Nthabi Mabote 

 Ayurveda is the oldest traditional or ‘alternative’ medicine originating in Tamal, India and it’s a teaching of right relationship. Ayurveda does not diagnose or prescribe like Western medicine does but rather gives a language of patterns that exist in the body such as dry, wet or heat patterns that coincide with what the west for example would diagnose as flu, congestion and inflammation.

Following her own emergency gut surgery (laparotomy) in March of 2022, the short of the long of that was to remove above 1.7 m of ill-health small intestine. This happened in the first term of her undergrad studies in biological sciences. Following this trauma, she became particularly curious in the study of the gut-brain axis, natural sources of neurotransmitters that we consume and how we should consume them as recommended by dieticians.