Dr. Alejandro Junger
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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So this was the world that I ended up in and that made me sick. And I said, nah, I'm going to find my own way. So this was three months before I graduated. I graduated as a cardiologist and I started looking for solutions for my problems. My biggest problem at the time was that I was severely depressed. I was actually thinking of... Killing myself.
And the only reason I didn't even start thinking of the way to do it is because I knew that I would destroy my parents. And as a good Jewish boy, Jewish mama, you know.
You can't do that to your mom and to my dad. I'm not going to do that. I'm going to find my way.
I was a taekwondo champion in Uruguay. I was competing. I was in school. I did really well in school. I had a full-on life without any problem. I mean, I had appendicitis when I was a kid, but that was it.
I was the happiest kid on the planet. I was deeply loved by my parents, my sisters. By your family. We had a big, beautiful community. It was like the perfect life.
Well, that's your conclusion. I'm just telling you my story.
I don't fully understand the question, but there is a problem with medicine these days and with the medical system and with the medical business, you know, because it is... It's a business.
Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. We are creatures of this planet, like all other creatures of this planet, right? And if you look at all other creatures of this planet, except the ones that we domesticated and make live with us, you look at that, you don't see creatures, animals in the wild, in their natural environment with depression or autoimmune diseases or diabetes.
There's no monkeys with cancer, right? There may be, but it's a rare thing, you know? Right. They live, they reproduce, they eat, when they find food, they fast when they don't, and then they die. Either an animal kills them and eats them, or they're old, or it's an accident of nature. But we have taken ourselves and put ourselves in this situation.
This unnatural environment, right, that not only are loaded with chemicals in the air we breathe, the water we drink and shower with, the medications we consume, the cosmetics we use that are full of chemicals, the cleaning products that we use in our homes, the architecture of our homes.
I don't know if you know, but a huge percentage of pollution in the world comes from architecture, from the making of cement, of clothes, of clothes. So we are surrounded ourselves with toxic chemicals, but that's not the only problem. We are also disconnected from our roots, from nature. And we live in this world in which our mind has taken over. We're not present anymore.
And our mind is always imagining either future or past scenarios which make you either sad or anxious or fearful or whatever it is. And you're always on a flight or fight mode. All other animals are present. You see a deer and, you know, they're just present. And if there's danger, their ears go up and they look and... And the danger is just that moment.
Either they escape or, you know, the tiger kills it or not. But after that, they go back to being present. We are as if a tiger is chasing us, after us, all day long.
The cortisol. I mean, that is the consequences. That is the... you know, the digital print of the chemical consequences of what's happening. But what's happening is really a disconnection from nature, a disconnection of mind, body, and spirit. And so I got really sick. I didn't want to take medications and I started looking for a different solution. My most
problematic symptom at that time was my depression. I couldn't get out of bed sometimes. I mean, I covered myself. I was on call. They were calling me, hey, are you coming or not coming? I had to force myself. It was really bad. So I decided not to take the medications and see if I can find something different. So I started going to therapy, psychologist, a
all kinds of things, until I found the concept and practices of meditation. Because the biggest problem was that I realized that my mind was always producing thoughts, thinking, thinking, thinking all day long. And some people even pride themselves, I can think of two or three things at the same time. But that's not something that I was actually choosing to do. It was just happening to me.
At one point I was like, I think I'm going crazy. Why am I thinking of all these negative things? If I had the power to decide, I wouldn't be thinking about this. So who is thinking? Who is deciding these thoughts in my head? I thought I was going nuts. I didn't know that everybody's having the same problem.
Yeah, I was like, am I going crazy? I saw people in the subways in New York speaking out loud to themselves. I said, the only difference between him and me is that he's doing it out loud. And he's a little bit... I'm a little bit better dressed, but that's it. And you see them and you think, oh, crazy people. But we're all like this. So when I found the concept of meditation, it said...
that constant thinking, which is mostly negative and repetitive, that goes on and on, that you would actually shut up if you could. This is what meditation can slow down and maybe even stop. And I say, whoa, that's what I want.
So I ended up, and this is a longer story, and one day maybe we talk about it, but I ended up in a monastery in India that my exchange was going there as a doctor, as a cardiologist. And in exchange, I learned how to meditate and do yoga. And I was running this huge ashram in Maharashtra in India. It's a place called Gurudev Siddha Peeth. And it's actually an ashram that has a life...
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