How Eating With the Seasons Boosts Energy & Digestion | ft. Nidhi Pandya HTS w/ DrG #407

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Wellness Loud

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! Visit https://jaspr.co/DRG and use code DRG for $200 OFF for a limited time Sign up for our newsletter! https://drchristiangonzalez.com/newsletter/ Your body already knows how to heal. It's a remembrance of ancient wisdom that animals instinctively understand but we've forgotten. True health transformation happens when we maintain an optimal warm, moist internal environment through conscious food choices, seasonal eating, and emotional regulation. Cold protein smoothies in the morning? They're working against your digestive fire when your body needs warming most. In this transformative episode, Ayurvedic physician Dr. Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya reveals how growing up in a 14 person joint family with an Ayurvedic healer grandfather taught her that health principles are universal laws like gravity that remain constant as long as Earth maintains its rotation. These sage scientists accessed nature's intelligence through meditation, discovering truths that apply across all traditional cultures. Dr. Pandya shares practical approaches: pre workout body oiling (ancient wrestler tradition) that transforms exercise recovery, eating your largest meal at lunch when digestive fire peaks, and seasonal eating that aligns with nature's rhythms. Her 21 day transformation framework from "Your Body Already Knows" offers gentle implementation with self-compassion rather than rigid discipline. The path back to health isn't complex protocols. It's remembering what animals instinctively know about warm, moist, loving care. Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D. Follow Doctor G on Instagram @doctor.gonzalez https://www.instagram.com/doctor.gonzalez/ About Our Guest: Dr. Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya is a certified Ayurvedic Doctor and creator of the Inner Climate Method®. A third-generation practitioner with 15 years of experience, she's the bestselling author of "Your Body Already Knows" and has been featured in Vogue, NBC News, and FOX News. Website: https://nidhi.me Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/my_ayurvedic_life/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 6:01 - The Ancient Origins of Ayurvedic Wisdom 12:22 - How to Eat Seasonally in Modern Life 18:03 - The Three Doshas Explained Simply 26:05 - The Cold Morning Smoothie Problem Revealed 32:11 - Pre-Workout Body Oiling Technique 37:04 - Creating Your Optimal Inner Climate 42:46 - Warm & Moist: The Secret to Perfect Health 50:32 - Your Body Already Knows

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0:24.7	The way we're doing protein these days, like, let me just take the protein out of the protein in this isolate fashion, not give it any support, and in fact, like, dunk it in something really cold, and put some banana into it, and let's add some yogurt, and let's say, if you're not finding anything more heavy, like, let me find the heaviest things that I have in my pantry, and put it all in, and then give it to my system in the morning. And especially for women, this is even more harmful. I can almost tell when I work with a client and I see certain symptoms. And I'm like, oh, what is it? You know, have you been giving into the whole protein over consumption fad? And almost always, that is the case. If you ever felt
0:30.1	sluggish after your morning protein smoothie or wondered why you get brain fog 30 minutes after a cold
0:36.5	breakfast, this episode might change everything. I'm here
0:39.5	with Nidi Panya and Ayurvedic doctor who's going to blow your mind in this episode. Nidi will be talking
0:44.0	about how being in an inner, warm, and moist environment is the optimal climate for your body
0:51.4	healing. It's optimal for digestion, for energy, and even yes, relationships.
0:57.0	And there's certain foods that you're eating at certain times that are disrupting your own
1:02.1	biology. Needy, the Ayurvedic doctor, is going to show us how to work with our natural design
1:07.0	instead of fighting against it. So you can finally enjoy your meals without brain fog,
1:12.7	energy dips, bloating, fatigue, mood swings, all of it. All right, everyone, I am here with
1:18.8	Nidi Panya, Ayurvedic doctor, and this conversation might blow your mind on how we can
1:25.0	completely change our health in 21 days. Yes, that is correct. Yes. Okay, okay. Before we even go into how we're going to start doing this stuff, we got rapid fire questions for you. All right. Bring it on. Bring it on. Yes. Warm water or cold water, first thing in the morning? Warm water always. Your gut is sluggish and you want to warm it up.
1:46.0	You want to fire your day right away.
1:48.0	One Ayurvedic spice that everyone should have in their kitchen.
1:51.0	Dried ginger and every traditional Chinese medicine practitioner will also give you the same.
1:56.0	The best time of day to eat your biggest meal.
1:59.0	Lunch. The sun is high. The plants are photosynthesizing.
2:02.6	As diurnal mammals, how dare we eat any other time our biggest meal?
2:06.3	We cannot digest it.
2:07.3	Okay.
2:08.3	What is one Western health trend that is making you cringe like, oh, no, no, no.
2:15.6	Cold protein shakes in the morning.
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