Let Food Be Thy Medicine: Ayurveda and Natural Food Healing for Women’s Health with Gita Vellanki

About this episode

Gita Vellanki discusses her journey in creating a food-based wellness brand inspired by Ayurvedic traditions to support women's health.

“Every time we visited my grandmother in India, she went to the kitchen first before the pharmacy. Nine out of ten times, she came back with something that made us feel better.” -Gita Vellanki In this episode of DNA Talks, host Krista Kostroman sits down with Gita Vellanki, founder of Neeshi, a food-based wellness brand inspired by Ayurvedic traditions. Gita shares her personal journey from working in high tech to creating products that support women through hormonal transitions—from te...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Krista Kostroman

Guest: Gita Vellanki

Topics covered

• Ayurveda
• natural food healing
• women's health
• hormonal transitions
• wellness

Keywords

• Ayurveda
• women's health
• natural healing
• hormonal transitions
• wellness brand

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Neeshi

Places: India

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