Everyone desires good health. But what is the point of failure? A single thing that, if changed, could dramatically alter outcomes? No, I am not speaking about a super food, or a magic supplement. Instead, I am speaking about the person who cooks your food. Because the audience who reads
Insulin resistance is a condition where your body needs more insulin to do the same job. If you have heard the term thrown around and wondered what on earth is going on, let us find out. Your liver breaks down food and converts it into blood sugar. Your body then
Stress is a part of our everyday lives. Work, family, children, friends. When things are going well, we worry it may not sustain. When things aren’t right, we worry about when they will improve. But why does stress make us feel hungry? To understand this, we need to understand
Nanoparticles are very tiny particles. If the earth was our reference point, a nano particle could be as small as an atom. Really tiny. Which is what makes them extremely useful as a drug delivery mechanism. Allow me to explain. Imagine that a small cross section of one cell in
I was hosting Ben Greenfield, among the world’s top bio hackers and longevity experts on The Ritesh Bawri Show. The question I asked him about nutrition was how to fuel a long run. His immediate question to me was “why would you run?” Which set me thinking. Here is
Wu Wei is a Chinese term that loosely translates into non doing or not doing. It is not accurate as often happens when you translate language. A more accurate understanding is the art of doing while being still or calm. Human beings have a tendency to get excitable when doing.
I am a huge fan of the Sun. Spending time in sunlight, I mean. Our forefathers worshipped the Sun. Ra, the Sun God. Or doing a surya namaskar, depending on where you lived. But why did we worship the Sun with such fervour? We all know that the Sun provides
The word “nutraceutical” was coined in 1989 by Dr. Stephen L. DeFelice. A combination of the words “nutrition” and “pharmaceutical” it was to convey the need for nutrition as medicine. In this case delivered through a drug. The concept is older. Greeks, Indians, and the Chinese have used nutraceuticals since
Liver cancer is cancer that affects the liver cells and your bile ducts. Why do you get liver cancer and what can you do to prevent it? The most common form is hepatocellular or cancer of the liver cells. In this form, the cells of your liver get diseased, causing
We were at our children’s annual sports day yesterday. A voice welcomed us, thanking us for taking time out from our "busy schedules" to take part in the celebrations. But why do we have such busy lives? Why do we take pride in demonstrating, in fact, often
Build small circles. In the world we live in today, building small circles seems counterintuitive. You could be labelled unambitious. But nothing ever got done without building small circles first. Human beings worship outsized, ambitious, outcomes. Man on the moon. Climbing Everest. But we ignore the trivia that it took
Have you found yourself in a situation where the voice inside your head is telling you to forgive, forget and move on? When it did, did you angrily respond saying “No, never. I can't let it go?” If you did, consider that perhaps our understanding of forgiveness is