By Dr Rakesh Ayureshmi, Ayureshmi Ayurveda Wellness Centre, Kollam, Kerala, India A Sweet Truth We Forgot Every festival season brings a paradox: we pray for well-being, yet overload the body with sugar spikes that fuel inflammation, fatigue, and metabolic stress. Here’s a surprising fact—more than 80% of Indian festive sweets today have 3–5 times the glycemic load of their traditional counterparts. Ayurveda, however, has always offered time-tested sweeteners and formulation

By Dr Rakesh Ayureshmi, Ayureshmi Ayurveda Wellness Centre, Kollam, Kerala, India The Forgotten Life-Saving Knowledge Sitting in Our Bones What if your body carried its own built-in emergency toolkit, waiting to be activated with just the pressure of a fingertip? Ancient Ayurvedic masters believed exactly this. They mapped 107 marma points—vital neurovascular hubs where life-energy (prāṇa), circulation, and neural flow intersect. What is lesser known is that 18 of these marma

By Dr Rakesh Ayureshmi, Ayureshmi Ayurveda Wellness Centre, Kollam, Kerala, India Most people believe aging accelerates after 40. But Ayurveda knew something far more precise: the decline of Ojas — your deepest vitality — begins silently around 35, long before wrinkles or fatigue appear. Modern biology confirms this, showing measurable drops in mitochondrial efficiency, hormonal robustness, and cellular repair capacity starting in the mid-30s. So the question is not “Why am I

By Dr Rakesh Ayureshmi, Ayureshmi Ayurveda Wellness Centre, Kollam, Kerala, India The Hidden Stress Switch No One Talks About What if the most powerful antidote to stress isn’t a pill, but a fingertip? Modern stress is no longer just an emotional burden—it is a neuro-endocrine overload. Anxiety, burnout, and chronic inflammation now function like pandemics of the nervous system. Yet Ayurveda mapped stress pathways thousands of years ago through marma points—micro-intelligence