Dr. Shailla Vaidya - The Yoga MD

11/15/2025

There is a lot of change happening in the perimenopause and menopause space - it is hard to keep up! This resource from the Centre for Effective Practice can help Primary Care Practitioners. Feel free to share it with your care team!

CEP's Tools, Resources and Services For Primary Care Providers

10/28/2025

Unless they have snotty noses of course! 😅

Halloween reminder! 🧡

10/25/2025

Misty broke barriers in the world of ballet, showing that talent, courage, and determination can defy expectations. Her journey reminds us that success doesn’t follow a single path, and neither does impact.

Thank you for the endless inspiration Misty Copeland 🧡

10/21/2025

🎯💯🎯

10/20/2025

10/11/2025

We talk about this all the time in my groups. Even the Latin- based languages, like French and Spanish, say “I have thirst I have hunger” let alone every other feeling/emotion. When Descartes said “I think therefore I am.” It changed Western culture.

In South Asian philosophy it is “I am, therefore I think.” There can be a distance between our true self and our perceptions such that we can see the perceptions as such, train the mind not to identify with our thinking, so we can see more clearly instead of being influenced or controlled by the mind.
This is the power of mindfulness. If we practice with mindfulness to create that distance between our Self and our thoughts, we can see we are not our mind, that we experience emotions and feelings, we have them. Then if we can act with compassion towards our feeling, we can soothe ourselves instead of acting out based on what might be on our misperceptions, and then an acceptance around it recognizing it is not a permanent state, that it is always changing (also a part of eastern language is the use of the gerund - ing to explain things recognizing time is always changing from moment to moment.
I practice this myself and I teach this to my patients. This is yoga and it makes a huge difference.

Today is World Mental Health Day 💚

10/03/2025

Interesting…

New research on the use of time-restricted eating (TRE) to improve mitochondrial function, symptoms, and quality of life in POTS! Dysautonomia International funded this study, led by UC San Diego researchers, in which people with POTS consumed all of their calories for the day within an 8-10 hour window. Importantly, this was not intended to be a weight loss diet, and they did not modify the type or or quantity of the food they normally ate. TRE was chosen as a potential POTS treatment to study because it is known to improve immune function, metabolic function, and mitochondrial function - all of which have been implicated in the pathophysiology of POTS.

After 12 weeks of using TRE, limiting caoloric intake to 8-10 hour per day, POTS patients had improved mitochondrial function, improved symptoms (dizziness, palpitations, difficulty breathing, nausea, GI issues, exhaustion, and insomnia), an average reduction in their standing heart rate of 11bpm, and an improvement in quality of life, especially their physical functioning.

Read the full journal article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-16836-2

We'll be hosting a free webinar with the UC San Diego researchers on November 4th from 6-7PM Eastern so that you can ask questions and learn more about this study. Sign up at https://bit.ly/WebinarTaubNov4 Can't join us live? Everyone who signs up for the webinar will be emailed a recording of the webinar a few weeks after it has concluded

We encourage patients to speak with their medical provider or a dietician before trying TRE on their own, especially if you have a history of an eating disorder, as we do not want TRE to trigger or worsen an eating disorder in people who may be at risk.

This research was made possible thanks to donations to Dysautonomia International from our patient and caregiver community. Please consider making a contribution to support even more POTS and dysautonomia research at CureDys.org or hosting a Facebook or Instagram fundraiser at https://www.facebook.com/fund/DysautonomiaInternational/

Thank you to all of the patients who volunteered for this study and the research team at UCSD!