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Jayarajan Kodikannath

Jayarajan Kodikannath

CEO and Academy Director of Kerala Ayurveda USA; author of "The Parent's Complete Guide to Ayurveda" and classically trained Ayurvedic physician with 25+ years of clinical experience specializing in Ayurvedic pediatrics.

Jul 16, 2026

7:54
Speaking of those gaps, what do you feel like would be important for coaches to know about Ayurveda or to be aware of what Ayurveda has to offer?
8:04
Wonderful.
8:05
See, let's first understand what are the gaps in modern health care systems.
8:11
It's more than a health care.
8:12
It's more of a sickness care system.
8:14
health and disease are the two sides of the same coin right whenever the structural functional mental emotional processes are happening in a balanced way that is health any deviation from that is called sickness more sugar is a problem in the blood less sugar is a problem more pressure is a problem less pressure is a problem so how to maintain that harmony the issue is that More, the modern healthcare is to address when you are sick.
8:45
That is primary focus.

18 MINS LATER

26:19
Would you like to share more in how Ayurveda is relevant to all of it?
20:19
Mm-hmm.
20:19
So that's why Ayurveda gives a lot of importance to the digestion.
20:23
So when parents comes with a kid and they will say that, "My kid, uh, kid is not, you know, gaining weight.
20:30
My pediatrician told sometime I will have to put a tube to, to give the food through the ...
20:37
Because you need to increase calories, et cetera," and they are devastated.
20:42
We're putting a tube to feed my...
20:45
So I always tell them, it's all about the ability of your kid to eat-

8 MINS LATER

28:57
Mm-hmm.

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