Episode 372: Radhi Devlukia: Healing The Body with Spices and Why You Need An Individualized Approach to Health

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There's so many health benefits to all of these spices.

Well, growing up Indian, I had a bit of a benefit or advantage because spices were just part of our DNA and our tradition.

Every single day would be food would be filled with spices.

But my mom also used to use them to heal us.

So whenever I would have a cough or cold, she would use this spice called Ajwain, which is incredible.

It helps to take out all the phlegm and all the gunk that's, you know, what's it called?

It's called Ajwain.

Oh my gosh, yeah, I'll send it to you.

Do you want to send it to me?

Yeah, I will.

Where do you get that?

You can get it on Amazon.

You can get it on, it's a, it's more of an Indian spice, but you can get it everywhere now.

And it's incredible.

you just boil it in hot water with ginger and with lemon and it's you know a lot of cough medicines they suppress our our you know the symptoms yeah whereas ujwain is an expellent and so what it does is it kind of brings everything up and out of your body and it's incredible it helps to relieve temperature like if you get a temperature it helps to get out all the phlegm and the gunk that accumulates when you've got congestion you should do a book on this i think this is i really want to so yeah my next year is going to be spent studying because i've really i i've realized that you can you go through periods.

I feel I go through periods where I'm learning and then I'm sharing and then I'm learning and then I'm sharing.

And I find it hard to do both at the same time.

But I got to the end of this book and I was like, you know, I feel like I'm running really low on inspiration, on creativity and on information.

And I feel like when you get to that point, you know, you have to become a student again.

Yeah.

And so I'm so excited because this next year, as much as I am going to focus on sharing the book with people, I want it.

to be my year of learning and exploring and expanding again because I really miss doing that.

And I think when you stop being a student, you really feel a lack in your life.

I think that is so true.

You stop growing, right?

Yeah, that's how I feel.

And

it's a very stagnant feeling.

So that's one spice.

By the way, what would I, what could I, can you cook with that spice?

Oh, yeah, all the time.

So with all spices, I'm like obsessed with this technology.

Okay, great.

Yeah.

So with all spices, you should, I don't know whether people know this, but when you add heat to it, so when you either dry roast or ideally cook it in fat, it actually releases the aromatic, so aromatic properties and also the healing properties of the spice become more available.

And so I recommend with all spices, you either dry toast them or if you're using them in curries or you can grind them up and use powders in your smoothies like cardamom.

Cardamom is this amazing sweet spice.

Yeah.

It has so many incredible benefits and I use them inside my smoothies.

I'll put them into desserts, but I'll also put them into curries.

And so you can either, I recommend heating spices and then using them, but a lot of them can just be used in hot milk or hot water.

So how would you use the cardamom?

Okay, so if I were to put that in a smoothie, it's going to cold, it cold ingredients.

Yeah, so how would you warm it?

So, ideally, how would you warm it?

So, what you could do is you could dry roast the whole spice and

a powder.

So, you can,

but the thing is, with spices, as soon as you grind up a spice from its whole form, it starts to lose its aromatic qualities and it starts to diminish its, you know, it's the same as when potency, probably, yeah, the potency.

That's the word I'm looking for.

As soon as you grind that up, it's like as soon as you pick a fresh, you know, herb or a basil leaf or something.

If you, if you pick that, you see it's, it's away from its source.

And so it starts to wilt.

And so whole spices are the same.

As soon as it starts to interact with air and with the qualities around, you know, if it's the environmental bottle, yeah, it's going to start diminishing in quality.

So where would I buy that?

Like, where would I buy like a food?

Now, what's amazing is Amazon has incredible organic spices.

Whole Foods has incredible whole spices.

In its full form?

Yeah, in its full form.

On Amazon, I can buy that.

Oh, yeah.

Seriously?

Yeah.

Otherwise, Indian shops.

If all else fails, Indian shops have all the spices you possibly need.

In LA, can you tell me which one to go to?

Oh, yeah, there's

sweets, Indian sweets and spices, it's called, and there's like a lot of them.

Close to here, honestly.

Yeah, there's quite a few.

Okay, because, okay, so what do you think of now?

I'm literally love all this.

No, this is great.

Okay, like turmeric, right?

Because I put it on like my chicken.

Yes.

And I put it with olive oil and all these other other things because of the fat thing that you were mentioning because it helps with the absorption and i guess getting the ingredients to into i don't know all that stuff that you just said so if i were just to put turmeric into a shake with from a bottle it's not going to be effective right or i should just buy like a like a turmeric root probably yeah turmeric root is incredible yeah it's amazing it's very messy that's what i used to do

so messy the color gets everywhere everywhere like i had them i had it all over my clothes all over the kitchen it's not that it's not gonna help it's that it's gonna be be of lower potency so i always say that like it's it's about the type of the quality right there's always gonna be a spectrum of quality of the ingredients that you get yeah and so yeah i think you have to pick your what's the word you have to pick your battles like yeah which i always think about this like there's a 70 30 or you could even live by 80 20 rule or if you can a 90 10 rule where you decide this proportion of the time i'm gonna try my best to get this these are the ingredients i'm gonna get best quality and then these are the ingredients that you know It's too difficult and I'm not gonna worry too much about it Right because you can't get everything perfect and you can't get everything in the best quality.

It's just too difficult

It's impossible.

I mean okay give me one more spice that has like tell me another one.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

So the spices I have every single morning without fail There's this Ayurvedic trio.

It's like the queen of all spice blends.

It's called CCF.

So it's coriander cumin and fennel.

Okay.

So you get the whole seeds of coriander whole seeds of cumin and whole seeds of fennel seeds.

You can mix them all.

It's equal batches.

You do like one one part of each.

So you can make up a whole batch of one cup of each thing and mix it up, put it in a jar.

I take a tablespoon of it every morning, put it into a pan with hot water, and I'll boil it.

And I drink that tea in the morning every single day.

It is incredible to one, ignite your digestive juices and fires to help detox your different organs like your livers, your kidney.

And also, if you think about it in the morning, your body has accumulated eight eight hours you've been sleeping is when your body detoxes.

And so all these toxins are actually kind of just going around your body ready to be released so if you don't end up releasing them through your you know go ahead poop and we yeah you're gonna and they're also still there in your bloodstream so this ccf blend is a really subtle spice blend that helps to detox your body release the toxins out and get you started for the rest of your day it's incredible okay first of all i'm going to i'm going to start using this is very this is actually very practical so great actionable things people can do and for people who get acid reflux or you know get a lot of heat that accumulates in your body fennel seeds and coriander seeds are so cooling so they help to also reduce inflammation we've all got so much inflammation in our body environment the food that we eat and so these spices help to reduce the inflammation in the body too and you grew you kind of grew up like this so you don't know any different well i grew up and i took it for like took it for granted and i wasn't taught it in that way i just knew my mom makes me this when i'm unwell my mom does this for me when i have a cough or a cold but when i studied ayurveda is when i realized wow like my spice box and i can honestly say this i use my spice box as my medicine box.

I believe it's incredible for prevention.

I think it's incredible for curing different diseases that you have in the body, but see it as your armor.

Like, that's how I see it.

If I, if I know I'm getting spices in throughout the day, I feel protected, just like when you go out and you're wearing your coats and your jackets and stuff.

Like, spices are going to be that for you.

So, wait, so the one that you just said, that recipe for CTF is called, how is it, you know, because what I've been doing is I just drink room temperature water and I squeeze a lemon in there as a way to detox my in the morning.

But it's, is that what you're talking about so much more effective in terms of I'd I'd say so because the spices are just so potent.

Potent.

Yeah, so potent.

And you'll feel it.

I remember I told my friend about this who used to get, who gets a lot of acid reflux when she was pregnant and she was just really struggling to even keep food down.

She started drinking the, she started drinking this tea, but she would soak it in water overnight and then she'd drink it because she didn't want to have it hot every day.

Yeah.

And she said it made, I mean, I've had so many people tell me it's made a difference.

But that for me, I was really happy for her because she was pregnant, she was feeling uncomfortable.

But that CCF drink, it just really changed so much for her.

Wait, is that is that recipe in the book?

It is in the book.

Oh my gosh, why do you?

I don't have a book.

I don't have a book either.

Yeah, no, I would have given you a book.

I would actually buy this book because.

No, I'm serious because I love that kind of stuff because it's actually the problem I find with wellness a lot of times, well, in the health, whatever, there's so many different euphemisms we can use.

There's too many.

But it's the same thing that people say over and over again.

You know, do the

cold plunge, do the sauna, you know, eat this way, exercise that way.

When the truth is, there's a plethora of things to do and modalities that work for you, that might not work for me.

There's so much out there, and it's really becomes like a trial and error.

Well, that's what it should be.

Like, I think about that with, that's why I fell in love with the Ayurveda.

Yeah.

Because it is, one, it's so old.

It's like over 5,000 years old.

It's the most ancient health science to exist.

But what I loved most about it is that it is all to do with the individual.

Yeah.

But that takes work.

So instead, and that's what my, my, I really, and I'm not just trying to plug my book, but that's what I've shared so, so much of in my book is don't use these recipes as I've written them.

Use them as your body needs them.

Yeah.

So through my book, I want you to learn how to intuitively listen to your body, how to understand what this food does for your body.

So you know which spices your body needs.

We've gotten so used to putting our health into other people's hands.

And that scares me so much for the world because we're saying that when this Instagram person tells me this workout works for them, it's going to work for me.

And even though I'm getting exhausted after doing it, even though my body's not responding to it, I'm going to keep doing it because that person told me it's good.

And this food that this person's eating that they said has given them X amount of weight loss and has done this for them.

I'm going to do it because that's what I'm trying to achieve in my body without realizing that my body is completely different and it may not have the same effect.

And so I think what we really need to do is strip everything back and start listening to our body from a point of view of, let me me see every single time i eat this ingredient how does it affect so it is work like it's easier to believe that this person's going to solve my issue and that's what i say it's it's a form of laziness in a way but in it not in a negative way but like it's because that's what we're told to do right and like and it's it's like an inf people my friend says it's like um info obesity in a way there's too much information oh my gosh yes that's a great word it's a great word because there's so much information it's overloaded and

people it's so overwhelming and you get very confused like what who to listen to what to listen to.

So, what happens, I'm sure you can relate, you end up doing like a smorgasborg of a bunch of things.

Always, right?

I did that with workouts.

Oh, my gosh, yes.

My trainer would always be like, You need to stop doing this.

I was doing weights in the morning, Pilates at night, boxing the next day, this the next day.

I was like, I have to do it all, and that's what's going to make me feel good.

Exactly.

And I was overstraining my body, and I was not listening to what my body actually needed.