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  It’s part of a heavily customised mental baggage we all carry. What’s more, the truth about good food, and nutrition, cannot be conveyed in a manner comprehensible to each of us on planet earth. Not because of the subject’s astounding complexity, claims, counter-claims, fads and myths, but also inasmuch as our

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most of us have a penchant to read a self-help book, or at least carry one around. The best part is best-selling self-help authors are happening wordsmiths. So, what’s so great about this, you may well ask. The fact is — the publishing world is abuzz as and when a self-help

Words: Jawahar NIDAMBOOR The spurt in holistic therapies, not to speak of their growing influence, has brought to the fore a vital component: the rehumanising of medicine. Though there’s still a long way to go before this primaeval idea becomes reality, the blueprint is, in its entirety, totally contemporary, thanks to the sound, the image,

Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 In The Gut-Immune Connection, Dr Emeran Mayer, MD, a noted physician, UCLA professor and researcher, offers a comprehensive look at the link between alterations to the gut microbiome and the development of chronic diseases, like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, as well as susceptibility to infectious diseases like COVID-19. He argues that