Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Osteoarthritis [OA] is a degenerative disorder. It affects millions of people worldwide — it’s seemingly more common than heart disease and diabetes. Call it a paradox, or what you may, one major fact remains — OA is only going to expand in its intensity and also get firmly rooted in one’s
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR You have been doing your exercise for improved, or better, cardiac health for a while, or for a long period of time. It is possible, therefore, that familiarity with your fitness routine may have brought in a dose of boredom into your regular exercise plan. You may have also asked yourself:
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most of us have an uncanny knack for holding things back. From emotions to gadgets that we don’t use. We hold back even when we don’t want to — knowing fully well that we aren’t doing the right thing. You may call this ‘being stuck’ on the threshold of emotional release
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We all go through life like waves over matter, or slow, measured upsurges — a form of precise, or inventive, transformation. This is part of our time and space continuum. It defines us and contextualises our existence — of who we are, as self-regulating, independent entities, with each of us being
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Question: Heart disease seems to run in my family. Please let me know the basics and also what I can do to ‘prevent’ the disease, if possible. — S K, Bengaluru Answer: A host of risk factors plays a major role in the development of heart disease. For example: cigarette smoking,
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Allergies can often be psychosomatic. There is an interesting story. A nineteenth-century US physician, Dr John Noland MacKenzie, MD, wrote how one of his patients, a 32-year old woman, experienced allergy symptoms when exposed to the odour of roses. Her symptoms included a violent cold with watery eyes and runny nose,
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Every workplace has a whole host of policies and procedures. They are in place not because they ought to be there, but because they are formulated in a manner that the company deems fit — for its functioning and also for achieving its business objectives. First, and foremost, you should try
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Think of a ‘new light’ splashed on an old thought ― a classy synthesis on the potential of how our brains progress. Years ago a research team in the UK compared brain images of 16 male taxi drivers with 50 from general residents. They reported that an area of the brain,
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Millions are overweight and unhealthy today. It is, therefore, not uncommon for most of them to embark on new dietetic experiments and diet plans at any given point of time, and at the drop of a new ‘formula.’ The problem, in reality, is not so much with dieting, but falling for
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There are dozens of viruses that cause colds — the most common being rhinoviruses. Over 200 types of rhinoviruses are implicated in the causative mechanism of a cold. The worst part is — the nasal distress, caused by rhinoviruses, are more frequent in spring and fall, although they can instigate the
