I shared my thoughts on Personalized Medicine being the future of medicine earlier. Recently, I saw a TEDx Talk by Dr. Russ Altman on the topic of Personalized Prescription.
What Dr. Russ talks about is how medications works differently on various kinds of bodies and he uses examples to demonstrate how Codin works on different people. For few, it works like a magic and for few others, it does not help at all.
Our body is made of molecules and medicines are a combination of various elements working with these molecules to bring down the pain which our body is going through.
Now, let us look at the Dosha’s in our body as described in Ayurveda. The human body is categorized into 3 Dosha’s (Vata, Pitta, and Kapha). Ayurveda is the science of handling ailments based on the body type and customized treatment.
I am looking at comparing and contrasting as to what Dr. Russ is saying and what we already have in India.
A combination of Personalized Prescription and Ayurveda is something which will benefit the human kind.
What can we do next?