Jackie Christensen Ph.D. is an Ayurveda Health Consultant and owner of Practice Ayurveda. In addition to her private practice in Santa Cruz, she teach classes at Cabrillo College and Mount Madonna Institute of Ayurveda, and also serves as a faculty member for the Northern Star Academy of Holistic Studies and Kingdom College of Natural Health. Christensen previously served as a faculty member for the Global College of Natural Medicine and Vancouver Island College of Natural Wellness from 2005-2012, where she trained students to become nutritional consultants, herbalists, and holistic health practitioners. Christensen graduated from Mount Madonna Institute of Ayurveda Master program and earned a Ph.D. in Natural Medicine from the Global College of Natural Medicine.

Christensen's passion is integrating natural health and education to help people understand how they can improve their unique mind-body type; she believes that people can make simple changes to their diet and lifestyle to eliminate the root cause of disease and heal the body. Her goal as a holistic health provider is to reinvigorate the body and remove toxins that are blocking vital energy; aid the body in its natural course toward healing; assess the whole person, not just the symptoms and search for the underlying causes for imbalance.

Christensen believes that humans are individuals and each one is influenced by a multitude of factors including diet, exercise, genetics, attitudes and spiritual beliefs. Everyone is unique and each illness reflects an issue that is exclusive to that person. She is committed to using a wide variety of healing modalities and lifestyle options to help people utilize their internal resources, begin the healing process, and strengthen the mind, body, spirit connection. He lives and works in the Santa Cruz metro area.

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Table of Contents forThe Ayurveda Solution to Type 2 Diabetes: A Clinically Proven Program to Balance Blood Sugar in 12 Weeks by Jackie Christensen Ph.D. and Pat Crocker

Chapter 1: Ayurveda: What it is and what it can do for you

Chapter 2: Prameha: The Original Diabetes Mellitus

• 6 Stages of T2D
• Why T2D is Unique to You
• Classic Root Causes for T2D
• Types of T2D

Chapter 3: Ayurveda’s Approach to T2D

• Dietary Dos and Don’ts
• Upgrade Your Lifestyle
  
  • Make Major Strides with Walking
  • How Constitution Effects the Benefits of Exercise
  • Proven Workouts for T2D
  • Formulating Your Exercise Program
  • Stoking Your Brain
  • Get Off the Couch
  • Quality Sleep: Not just a Dream
  • Silence Stress
• Herbal Therapies
  
  • Single Herbs
  • Synergistic Actions of Polyherbal Formulations
• Unique Traditional Ayurveda Detoxification: Panchakarma
  
  • Virechana Purification

  Chapter 4: The Ayurveda Solution for T2D 12-Week Program

  • Cultivating Support
  • Creating Your Routine for Success
  • Biometric Goal Setting
  • Program Protocol

  Chapter 5: Discover Your Constitution: Ayurveda Mind Body Quiz

  Chapter 6: Starting the 8-Week Constitutional & Elimination Diet

  • Dietary Guidelines
  • Mindfulness Based Eating Awareness
  • Daily Routine
  • Walking After Meals
  • Determining Your Maximum Heart Rate
  • Injury Prevention

  Chapter 7: 8-Week T2D Constitution & Elimination Diet for Vata

  • Food Lists
  • Recipes for Vata
  • Sleep Optimization
  • Lifestyle Enhancement
  • 30-Minute Daily Relaxation Practice
  • Daily Relaxation Journal
  • Weekly Exercise
  • Exercise Journal
  • Supplement Schedule

  Chapter 8: 8-Week T2D Constitution & Elimination Diet for Pitta

  • Food Lists
  • Recipes for Pitta
  • Sleep Optimization
  • Lifestyle Enhancement
  • 30-Minute Daily Relaxation Practice
  • Daily Relaxation Journal
  • Weekly Exercise
  • Exercise Journal
  • Supplement Schedule

  Chapter 9: 8-Week T2D Constitution & Elimination Diet for Kapha

  • Food Lists
  • Recipes for Kapha
  • Sleep Optimization
  • Lifestyle Enhancement
  • 30-Minute Daily Relaxation Practice
  • Daily Relaxation Journal
  • Weekly Exercise
  • Exercise Journal
  • Supplement Schedule

  Chapter 10: 1-Week Detox and Restoration

  • Recognizing Toxicity
  • Detox and Restoration Program Structure
  • Meal Plan
  • Burning Fat for Fuel
  • Sipping Warm Water
  • 1-Week Detox and Restoration for Vata
  • 1-Week Detox and Restoration for Pitta
  • 1-Week Detox and Restoration for Kapha

  Chapter 11: 3-Week Rebuilding & Reintroduction of Foods

  • Goals
  • Vata Reintroduction of Foods
  • Pitta Reintroduction of Foods
  • Kapha Reintroduction of Foods

  Chapter 12: Closing Thoughts

  Resources

  Appendix

  • Vata Blood Sugar Food Journal
  • Pitta Blood Sugar Food Journal
  • Kapha Blood Sugar Food Journal

  References

  Glossary
  

  NOTE: BOOK Includes:

  • Ayurveda Constitution Quiz
  • 75 recipes (25 for each constitution)
  • 3 Food & Blood Sugar Journals, one for each constitution
  • 3 Exercise Journals, one for each constitution
  • 3 Relaxation Journals, one for each constitution
  • 3 Food Lists, one for each constitution
  • 10 diagrams/visual aids to easily explain Ayurveda’s concepts and Type 2 Diabetes
  • 13-page glossary
  • 20-page resource section
    
  • Back matter