#016 - Linda Prout: Traditional Chinese Medicine From A Western Perspective, Learn Your Constitution, Balance Your Body, Food Qualities and Properties...

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

Melanie Avalon

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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0:00.0	I just realized I have to look somewhere else. I'm obviously not going to find the answers that I was looking for in a traditional Western education.
0:08.0	This is just the Western way of explaining what they've always known in Eastern medicine.
0:13.0	Life is so filled with challenges, ways to become out of balance.
0:17.0	Foods have qualities or properties.
0:20.0	A person with the heat pattern might be overeating meats. They're qualities or properties. A person with the heat pattern might be
0:22.1	overeating meats. They're having too much. A person with a cold pattern might need more of those
0:27.6	foods to kind of warm up. Balance person feels good. They're accomplishing their goals. Welcome to the
0:33.8	Melanie Avalon biohacking podcast, where we meet the world's top experts to explore the secrets of health, mindset, longevity, and so much more.
0:44.7	Are you ready to take charge of your existence and biohack your life?
0:49.1	This show is for you.
0:50.9	Please keep in mind, we're not dispensing medical advice and are not responsible for any
0:55.9	outcomes you may experience from implementing the tactics lying here in. Are you ready? Let's do this.
1:05.8	Welcome back to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking podcast. Today's episode has been so long coming. Super excited to
1:15.1	bring it to you guys. It's with Linda Prout who wrote a book which honestly changed my life.
1:21.4	I personally have been fascinated with traditional Chinese medicine for quite a while, particularly
1:26.7	because of its whole body perspective
1:28.7	and view of health and diet. I find it just so comprehensive and so different from Western
1:34.8	medicine that we have today. And what I love about Linda is she makes TCM so accessible, so
1:40.3	understandable, and she really bridges the gap between Eastern and Western medicine in her book
1:45.8	Live in the Balance, which I loved so much, guys, so much that I've actually been recording
1:51.6	the audiobook for it. And when this podcast comes out, it should be live on Audible. The link to it
1:57.6	will be in the show notes. If it's not up yet, it will be very, very soon.
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