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Hi, I'm Malik Arao. Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday morning. I would say that my

first kind of notions around wellness took shape when I was a kid. My parents were born

and brought up in South India and I was born and brought up in Texas in America. But we

had this kind of like robust Indian community, South Indian community around us and wellness.

You know, it's an ancient kind of area of interest and India has contributed a lot to wellness

culture, to modern wellness culture. So like growing up, it was like we had a preview in a way

of what would happen in America because a lot of the things that happened in my house ended up

becoming very popular in like mainstream wellness culture today. We had turmeric in all of our

meals growing up. Like my dad was very methodical about the spices he would use in cooking.

And so I always had this sense that everything mattered, you know, every little thing that the

foods you eat, the ideas you put inside of yourself mattered in terms of how you felt and behaved

and what constituted who you were in the world. So I was always interested in wellness. I would say

from a very holistic perspective. And then as I became more of an adult, I got way more interested

in like hardcore exercise. I got really into running, I got really into like drinking water,

all the sort of high intensity wellness culture where it's like you're always training for a marathon

or something, even if you're not going to run one. For most of my mid to late 20s, I really embraced

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