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All right, everybody, today we've got a listener-based question. Yes, we could have used it for our

weekend Cabral House Calls, but actually, I wanted to dedicate a show on it since so many people

over the years have written in. They've asked, I have thick

ankles. Is there anything I can do about them? So I want to break that down here today, talk about it

in terms of Ayurvedic-based medicine, but also modern-day science and what it actually means.

So there's two parts to this. One is the

genotype and the second is the phenotype. We can change the phenotype. We can't necessarily

change the genotype. The genotype is the structure of the bones in our body and the mass of the lower

legs. We call it more of the endomorphic body type or an

Ayurveda. They called it the kaffa body type. And typically in the kaffa body type, there were

thicker wrists and thicker ankles. Not for every kaffa body type because no one's typically

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