Shilpa SHETTY-KUNDRA on beauty, fitness, health and wellness. Your view on beauty? Beauty, for me, is a synonym for dignity. This is because dignity surpasses the fundamental definition of beauty. It is that one thing that always adds not just to your beauty quotient, but also personality. It will never ever go out of style.
Words: Dr Lindsay BOTTOMS When it comes to being fit and healthy, we’re often reminded to aim to walk 10,000 steps per day. This can be a frustrating target to achieve, especially when we’re busy with work and other commitments. Most of us know by now that 10,000 steps are recommended everywhere as a target
Dr Vijayeta NAYAK responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? When I was in high school, I was diagnosed with epidermolysis bullosus — an uncommon, or rare, condition that causes fragile, blistering skin. I was given allopathic medicines for a few months, but there was just no relief.
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV The original idea of homeopathy, which is curing with ‘similars’ — ‘likes cure likes’ — dates back to Hippocrates in the Fourth Century BC. He believed there were two possible ways to cure people, by contraries, or similars. ‘Allopathy’ has followed the way of the contraries through the centuries, while homeopathy
Words: Dr Joseph KELLERSTEIN Elderly patients always seemed tricky regarding their reporting and response to treatment. Either I could not get a clear case, or there were so many aggravating factors that characterising the illness was difficult. Give them a remedy and when assessing the follow-up carefully there is either no clear response, or it
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Water is the most indispensable, life-sustaining element for everything in nature — including us. It is the most basic need for survival. It is rightly said that water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. About 60 per cent, or more, of our body is made of water. Every physiological
Manetain is India’s leading brand in curly hair care and accessories. It received ₹75L, as investment, for a 10 per cent equity, from Aman Gupta, the founder of Boat, in the second season of Shark Tank India. Manetain was launched by Yuba and Hinshara in 2018. The duo met in a ‘Curly Hair’ WhatsApp Group.
Words: Andreas CHAI When it comes to climate change, do you practice what you preach? While many of us express a strong concern about the issue, there tends to be a yawning gap between this concern and many peoples’ willingness to actually act on it by doing things like using less power, or petrol. Why
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It’s Valentine Day. Yet again. The philosopher Socrates articulated that love is not lacking in anything — it is much more than approximation, also proximal to yearning and, therefore, not fixated with itself. He expressed, no less, that love does not possess, notwithstanding its plethora of beautiful things, including wisdom, and
Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE Q: I’ve been always perplexed and fascinated with the universal expression called allergy. I tend to have allergic rhinitis [nasal allergy], or quite something like it, at least twice a year. My friends are no exceptions. Yet, I find the illness complex and confusing. Could you separate the chaff from
