And that, according to Larissa Hall Carlson, an expert in Ayurveda—the five-thousand-year-old Indian medicinal practice—is because what you put in your body is only half the story. “In Ayurveda, the mindfulness of eating is more important than what we eat,” she says. “Changing the way people approach food really affects gas, bloating, and indigestion.” As a teacher at the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, Carlson spends her days opening her students’ eyes to the principle that how you eat matters. Here Carlson tears a page of out of her Kripalu text book and schools us in the nine helpful Ayurvedic tips for great digestion…
