Honestly, I never thought teeth were so important for our health. They appear so hardy, feel so tough and strong – especially when they accidentally bite your tongue! But the fact is: they are vulnerable as they inhabit our mouth which is a wild, walk-in world for

The most common form of despair is not being who you are,” said  Danish theologian Soren Kierkegaard. And at some deep level, we all know it, don’t we? I remember a friend going through a divorce crying, “This is not me! I can’t be going through this.

Anxiety can increase a person’s blood pressure. When we are intensely worried, our body responds by releasing stress hormones epinephrine and cortisol which increase our heart rate and narrow our blood vessels. These two changes cause our BP to rise. In 2015, researchers suggested that hyper-anxious people were at risk of

People diagnosed with diabetes are going to bless Professor Marc Hamilton who specialises in health and human performance at the University of Houston, Texas. He has come up with a simple exercise that is absolutely doable — the soleus pushup. Sit on your chair

A 43-year-old steps into Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s clinic. He is slightly overweight and low on energy. The wonderful thing about Dr Chatterjee is, he doesn’t just prescribe some vitamins and send you on your way. He cares, so he listens, and draws the person out. And they work

I drank half a glass of water before writing this article. For, a thirsty brain does not work efficiently enough. A hydrated brain sits up, all alert, ready with words and all the skills it possesses. Ditto with a hydrated body. It gets set to stave off all

When excruciating pain hits the shoulder joint, the whole world darkens. Our shoulders are great allies. They hold our bags, they come handy for distressed friends to lean their heads upon, they help us reach out to a box of cookies on a high shelf, they sportingly

Seasons change, times change and so do we. We grow older, perhaps wiser! The thing is not to get stuck and set in old ways that don’t improve our health and ­wellbeing. I read in the book Wrist Assured on the great cricketer G Vishwanath that one

When I heard that the legendary singer Bhupinder Singh had passed away after suffering ‘health complications including urinary problems,’ little alarm bells went off in my head. Two of my friends were having similar problems too. One had to undergo surgery of the urinary tract and is

Years and years ago when we, our friends and the world were much younger, we lost a dear pal when his heart gave way. He’d been suffering from cancer and, probably, his heart couldn’t keep up in a weakened system. For days, we were in denial. The