would it be wrong to say that as a nation
India is scared today
with the Coronavirus outbreak
we have questions and very few answers
Today giving answers to all your queries
is integrative nutritionist and
health coach Neha Ranglani
joining us for coversation
Welcome Neha
Hi
This is the perfect time to have you I think
started in China and than it reached India
What was your first reaction
were you also ever scared
you know what I was not scared
because I know that our body has power
to heal and I always say that
But what are the thing that people
should be doing
I think a lot of us would like to know that
because there's no cure to this
what are the kind of preventive measures
ya that as a person one can take
so I'll tell you what a lot of it has to come
from your immune system
So Coronavirus is just like any other virus
it's the viral flu that we always get
we get cure of it without even knowing
sometimes not even taking medications
but the only thing with virus is
that it's very easily transmicable
and it affects your respiratory system directly
so people are like you know
they are like we don't have to do of this
and you're hearing so many cases right
that people are dying
mortality rate is this
but we need to remember the immunity
within us is something that's gonna
help us fight this
so we need to actually up our immunity game
to protect ourselves
so even if you sort of contract it
your body will fight it out
so the only focus right now has to be immunity
and 70 to 80 % immunity comes from your gut
so if you have gut issues
like bloating indigestion
constipation very important
constipation which we kind if really ignore
and say it's just constipation
ya it's over looked
it's very like you know
not considered as important sort of
health issue but it is important
because you're not really throwing the toxin out
and that creates a lot of toxin in the body
which the virus can feed on
so lot of digestive issues can hamper
your immune system because
you know it gives rise to bad bacteria
in your gut and bad bacteria
than damped into your immune system
so you need to focus on actually improving
your good bacteria in your gut
and you suppose to do that through
gut balancing food and not
gut damaging food
so there are certain food which we all
consume in our day to day life and
we think they're healthy but
they can actually cause damage
to your gut
like what
like tea and coffee
Nayan are you like fond of it
I'm fond of both
when you told me I was like little
I think none of us know about it
that tea and coffee can do a lot of damage
it's very inflammatory
and specially it's complex with milk and
sugar and all of that
it causes a lot of trauma on the gut
so tea and coffee, aeriated drinks
which we just gut down without thinking
diet coke, sodas and all of that
so these foods
than you have dairy
dairy milk and milk products
they also damage the gut lining because
now a days dairys has a lot of anti boitics
hormones toxins in them
wheat the morden day wheat
has a kind of gluten which our body cannot
digest
so that affects our gut lining than
we have all our refined oils
refined salt refined sugar
and than you know our alcohol intake
all of these together accumilatively
actually affects our gut
fried food, procesed and package food
which we just pick out
out of convience and we are like okay
we don't have time to eat so we'll eat this
so eating a lot of foodless food
affects your gut
But practically you know
this forms about 90 percent of our daily
food in take anyway on a regular day
so what are the things that people
should be eating
exactly I'm coming to that now
so you actually need to eat a lot of
wholesome natural nature made foods
like your fruits, vegetable, greens, nuts
sprouts, wholegrain, pulses
now there is so much that you can eat right
but we only think of eating foods which
ya
french fries
and coke
exactly which you can have french fries
but in a baked way
you can actually steam the
steam the potato's and bake them
so they're as delicious minus all the
negative effects
so it's important to eat as nature
incline food as much as possible
that is your gut immunity also
liver is very important
A liver has it's own immune system which
is very important to fight any virus
or bacteria or anything in our body
because minute the bacteria starts spreading
or virus starts spreading
it's first gets into the liver because
it's a very vescular organ and liver is
responsible to de-toxify everything
now if your liver is not in a good shape
it really can't kill and from there
is going to spread to other places
so it's important to take care of your liver
and what are the foods
what all foods I told you to avoid
are actually the liver damaging food as well
Alcohol being number one on list because
it directly get into your liver and
slows it down right
the liver has to work really hard to
throw it out of the system
but tell me something Neha
when there is an on going problem
in your body that you know that may be
you've hyper tension or you are suffering
from liver issue or maybe diabetes
so that it doesn't effect you
even like in a worst way
what do you do than like
when you already know that
your liver is not going to function
100 percent to it's capacity and
than this has happened
how do you tackle that situation
start making changes right immediately
as you come to know you have a sort of
a infection in your system
so just start eliminating the wrong food
make a food diary
make a list of all the foods you're eating
through the day and just check which
out of this is damaging you
and I always say it's not what you eat
sometimes
it's what you eat all the time and everyday
what damages you
so it's important to take those foods out
which you're eating day on day
meal on meal everyday
which is than affecting your health
and of course when you know you have
a certain problem or certain infection
or you already weeken system inside
you need to deal more caution and
take more care and
give your body extra importance
by putting in lots of herbs
herbs and species we Indian's are really
blessed with these herbs and species
so you could actually do
few concoutious through the day like
your ginger lemon turmeric water
you get the fresh turmeric these days
which you can grate it looks like ginger
you can use that
there's celery juice which is a great
anti viral property
so just one big glass of plain celery juice
aloe vera juice which is great for the gut
so aloe vera and water
just aloe vera pulp
organic aloe vera pulp and water
and blend it and in that if you want
you can put a little bit lemon or amla
because it has vitamin C
and than you know you have a
you could actually make a water
with thyme and rosemary
because these herbs are very good
green smoothie
green juice with Tulsi
because Tulsi we Indian really value
Tulsi at a very holy space
Tulsi is very holy for us
so tulsi than moringa, spirulina
Paan leaves are amazing
because it has so many minerals
A tiny beetle leaf which we eat for fun
like we eat paan
that paan leaf is actually very digestive
and it is great for your health
so put all these leaf into a
into a blender put some water
if you like a fruit like a pineapple or something
just put that blend it in and
just gulp it down
so one glass of green smootie
you're doing great for immunity in that sense
so right in the morning
ya first thing in the morning
so do your like ginger lemon water
you can do like green smoothie
in between you can do like celery juice and
things like that so
that is there and of course you have
your species our kitchen species
like your soft jeera ajwain
cinnamon, cloves and cardamom
and coriender seeds and mulethi
you know mulethi is a very very
a less known of a spice which is use but
It's great for immunity
it''s called liquorice in english but
Methi powder again you will get it in any
spice store and you can put a little powder of that
and make a concoction and keep
sipping it through the day
Only in water
In water
I read somewhere I'm sure lot of us
are reading about it and that's why
we're getting stressed
so when you're reading about cure
a lot of people are saying that
there are lot of myths that are going around
I want to know if you think they are true or not
so there is myth that
garlic water
is curing
coronavirus
I don't think it's proven but garlic again
is great for immunity
only thing is garlic people don't like the taste
and they just can't digest
for some people garlic can get little acidic
on gut but if you can digest it and
if you like it than please go ahead
because like ginger it has lot of
immunity boosting properties
so you're saying that
first we have to eliminate
the tea and the coffee that we're having in morning
and the immunity damaging foods
ya milk and everything
and than we replace that with green smoothie
or maybe water with
with the species
species that we have
do people sip on that water all the day
they can they can put it in flash
keep sipping it they can also make powder
out of it you know put the powder in the mouth
drink a glass of warm water on it
that's also great
soft is such a nice
like a mouth freshner after meal
it's a post meal mouth freshner
so you can just munch on soft or ajwain
after your meals and it's good digestive
as well
so these are small things which you can do
for yourself other than that you could also
have suppliments in your diet
if you're really lacking
if you feel you're somebody who doesn't
eat really well
than you can ask your health practicener
or whoever you're consulting
what suppliments your body needs
so but there are some which are really
important like vitamin D
also get your sunlight I mean
getting 10 to 15 mins sunlight everyday
and we in India are blessed with the
sunlight that we get
you know the morning 15 mins just sit
bare in the sun and just
get your body energy it needs
and it has it's own anti viral properties
It will kill the infection inside you
it's great
If you cannot do that and maybe if you're not
living in area where there is too much sun or
don't have access to it than probably you can
take a good vitamin D3 suppliments
you can take omega 3
which is again great anti inflametory
there's zinc which is superb for immunity
zinc you also get it in your nuts and whole grain
and everything but in case you're not eating well
and you have digestive issue
than probably taking suppliments will help
also you've B12 just make sure
you're good on your B12 you're not too low
Vitamin C is there you can get it from awla
from your lemons from all your fruits
so all citrus fruits are amazing
yes they're amazing
because many people say that
when you're having
it's flue like symtoms
so people avoid having lemons and oranges
no lemons are great for cleansing
they're great great great cleanser
and alkalizers which actually improves
the enviroment in your system
against the bugs
so it's good. it's great to have lemons
in your diet
so these are the kind of suppliments
which you can actually include and
ya I mean just take care of what you putting
in your mouth make sure you eat
okay is this going to harm me
or is this going to help me
and than you'll get intutive answer
and you know what to choose
so before going I want to ask you
that if you'd to plan a
a daily diet chat for anybody
so what should somebody have after
they wake up having their green smoothie
the concoction you know
whatever they like
than they can get on eating
fruits than eating normal meals I mean
said your spourts are there than your
normal food if you're avoiding wheat than you
could do a lot of jowar ragi brown rice
you could do salads for your meal
in mid meals you could nuts
you could do seeds you could do nut butters
and than eating you can munch on
little makhana some sweet potato
they're great again so
bake sweet potato fries
or bake potato fries for that matter
and in simple dinner I mean
if you eat that ways your body is gonna do well
and sipping all the right liquids in between
take your suppliments sleep well
rest well
consume lot of fun positive content
specially when we're bombarded with negative one's
make constant afford and choice to choose
the positive content
Thank you I think it's been an eye opener
for me and for everybody who's watching
I hope so
because I think people are really really scared
at this point
please don't be
and there's needed to be like somebody who
will come and help them and tell them
what they should eat
what they shouldn't eat
which is very important I think
and Thank you for doing this
Thank you Nayan it was pleasure
It was pleasure talking to you