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Jay Shetty Podcast

Radhi Devlukia On The Surprising Habits That Are HARMING Your Digestion

Jay’s wife Radhi is back on the podcast! This time, to share her extensive nutrition and digestive health wisdom!

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Feb 26, 20241h 12mWatch on YouTube

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Radhi returns to share JoyFull and a food-first approach to wellbeing
Jay Shetty welcomes Radhi Devlukia back, celebrating her new cookbook JoyFull and framing it as more than recipes. They set up the conversation as practical habits and rituals around food that support daily wellbeing.
- •Jay introduces Radhi and highlights her background as a clinical dietician, nutritionist, and Ayurvedic health counselor
- •JoyFull is presented as a cookbook plus day-to-day guides for habits and routines
- •Jay describes how Radhi’s coaching helped him change long-term habits (sleep, sugar, soda, movement)
- •Radhi emphasizes teaching from love and knowledge rather than fear or shame
Family roots: how generations shaped Radhi’s cooking and comfort foods
Radhi explains how food was central to family connection and celebrations growing up. She shares how her grandma, mom, and dad each influenced her cooking, and how memories are woven into the book’s recipes.
- •Radhi connects food with bonding, celebration, and feeling love through meals
- •Her mom cooked homemade breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working full-time
- •Her grandma passed down cooking traditions that became generational
- •Her dad stepping in to cook—especially his mac and cheese—became a lasting memory
- •Recipes are tied to heritage, comfort foods, and specific family moments
From hospital dietetics to Ayurveda: prevention and personalization
Radhi contrasts her experience working in hospitals with what drew her to Ayurveda after moving to New York. She describes Ayurveda as individualized, preventive, and rooted in learning to observe how your own body responds.
- •Radhi enjoyed patient-facing clinical work across diverse settings (diabetes clinics, malnourishment, pediatrics)
- •She struggled with system-driven recommendations and wanted to be more food-forward
- •She defines Ayurveda as ‘science of life’ and explains why it felt like ‘home’
- •She contrasts Western medicine’s curative focus with Ayurveda’s emphasis on early symptoms and prevention
- •She stresses that the same food can affect different people differently, so observation matters
The three modes: using Ayurveda’s framework to understand food and energy
Radhi lays out the modes of goodness, passion, and ignorance and applies them to lifestyle and diet. She explains how freshness, intensity, and heaviness map to how food can influence both digestion and the mind.
- •Radhi defines the three modes as energies present in what we eat and how we live
- •Mode of goodness is framed as nourishing foods with ‘prana’ (life force), emphasizing freshness
- •She uses an apple’s degradation over time to illustrate how food can lose vitality
- •Mode of passion includes foods and activities that give immediate gratification and intensity
- •Mode of ignorance includes foods that feel heavy or lifeless and can make digestion sluggish
Relearning your body’s signals: food diaries, cravings, and cause-and-effect
Jay and Radhi discuss how people lose touch with internal cues by following external trends. Radhi describes using a simple food-and-feelings diary to identify triggers, while Jay shares how disrupted routines affected his sugar cravings.
- •Jay describes using a food diary/food audit to see subtle links between food and sleep or mood
- •Radhi explains how external advice can drown out bodily cues until symptoms escalate
- •She describes tracking what you ate and how you felt a few hours later to spot patterns
- •Jay shares a personal example of craving desserts after several nights of disrupted routines
- •They frame awareness as non-shaming recognition of triggers and patterns
Portion awareness: ‘satisfied, not stuffed’ and the mechanics of digestion
Radhi explains the Ayurvedic idea of eating to about three-quarters full to support digestion and energy. She links overeating to sluggishness and discomfort, and highlights mindful eating as the practical way to notice satiety cues in time.
- •Radhi describes eating until three-quarters satisfied rather than fully stuffed
- •She explains how overeating can overwhelm digestion and leave food undigested
- •Undigested food is linked to bloating, grogginess, and feeling worse after meals
- •She emphasizes mindful eating and reducing distraction to detect fullness earlier
- •She notes digestion begins before the first bite—through seeing and preparing for food
Chewing, eating with your hands, and avoiding iced drinks during meals
Radhi focuses on small, surprising habits that can change digestion: chewing thoroughly, using hands to reconnect with food, and avoiding cold drinks while eating. Jay adds cultural and personal context for why these habits are easy to miss but impactful.
- •Radhi shares her grandad’s reminder to chew thoroughly and explains why the mouth reduces the stomach’s workload
- •She points out chewing is especially important for higher-fiber foods like beans and salads
- •She explains eating/cooking with hands as a sensory cue that reduces distraction and increases connection to food
- •Radhi describes cold drinks and too much liquid during meals as dampening ‘digestive fire’ and diluting digestive juices
- •Jay reflects on how normalized iced drinks with meals are culturally and how hard habits can be to notice
Skipping meals and fasting: why it depends on the individual
Jay asks about skipping meals and how it affects overeating later. Radhi responds that fasting and meal timing depend on the person, and she contrasts how her body handles fasting differently than Jay’s, emphasizing self-observation over trends.
- •Radhi says the right approach varies by body type and personal response
- •She shares that she can work out and delay eating, and sometimes feels better fasting
- •She notes Jay feels negative effects if meals are late and describes his strong hunger cues
- •She warns against following ‘intermittent fasting’ trends if they make you feel awful
- •They return to the theme of listening early to the body’s signals before they become louder
Breathwork as the fastest reset: slowing down before meals and stressful moments
Radhi identifies breath as her go-to practice on busy days to slow the mind and body. Together, they explore how breath reflects emotion—and how changing breath intentionally can shift state and presence.
- •Radhi recommends taking a few deep breaths before eating and before stressful situations
- •She describes breath as the anchor between mind and body and a tool she uses for anxiety
- •Jay explains how different emotional states change breathing patterns
- •They emphasize you can also reverse it—choose breath patterns to influence how you feel
- •Radhi describes breath’s role in navigating intense emotions, including crying and overwhelm
Rethinking plant-based protein: satiation, hair/skin changes, and sources
Radhi shares that she changed her perspective on protein and saw noticeable effects after increasing it. She discusses plant-based protein options and addresses her earlier concerns about soy, emphasizing moderation and research.
- •Radhi says protein is what she changed her mind about this past year
- •She links higher protein intake to feeling more satiated and staying full longer between meals
- •She shares personal observations about hair shedding and skin improving with more protein
- •She lists plant-based sources: beans, lentils, tofu/soy, nuts and seeds (including hemp and flax)
- •She explains her view that problems arise with excessive soy intake, not moderate amounts
Changing your relationship with food—and why spices are central to JoyFull
Radhi describes shifting from eating to look a certain way to eating to feel good, and how self-perception can steal presence. She then explains how spices make healthy food satisfying, culturally expansive, and part of her everyday ‘medicine box.’
- •Radhi names her biggest shift as eating to feel good rather than to look a certain way
- •She discusses self-objectification and how living through others’ perceptions reduces presence
- •She emphasizes food can bring both joy and wellbeing, not a forced tradeoff
- •Radhi explains spices elevate simple ingredients and connect you to different cuisines and cultures
- •She describes using spices in daily life (including CCFT tea) and encourages experimenting rather than being prescriptive
A full-day rhythm: morning rituals, balanced lunches, lighter dinners, and evening wind-down
Radhi walks through her morning routine (tongue scraping, tea, meditation, workouts) and her approach to meals throughout the day. She also shares evening practices like dim lighting and self-massage, plus an observation that earlier/lighter dinners supported better sleep for her.
- •Radhi outlines morning practices: tongue scraping, CCFT tea, mantra meditation with breathwork, and workouts
- •She shares current breakfast preferences, including savory options and adding protein
- •She explains her lunch approach: balanced meals, variety of colors, and building meals from protein/veg/carbs
- •She describes dinner as more comfort-focused (soups/dal/curries) with lighter carb choices at night
- •Evening routine includes walking, avoiding bright light, reading, and Abhyanga (self-massage with oils)
- •She shares noticing improved sleep when finishing eating earlier and keeping dinners lighter
The ‘recipe game’: fast meals, hosting menus, meal prep tactics, and Radhi’s hope for readers
Jay quizzes Radhi with real-life scenarios—busy workdays, dating, friends’ nights, and date night—prompting her to name recipes and menu ideas from the book. They close with Radhi’s intentions for JoyFull: joyful, nourishing food, small daily moments, and bringing vibrance through spices.
- •Radhi suggests quick options like a rainbow noodle stir-fry and emphasizes prep like chopping veggies in advance
- •She explains meal planning reduces the ‘figuring it out’ barrier that leads to ordering out
- •She shares entertaining picks for different occasions (impressing a date, girls’ night, guys’ night, date night)
- •Jay reiterates the book’s practicality and celebrates Radhi’s work
- •Radhi closes with her hopes: no need to choose between joy and feeling good, joy builds through small moments, and spices add vibrance to food and life

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