We lost her a few days ago. My heart goes out to Rahul and her family. Why I choose to write this piece today is because of the powerful story and lessons learnt and spoken during my time with this amazing lady. I met Pallavi and Rahul through Vishal Gondal several years ago at...
Cancer is a multifactorial disease, and so it needs a multifactorial approach. There isn't a single magic treatment, food, diet, exercise, or magic yoga asana to treat cancer.Any disease requires a well laid out strategy, not just cancer. It is not just about adding more medicines or nutrition. Our mindsets are typically moulded in...
The standard of care for patients with unresectable, locally-advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is definitive Radiation Therapy (RT) given with or without chemotherapy. However, outcomes with this modality are quite poor with 5-year survival estimates at 16%. A major barrier to improved outcomes is the development of Radiation-Induced Lung Injury (RILI). RILI occurs...
As we hand hold and observe hundreds of patients a month go through chemo and radiation, our observation of smart and short term fasting in such patients is turning out to show a remarkable reduction in side effects and toxicity related side effects in the patients. (more…)
"Cancer cells can only run on sugar. You cut off their food source, they die. That's the theory, and it's been shown to be, often, very effective in many difficult to treat cancers, which is now undergoing a lot of research”. Experiments conducted on rats by Dr. Serge Ahmed of Bordeaux, France, prove that...
Every year 4th February is marked as World Cancer Day. The significant day is organized by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). Every year World Cancer Day has a different theme. This year the theme is “I can, we can”. The day focuses to spread awareness about the disease and that everyone has...
Lycopene is a naturally occurring chemical that gives fruits and vegetables the bright red color. It is one amongst a number of pigments called carotenoids. Lycopene is found in tomatoes, red cabbage, mango, carrots, apricots, guavas, red oranges, watermelons, pink grapefruits and rosehips. Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant that (more…)
Chemotherapy does a lot more than just get rid of cancer. While these drugs are powerful enough to kill rapidly growing cancer cells, they also harm healthy cells. This may cause a number of side effects. While most side effects clear up shortly after treatment ends, some may continue well after chemotherapy has ended. (more…)
As sickness continues to grow across different countries in the world, there is a massive gap between treatment and healing that needs to be filled with things like nutrition, adequate amounts of exercise, the right quality of sleep, the right quantity of sleep and your emotional health. You can never divorce physical health from...
Hair loss during chemotherapy and radiation can be depressing and upsetting especially for women. But if we handle it the right way there is a possibility that your hair will grow back for sure and in a way better than your previous hair growth. (more…)
If we look around today, we have the best doctors, hospitals, nutritionists, supplements, gyms, super foods and everything possible in the name of health care. Yet cancer is becoming an epidemic and the number of people afflicted with it is increasing at an alarming rate. This is not just in India, but across the...
The National Cancer Institute states that thirty-three percent of breast cancers are preventable. We all have a lymphatic system whose job is to drain out cellular waste from your body. Now most lymphomas most carcinomas found in breast or lymph nodes which are infected is nothing but a jammed up lymphatic system (more…)
