Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH We are not the only ones affected by insecurity, fear, grief, sadness and anger that can be experienced by a life-changing event. Our four-legged friends can equally suffer when the familiarity of a daily routine, or the loss of, or change in a home they have come to know, is shattered.
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 It is a given that simple kitchen herbs destroy viruses and enhance your immunity. Our grandma knew it. Modern science and research has found that lavender and eucalyptus, for example, have good anti-viral properties. Among other kitchen herbs that also pack the anti-viral punch are rosemary, lemon balm, hyssop, peppermint, and tea
Words: Dr Loredana ORTIZ I was having a chat with a close friend, the other day. We were discussing cancer. She asked me what I would do if I had cancer and how I would go about with its treatment. The following is what occurred to me, I hope it proves helpful in educating and
Koonal BHANDARI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Your view on beauty? Beauty, as I understand, is a delightful ‘distraction.’ It materialises when I manage to steal a moment of tranquillity in my life. It also simply revels in the world around me. Picture this. When I ‘pause’ time and take a deep breath, while observing my grandma comfortably settled
Words: Dr Peter SWOBODA Exercise is good for your overall health and your heart in particular. Guidelines recommend that we should be doing 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous activity a week. But, does it matter when you do this exercise? Should you spread it out in the week, or does it lose some of the benefit if you
Dr Prasanna KULKARNI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I have had, since my formative years, a profound passion, also proclivity, for traditional knowledge, juxtaposed by a strong desire to making a positive impact on people’s lives. I fully believed that Ayurveda would provide me with the
Words: Tracy D KOLENCHUK Love your homeopath because your homeopath is a rebel like you, supporting medicines that work. For love. Love your family, love thy neighbour, and love your homeopath. Even if you don’t need a homeopath now, your aunt, your grandmother, or grandchild might. The decision to love your homeopath expands your future
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Knee joint pain, or what may clinically be diagnosed as osteoarthritis [OA], is a common disorder — majorly in the older age group, as well as young, also middle-age, adults. The causes may be direct, such as injury to the knee, degenerative changes, as also overuse, or indirect, viz., occupational
Words: Dr Pankaj AGGARWAL Be it a teenager, or septuagenarian, each of us is aware of the fact that smoking is harmful. Well, there is no cigarette wrapper that does not carry the caveat, “Smoking is injurious to health.” Yet, we find that approximately 975 million people are smokers worldwide. Quitting smoking is really tough.
Words: Dr Namitha RAJENDRAN P C You don’t think of sweeteners until the word, diabetes, ‘pops up’ in your mind, or life — or, you are an avid health buff, more so with ‘up-to-the-minute’ information cherry-picked from WhatsApp University. When the ‘likely’ diagnosis of the famed sugar disorder becomes a reality, the thought of having
