A short promotional/transcript excerpt from Dr. Shabana Parvez introducing the melancholic body temperament (cold and dry). It describes typical physical and mental characteristics (thin, cold, prone to stiffness, anxiety, depression, poor circulation, constipation), suggests balancing strategies (hot, moist diet, warm/humid climates, warming herbs and drinks), and advertises a paid course that teaches theory, disease tendencies, diet and lifestyle guidance, and the six essential factors of health.
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Hi, My name is Dr. Shabana Parvez. I'm a medical doctor and owner of Arlington Integrative Medical Center. Thank you for taking my Body Temperament Type quiz. You have taken the first step towards balancing out your body type. So are you curious to know your body temperament type and what you can do to use that information to your advantage? Let's start. You are the melancholic type, in other words, the cold and dry type. What might sound familiar to you is feeling cold all the time, a little blue or down on some days. When it comes to the melancholic type, also think thin, lean and almost knobby. Body Type the melancholic type is the most skinny type of the four temperaments. The melancholic temperament has a tendency to be lean with prominent veins, bones and joints. You tend to build muscle more easily than the other types, but you are prone to getting stiff muscle aches and pains. Your metabolism tends to be moderate to slow and if you have health problems, they tend to be cold and dry. Health problems Things that are caused excess buildup of cold and dryness in the body for example Anxiety, nervousness, anorexia, stress, poor circulation, dizziness, depression, anemia, dehydration and constipation. Most importantly, excess cold and dryness in the body can cause one to feel overall out of balance and not at their best health. But rest assured, famous ancient doctors and researchers like Hippocrates, Avicenna, and many others for hundreds of years have outlined entire books about how to holistically balance the melancholic type. Did you know that for a great part of history, dis ease was treated by balancing your innate body type? So, ready to work with your body temperament instead of against it? Ready to balance your type and feel overall healthier and better in your skin. Ready to discover how to treat your body with an approach that's unique to you? Instead of a one size fits all approach that simply doesn't work, try these three. Try a hot and moist diet food such as lamb, goat, duck, bananas, asparagus and breads. Enjoy and live in a hot or wet climate. Humid tropical areas might be better for you. Explore some hot and wet herbs such as bay leaf, cayenne, ginger, dill, fennel and drinks such as green tea. All of these things can help you warm up a bit and get rid of excess dryness in your body. As a result, your body will start to feel more balanced and in harmony. Do you want to discover more and truly take advantage of this information? I have taken my 26 years of experience as a doctor and holistic health professional working with hundreds of patients and my own practical experience with the four body temperaments and together I have combined them and created a special course for you to balance your temperament and harmonize your body so that you can feel more energy, better sleep, better focus and overall a feeling of being more balanced and more comfortable in your skin and overall healthier. This program will help you, number one, understand the background of the theory of temperaments so that you can, number two, know what diseases and tendencies your body type is disposed to and then number three, learn the types of foods you should eat or avoid and the activities you should do or avoid to counteract your imbalance and number four, learn how to put it all together with the six essential factors of health to holistically bring your body into an optimal balance and what to do to keep it that way. Want a sneak peek at this advanced tool for your healthy balance? Click the button for a sneak peek of what's waiting for you.
