Dr. Sundar Balasubramanian : Prāṇā Science and its Coding in Saliva
Dr. Sundar Balasubramanian is a Cell Biology researcher and founder of PranaScience Institute. A pioneer in the area of yoga biology research combining Pranayama and salivary stimulation, he discovered Yogic breathing promotes salivary secretion, and it contains factors that are important for our healthy living.
You will find this conversation absolutely fascinating as language, molecular biology, and his brilliant mind bring into our discovery the epic changes that regular pranayama sadhana (practice) can facilitate.
Aside from the key explorations in this summit, in this conversation, we will discover
- The fascinating story of how he connected Tamil sacred texts, pranayama, and salivary proteins
- What Siddha medicine is
- The importance given to saliva in traditional Indian spiritual and healing texts
- How practices to increase salivary production are coded into mantras and songs for various times/ rites of passage in life
- The politics of hiding ancient knowledge
- The good that came out of colonialism and the not so good
- What studying the effect of pranayama through salivary biomarkers means for the future of pranayama research
- Hypothesis about the epigenetic changes due to pranayama sadhana
- How western scientific research can blend the wisdom of Ayurveda and Siddha medicine to create a more effective framework for evidence-based research
.... and much more
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