Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Acne is as old as civilisation. If King Tut carried acne scars to his grave, the ancient Romans believed that acne could be treated with sulphur baths — in circa 753 BC. Acne is a common, distressing disorder — when it is severe it can leave perpetual scars, leading to depression,
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 In The Gut-Immune Connection, Dr Emeran Mayer, MD, a noted physician, UCLA professor and researcher, offers a comprehensive look at the link between alterations to the gut microbiome and the development of chronic diseases, like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, as well as susceptibility to infectious diseases like COVID-19. He argues that
Words: S C SHARADA 2013 was a landmark year in my life. The ‘Big C’ struck me. I battled breast cancer in due course and emerged triumphant, all right, but my life has never been the same… like before. Ah, well, don’t you expect to read a sob story about how tough life for me
Words: Srikanth NAMPALLY We all need balance to cultivate a healthy state of mind as also mindfulness — one that allows us to handle or ‘walk’ comfortably through difficulty, adversity, or chaos. Mindfulness teaches, promotes and expands our balance of mind and also body. It helps us to overcome imbalance, or conflict; it also provides
Words: Swetha Prasanna GANGAVARAPU You have mapped it out to sleep like a baby — a healthy dinner, a light walk, and comfortable nightwear to get into bed. No sooner than you lie down, you wake up with constant sneezing, watery eyes and runny nose. Does this not sound like yet another sleepless night —
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH The past two years have been a wild, agonising ride for everyone. Across the globe, in addition to prolonged episodes of physical illness, people have been faced with long periods of separation, loneliness and loss as the result of an invisible enemy that has been ‘used’ to create fear too. We
Words: Kerry DULIN Nothing in life comes easy. Even a child struggles to do his homework. As adults, we pack family life, work responsibilities and social commitments every day. To be performing well in all these roles, we need to be physically fit. It may be an overused cliché but health really is wealth. As
Dr Naveen Kumar BOGGARAPU responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? Medicine is a profession which is highly respected and can impact people positively by healing them; it can make a lot of sad faces smile. I wanted to touch peoples’ lives and make them happy. What made
Words: Dr Chaithra S RAO Ayurveda, the science of life, is not knowledge limited to medicine. The popularity of Ayurveda, thanks to its focus on total health and wellness is not only immense, but also simple, and yet trailblazing, since ancient times. The way of life that Ayurveda preaches has, yet again, and in a
Radhanath SWAMI, author of The Journey Home, answers questions put forth by Hiren Kumar BOSE HKB: Many from the West come to India seeking spiritual bliss, but stay a spiritual vagrant all their lives. You have been different. You came as a seeker and remain so. How has the journey been? RS: For all of us life is
