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Yoga - a sustainabe health best practise

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  By Malini Shankar, Digital Discourse Foundation Drug resistance is the bane for those in need of lifelong medication. In the day and age when we live in so called modern society, health care is a misnomer for pharmaceutical profits. In the process drug resistance is not just inevitable but the side effects often leave the person with debilitating consequences. The gut bacteria are benumbed, paralyzing hormonal activity. That is the cause for many chronic conditions like endocrine disorders, blood disorders and slowing metabolism. So if this gut bacterial functionality can be rejuvenated, logically one’s disorders can be cured. Medication unfortunately worsens the dysfunctionality of gut bacteria. The side effects of medication then blur with the symptoms of the medical condition itself; the medicines become more intense and side effects often become more intense than the medical condition. Medication seems redundant when side effects increase and blur the medical condition....
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UNCBD Clause of "Access and Benefit Sharing": Linking through traditional medicines, despite legal challenges

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 Slugline: Biological Diversiy has its legal challenges  By Malini Shankar   Digital Discourse Foundation Potions and lotions help with home remedes ... power of traditional medicines.  It was the days of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in the second half of the 1980s when bureaucrats from all countries were haggling out the best possible terms for the welfare of the people in their own countries. The Uruguay Round of Trade Negotiations made way for Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under the World Trade Organisation. This had nothing much to do with day long excursions as it comes out but belongs truly to rarefied, intellectually challenging trade negotiations - utterly invisible in plain sight. Negotiations was not easy for emerging economies in trade, more so in areas such as intellectual properties and traditional wisdom. Imagine the hapless bureaucrat’s state of mind if he or she had to negotiate to quantify intangi...
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2. Nutraceuticals – effective remedy for drug resistance.

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By Malini Shankar Digital Discourse Foundation Slugline:  Convention on Biological Diversity maybe an international covenant to conserve the biological wealth of Planet Earth – for Humanity alright. But how do we make stake holders benefit from this Convention so as to make it a win-win situation? In this 2 nd  article on the series Traditional Medicines, Malini Shankar takes a look at how Biological Diversity benefits Humankind. In the age of drug resistance and COVID 19 triggered steroid administration or modern medication –if you like - nutraceuticals have turned out to be the Manna from Heaven in battling drug overdose and steroid induced complications. Dr. H.B. Shivaleela, retired Head of the Department of Food and Nutrition in the University of Agricultural Sciences, G.K.V.K. Campus in Bangalore tells  Digital Discourse Foundation   that fenugreek sprouts is the go to solution to reverse the harmful impact and sife effects of steroid administration on our a...
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