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

Prem and Nishi have been complaining about exhaustion, their energy levels are so low, it’s an effort to smile. But, for two of the most hospitable, sociable persons you could meet, they say they’ve turned downright intolerant. Friends are not so welcome anymore, their jokes seem puerile,

In my last article I wrote about ‘managing stress’. I mentioned ways in which one can manage the symptoms of stress by stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system in the body to calm the body and lower the stress-induced physiological changes such as increased heart rate, breathing and

Recently, a friend celebrated her 45th birthday. What troubled her greatly was that she couldn’t get on to the ‘tall stool’ like earlier. She just couldn’t climb on to it and then stand up in one smooth movement like she used to. Her legs didn’t seem to

Your heart is racing, you feel a bit nauseous and lightheaded. Your breathing is shallow. You’re waiting to give your presentation and wishing you had never agreed to do it. Is this familiar to you? This and many other such moments which may produce similar symptoms of