Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Pain is relative. It is also specific. Pain can emanate from previous illness and trauma, or from underlying causes, such as arthritis. In certain cases, there is no obvious cause of pain — or, one may erroneously attribute pain to a recent activity rather than a serious causal effect. Besides, it
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We live in ‘a pill for every ill’ society. Most people today have been ‘coached’ through print and other media to accept the idea that pharmaceutical, or conventional, drugs are the best, or, perhaps, the only answer to most medical problems, or issues. Our drug-inclined society has also been taught to
Words: Dr Ryan N HARRISON It is agreed that prescription drugs can be useful — even life-saving — for some people. When used as directed and/or only when absolutely necessary, prescriptions can be a blessing. However, to highlight a major downside, WorstPills.org has published some staggering statistics related to the misprescribing, overprescribing, and misuse of
Words: Paribha VASHIST The most pressing issue today is rural-urban dichotomy, more so with regard to nutritional intake. It is a fact too that urbanisation and globalisation have ruffled the dynamics. Now, the problem of malnutrition pervades all settings — what’s more, market-driven forces seem to only exacerbate the whole issue, from the ground up.
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathy is primarily based on the evidence of clinical practice, clinical observation and clinical outcomes — provided by way of treatment, clinical trials, or basic research, and laboratory studies. To state the obvious — most conventional medical scientists have relatively no interest in homeopathic clinical care. This is because homeopathy and
Words: Dr Ryan N HARRISON All of us know how stress can keep us from our athletic, or fitness goals. Let’s now turn our focus on what we can do proactively to become the strongest, healthiest, most athletic versions of ourselves. One of the best things about exercising regularly is that it literally helps to
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathy, to paraphrase one of its cardinal tenets, looks at symptoms as being the idiom, dialect, or language, in which the body, in illness, speaks to us. The body’s response, thus, gives us the cue that a struggle to externalise is on. This provides us with the ‘prompt’ that potential damage
Words: Nelressa Stallings-FAYE It was a few years ago that on my way to a local food market I was walking past a group of middle school-going South Korean boys. As they came closer, I felt heavy stares and quiet pointing. Moments later, they passed me and burst into uncontrollable laughter. I thought to myself
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR You don’t need to think in terms of a huge investment of time, energy, and an extended plan for good-for-your-body lifestyle changes. Simple, but important, health solutions don’t cost you anything. It is all a question of adding a banana to your morning bowl of cereal breakfast, keeping your car farther
Words: Dr Nilufar AHMED The war in Ukraine has left many across the world feeling stressed and anxious. Coming on the back of a global pandemic which has already had a devastating toll on mental health, news of the war has only compounded feelings of fear and uncertainty which are known to increase anxiety. People far from the
