Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Free radicals are harmful compounds released during inflammation, or infection. They may, as a result, cause heart disease, also cancer — and, affect our body in a host of ways. Is there a mode — to defuse the free radical effect? Yes, ‘go for’ antioxidants, viz., vitamin C, among other things.
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Dr David Simon, MD, is a physician of repute at Chopra Center, US. A neurologist by training, Simon’s profound interest in holistic and consciousness-based medicine has been an on-going process, since his residency and fellowship years. In The Wisdom of Healing, Simon offers us a new model of health: a programme
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Life is the most complex material fact. It shows chemical and physical properties of matter. It is so simple; it is also composite. Take, for instance, beach sand. It is nothing, but silicon dioxide — the core of your personal computer. This does not mean that your gadget is a heap
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Osteoporosis is a bone disorder. It presents with the clinical portrait of a gradual decrease in the density of bones that weakens them and makes fractures possible. Bones, as you know, contain minerals, like calcium and phosphorus; they are essential to make bones hard and dense. The body requires an adequate
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Everybody can write — no two ways about it. Writing is meditation. Writing is therapeutic. It can heal emotional distress, moody blues, anxiety, among other things — and, elevate your life and also career. Don’t you write letters, mails, and/or ‘script’ your presentations? You do. You have it in you —
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Colour therapy has been shown to be ‘effective’ on the physical plane — because, colour impacts all of us. The therapy also has the ability to affect our deeper planes — at the psychological and spiritual levels. Since our well-being is not merely a physical concern, it is now not uncommon
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Life is a spiritual act — a state of activity and calm. It’s also a terrain for our many daily battles within. When you revere your mind, body, and soul, your search for life’s realities is achieved. You grow with wisdom and feel you are now just as much a part
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR In The Promise of Sleep, sleep medicine pioneer, Dr William C Dement, MD, PhD, who passed into the sunset, two summers ago, aged 91, narrates a refreshing relevant medical idiom. This is keyed to help us get a good feel of a whole, new idea — the quintessence of sleep. Dr Dement was
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Picture this — a spiritual inclination towards parental task is an idea whose time has come, with or without ‘initiation.’ It is a vision that is keyed to a deep personal conviction: parenting as a spiritual force, a structure, or worship, and also an acceptable attitude towards children. It is the
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There is more to memory than learning, and vice versa. Picture this: of noted psychologist Gordon H Bower’s fine example of a phenomenon called state-dependent learning. Bower recalls a funny sequence from one of Charlie Chaplin’s masterpieces, City Lights. Chaplin, as usual, plays the little tramp, and he saves a drunk from
