Dr. Henali G. Parekh*

AGNI AND THE GUT MICROBIOME: EXPLORING FUNCTIONAL CONVERGENCES BETWEEN AYURVEDIC DIGESTIVE PHYSIOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY MICROBIOME SCIENCE

Ayurveda describes Agni, the digestive fire, as the central determinant of nutrition, immunity, and longevity, while contemporary biomedicine has identified the gut microbiome as a comparably central regulator of host metabolism, barrier integrity, and systemic immunity. Both fra...

AGNI AND THE GUT MICROBIOME: EXPLORING FUNCTIONAL CONVERGENCES BETWEEN AYURVEDIC DIGESTIVE PHYSIOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY MICROBIOME SCIENCE

Ayurveda describes Agni, the digestive fire, as the central determinant of nutrition, immunity, and longevity, while contemporary biomedicine has identified the gut microbiome as a comparably central regulator of host metabolism, barrier integrity, and systemic immunity. Both fra...