Went to school for Ayurveda for about three years and Worked in a Ayurvedic Clinic for two years I have seen health concious people have a harder time healing and a bunch of them took literally two years or more to heal than the ones that were not concious but coming in to learn. My teacher said it mainly has to do with the mind and when the mind is more relaxed even for diets that it can use the energy in the body properly. It seems that the person that comes in already conscious tend to carry more stress for some odd reason. But it becomes harder for them to give healthy thanks to food and to life and always in constant inner battle that is hard to understand. One the main keys to health is to free yourself from harsh dogmas and free the mind.
MENTAL DISTRESS is directly linked to over production of free radicals. When somebody is under anger, anxiety, tension, or stress, it creates chemicals (cortisone and catecholamines) which react with different organs and cells and ultimately create free radicals and after some time, disease starts occurring wherever the deficiency is in the body. You have to have a balanced function of mind and that comes from meditation.
