Words: Dr Manfred MUELLER Around age two-and-a-half, my youngest daughter began to make the unsolicited remark, “I am happy.” She has since proclaimed this almost daily — before breakfast in the morning, or in the middle of the afternoon, or sometimes before bedtime. She is one of those rare children [in America] who has never
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It’s a commonplace fact: anxious parents who enter a therapist’s office have just one notable query. They often argue that some of us aren’t always lucky — more so, their children, who as students, at all levels, need to face the music, as it were, vis-à-vis a vital keynote that separates
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Seventy-year-old Bill Richards loved to help others. He owned and operated the largest hardware store in Westchester County, US. He was an active man, the type of guy who’d run over to a neighbour’s house to fix something five minutes after getting the call. His store was fully stocked; if you
Words: Prof Krystine I BATCHO In his song Time Was, counterculture singer Phil Ochs reminisces about a past “when a man could build a home, have a family of his own. The peaceful years would flow; he could watch his children grow. But, it was a long time ago.” To Ochs, simpler times were better: “troubles were
Words: Dr Ronald D WHITMONT I have treated numerous cases of microbiome/immune system damage that have presented in the form of recurrent and chronic illness. These conditions can present as: chronic inflammatory illness [fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue], chronic infectious illness [chronic Lyme disease], recurrent acute illness [streptococcal pharyngitis, urinary tract infection, otitis media, sinusitis], allergic conditions
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The concept is as old as the hills. But, it’s also something that is new. As Jerry Lynch, a sports psychologist, and Chungliang Al Huang, a ta’i-chi master and expert calligrapher, explain in their ‘back-to-the-future’ standard for sporting excellence, Working Out, Working Within, which is, in essence, a premise on how
Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? This is a difficult question to answer because I don’t see myself as ‘doctor.’ I associate the word exclusively with conventional [allopathic] medicine. Homeopathy goes far beyond the realm of allopathy and is a true method of healing.
Words: Dr Manfred MUELLER This was a 52-year-old gentleman who had presented with kidney failure. His ‘creat’ levels were high, and there was albumin in the urine. There was also glucosuria. Decades ago, he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had been treated with multiple medications throughout his life. He spent several years in
Words: Drs Sidram GULED & Jyoti Sthoulya [obesity] is not only a disease; it is a phenotype, a disease manifestation, that is difficult for management. Patients of COVID-19, with associated obesity, to pick a recent example, had higher rates of hospital admission, need for oxygen, more ICU admissions and higher rates of mortality. When
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 nearly thirty-five years of research on this ‘designer fat,’ we’ve found out
