Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Despite the incredible advances modern medicine has made in the last forty years, heart attacks are still the single leading cause of death. Even though we understand the importance of a diet low in saturated fats, and the preventive impact of exercise, most of us know little about magnesium, the one
Kalki KOECHLIN on beauty, fitness, health and wellness. Your view on beauty? There is always a certain pressure to look in a fixed, definite way in the movie industry — this affects young girls to the extent that they end up making changes to their looks. The weight of looking good is difficult for us
Words: Dr Joette CALABRESE Remember the old commercial that warned, ‘It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature’? Well, the advertiser may have been hawking margarine [which you know you’ll never find in my home], but the sentiment remains true just the same. Cybersickness is much the same as seasickness, except your body is not actually
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR History is witness to one, primal fact of life: that no social endeavour is more difficult, more complex, and equally more awesome than leadership. More so, effective leadership — be it statecraft, or organisational stewardship. If effective leadership is an essential attribute, the key to every responsibility of a leader, learning
Words: Eileen Hoenigman MEYER We all go through hard times. Whether it’s managing an illness, supporting a sick family member, going through a divorce, aiding a struggling child, or dealing with a job loss in the family, weathering a crisis is an emotional and logistical undertaking. Most of us have to work during these difficult
Words: Dr Gery KARANTZAS You’re an independent, capable adult all year round. But when you gather with family for a holiday, such as Christmas, suddenly the child in you comes out. Maybe, you find yourself fighting with a sibling over a board game, or being sulky around your parents. Why does it feel like you
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV The practice of meditation helps to calm the mind, relax the physical self, and amplify inner peace. One of the practical modes to enhance our meditative practice entails the usage of spiritual tools. The most important of such meditation tools, in my view, are — Mantra. This this is constant reciting
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most clinicians, physicians, researchers, and others are up against a huge challenge — the overwhelming wealth of information, even in taut, small areas of speciality interest. Reviews designed to summarise the outsized volumes of information are, as a result, frequently published. When a review is done systematically, following certain criteria and
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN The case of fifty-eight-year-old Peter Francis has to be one of the strangest I’ve seen in my years of practice. Although Peter had suffered from arthritis for a number of years, which is odd at his age, we could find no reason why such joint pain should strike so early in
Soma, the Ayurvedic kitchen at Maharishi Ayurveda Hospital, has announced its special holiday initiative, ‘Santa’s Gift of Wellness’, inviting guests to celebrate the season with a renewed focus on health and balance. Running until January 1, 2025, this unique offering is designed to merge the joy of festivities with Ayurveda’s ancient principles of holistic living. Santa’s Gift
