Intentional Health: Detoxify, Nourish, and Rejuvenate Your Body into Balance

by Chiti Parikh

A nurturing guide to whole-body health that completely integrates traditional Eastern and modern Western healing practices.

By combining a 5,000-year history rooted in time-tested, ancient traditions with cutting-edge science, Dr. Chiti Parikh, executive director of the Integrative Health and Wellbeing Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a clinical professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, provides the steps you can take to bring your body into a lasting state of balance and live a longer life with more energy, less pain, and renewed confidence.

No matter where you are along your health journey, Dr. Chiti will help you achieve balance by letting you in on seven ancient secrets from circadian rhythms to the mind-body connection to digestive fire. With Dr. Chiti's guidance, you too can become intentionally healthy

– Setting a positive health intention and visualizing how you’d like to feel
– Diving into ancient health principles
– Engaging in a 28-day vitality regimen to jump-start your journey to optimal health
– Becoming equipped with the knowledge to identify imbalances as soon as they occur

After all, health is not the mere absence of disease. Health is living a life full of energy and manifesting your true potential, with your body as your best ally.

244 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 9, 2024

Reviews

[Chanel Chapters]

Mostly focuses on TCM & Ayurvedic practices which is up my alley. Language and writing is simple and accessible.

[Kate]

3 5 stars rounded up to 4. I thought this book had some great information and generally helpful health advice. I found the simplification of all issues and eating patterns being based on doshas and your more prominent constitution to be rather oversimplified and not accurate. What I scored higher in doesn't correlate with what foods my body best tolerates and I wouldn't recommend arbitrarily avoiding generally healthy food based on your score. That being said, not every person tolerates every food the same, so I'm very much in favor of eating seasonally and in season foods (which she recommends) and paying attention to how each food affects your body to determine what is best for you specifically to eat. The advice to eat more mindfully, without distractions and consume mainly nourishing, whole foods is superb advice of course too. There were also other healthy practices that are definitley beneficial to add. So overall, despite not agreeing or resonating with every bit of it, I do think it was a good and informative book.

[Anu Vijayan]

I looked up this book after watching an interview with Dr Parikh and the book did not disappoint me. She knows what she is talking about. Even though it is a book that combines research and ancient wisdon from eastern medicine, she does not preach or spend too much time trying to explain. She gives explanations as part of the narrative. She tells you how to do a simplified version of Panchakarma detox that is mentioned in many ayurvedic texts, but modified it to be done at home. She even tells you how to do a shorter and longer version. This has been my major take away from the book. Even though I have read many books on Ayurveda, I could never practice anything because they were a bit complicated for a modern household. Dr Parikh's approch is very doable.

[Swathi Namburi]

This is an excellent book, a must read. It can help anyone at least improve a few small things about their daily habits that can help them live better. It is a powerful work that combines the best of what Eastern and Western medicine can offer in easily understandable terms.

[Barış Kaplan]

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