Daily Rhythm, Sleep, and Cardiovascular Self-Care: An Ayurvedic Lens on Heart Disease

Deep-research article applying an Ayurvedic lens — labeled traditional education only — to heart disease, daily rhythm, sleep, and cardiovascular self-care, built around what human studies actually measured. In United States data, 919,032 people died from cardiovascular disease in 2023, 1 in every 3 deaths (CDC Heart Disease Facts, National Center for Health Statistics 2018-2023). Heart disease accounted for 22.6% of deaths among Black (non-Hispanic) people in 2021 compared with 17.4% for all groups (CDC). In prospective cohorts totaling 474,684 participants, short sleep was associated with higher later risk of coronary heart disease (RR 1.48) and stroke (RR 1.15) but not total cardiovascular disease, and long sleep was associated with higher risk of all three (Cappuccio 2011). In observational studies totaling 2,011,935 people, shift work was associated with myocardial infarction (RR 1.23) and coronary events (RR 1.24) and was not associated with increased mortality (Vyas 2012). In 44 randomized trials with 3,168 participants, yoga was followed by lower blood pressure and several lipid measures than usual care or no intervention, with risk of bias high or unclear for most trials (Cramer 2014). No study tested an Ayurvedic assessment, and no product is named. Evidence grade: EMERGING for the routine patterns and practice; TRADITIONAL-ONLY for the Ayurvedic framing. Educational article from the Buddha Ayurvedic School of Medicine: https://buddha.hospital