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A person asks Sadhguru, “How much weight training exercise do you recommend?” And Sadhguru answers, “Weight training is not useful, but do 25-50 Surya-Namaskars, it is complete exercise.” First of all, I am not sure why anyone would ask someone like Sadhguru, who is most of the time, in another dimension, a question on exercise and weight training. And secondly, Sadhguru is just plain wrong. Weight (or strength) training is one of the most important aspects of exercise regimen you can include in your daily or 3-4 times a week physical activity because there is great science behind its benefits. I advise my obese or sarcopenic (very poor muscle mass in advanced liver disease) patients to include weight training to improve clinical outcomes. The highest level of scientific evidence showed that standard muscle-strengthening activities were associated with lower risk of death in patients with non-communicable diseases – including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and lung cancer. Another metanalysis showed strong evidence for a considerable risk reduction of strength training for 60 minutes a week, on all-cause death (−15%), cardiovascular disease death (−19%), and cancer death (−14%). See here: bjsm.bmj.com/content/56/13/… here ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-… Sadhguru says the older we get, the better we do not weight train. He is again absolutely wrong. The findings of another systematic review/metanalysis support power (strength) training as an effective therapeutic intervention for improving physical function in adults diagnosed with frailty (poor physical function in old age) and patients with chronic medical conditions. See here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.14… In fact, another study on strength training, this one again a metanalysis, concluded that strength training interventions can be used as a non-drug treatment for hypertension (!), as they promote significant decreases in blood pressure. See here: nature.com/articles/s4159… Strength training also reduces significantly, chronic inflammation as shown in another high quality systematic review and meta-analysis. See here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… Resistance/Strength training improved muscle mass and muscle strength, thereby improving performance status. Improved performance status is a wonderful benchmark for an active and healthy life. See here: bjsm.bmj.com/content/57/18/… Even in fatty liver disease, independent of weight loss, exercise training was associated with 3 and a half times more meaningful treatment response towards lowering liver fat. Strength training is a powerful tool to maintain liver health. See here: journals.lww.com/ajg/abstract/2… and here bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/13/… Now Surya Namaskar. Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutation is a sequence of around twelve yoga poses connected by jumping or stretching movements, varying somewhat between various Yoga schools – which means, it has no regulation or standardization unlike weight training. In Iyengar Yoga there is a way, in Ashtanga Vinayasa Yoga there is Type A and B and there are other types followed by other schools or Yoga teachers. Along with the stretching and jumping, which is done is a slow and steady manner, the practice includes chanting a “mantra” calling out twelve names of the Sun God. In its classical form, Surya Namaskar is not an exercise, and is not aerobic. The energy cost of exercise is measured in units of metabolic equivalent of task (MET). Less than 3 METs counts as light exercise; 3 to 6 METs is moderate; 6 or over is vigorous. American College of Sports Medicine and American Heart Association guidelines count periods of at least 10 minutes of moderate MET level activity towards their recommended daily amounts of exercise. For healthy adults aged 18 to 65, the guidelines recommend moderate exercise for 30 minutes five days a week, or vigorous aerobic exercise for 20 minutes three days a week. Surya Namaskar in its classical form has a measly 2.9 METs and in its rigorous form (some people perform mutated highly active forms of Surya Namaskar to make it feel like an exercise) can go up to 7.4 METs – which requires a lot of jumping and little stretching and no time to chant the Sun God names - does not even come close to strength training by any margin. Those who are part of the Surya Namaskar and Yoga cult would provide anecdotal experiences on its benefits (please see comment section) through non-classical forms and would call it an “exhilarating experience.” Experiences are not scientific, evidence are. Many Yoga journals and some dubious and third rate Ayurveda journals have also have published on such experiences in small group of patients, which are not validated or published in better journals [like this junk here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…] There are no metanalysis level data to prove effectiveness of Surya Namaskar as beneficial as aerobic exercise or better than strength training as Sadhguru claims. Do Surya namaskar if you are doing nothing. But upgrade to strength training if you want something. And stop listening to pseudoscience peddlers who speak religion and culture for your healthcare needs. Sadhguru suffers seriously from Dunning Kruger fallacy: a type of cognitive bias, where people with little expertise or ability assume they have superior expertise or ability. This overestimation occurs because of the fact that they don’t have enough knowledge to know they don’t have enough knowledge.

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I dont usually debunk what health-illiterate spiritual gurus mutter about medicine and nutrition, but this video was shared with me for some fact checking and also because it has got millions of views and 60K likes. And it is utter nonsense. The video features Jaggi Vasudev, self proclaimed spiritual leader also known as Sadhguru - who was featured in The Joe Rogan podcast (not that it makes him any credible, but it can project his nonsensical takes on healthcare onto millions worldwide) There are many utterly and absolutely inacurrate claims made in this video. Claim: There is a poisonous chemical called citatine in brinjal. Fact: There is no such thing as citatine. Brinjal (or egg plant), along with potatoes and tomatoes belong to the family of nightshade and genus Solanum. Solanum group contain Solanine in the unripe fruit/vegetables. These are natural defences present in these plants against animals. When stored under ambient temperature and when ripe enough, the chances of solanine poisoning is almost zero. Reports of poisoning and fatality were because people consumed bitter green tomatoes or green skin potatoes. Peeling skin of potatoes almost nullifies the risk of solanine poisoning. See more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine Claim: Citatine (actually he must have meant solanine) damages the hypothalamus region of brain. Fact: There is no evidence to show that solanine affects the hypothalamus region of brain. The most common site of toxicity from solanine is on the gastrointestinal tract - burning sensations in the mouth, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea and nothing on the hypothalamus in the brain. Claim: Hypothalamus is the important part of the brain which helps in decision making. Poison in brinjal attacks this part and makes you dull. Fact: The prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus are the most critical parts of the human brain for decision making and not hypothalamus. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… The hypothalamus helps manage your body temperature, hunger and thirst, mood, sex drive, blood pressure and sleep - and has nothing to do with decision making. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56074… Claim: Eating a whole garlic will kill you. Fact: No it wont. It will drive away vampires and non-vampires because literally no one can stand that breath. And probably give you a heartburn you'll never forget. Also nobody is going to eat a whole garlic unless it is reality TV where you are getting paid for it. Claim: If you eat one egg plant (brinjal) a day for a year, you will become a far duller person. Fact: If you keep listening to people like Jaggi and watch Jaggi videos and enjoy seeing Jaggi dancing during Navaratri, it is more like that you are already a very dull person without any critical thinking skills. Last point: The classification of foods into Satvic (pure, light), Rajasic (spicy, stimulating) and Tamasic (heavy, dull - such as Brinjal) is according to the primitive untested observations-based religious mumbo-jumbo from ancient Ayurvedic scriptures which also feature the annoyingly hocus-pocus "hot and cold" foods classification - it is utter nonsense. Never for a second believe the nutritional pseudoscience of Ayurveda. Many people suffer from Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) because they following this nonsense classification. webmd.com/mental-health/… Foods are actually classified by origin, chemical composition and predominant function. Sadhguru Jaggi is not a doctor. He is a conman who speaks good, fluent English, and lies, rather confidently.

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