Words: Dr Ryan N HARRISON A ‘syndrome’ is a pattern, or collection, of symptoms that together indicates a disease. You don’t actually ‘catch’ a syndrome like you do a virus. Rather, the word ‘syndrome’ is used to describe a concurrence of symptoms that act as hallmarks for a disease, or health condition. Metabolic syndrome —
Words: Dr Joette CALABRESE Hey, moms, everywhere… Are you tired of using drugs that just don’t work? And, what’s worse, each medication comes with a slew of detrimental side-effects; all kept on the down low with that teeny, tweeny fine print. We should prick up our ears wherever there’s fine print. That’s where the most
Saurabh BATTIN responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Your view on beauty? I personally believe that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. I am into handlooms business. Whenever I see any hand-made product, with a minor misprint, I often find it beautiful, as I know and appreciate the focused effort the artist has put into
Words: Johnny WOOD If jogging, cycling, or brisk walks, are an essential part of our daily routine, could we be better off thinking outside of the box than our couch-loving friends, or neighbours? The link between physical exercise and improved health — in both body and mind — is long-established, but an active lifestyle also
Dr SANTOSH Y M responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I owe it to my cousin brother, a doctor, who is now based in London. I was in school when he was doing his internship at the government hospital. I once landed up at his workplace during
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Nearly 99 per cent of normal, healthy children attain day-time bladder control by age five. However, about 20 per cent of boys and about 10 per cent of girls may as yet have nocturnal [night-time] incontinence, or bedwetting, at age 7. Statistics suggests that 1 per cent of boys and
Words: Dr Mohit SANDHU Ayurveda is one of the oldest of medical sciences with eight-plus canonical components and eighteen-plus specialities. Apart from the specialities, pain management is, by far, the most significant Ayurveda practice — for over 5,000 years. As an Ayurveda specialist, I practice Ayurvedic pain management with agnikarma and vidhikarma. Besides focused, also
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN A strange thing happened in the late 1970s. An extract from hamburger was found to inhibit tumours in mice. In 1987, this extract was identified as conjugated linoleic acid [CLA]. CLA belongs to the omega-6 fatty acid family. After over forty years of research on this ‘designer fat,’ we’ve found out
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It is possible that whosoever coined the oft-used locution, ‘pain in the neck,’ would have surely experienced how annoying and troublesome the agony can be — this could, perforce, be just one reason why all of us assign it to people, or tasks, that cause ‘distress,’ more so in a literal
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The idea of a virtual world, or the so-called preserve of modern thought, is not really new. It was the philosopher Plato, who first suggested the idea of a virtual world — a long, long time ago. He equated the ‘physical realm of being’ to a cavern in which imprisoned folks
