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Wellness In Balance · Harmony In Nature
Five books published, a sixth on the way: writing on personal discovery, balanced wellness, and the microbiome.
MemoirReclaiming Life Through Balance
For 25 years, Vijay K. Ahuja’s health shaped everything else in his life. In February 2024 he began asking new questions about food, the microbiome, and the wisdom of traditional kitchens. The Awakening is his first-person account of what he learned, what changed, and what it means to reclaim a life through balance.
Paperback · ISBN 979-8-9079-4000-0
EPUB · ISBN 979-8-9079-4002-4
WellnessHarmony with Nature
Wellness is less a destination than a relationship with rhythm, rest, nourishment, and the quiet signals the body sends every day. In this brief, reflective guide, Vijay K. Ahuja invites readers to slow down, listen, and rediscover the balance nature has always offered.
Paperback · ISBN 979-8-90794-001-7
EPUB · ISBN 979-8-90794-003-1
The Awakening and Wellness in Balance are available now in paperback and ebook, direct from the publisher or from Amazon, and any bookstore can order them using the ISBNs above.
The Awakening, direct from the publisher ↗ The Awakening on Amazon ↗ Wellness in Balance, direct from the publisher ↗ Wellness in Balance on Amazon ↗
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Ebook · available now
Food, the Microbiome, and the Art of Eating in Conversation with the Body
Should you sprout your lentils, or not? Soak your almonds, or skip it? Ferment, or just cook? To Sprout or Not answers the question in its first pages, then makes you genuinely capable, food by food.
A master table tells you what to do with every common bean, grain, nut, and seed. Step-by-step methods cover soaking, sprouting, fermenting, and cooking; a food-by-food card deck covers everything from everyday legumes to unusual sprouts; and plain-language chapters explain how preparation changes the conversation between your food and your gut microbiome, grounded in both traditional wisdom and current science.
Includes a quick-start week, simple recipes, a troubleshooting guide, a fridge cheat-sheet, and a glossary.
Ebook · ISBN 979-8-90794-007-9 · $8.99
Ebook available now through IngramSpark’s retail network; the paperback is on its way. Book details
Ebook · available now
A Microbiome Perspective
Fermented foods are everywhere, and so are the promises made about them. To Ferment or Not to Ferment: A Microbiome Perspective offers a more honest answer: it depends. Vijay K. Ahuja explores how fermented foods meet the gut, why the same jar can suit one person and not another, and how traditions from Indian kitchens to the voyages of Captain Cook made fermentation part of daily life. It closes with a practical guide to fermenting at home, from sauerkraut and brine pickles to homemade yogurt, written with care and without hype.
Ebook · ISBN 979-8-90794-005-5 · $7.99
Ebook available now through IngramSpark’s retail network; the paperback is on its way. Book details
Ebook · available now
Prebiotics, Probiotics, Postbiotics—and the Whole-Food Path to Balance
Most of us have stood in the supplement aisle, unsure what “probiotic” even means, let alone how it differs from a prebiotic or a postbiotic. The gut is not an empty container to be filled, but a living ecosystem already within us, asking to be fed rather than replaced.
The Living Microbiome untangles the three words the marketplace keeps confusing, explains how the gut works, and shows what the science does, and does not, support: why most swallowed probiotics never take hold, how to read a label like a scientist, where the evidence genuinely supports a probiotic, and how whole foods feed the balance already inside you.
Ebook · ISBN 979-8-90794-009-3 · $8.99
Ebook available now through IngramSpark’s retail network; the paperback is on its way. Book details
Coming soon · Book six
A Traveler’s Guide to the Hidden World That Helps Keep You in Balance
Inside you lives a hidden world—trillions of tiny microbes that quietly help keep you in balance. This friendly, plain-language guide is your map to that world, with the science made simple and the hype left behind.
Travel through four unhurried legs: what your microbiome actually is, the everyday things that shape it, how it recovers and changes across a lifetime, and how to make sense of it all without overreacting. No diet plans. No miracle cures—just a clear, calm way of understanding the remarkable living world you carry inside you.
“You cannot force your body into health. You can only support it into balance.”
— Vijay K. Ahuja
Release date and formats will be announced here.
Wellness In Balance · Harmony In Nature