Are Your Batteries Low? It’s Time to Recharge with My Free E-book on Fatigue!
Get Your Energy Back! I was recently in the UK on sabbatical, working on my 2nd book when I received an e-mail from a patient that made me completely shift from writing my 2nd book to producing a free e-book. An excerpt is below and I did change a few specifics, to keep it anonymous, including the…
August 31, 2015
Where’s Your Body Fat? A Look at Body Shapes and Health Risks Across Different Ethnic Groups-Indians, Asians, Caucasians, etc.
Background The global obesity crisis has traditionally been focused on body weight and body mass index (aka BMI) rather than body shape and composition. Weight and BMI are blunt tools that can identify more obvious health risks, but unfortunately they miss the more subtle manifestations of…
August 18, 2015
Watch My TEDx on Prescription Apps and Join Our Bay Area Meetup Group
My TEDx on Prescription Apps Sorry it took so long for me to post this. My first TEDx was a non-broadcast event (not online) back in 2013, in front of a bunch of execs and movers and shakers in the community, held at the Silicon Valley Capital Club in San Jose. This time around I had a different…
July 15, 2015
Does Heat and Sauna Use Help Burn Body Fat and Improve Health?
Introduction Many of us have ancestral roots from a tropical or subtropical region of the world, where sweating outdoors was a natural way of life. Now, due to modern life, we work indoors and even work out in temperature-controlled gyms. Our bodies have actually become more heat intolerant and…
July 11, 2015
Why “Nothing” is My Favorite Meal of the Day-A Look at Intermittent Fasting
Intro to the Author and My Favorite Meal I’ve had some really talented and highly qualified writers reach out to me with requests to write for my blog. I’m a bit of a blog control freak but realize it is incredibly important for me to share the experiences of a diverse group of individuals so you…
July 6, 2015
A Condensed Guide to My Book for Those With Little Time
FEEDBACK SO FAR I’ve had overwhelming feedback so far from book readers globally about the remarkable improvements in health they have experienced and how they have been inspired by the case studies which they connected with. Despite the title, folks from all ethnic backgrounds (South Asian, East…
July 4, 2015
A Must Watch Video
Globesity Crisis Below is a must watch YouTube video on the global obesity (aka "Globesity") crisis. Four major obesity hot spots are covered: Mexico, China, Brazil and India. I encourage you to watch the entire video so you understand the dire economic and commercial forces fueling this health…
June 15, 2015
Stress Follow-Up: When Is A High Heart Rate Healthy vs Unhealthy?
High Heart Rate: When is it good and when is it unhealthy? I received a lot of questions regarding my last post (be sure to read and watch the video if you haven't) where I talked about how to use heart rate to monitor stress, and a prior post I did for my medical group on heart rate. Before I…
June 9, 2015
Nutrient Interactions, Red Meat, and “Dinobesity”?
Background Back from vacation and cramming for my 2nd TEDx (I'll share the link when it's ready in a few weeks), I decided to make up for lost blogging time with an extra long post for you to chew on. I included a bonus section dedicated to my former dinosaur loving twin sons....they claim they're…
April 28, 2015
Introducing our First “Healthy Hero”
Healthy Hero Series It's time to start sharing some remarkable success stories from individuals who have read the book, follow the blog and/or have seen me in the clinic. For those of you on the fence about whether you should adopt the SAHS (South Asian Health Solution) lifestyle, I hope hearing…
February 20, 2015