SISD #35 - Holistic Health with Dr. Ellen Vora

Topics Covered:

• The State of Medicine - Traditional medicine is very formulaic and prescription based. A more appropriate approach involves a multifactorial discipline that takes into account all relevant considerations
• Trusting Your Intuition - Your body has a collective wisdom that knows what is uniquely best for yourself. It’s difficult to objectively measure but having faith and a sense of feeling goes a long way in providing for yourself
• Evolutionary Biology - How our evolutionarily optimized “hardware” doesn’t integrate seamlessly with our modern “software”
• Managing Anxiety, Stress and Depression - These mental states are a symptom of physical, emotional, and spiritual imbalances. Overcoming these conditions requires addressing the root cause not masking the symptoms
• Sleep - How we can limit light exposure, jumpstart our circadian rhythm, and determine the right amount of sleep for ourselves
  

Highlight Quotes:

• “You just stay open and you listen, you never sign up for being in just one tribe or one camp or one school of thoughts.”
• “You just check in. It does require that we slow down and get a little silent and trust our feelings. We’re really taught not to do any of those things.”
• “If we want to feel well, we need to give our genes what they’re expecting, what they’re designed to be optimized with.”
• “Anxiety is a signal in the body that says ‘something is not right, take action’.”
• “There’s a learning curve to listen to the language of the body.”
  

About Dr. Ellen:

Dr. Ellen Vora is a board certified psychiatrist, a medical acupuncturist, and a yoga instructor who takes a refreshing approach to medicine. She believes in looking holistically at her patients to understand how different issues might arise as a result of their physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. Dr. Vora is also a sought after speaker on the topics of depression, anxiety, and insomnia among other things, featured in various publications and textbooks, and operates a private practice in New York City.

Links:

Dr. Vora’s Website

Dr. Vora’s Instagram