Gut Microbiome Specialist MUNMUN GANERIWAL ON AYURVEDA & HEALING

Women Fitness President, Namita Nayyar got in touch with Munmun Ganeriwal on gut microbiome, Ayurveda, and healing.

Munmun Ganeriwal is a National best-selling author, award-winning nutritionist, and celebrated lifestyle consultant based in Mumbai. She is the only gut microbiome specialist in the world who combines traditional Indian foods, ancient Indian yogic practices, and Ayurveda principles with gut microbiota study to understand and fight obesity and other diseases.

You are the only gut microbiome specialist in the world who combines traditional Indian foods, ancient Indian yogic practices, and Ayurveda principles to help people understand and fight obesity and other diseases. Can you please elaborate on the same? 

Gut Microbiome has been an area of interest for a long time now. I have been attending a lot of conferences abroad and found out that gut microbiome has been a heading everywhere, however, when I looked back in India it was not much talked about. Therefore I decided to write my first book on the same. Since it is such a researched topic and talked about in the western side, so whenever they come across any new study or research it is based around the food they eat. And hence it becomes less relatable for us.

I am a certified Yoga teacher, and also an ardent follower of Ayurveda, and what was shocking for me was that everything I got to know about the gut microbiome is what already Ayurveda has talked about. Ayurveda has always said that all major problems that we suffer begin in the gut and if you set the gut right everything else will fall in place. Recently so many practices have started to set a good gut microbiome but if you go back there have been many yogi practices that already teach this and hence I made my study based on this and that is what is all about it.

Can you highlight the role of Ayurveda food in reducing belly fat in women, especially in '40s & late '50s