Why You Crave Sweets After a Meal
Offer another chapati after a wedding lunch and a man will cover his plate as though you are trying to serve him a court summons....
Category : Health Tips
Why Does Urad Dal Cause Gas and Bloating?
There should be two bills for medu vada: one payable at the counter, the other during the car ride home. The first you settle with...
Which Cooking Oil Is Best for Your Heart? What I Tell My Patients
“Doctor, we always use olive oil. From abroad,” says Zainab. The last two words seem to require passport verification. Anita buys cold-pressed oil. Lovely Kaur’s...
Why Am I Always Thirsty and Urinating Frequently—even though I Don’t Have Diabetes?
A patient entered my clinic carrying a two-litre water bottle like an oxygen cylinder. Behind him came his wife, carrying evidence. “Doctor, he drinks all...
What Patients Hide From Doctors
An uncle from Sanjayanagar came to me for acidity, and I asked him to bring his medicines next time. He arrived carrying a Nandini milk cover. Inside...
The Oldest Prescription in the World Is a Friend
In a scrappy little park off Sanjayanagar — the kind the BBMP builds by planting a dozen saplings, one broken bench and no gate — two men...
Fish vs Fish Oil: Which Is Better? Benefits, Omega-3, Best Indian Fish & Expert Guide
A patient walked into my clinic carrying a bottle of imported fish oil capsules that cost more than the fish sold outside my neighbourhood market....
Behavioural Science in Ayurveda!
A fifty-year-old businessman sat across from me, looking unusually pleased. “Doctor, my HbA1c has finally come down,” he announced before I had even opened his...
You Walk 10,000 Steps. Your Neighbour Walks 5,000. Why Is He Thinner?
There are sentences that instantly change the atmosphere inside a consulting room. Doctor, I found blood in my urine. Doctor, I can’t breathe properly. Those sentences make a...
The Healthiest People I Know Never Talk About Health
A question I almost never ask my patients is this. What makes you happy? Not because I don’t want to know. Because if I ask that...