Hiren Kumar BOSE engages Dr Art Markman, PhD, behavioural scientist and author of Smart Thinking, an e-mail tête-à-tête on what it takes to be a smart thinker. HKB: You write that ‘Smart Thinking’ is not an attribute but a skill to be mastered. How does one do it? AM: The key aspect of being smart is to use
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV A young woman whom I had treated for several years with homeopathy for recurrent sore throats and a weak constitution was distraught because she had been exposed by her previous boyfriend to genital warts. She was upset for multiple reasons: 1] the feeling that her previous boyfriend had betrayed her by
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Humans are not the only social beings affected by the insecurity, fear, anxiety, grief, sadness and anger that can be experienced by a life-changing event. As responsive guardians, we know that our four-legged friends can suffer equally when the familiarity of a daily routine, or the loss of, or change in
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Osteoarthritis [OA] is a degenerative disorder. It affects millions of people worldwide — it’s seemingly more common than heart disease and diabetes. Call it a paradox, or what you may, one major fact remains — OA is only going to expand in its intensity and also get firmly rooted in one’s
Lavanya SURESH responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Your view on beauty? Beauty has a glut of facets, including the age-old cliché that it resides in the eyes of the beholder. If I were asked what beauty means to me, personally, my spontaneous riposte would be the Tamil proverb, Agathin azhagu mugathil theriyum. When transliterated into English,
Dr Jagannath M BORAMANI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I did not quite like biology during my school. I loved physics. That my brother went to IIT-Mumbai may have had something to do with it? Possibly. Well, my parents wanted me to become a doctor. My brother
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR You have been doing your exercise for improved, or better, cardiac health for a while, or for a long period of time. It is possible, therefore, that familiarity with your fitness routine may have brought in a dose of boredom into your regular exercise plan. You may have also asked yourself:
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN GL, a thirty-one-year-old interior designer with a bright future [and, a hot temper], was literally saved by magnesium. His job was extremely deadline driven and required fantastic precision as well as an ability to understand global trends. The first time he walked into my office, he told me that he’d already
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN The right nutritional supplements can turn asthmatic kids around and place them on the road to recovery. We all know how fickle kids are at the dinner table. As hard as you try to get your children to eat right, it’s difficult to make sure they get the nutrients they need
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV People often ask me, “Can homeopathy treat hormonal problems?” I tell them, “Yes, indeed, it can.” In fact, more often than not, most health problems that women experience are related to hormonal imbalances, whether they are headaches that occur right around the time the periods are due, heightened emotional sensitivity, leading
