Mental disorders root cause — the role of clinically supported lifestyle correction in correcting the derailed chemistry, alongside the psychiatric treatment. Dr Jolly Thomson MBBS MD · Life Care Centre, Thevara, Kochi Summary The question. Psychiatric illness is treated as a chemical problem in the brain, and the medicines that adjust that chemistry do a
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Planning pregnancy for a healthy baby — what is the parents’ role? Correcting biology with clinically supported lifestyle correction, before conception. Dr Jolly Thomson MBBS MD · Life Care Centre, Thevara, Kochi Summary The question. Most couples who cannot conceive are investigated for infertility. Very few are examined for health. This article sets out what
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A creatinine of 1.3 comes back on a routine panel. The reading is at the top of the range, or just past it, and the sentence that follows is almost always the same: nothing to worry about, we will keep an eye on it. That sentence is where most kidney disease is lost. Not because
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Two people arrive in the same week. The first has most of the body involved, photographs what is swept off the bed each morning because nobody believes the quantity, wears long sleeves everywhere so that the face and hands are all anyone sees, and has stopped visiting family — not out of shame exactly, but
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A patient in their forties has been carrying a great deal of excess weight and a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes for most of a decade. They have read about the injections. They know somebody who is taking one and has lost weight on it. Their question, when they finally ask it, is the question
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Three people are told something about their liver on the same afternoon. The first has had an ultrasound for an unrelated complaint and been handed a line at the bottom of the report — grade 2 fatty liver — with the reassurance that it is very common and nothing to worry about. The second has
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Three people arrive with the same word written on their file. The first has taken medicines for rheumatoid arthritis for sixteen years, is tired of what they do to her, and wants to know whether there is any way out of them. The second has been told his knee has reached the stage where replacement
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A cancer diagnosis brings one question immediately — what is the treatment? A second question follows more quietly, and it decides a great deal: will the body stand it? Whether surgery heals cleanly, whether chemotherapy can be given at full dose and on schedule, how quickly strength returns afterwards — all of it depends on
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As the years pass it can feel as though the body is quietly giving way — first one tablet, then three, then eight. But aging is not a disease, and the body has not turned against anyone. The metabolic, immune and hormonal systems are still the body’s own repair and defence systems, operating in conditions
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ഡോ. ജോളി തോംസൺ MD · ഒരു ഓട്ടോഇമ്മ്യൂൺ രോഗവുമായി ജീവിക്കുമ്പോൾ, ശരീരം നിങ്ങൾക്കെതിരെ തിരിഞ്ഞതുപോലെ തോന്നാം. എന്നാൽ നിങ്ങളുടെ പ്രതിരോധ സംവിധാനം നിങ്ങളുടെ ശത്രുവല്ല — അത് ശരീരത്തിന്റെ സ്വന്തം ഡോക്ടറാണ്. അതിനോട് നിശ്ശബ്ദമായി പ്രതികൂലമായി മാറിയ ഒരു ചുറ്റുപാടിൽ അത് അതിന്റെ പരമാവധി ചെയ്യുകയാണ്. CSLC-CAP എന്നത് ആരോഗ്യ ഒപ്റ്റിമൈസേഷനുള്ള ഒരു രീതിശാസ്ത്രവും ചികിത്സയുമാണ് — ജീവിതനിലവാരം മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്താനും, മരുന്നുകളുടെയും ശസ്ത്രക്രിയാ ഇടപെടലുകളുടെയും ആവശ്യം കുറയ്ക്കാനും. ഇത് കൊച്ചിയിൽ മോഡേൺ മെഡിസിൻ ഡോക്ടർമാരുടെ സൂക്ഷ്മമായ
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