Dr Shalini KATOCH responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? Well, I never thought of becoming doctor; it just came to me ever since I understood my being. I knew only one thing, from then on — that I just want to be a doctor, no matter how
Words: Dr Vasant PATIL Ayurveda, the ancient science of life and healing, has stood the test of time with its holistic approach to health and well-being. Ayurveda is based on the balance of body, mind and spirit. It provides individualised, or bespoke, treatments, tailored to everyone’s unique prakriti. At a time when technology is rapidly
Words: Dr Robert VERKERK When we heard yet another account of a patient being given a conventional medical diagnosis, only to be sent away from the consultant’s office because there was nothing to be done except wait till the organ in question failed completely, it got us pretty heated. Especially, because, in this case the
Words: Paribha VASHIST India is home to a variety of crops, thanks to its vast diversity in agro-climatic conditions. With myriad opportunities to gain profit from selling agricultural produce, farmers are aiming to increase the annual crop production by growing all kinds of seasonal crops and indulging in food processing activities. This means they have a
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR When the Austrian paediatrician, Clemens von Pirquet, MD, first used the term, allergy, in the early 1900s — from the Greek allos, for altered state, and ergon, for reaction — to illustrate excess physiological responses to substances in the environment, the fascinating expression caught the fancy of the world. Today, allergy
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN As the manager of her family’s raucous Irish pub in midtown Manhattan, twenty-eight-year-old Molly Tracey was as far removed from a pure diet and environment as she could get. Although smoking is strictly prohibited in restaurants, the patrons of O’Shaughnessy’s couldn’t have cared less; to them, a pub wasn’t a pub
Words: Elizabeth MARSH Technology-related stress, overload and anxiety are common problems in today’s workplace, potentially leading to higher burnout and poorer health. Many of these issues are likely to have increased since remote working became much more widespread following the pandemic. In 2022, along with colleagues at the University of Nottingham, I conducted a review of the academic literature
Words: Dr Julian JONAS A patient I’ve worked with for a number of years reported that he had gum surgery, because there was no alternative to repair the erosion of the gum line in his mouth. I suggested that even though it was after the fact, before submitting to the knife, he might have considered
Keerthy SURESH on beauty, health, fitness and wellness. Your view on beauty? I believe that glamour is too often equated with beauty, but the fact is we have ‘elevated’ glamour into a mistaken idea. I am happy with my looks. However, focusing on roles is important and shooting for multiple movies at a time makes
Words: Kerry DULIN There is an old axiom in bodybuilding that says that ‘strength equals size.’ In other words, as your strength increases there will be a corresponding increase in size as well. On the surface this makes perfect sense. If you can lift more weight, or perform, a greater number of repetitions then you
