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• Medical Understanding of Yoga is a research-based book that reveals several facets of yoga that are unknown either to yogis or to medical doctors.

• The book describes how periodic fasting can benefit people suffering from obesity, menstrual disorders, and several autoimmune diseases.

• Medical Understanding of Yoga states that several yogic techniques like Pranayama, Nauli-Kriya, and Agni-Sara offer several benefits through brief intermittent hypoxia, such as increasing Nitric Oxide production, generation of collateral vessels in ischemic areas, and facilitating stem-cell trafficking.

• Chapters in this book discuss the positive role of air in the gastrointestinal tract, in inhibiting the causative organism of peptic ulcer, contributing to satiety and uplifting mood; and also helping release factors that prolong the life of insulin-secreting beta cells and facilitate their regeneration.

• This book reveals that breath-holding beyond the comfort zone switches on non-shivering thermogenesis.

• Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system by nose-gazing, by Aunkar Japa and some other techniques, and that of the sympathetic nervous system through mulabandha which bring about favorable changes in heart rate and blood pressure, have also been discussed.

• A new twist has been given to the understanding of the well-known Suryanamaskara which, according to the author, is not a physical exercise but a great technique to fill the intestines with air, which can enable one to reduce food intake without getting the usual cravings and also inhibit several intestinal pathogens.

• One can even bloat oneself to buoyancy and stay afloat on waters of immeasurable depth.

• The secret air-drinking yogic technique has been revealed in this book.

• With revolutionary concepts like 'Eating Protein is Madness' and possible reality and utility of Human hibernation (Hatha-yogic Samadhi), this book will serve as an invaluable companion not only for doctors but for those who are established in Yoga practice or involved in Yoga-teaching or Yoga-research.