I went out to lunch yesterday with a coworker - or rather, they lunched and I had tea - and the subject of my fasting came up for the first time. I learned that they are a licensed ayurvedic medicine practitioner, and they expressed concern that fasting was very hard on certain of the dosha's.
Some of you may know what I'm talking about with the term "dosha", but if you don't, a bit of googling will give you all kinds of info. Among other things it categorizes people into body types, but it's a more esoteric take on it than something like blood type.
Now...my feeling has always been that the various ancient health systems potentially have some truth at their core. How much is beyond my ability to say for sure, but I do respect this coworker, so I wanted to ask other fast-5-ers:
What is your predominant dosha? And if you know your dosha, was fasting physically draining on you at first (lightheaded, heart palpitations, weak, etc)?
I'd love to try to get a sense for whether there really are any correlations between dosha's and ease of fasting.
(I'm evidently a classic "Pitta", a type that fasting is supposedly dangerous for. And I did have a heckuva time adapting to fast-5. I still do get lightheaded at times.)
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