This is a short entry.
Please beware with any functional medicine doctor's adrenal supplements, It has a permanent, rest-of-life, side-effect on your body. I will have to live with this side-effect for the rest of my life. My body hair has grown 3-4x more than before. My arms, torso, legs are far more hairy now compared to when I saw him before and took his adrenal supplements.
Women especially beware of this side-effect.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Friday, June 8, 2018
Autoimmune Paleo Diet (AIP) in India -- Review
Sarah Ballantyne is not a doctor. I guess there is a difference between reading a lot of researches and treating patients. Most doctors are I see/notice do things that are right against 'The Paleo Approach' For example, not to be on AIP for more than 2 months. Not eating safe starches ie Keto helps kill gut bugs, prescrbing colostrum to patients. Going on AIP has further downgraded my health. I traded skin issues for extreme fatigue, brain fog, zero energy to even stand-up etc.
Sunday, April 29, 2018
Dried Urine Test for Complete Hormones (DUTCH) India
Hello Everyone,
This one is the DUTCH test, In this test, you pee on piece of specialized lab paper, there are 5 of them in each test kit and you send it to the Precision Analytical Lab In Oregan, USA.
This test checks Stress Hormones and Sex hormones.
I feel very low in the morning after waking up and as the day progress I start to gain energy in very small amounts. A big burst of energy comes to me after the sunset and stays with me through out the night, not allowing me to sleep. Anybody has the same experience ?
A healthy person is quite opposite, In a healthy person, he/she has most energy in the morning and it goes down steadily (not abruptly) as the day progresses and its the lowest as the sun sets, allowing him/her to fall asleep for the night.
Things of notice in the report
This one is the DUTCH test, In this test, you pee on piece of specialized lab paper, there are 5 of them in each test kit and you send it to the Precision Analytical Lab In Oregan, USA.
This test checks Stress Hormones and Sex hormones.
I feel very low in the morning after waking up and as the day progress I start to gain energy in very small amounts. A big burst of energy comes to me after the sunset and stays with me through out the night, not allowing me to sleep. Anybody has the same experience ?
A healthy person is quite opposite, In a healthy person, he/she has most energy in the morning and it goes down steadily (not abruptly) as the day progresses and its the lowest as the sun sets, allowing him/her to fall asleep for the night.
Things of notice in the report
- Stress hormone DHEA is too high which correlates with the amount of infections in the gut.
- Serotonin is too low which correlated with the same thing.
- Actually all of these hormones are linked with the gut health.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
GI Map: A Comprehensive Stool Test India
Hello Everyone,
I got my stool test done from Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory in America. This stool test cannot be ordered by your own, a doctor has to order it. The test results are sent to the doctor, not to you. So you have to book an appointment with the doctor to get the results. My doctor Mr. Justin Marchegiani, did not give me the reports when they got it, I had to book an appointment worth 15000 INR for 60 mins to get the same report, without the appointment I couldn't have gotten the report. I asked them, they did not give me. Your doctor / experience may vary.
I couldn't find where a similar test is done in India and with this much detail.
This is the content of the report
I got my stool test done from Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory in America. This stool test cannot be ordered by your own, a doctor has to order it. The test results are sent to the doctor, not to you. So you have to book an appointment with the doctor to get the results. My doctor Mr. Justin Marchegiani, did not give me the reports when they got it, I had to book an appointment worth 15000 INR for 60 mins to get the same report, without the appointment I couldn't have gotten the report. I asked them, they did not give me. Your doctor / experience may vary.
I couldn't find where a similar test is done in India and with this much detail.
This is the content of the report
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Sunday, February 11, 2018
Functional Medicine Tests in India
Hello Guys,
Hope you all are doing great.
After having my health further deteriorated by Lily Kiswani and Shabnam Kar I continued my study in the matters of health. Before visiting these two "doctors" I was able to sleep for 7-8 hours everynight, after visiting them and taking their "advices" I sleep less than 4 hours everynight and I constantly wake up at 3 AM everynight.
I learned about a few tests which the American Doctors do that are not available in India, atleast in my searching. I urge any readers to let me know in the comments otherwise.
1. Leaky Gut Test : This test checks for zonulin and occludin (particles of small intestine) in the bloodstream. When a leaky gut is present these protiens called zonulin and occludin are found in the blood stream. So this is a blood test that confirms a leaky gut. This is not a necessary test as the symptoms are enough to diagnose a leaky gut aka Intestinal hyper-permeability.
2. Cyrex Food Sensitivity Test : This test many doctors such as Chris Kresser, Ed Beyer, Amy Meyers, and a lot others say is much more accurate than any competition.
3. Organic Acid Urine Test : This test to check various vitamin & minerals in your body and to check the functionality of proper detox pathways such as pooping, peeing, sweating and sneezing.
4. Adrenal Saliva Test:
5. Kryptopyrrole Test: If you have this condition called 'Pyroluria', in which high levels of kryptopyrroles are circulating in the blood, then you are rapidly excreting Zinc, Vitamin B6 & Essential Fatty Acids (E.F.As) from the urine, these minerals help in the formation of Serotonin & Dopamine that are good for the pituitary gland that produces various hormones such as T.S.H.
6. 23 & Me Genetic Testing:
7. GI Map Stool Test: This test detects all the parasites and infections in the digestive tract, from mouth to anus. Presense of these parasites and infections are the leading cause of auto-immune condition ie chronic (long-term) activation of immune system and inflammation. View my tests here.
8. Urine pH:
9. LabCorp Comprehensive Blood Work:
10. Dried Urine Test for Complete Hormones: Here
.. to be continued..
Hope you all are doing great.
After having my health further deteriorated by Lily Kiswani and Shabnam Kar I continued my study in the matters of health. Before visiting these two "doctors" I was able to sleep for 7-8 hours everynight, after visiting them and taking their "advices" I sleep less than 4 hours everynight and I constantly wake up at 3 AM everynight.
I learned about a few tests which the American Doctors do that are not available in India, atleast in my searching. I urge any readers to let me know in the comments otherwise.
1. Leaky Gut Test : This test checks for zonulin and occludin (particles of small intestine) in the bloodstream. When a leaky gut is present these protiens called zonulin and occludin are found in the blood stream. So this is a blood test that confirms a leaky gut. This is not a necessary test as the symptoms are enough to diagnose a leaky gut aka Intestinal hyper-permeability.
2. Cyrex Food Sensitivity Test : This test many doctors such as Chris Kresser, Ed Beyer, Amy Meyers, and a lot others say is much more accurate than any competition.
3. Organic Acid Urine Test : This test to check various vitamin & minerals in your body and to check the functionality of proper detox pathways such as pooping, peeing, sweating and sneezing.
4. Adrenal Saliva Test:
5. Kryptopyrrole Test: If you have this condition called 'Pyroluria', in which high levels of kryptopyrroles are circulating in the blood, then you are rapidly excreting Zinc, Vitamin B6 & Essential Fatty Acids (E.F.As) from the urine, these minerals help in the formation of Serotonin & Dopamine that are good for the pituitary gland that produces various hormones such as T.S.H.
6. 23 & Me Genetic Testing:
7. GI Map Stool Test: This test detects all the parasites and infections in the digestive tract, from mouth to anus. Presense of these parasites and infections are the leading cause of auto-immune condition ie chronic (long-term) activation of immune system and inflammation. View my tests here.
8. Urine pH:
9. LabCorp Comprehensive Blood Work:
10. Dried Urine Test for Complete Hormones: Here
.. to be continued..
Sunday, November 26, 2017
To disable webpage suggestions on new tab page in chrome and android.
Most often we have something to do in our mind like an information we are particularly seeking or something to work on. So we open our browser and we get distracted by webpage suggestions whose title begins with
"shocking thing happened with your favorite actor/actress..."
"Must see this believe..."
"You wont believe what he/she said to ..."
or something about something or everything and we are always distracted keeping us from being productive and not wasting time.
Stop wasting time and start being more productive.
"shocking thing happened with your favorite actor/actress..."
"Must see this believe..."
"You wont believe what he/she said to ..."
or something about something or everything and we are always distracted keeping us from being productive and not wasting time.
Stop wasting time and start being more productive.
To keep you from being distracted, saving time, saving sanity, increasing your satisfaction out of your time and work. I found these steps that work by disabling the webpage suggestions on your android phone whenever you open a new tab. This way you increase your focus.
Step1) Start chrome and open a new tab page. This is the last time you will see a distraction of webpage suggestions here.
Step 2) Type into the address bar "chrome://flags/#enable-ntp-article-suggestions-expandable-header" and select "Disable" from the dropdown menu.
Step3) Type into the address bar "chrome://flags/#enable-ntp-remote-suggestions" and select "Disable" from the dropdown menu.
Step4) Relaunch the browser.
PS: NTP stands for New Tab Page
PS: NTP stands for New Tab Page
Good Bye to distraction.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
An honest review of Lily Kiswani
After several "cheated" and "scammed" experience with previous functional medicine doctors, such as Jignesh Mehta and Shabnam Das Kar, I thought I had gained experience and got a little smarter, but good grief!
So, I called up and emailed Lily Kiswani and told and wrote her about my problems to keep myself proofs of what she claims and what she could deliver. I got a reply back that, "yes, they can certainly be tackled through our protocols". If there was a certainty issue involved , one with any ethics would not charge you the whole money for the treatment, one would see if they are sure of helping you before they could charge you. Sounds Legit or Right to anybody ? Here she sounded sure that my issues could be handled without seeing or getting any lab tests done. So the man who thought he has grown smarter, went her to see her enthusiastically, only to have the experience repeated.
Also on the phone, I specifically asked her if she can help me with the diet. Because unless the diet is dialed-in , taking supplements is like taking a pain-killer while there is still a stone in the shoe. She said "yes, she will help me on that" How I wish I had recorded that call too. Secondly, Taking supplements without correcting your diet is masking the symptoms only. See what happened in reality. With the food intolerances like mine, a non allergen diet is what I could only live on.
Naturally I was skeptical of her abilities when already who doctors have failed, so I asked her for any the references of any patients who were healed with similar issues like me. She did seem very transparent on that.
The quality of her could have been judged from the scrambled word document she asks you to fill. The quality of her could have been further judged by the too many personal psychological questions she asks you during the visit, like a psychologist would. That should have given me a hint that this was a psychiatrist and not someone who I needed with an extensive experience in resolving gut issues.
After going through all your dirty laundary for 3 hours and 30 minutes out of the 4 hours of scheduled visit, she goes through the elimination diet *eye rolls*. Who in the world who has gut issues does not know about elimination diet!? That is not what I came 4 hours travelling for!! I could read that on the internet and that too in an even better manner. Anyway, she did not go into detail, like you would expect after paying so much and promising you that she would, she skirts through the subject on elimination diets as "eat things that you are not intolerant to" and "after 1 month eat those things again"
After that she will give a low down on how many visits you would need after that. Need less to say I did not go for any follow-up because I did not feel any better nor she was of any help. I could have been better off on my own. Again if you had spent 10 mins watching any youtube video and even read one article on the internet on the subject you would get the same information that you would have gotten after paying 18000 Rs to her and wasting 8 hours of your time.
One day I got superb frustrated from the lack of progress and asked her to come to the point. Apparently she does not like such point blank questions for which you paid her and consequently gets offended. Also, she doesn't give answers to complex questions. As I said before she can only tell you to do Low Carb and High Fat diet *rolls eyes*
She went from "Your issues can certainly be tacked to" in the first pic to "Your issues are complex" in the last pic.
EDIT : Looking back even more, she(Lily Kiswani) has hurt me more than she has helped. After taking her naive and ignorant advice, I had more health issues occurring than before I went to her.
So, I called up and emailed Lily Kiswani and told and wrote her about my problems to keep myself proofs of what she claims and what she could deliver. I got a reply back that, "yes, they can certainly be tackled through our protocols". If there was a certainty issue involved , one with any ethics would not charge you the whole money for the treatment, one would see if they are sure of helping you before they could charge you. Sounds Legit or Right to anybody ? Here she sounded sure that my issues could be handled without seeing or getting any lab tests done. So the man who thought he has grown smarter, went her to see her enthusiastically, only to have the experience repeated.
Also on the phone, I specifically asked her if she can help me with the diet. Because unless the diet is dialed-in , taking supplements is like taking a pain-killer while there is still a stone in the shoe. She said "yes, she will help me on that" How I wish I had recorded that call too. Secondly, Taking supplements without correcting your diet is masking the symptoms only. See what happened in reality. With the food intolerances like mine, a non allergen diet is what I could only live on.
Naturally I was skeptical of her abilities when already who doctors have failed, so I asked her for any the references of any patients who were healed with similar issues like me. She did seem very transparent on that.
The quality of her could have been judged from the scrambled word document she asks you to fill. The quality of her could have been further judged by the too many personal psychological questions she asks you during the visit, like a psychologist would. That should have given me a hint that this was a psychiatrist and not someone who I needed with an extensive experience in resolving gut issues.
After going through all your dirty laundary for 3 hours and 30 minutes out of the 4 hours of scheduled visit, she goes through the elimination diet *eye rolls*. Who in the world who has gut issues does not know about elimination diet!? That is not what I came 4 hours travelling for!! I could read that on the internet and that too in an even better manner. Anyway, she did not go into detail, like you would expect after paying so much and promising you that she would, she skirts through the subject on elimination diets as "eat things that you are not intolerant to" and "after 1 month eat those things again"
One day I got superb frustrated from the lack of progress and asked her to come to the point. Apparently she does not like such point blank questions for which you paid her and consequently gets offended. Also, she doesn't give answers to complex questions. As I said before she can only tell you to do Low Carb and High Fat diet *rolls eyes*
EDIT : Looking back even more, she(Lily Kiswani) has hurt me more than she has helped. After taking her naive and ignorant advice, I had more health issues occurring than before I went to her.
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