Why Do Mosquitoes Love Me More?
Doctor, why do mosquitoes love me more? A man asked me this question as if he were filing a complaint with the Supreme Court. His...
Author : Dr. Brahmanand Nayak
Why Your Brain Remembers Jingles but Forgets Passwords?
Doctor, why do I forget my password but still remember the Nirma jingle? A young software engineer asked me this last week, shaking his head...
Why Does Everyone Think You Look Weak?
We are a country that never runs short of advice. From cricket scores to election results to your waistline, someone always knows better. But the...
What Your Walk Secretly Says About You?
A man walked into my clinic with a dragging step, his body speaking before he did. The slight tilt of his hip, the uneven rhythm...
How Much Protein Is Too Much?
How much protein is too much? That question barges into my clinic daily, wearing a gym T-shirt, holding a shaker bottle, and smelling faintly of...
Three Questions That Decide Your Health
A young man once walked into my clinic with a fat bundle of blood reports. Cholesterol: normal. Sugar: borderline. Vitamin D: a little low. “Doctor,...
Why Bengaluru’s Multilingual Doctors Have a Silent Edge
In medicine, the first cure is not the pill but the word. The right medicine may take days to work, but the right word in...
Why Your Mobile Phone is the New Dosha Imbalance?
One evening, a man limped into my clinic, gripping his chest. His wife thought he was having a heart attack. I reached for my stethoscope, but...
The Scary Evolution of Stress: An Ayurvedic Doctor’s Reflection
My grandmother never knew the word stress. She had seven children, ten cows, an unpredictable monsoon, and a mother-in-law with a PhD in nagging. Yet...
When Social Media Becomes a Syndrome
A teenage boy once walked into my clinic and said, “Doctor, I think my brain is buffering.” He wasn’t joking. He had fallen asleep with...