Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Vitiligo [white patches, or leucoderma] is a chronic skin disorder. It causes depigmentation in patches of skin. The disorder occurs when melanocytes, the cells responsible for skin pigmentation, die, or are unable to function. While less than two per cent of the world’s population suffers from vitiligo, its impact is upsetting
Dhara KANABAR responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Your view on beauty? Beauty, for me, is something that is all-pervading. It’s also an attribute that cannot be restricted exclusively to societal standards, or norms, viz., external charisma, or allure. Each and every living being, or every non-animate thing, in my view, has some, or the other, form
Dr Neha DHIWARE responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? Probably, because of genetics, to use a platitudinous cliché. My parents are not just doctors, but a team that works in tandem. It’s, therefore, impossible to have dinner table discussions that did not involve medicine — thanks to
Words: Dr Christine LASCHKOLNIG The circumstances of delivery have an important impact on our development. Dr Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD, the famous Czech psychiatrist, realised how much the process of delivery influences our life. Difficult deliveries especially shape our body, mind, and soul. I had the chance to observe this in a patient. She got
Words: Dr Asit Kumar PANJA Food is one of the three supporting pillars of life. It has a direct impact on our body [dosha, dhatu and mala], senses and mind. This impact relates to origin, growth and development, and also destruction [by causing illness] of the elements supporting life. The goal of taking food is to provide
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Many of us have a way with ourselves. We feel we are ‘victims’ for no real reason. The point is we never asked that we be born at a particular time, on a particular day, or year. We did not ask for what we got to begin with. It was only
Words: Frank MORAES We live a lifestyle that offers us more modern conveniences than ever before. However, these conveniences have made our lives progress at a rapid pace. With that fast pace comes a somewhat hefty price: more stress and a lack of healthy communication. What also comes from this rushed, communication-poor lifestyle is a lot
Words: Paribha VASHIST The most pressing issue today is rural-urban dichotomy, more so with regard to nutritional intake. It is a fact too that urbanisation and globalisation have ruffled the dynamics. Now, the problem of malnutrition pervades all settings — what’s more, market-driven forces seem to only exacerbate the whole issue, from the ground up.
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Free radicals. When I was in medical school, I rarely heard a word about them. Only a small group of ‘kooks’ would rave about the powers of vitamins and minerals. It wasn’t until my own struggles with asthma in the late 1980s that I began to appreciate the benefits of antioxidants;
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR All of us have a quest — the search for happiness, or complete contentment. Some of us endeavour to take it to the next level — bliss, or ecstasy. While there is no precise definition for true happiness, philosophers define the true nature of ecstasy as deferment of all conscious awareness
