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28/04/2026

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25/04/2026

And there is a reason why I consider this my brunch. Because ultimately, when food is consumed, especially something that contains milk and fruit, it is quite heavy to be digested. In that sense, it is almost comparable to cooked meal.

Fruits, especially, are best consumed during midday. This is when the body naturally goes through dehydration, particularly in the summer heat. Midday is when your digestive fire is active, your body is seeking nourishment, and the heat demands hydration. When you eat mindfully at this time, you can truly extract the maximum nutrition while also balancing your vata and pitta, thereby nourishing your entire system.

🥭 Mango Milkshake Recipe (My Way)

Ingredients:
• 200 g very ripe mango (the sweeter and riper, the better)
• 100–150 ml milk (preferably A2, if that is your preference)
• ¼ tsp cardamom powder
• ¼ tsp dry ginger powder

Method:
1. Peel and chop the ripe mango.
2. Add it to a blender with the milk.
3. Add misri, cardamom, and dry ginger.
4. Blend until smooth and creamy.

I do not chill it. I do not cool it. It is already naturally cooling and deeply nourishing for the system when prepared this way.

Seasonal recipe, perfect for enjoying mangoes without experiencing the usual heat, discomfort, diarrhea, or excessive sweating that some people complain about.

Share this with someone who loves mangoes but wants to enjoy them in a more balanced, mindful way this season.

24/04/2026

I was quite surprised the other day when a popular modern doctor say that he has started relying on AI to decide diet plans. It did not sit right with me.

Even otherwise, most allopathy doctors are not really trained in understanding how diet affects the body in a practical, day to day sense. That is why you often hear statements like you can eat anything even if you have a disease. But in real life, people clearly notice that some foods suit them and some do not.

When that basic understanding is missing, and then AI is added into the mix, it becomes a bit concerning. AI works on patterns from data. It does not actually experience what patients go through unless those details have been carefully captured and fed into it.

What makes it more tricky is when someone is a specialist, like a liver expert in this case, and still leans heavily on AI for something like diet. If a recommendation is not working well, you may not even realise it. The link between food and symptoms can be understood only with observation, and if you are not actively thinking about it, you can miss it.

For example, many people notice that curd can worsen their skin symptoms. But you will only pick that up if you ask and pay attention.

So the concern is not about using AI. But if you rely on it without really understanding what you are doing, it become counter productive.

And yes, carbs do matter. Cutting them may help with weight in some cases, but it can also leave you feeling low on energy and not quite yourself. Understanding your body type and then deciding the portion size is the key.

23/04/2026

This is no joke. I see people becoming extremely anxious, depressed, insomniac, almost like they have lost the life in them, just because they wanted to look a certain size.

And this is not about one kind of diet. Whether it is protein heavy diets, keto, high fat diets, whatever trend it is, I have seen the same outcome. You cannot deny what you see in your clinic.

They come to you so miserable that they can barely hold a conversation.

We forget something very basic. Fat forms your cellular membranes. It makes up nearly 70% of your brain. It governs your nervous system, your stability, the very structure that holds your organs in place.

You lose that, you lose everything.

Learn to do it the right way. Learn to focus on health, not just weight. Not just a number or a size, because that always comes at a cost.

We have seen this with weight loss injections. We have seen it with extreme diets. They promise results in three months, and what follows is misery.

To the point where people even lose their libido.

Stay tuned to learn more such real life stories from my clinical practice that can save your life.

22/04/2026

There’s something comforting about going back to simple traditional foods made at home.

Traditional Kerala sweet appam batter recipe

Ingredients
Raw rice soaked overnight
Grated coconut
Coconut water
1 elachi banana
Dates or jaggery
A pinch of elakka powder
Rice flour slurry
Ghee optional

Method

1. Soak raw rice overnight.
2. Grind soaked rice with grated coconut coconut water and elachi banana into a smooth batter.
3. Keep the batter covered for 7 to 8 hours to ferment.
4. Make a slurry by cooking a little rice flour with water until slightly thick. Cool and add to the batter.
5. Add mashed dates or melted jaggery and mix well.
6. Add elakka powder and mix.
7. Grease a plate or mould with ghee. Pour the batter in.
8. Steam cook or use an Instant Pot for steaming until set and cooked through.
9. Let it cool slightly before cutting and serving.

Soft mildly sweet and easy to make.

Follow for such recipes from nature

19/04/2026

This is especially for those opting for online consultation and continuing treatment while away.

In some cases, Panchakarma can also help reduce the underlying inflammatory load (dosha imbalance), making the process of reversal easier - depending on how long-standing and intense the triggers are.

Healing comes in different shapes and sizes, but over time, you’ll notice feeling mentally sorted, with improvements in weight and gut health with the implementation of Ayurveda - because Ayurveda does not jus chase the numbers on your report 📝 but fix the underlying pathology that lead to it.

Share this with anyone dealing with thyroid issues who wants to move beyond TSH & Anti TPO values and work towards better improving the health of thyroid gland 💊

18/04/2026

When all the values 📝 are well within limits, what do you treat for?

And that is exactly the problem.

Most often, when thyroid patients continue to have symptoms like depression, anxiety, palpitations, extremely low mood, low confidence, inability to talk, or even inability to have a sane conversation, doctors are quite clueless about how to help. And that is why it often gets brushed under the carpet.

But these symptoms are not hallucinations. They are very real. They are coming from the fact that the body is not feeling well, either on a physical level or a mental level.

This is exactly where Ayurveda comes handy.

It does not just look at numbers. It looks at why the body is coming up with these symptoms in the first place.

In her case, it was because of back to back trials of trying to lose weight. And the worst of all was the vegetable smoothie diet, which put her body into such a state of dryness, while the swelling remained the same, and the nervous system went into a kind of panic mode.

We are still not done treating her, but the reason I wanted to share this is because I was quite amazed at the change I saw.

I remember her as a person who was constantly crying.

The person I saw now was much calmer, more grounded, clear headed, with better gut health. Her immunity, which used to be extremely bad, has also improved.

So share this with somebody who is struggling with unrecognizable, undiagnosed symptoms.

And I have seen many people normalising it. That woman with thyroid disease needs more sleep, women in late 30s and 40s ...
17/04/2026

And I have seen many people normalising it. That woman with thyroid disease needs more sleep, women in late 30s and 40s need longer hours of rest. Well, what they need is better nutrients to support their mitochondrial energy reservoir.

Are multivitamins enough? Not many seem to be recovering just with that. And that is where fixing the ferritin and improving the conversion of T4 to T3 by correcting liver functioning helps better.

14/04/2026

Hence, it’s a reminder that waking up before sun rise, and sweating out the toxins facing the rising sun cannot always be replaced by a pill 💊

If only the lab reports are important to you, you may continue popping in the pill

But if feeling healthy, consistently, is important to you - then lifestyle modification (Dinacharya) cannot be replaced :)

Got more doubts on VIT. D, let me know in comments

11/04/2026

Protein is important but only the one suitable to your Prakriti, specifically gut type 🚨

Because it is not going to suit everyone. Paneer is not going to suit everyone. And tofu, either. So eat suitable to your body type, to the digestive capacity of your body. That is when the right amount, and not “x” amount, of protein becomes beneficial for your muscles.

And the strength that you are talking about, half of it came with the routine that you started following. Not just because you started working out.

And even if you have gained strength from protein powder and strength training, that is only going to last for a short period. 3 months for some, 2 years for others. And then you will also notice that you are going to need more and more supplements to keep up the energy. Starting from omega 3 fatty acids to creatine. The list is going to be endless.

And that is why, when every person says that they lack strength, you need to understand that the lack of strength can also be coming from a poor sleeping routine, or not eating on time, or from stress - and not always just lack of Protein.

So instead of putting everything into the bucket of protein, try to identify where exactly you are going wrong.

Eat the amount of protein that is digestible and suitable to your body type. Very important.

Yes, I will be conducting a Masterclass in May to help you identify why you need protein but not the standard amount that is being suggested everywhere.

Comment PROTEIN to join.

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