our thoughts, our feelings, our memories.
Speaker 4: And I think there's been so many studies to show
Speaker 4: it makes such a difference not just how long you sleep,
Speaker 4: it's what time you're sleeping, and so does essentially the cycle,
Speaker 4: and then it repeats through the day again where those
Speaker 4: energies keep continue going around.
Speaker 2: We have to take a short break, but we'll be
Speaker 2: right back to wellness Wednesday with Rady Devlukia.
Speaker 1: And we're back with Rady dev Lukia.
Speaker 3: What's the perfect Irvevik snack? And maybe there's one based
Speaker 3: off of a favorite recipe of yours from the book.
Speaker 4: So Irate is not really a snacking lifestyle. It's recommended
Speaker 4: you should have at least three hours between your meals.
Speaker 4: It says that allowing your body to fully digest one
Speaker 4: meal before you add something else on. And it refers
Speaker 4: to as almost like a pressure cooker or a rice cooker.
Speaker 4: So imagine rice cooker where you're cooking rice and it's
Speaker 4: been cooking for fifteen minutes and then you add in
Speaker 4: some raw rice just as that's finishing, and then you
Speaker 4: have to keep it in for list for longer. But
Speaker 4: it says if you are going to have it, then
Speaker 4: try something like food or something a bit like to
Speaker 4: or in between. So one of my favorite ones, stewed apples,
Speaker 4: is meant to be one of the best things that
Speaker 4: you can have, especially in the morning to stoke your digestion,
Speaker 4: but I love having it throughout the day as well.
Speaker 4: You stew the apples, you literally put some water in,
Speaker 4: adding some spices like cinnamon or nutmeg, and you boil
Speaker 4: down these apples in the water and it just becomes
Speaker 4: this delicious like it's one is so yummy, and two
Speaker 4: it helps with your digestion. The spice is also ignite
Speaker 4: your digestion in that way. That's definitely a go to.
Speaker 4: I normally adding like a bit of nut butter on
Speaker 4: top and either like that. It's so good, especially when
Speaker 4: we're getting into autumn and winter. It's a great one.
Speaker 1: Sounds so yummy.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's so good.
Speaker 1: You're making me hungry, rady, it's so good.
Speaker 4: It's so good.
Speaker 1: As we're coming in to fall.
Speaker 2: What vegetables should we be looking out for to be
Speaker 2: cooking with and eating?
Speaker 4: All the orange bed just the pumpkin, the squashes, alsos
Speaker 4: zuchinias in season. Everything that you see at your farmer's
Speaker 4: market is basically, oh, the leafy greens, kale, spinach, charred,
Speaker 4: a lot of root vegetables. They're all in season at
Speaker 4: the moment. Pomegranate is in season during this autumn as well.
Speaker 4: All the foods that you know you want to, like,
Speaker 4: have a stew with a curry, you want to bake
Speaker 4: in the oven. I personally think it's the food that
Speaker 4: you end up going towards during the season. Anyway, I'd
Speaker 4: say it's the season that's the most the easiest to
Speaker 4: you want that comfort.
Speaker 3: I'm so embarrassed to admit, Roddy that I just a
Speaker 3: few years ago discovered that spices expire. I thought they
Speaker 3: lasted like decades.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, here's the tip. The best thing is to
Speaker 4: buy spices whole. So what happens with spices are that
Speaker 4: as soon as they are ground from their whole form,
Speaker 4: they start to lose nutritional value, they start to lose
Speaker 4: their smell, the potency of their flavor, and so ideally
Speaker 4: buying spices whole as much as possible and then grinding
Speaker 4: them fred There is such a difference between like, if
Speaker 4: you get cardamom pods and you grind them up, can
Speaker 4: you smell that versus cardonom that's been ground already. H
Speaker 4: It's just a completely different experience, and so in the
Speaker 4: same way, even you may smell it, but it's also
Speaker 4: the nutritional value of it and the strength of the
Speaker 4: flavor of it completely changes. So I think they really expire,
Speaker 4: but they just become gross all for a while.
Speaker 3: Rady.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite things about your cookbook is that
Speaker 2: you say you're supposed to eat dessert first.
Speaker 4: I know, I love that one too. I might have
Speaker 4: just written that for myself, but so it was a
Speaker 4: funny one that I ed didn't because I loved when
Speaker 4: I learned about that, and I made it. The actual
Speaker 4: science behind it is just that when you end up
Speaker 4: eating sugar, your body prioritizes digesting sugar before anything else.
Speaker 4: And so it says, if you end up eating your
Speaker 4: meal and then you end up eating sugar, it will
Speaker 4: basically avoid digesting the main food that you've eaten with
Speaker 4: the nutrients, and it will start to digest the sugar first.
Speaker 4: And so it's saying, okay, instead of doing that, have
Speaker 4: your sweet thing fast so it's digested and done.
Speaker 1: I love this rule.
Speaker 3: I feel so seen because when I sit down at
Speaker 3: a restaurant, I asked to see the dessert menu first.
Speaker 3: That way I can start planning for the meal after, for.
Speaker 4: The dessert after, so now I can just order it first.
Speaker 3: Exactly. Radie, I feel like you talked about this little bit,
Speaker 3: but I'm so curious. How do you think all of
Speaker 3: these learnings have changed your life?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I'm like, every single way, I don't,
Speaker 4: I honestly always say this. I'm like, I wonder who
Speaker 4: I would have been if I didn't learn about Iraader.
Speaker 4: And what I've learned is discipline and control are not restricting.
Speaker 4: And I think that's what Irader has taught me the most.
Speaker 4: That when I have discipline, and I have control in
Speaker 4: my everyday lifestyle, whether it is what I'm doing from
Speaker 4: morning to evening, whether whether it's the food that I'm eating.
Speaker 4: It's taught me how to be more in control of
Speaker 4: my senses, and that for me has been the biggest
Speaker 4: game changer, whether it is in my senses of like
Speaker 4: being a bit too feisty and saying things that I
Speaker 4: don't mean, whether it is eating things just out of
Speaker 4: the worst thing is when you feel like something else
Speaker 4: controls you, and I think, whether that's food, whether that
Speaker 4: is your mindset, whether that is the worlds that are
Speaker 4: coming out of your mouth. It's really taught me how
Speaker 4: to have sensory control. And I think when I started
Speaker 4: transitioning into this and be like, oh, why do you like,
Speaker 4: don't you want to stay out later? And don't you
Speaker 4: want to eat this and eat this and do this?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I honestly don't because I know how
Speaker 4: it's going to make me feel. And so tuning back
Speaker 4: into my body has allowed me to feel freedom through discipline,
Speaker 4: and that's something that I would never want to give
Speaker 4: up because I remember a life where I wasn't like that,
Speaker 4: and it was just like everything would pull me from
Speaker 4: one side to another. There was no regulation, there was
Speaker 4: no ability to stay in control. I've been in better
Speaker 4: health year after year, and that's only testament to all
Speaker 4: the information that I've been absorbing through our vada.
Speaker 3: I think what you're getting at is the concept of
Speaker 3: delayed gratification too, which is a really underrated principle in
Speaker 3: our society.
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly. Not everything has to be right here, right now,
Speaker 4: and just because it's in front of you doesn't mean
Speaker 4: you have to have it.
Speaker 2: Roddy, thank you for joining us today and helping us learn.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you so much. You guys are amazing.
Speaker 3: Roddy dev Lukiya is a plant based cook and author
Speaker 3: of the New York Times best selling cookbook Joyful. You
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