3 min readNew DelhiJul 9, 2026 05:58 PM IST Many people are surprised to find their cholesterol is high despite making healthier food choices. This happens because cholesterol levels depend on more than just diet. Responding to a Quora query: ‘Why is my cholesterol still high even though I have followed a vegetarian diet for...
Like many 40-somethings, Nitin Patil (name changed on request) blamed his breathlessness on long office hours, skipped workouts, and “getting older”. He never imagined that climbing a flight of stairs was his heart quietly asking for help. Although he had no previous history of heart disease, detailed evaluation revealed obesity, high blood pressure, prediabetes, high...
Debinna Bonnerjee opened up about lipedema, admitting she always thought it was just her body type. “I thought this was just my body type. Have you ever felt like your body follows different rules than everyone else’s? For years, I thought that was exactly what was happening to me. Before pregnancy, there was a phase....
Debinna Bonnerjee opened up about lipedema, admitting she always thought it was just her body type. “I thought this was just my body type. Have you ever felt like your body follows different rules than everyone else’s? For years, I thought that was exactly what was happening to me. Before pregnancy, there was a phase....
Bengaluru-based Enlife Research is building what it hopes will be a simple blood test capable of detecting Alzheimer’s up to 15 years in advance. The startup aims to replace costly and invasive scans with an AI-powered diagnostic platform tailored for the Indian population. Enlife on Wednesday announced it has raised Rs 6 crore in a...
For decades, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, often called “bad cholesterol”, has been one of the primary markers used to assess a person’s risk of heart disease. However, a recent study published in JAMA suggests that another blood test, called apolipoprotein B (apoB), may better identify people who are truly at risk of heart attacks and...
3 min readNew DelhiJul 8, 2026 05:00 PM IST Entrepreneur Ankur Warikoo, 45, recently shared that the concept of “cold-shock proteins” fascinated him so much that for the past four years, he has been taking cold showers every morning despite hating them. “It was 4 years back that I came across the concept of cold-shock...
4 min readNew DelhiJul 8, 2026 04:00 PM IST Do Vitamin D3 supplements come from sheep’s wool, and is plant-based Vitamin D3 becoming more common? In a post on X, Dr Sudhir Kumar, consultant neurologist, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, said, “Most people, even many doctors, don’t know this”. “Most vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) supplements worldwide are traditionally...
Pesticide residues do not arrive as a single dose. They arrive in a vegetable, a glass of water, and the air of a home, often on the same day, and none of India’s three major monitoring systems is built to add them up. In 2008, in the Orissa village of Sindhikela, village residents used pesticides...
Bryan Johnson recently left social media shocked with the revelation that he has autoimmune gastritis, or the condition where his stomach is eating itself. Now, following concerns and advice from social media, Johnson, in a post on X, retorted, “For those of you suggesting that I eat meat and get sun to cure my autoimmune...
