🌱Episode 11: From Critical Care to Root Cause- An ER Nurse's Journey to Integrative Ayurvedic Medicine - Launched🌱
What if the future of healthcare isn't choosing one approach over another – but weaving the best of both worlds together? 🌱
I recently had an eye-opening conversation with Krysta Clark for Episode 11 of the Your Health Is Wealth Podcast)! Listen here
A🏥 The Journey
Krysta spent 18 years in critical care and emergency medicine. Eighteen years of assisting with saving lives, running codes, and doing everything modern medicine does brilliantly. But she kept seeing the same thing repeatedly: the same patients, the same preventable conditions, the revolving door that never stopped spinning.
Young adults in their twenties with advanced-stage cancers. People were receiving treatment after treatment, but without exploring what underlying factors led them there in the first place.
💡 The Realization
That's when something clicked for her. Modern medicine is incredible at what it does – saving lives, managing acute crises, performing medical miracles. But there's a gap when it comes to prevention and understanding root causes.
So, Krysta went looking for answers and found them in a 5,000-year-old system called Ayurveda, not as a replacement for modern medicine, but as the missing piece. A framework that sees each person as unique, that treats disease as the final alarm bell after years of warning signs we ignored, and that focuses on prevention before symptoms even show up. In addition to working in the ER, Krysta is also a Functional Health and Ayurvedic Nurse Coach.
🔗 The Integration
Here's the key takeaway: this isn't about choosing stethoscopes OR pulse diagnosis. Pharmaceuticals OR herbs. Treating symptoms OR addressing root causes.
We're capable of so much more when we honor both the life-saving interventions of modern medicine and the preventive wisdom that could keep people from needing those interventions in the first place.
✨ The Question
If you're in healthcare and feel there's more we could offer, or if you're dealing with chronic health issues that traditional treatment hasn't solved, this conversation may spark something for you.
A fundamental transformation starts with one question: What if there's more to health than we've been taught?
References
Boudoulas, K. D., Triposkiadis, F., Parissis, J., Butler, J., & Boudoulas, H. (2017). The cardio-renal interrelationship. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 59(6), 636–648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcad.2016.12.003
Sudarmi, K., & Dudhamal, T. S. (2019). AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF MUTRASHMARI – A REVIEW ARTICLE. International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJ RAR), 6(2), 457–462. Research Gate. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360621701_AYURVEDIC_MANAGEMENT_OF_MUTRASHMARI_-A_REVIEW_ARTICLE. www.ijrar.org.