Dosha Science - What’s your body type?

Do you know what your possible ayurvedic body type is?

Let’s find out the tea. For each question I ask, just note down a, b or c.

1. What does your body look like?

a) Thin & hard to gain weight

b) Medium & weight fluctuates

c) Heavy & difficult to lose weight

2. Which weather do you like?

a) Summery & warm

b) Wintery & cool

c) Flexible but prefer warm

3. How’s your appetite?

a) Irregular & not a foodie

b) Always strongly hungry

c) Moderate but you like to have yummy food

4. How’s your sleep?

a) light & you wake up quickly

b) moderate & you can go back to sleep easily

c) very deep & can’t wake up in the morning

5. How’s your hair & skin?

a) dry, rough & frizzy

b) oily & sensitive, with straight hair

c) smooth or oily with thick or wavy hair

6. How’s your personality?

a) Anxious & restless, so overthink

b) Aggresive, so you like to move fast

c) Calm energy, so steady or lazy

If most of your answers are “a”, most experts would say you have more vata in your body. If you selected “b” more often, you have more pitta. And if you selected “c”, you’ve got kapha. If you have mixed responses, you may be a combo of two.

Together they’re called the doshas & as per Ayurvedic beliefs, if you want to be healthy, you need to balance all 3 of them because any dominant imbalanced dosha will cause some health problems.

Now is this scientific or fake? And what diet do the books tell us to follow to bring our dominant doshas into control?