This week on the podcast I host my friend and Ayurvedic chef Anastasia “Nastia” Volodchenko. She shares how the classroom to office pipeline was not for her, so after studying fashion marketing & branding in the UK, she had an early life crisis and left London to work on boats around the world for seven years.

Nastia also tells us how she would make potions as a kid in Cyprus and hide them in jars in her closet, and how that concoction instinct—alongside her own health journey dealing with endometriosis and PCOS and having her son—would lead her to study Ayurveda and food as medicine. We dive into how Ayurveda takes the mind, body, and spirit into account in order to heal it, Nastia’s experience working at an Ayurvedic hospital, what a panchakarma treatment is 💩, an explication of the doshas, and a recipe for date sugar!

Resources & sites mentioned in this episode:

• The Diary of a CEO episode I mention about cancer as a metabolic disease

• Nastia’s Instagram account, Integrated Ayurveda