Maharishi Ayurveda is a scientific reformulation of the world's most ancient system of health. Maharishi Ayurveda can be understood as prevention-oriented and holistic natural medicine. Translated literally, Ayurveda means the science of life.

There are many factors involved in becoming overweight and the most effective programs for weight management address the full set of issues at its basis. For this reason the multi-modality approach of Maharishi Ayurveda used at the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre at Bad Ems is an ideal match-up to the problems involved in overweight conditions.

Determination of the appropriate weight for your physique

The first issue to address is the realisation that there are different healthy weights and builds for different people. Ayurveda has a deep understanding of body types or psycho-physiological constitutions. By nature different people have different builds, which are described as ectomorph, endomorph and mesomorph physiques. Some people will have heavier builds at a certain height than others. Heavy build individuals are still healthy at weights that would be unhealthy for individuals with a genetically thinner build constitution.

During the initial Ayurvedic consultation we will determine your body type, describe its characteristics when balanced, and better help you understand the weight that is healthy for your height.

There can be many factors creating the overweight condition and it is important to determine which ones are predominant in each individual. We will determine the predominance of the various factors in your individual condition so proper emphasis can be put on the most relevant natural treatments.

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Reducing weight the natural way

From the Ayurvedic point of view weight problems are not just a

matter of eating too much. Being overweight, especially severe obesity, is mainly a problem of the metabolism. This has to be changed in order to have really long lasting effects.

This explains why most weight control approaches fail. The patient reduces weight mainly by reducing their food intake, hoping they thereby are achieving their target quickly. But just eating less alone does not solve the problem. Often even just the opposite is the case. No significant weight reduction takes place and after having completed the fasting regimen, weight is quickly gained again. All metabolic processes usually get weaker while fasting. In most cases of obesity the different metabolic functions have, however, to be strengthened for the nourishing values of the food to be fully assimilated by the different tissues of the body.

Incompletely digested foods create toxins and impurities that are eventually absorbed, travel throughout the physiology and localise in tissues disrupting their function. This process is at the basis of a wide variety of complications in the overweight condition.

We will provide recommendations to you for strengthening digestion including information in the following areas:

- Proper use of spices and cooking oils

- Herbal preparations for improving digestion

- Important differences in diet between breakfast, lunch and dinner

- A simple system to determine a balanced diet

- Digestion enhancing foods

- digetion depressing food

- How to eat for maximum digestion

- Proper food combining to avoid indigestion

- Non-dietary regimens to improve digestive strength

including specific yoga asanas and breathing

techniques

Your weight loss program at our Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre gives you treatments for reducing the major sources of toxin accumulation:

Elimination: You receive recommendations to improve elimination so impurities are removed from the digestive tract before they have a chance to be reabsorbed into circulation.

Metabolism: Dietary and herbal recommendations help the body restore balance to metabolic processes that cleanse the physiology.

Circulation: Dietary, herbal and physical treatments like yoga asanas, massage and heat application are used in Ayurveda to remove blockages and open circulation.