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Notes on sea buckthorn, metabolic health, Himalayan botanicals and the business of turning an Indian ingredient into a product. Published first on LinkedIn.
- Is Walking 10,000 Steps Enough Exercise? Why Intensity Decides the Result A 10,000-step walk taken while on a phone call is a pleasant evening, not a workout. The threshold that actually matters, and why it gets urgent after fifty.
- Dark Patch on the Neck: An Early Visible Sign of Insulin Resistance Acanthosis nigricans can appear years before blood sugar crosses the diabetes line. What to look for in the mirror, and why a normal weighing scale tells you very little.
- Night Shift Work and Cancer Risk: What the IARC Classification Actually Means The WHO’s cancer agency classified night shift work as probably carcinogenic in 2019. What that means in practice — and why “sleep well, eat healthy” is useless advice at 3 am.
- The Liver Regenerates From Half — But Only While the Tissue Is Healthy Surgeons can remove more than half a healthy liver and the donor walks out fine. No other organ does this — and yet we still manage to damage it.
- Sea Buckthorn vs Orange: The Vitamin C Comparison, and the Omega-7 Nobody Mentions 400–800 mg of vitamin C per 100 g, against under 10 mg for a blueberry. Why India’s most nutrient-dense berry never got the marketing budget.
- What Indian Women Over 50 Should Actually Be Eating She has fed the family for thirty years. Look at her own plate after fifty and it is usually chai and whatever was left. Six swaps, none of them exotic.