Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR You’d sure think what the buzzword about nutraceuticals is all about. Because, the expression seems to be doing the rounds, much more than its equally noted ‘corollary’ — functional foods. Here goes — Nutraceuticals are simply functional foods with specific health and medical benefits. They also refer to dietary supplements and/or
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN The existence of vitamin E was first uncovered in 1920, but Agnes Fay Morgan and her colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley are credited with the 1937 discovery of vitamin E’s special role in the body. While myriad studies have shown the promise of other natural herbs and supplements,
Words: Dr Christine LASCHKOLNIG The body reflects our temperament; choleric personalities, who explode like volcanoes, develop illnesses that have a sudden and acute onset. Individuals who tend to withdraw from the world and suppress their emotions develop insidious and chronic diseases, as their body is too weak to fight disease-causing circumstances, for example, with an
Saumya POOJARI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Your view on beauty? I believe in the timeless adage — that outer beauty attracts, while inner beauty captivates. A person may be tall, fair, have beautiful eyes, among other embellishments, but what is of paramount importance is having a mindful soul. Else, beauty, in spite of everything, may
Dr Chaithra S RAOresponds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? It happened while I was growing up. I watched my mother and grandmother ‘cook up’ home remedies for simple ailments. The way my paediatrician treated me as a kid and my botanist uncle, who ‘practiced’ Ayurveda, also stoked
Words: Dr Minati SAHA Kidney stones, or renal calculi, nephrolithiasis, or urolithiasis, are not a contemporary phenomenon. They have been known, or documented, since ancient times. They are called ‘kidney stones’ owing to their distinctive similitude to garden pebbles. They form in the ‘craters’ of the renal accumulating system from metabolic by-products found in the
Words: Dr Naveen Kumar BOGGARAPU Nine-year-old SM presented with symptoms of faecal incontinence [encopresis] ever since she was three as her doting mother put it. Her stools were reportedly normal in the morning followed by several episodes of involuntary stools throughout the day. She would obviously soil her clothes without even being aware of it,
Words: Andre ZIZI To succeed in life, you ought to listen intensely to your inner voice, define and also get connected to your conative compass. This is best achieved by comparing the following characteristics of conation with your personality. Next? You should identify areas of improvement and implement new characteristics of conation. The psychology of
Words: Dr RAJGOPAL Nidamboor First of all, you need to bear in mind the several tiny compartments of time in your day that are not being used appropriately. For instance, you have the habit of hitting the road at 8:00am. So, you get up at 7:30am and rush through your shower. You have, in so
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most of us have a penchant to read a self-help book, or at least carry one around. The best part is best-selling self-help authors are happening wordsmiths. So, what’s so great about this, you may well ask. The fact is — the publishing world is abuzz as and when a self-help
