[fast5] Re: Fast 5 vs. the three doshas

I think I was Vata when I was younger, moving more toward the Pitta as I age.... I never had much Kapha.

Fast 5 has been OK for me most of the time.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "foxchyck" <foxeye@...> wrote:
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> I went out to lunch yesterday with a coworker - or rather, they lunched and I had tea - and the subject of my fasting came up for the first time. I learned that they are a licensed ayurvedic medicine practitioner, and they expressed concern that fasting was very hard on certain of the dosha's.
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> Some of you may know what I'm talking about with the term "dosha", but if you don't, a bit of googling will give you all kinds of info. Among other things it categorizes people into body types, but it's a more esoteric take on it than something like blood type.
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> Now...my feeling has always been that the various ancient health systems potentially have some truth at their core. How much is beyond my ability to say for sure, but I do respect this coworker, so I wanted to ask other fast-5-ers:
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> What is your predominant dosha? And if you know your dosha, was fasting physically draining on you at first (lightheaded, heart palpitations, weak, etc)?
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> I'd love to try to get a sense for whether there really are any correlations between dosha's and ease of fasting.
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> (I'm evidently a classic "Pitta", a type that fasting is supposedly dangerous for. And I did have a heckuva time adapting to fast-5. I still do get lightheaded at times.)
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